Paratryphera barbatula (Rondani, 1859)

Paratryphera barbatula (Rondani, 1859) View in CoL ( Fig. 1D)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ziaz), 36°52.45'N, 50°13.41'E, 490 m, 10.IIX.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Palpus thin and black; 3rd costal section about 2 times as long as 2nd.; section of vein M between M-Cu and the bend, 1.5 times as long as the distance of the bend to the wing edge; fore tibia with two posterior setae; tergites with irregular hairs on the central longitudinal stripe, which interspersed with small discal setae.

Distribution. Oriental - China (East, West); Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe and Scandinavian countries also from Middle East ( Israel), Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Central Asia ( Turkmenistan), China (Central, Northeast) Transcaucasia. ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Geometridae : Idaea ochrata (Scopoli, 1763) , Scopula immutata (Linnaeus, 1758) , S. marginepunctata (Goeze, 1781) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:90).