First record of two species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Iran

Moeinadini, Asma; Madjdzadeh, Seyed Massoud; Skuhrava, Marcela

doi:10.52547/jibs.3.4.309

First record of two species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Iran

Authors

Asma Moeinadini ¹

Seyed Massoud Madjdzadeh ¹

Marcela skuhrava ²

¹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

² Institute of Encyclopedy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague

10.52547/jibs.3.4.309

Abstract

Five species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) were found during investigations in the Kerman province in the years 2010-2016. Two of these, Xerephedromyia bipartita Mamaev, 1972 and Xerephedromyia mitroshinae Fedotova, 1992, causing galls on Ephedra major (Ephedraceae), were recorded for the first time from Iran. Both species are very rare and have not been found since the time of their original description. Rhopalomyia efremovi (Fedotova, 1999), Rhopalomyia hispanica Tavares, 1904 and Rhopalomyia navasi Tavares, 1904, causing galls on various species of Artemisia (Asteraceae), already known to occur in north-eastern and central Iran, were recorded for the first time in the Kerman provin

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Keywords

Diptera

Cecidomyiidae

Xerephedromyia

Rhopalomyia

Iran

distribution

new records

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