A Review Of The Genus Cheilosia (Diptera, Syrphidae) From Iran Author Khaganinia, S. Author Kazerani, F. text Vestnik Zoologii 2014 2014-10-01 48 5 401 410 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/vzoo-2014-0048 journal article 10.2478/vzoo-2014-0048 a9e2bd3c-4c26-483f-9f17-f44b53075c03 2073-2333 6449149 Cheilosia ( Cheilosia ) gigantea n (Zetterstedt, 1838) D i s t r i b u t i o n. From From Fennoscandia southwards to the Alps; Germany eastwards through northern and central Europe (plus northern Italy and the former Yugoslavia ) into European territory of Russia and from Ukraine to the Caucasus; in Siberia from the Urals to the Pacific coast; Iran ( Gilasian, 2005 ). Diagnostic characters. Eye with pale hairs in apical half; third antennal segment black; face without distinct hairs (microtrichia not taken into account); median facial tubercle narrower, sharply convex forwards; mesoscutum entirely covered with erected black hairs or with mixed black and yellow hairs through the length; posterior margin of scutellum with black or yellow bristles distinctly more robust than surrounding hairs; fore coxa without tooth, at least 1st segment of mid tarsus or bases of tibiae yellowish.