Ceracia mucronifera Rondani, 1865

Ceracia mucronifera Rondani, 1865 View in CoL ( Fig. 1A)

Material examined. 2♂♂, Iran, East Azerbaijan, Arasbaran ( Makidi valley ), 38°50.42'N, 46°54.74'E, 1496 m, 25.VII.2014, sweep net, ICHMM, leg. F. Seyyedi-Sahebari. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Frons with parallel edges, as wide as one eye in dorsal view; 1st and 2nd antennal segment yellow; palpus yellow; thorax black, covered by white-grey pruinescence on the sides, scutum before the suture with four thin dark longitudinal stripes; basicosta yellow; last section of Cu 1 a little shorter than M-Cu; tibia black; abdomen black, evenly covered with rather dense yellowish-grey pruinescence; tergite 3 as long as the 4th, tergite 5 as long as 1/2–3/5 of the 4th.

Distribution. Afrotropical - Yemen; Oriental - China (East); Palaearctic - Europe: South Europe ( Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey), West Europe ( France), Middle East ( Israel), North Africa (Canary Islands, Morocco) ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record).

Host range. Orthoptera - Acrididae : Chorthippus sp. , Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus, 1758) , Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier, 1791) ; Pamphagidae : Acrostira bellamyi (Uvarov, 1922) , Eremotmethis carinatus (Fabricius, 1775) , Tmethis pulchripennis Serville, 1838 (see Tschorsnig, 2017:89).