Revision of Eudorylas Aczel, 1940 (Diptera, Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with the description of four new species Author Motamedinia, Behnam Plant Protection Research Department, South Khorasan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Birjand, Iran & Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, ON K 1 A 0 C 6, Ottawa, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6697-4030 bmoetamedi@yahoo.com Author Skevington, Jeffrey Hunter Carleton University, Biology Department, 207 Nesbitt Biology Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K 1 S 5 B 6, Ottawa, Canada & Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, ON K 1 A 0 C 6, Ottawa, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-9870 Author Kelso, Scott Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, ON K 1 A 0 C 6, Ottawa, Canada text Biodiversity Data Journal 2020 8 53609 53609 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e53609 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e53609 1314-2828-8-e53609 616668E23F9C4652A41CDAB664204656 4568AC7B881D53E48A5F40589BE68AC4 Eudorylas zermattensis (Becker, 1897) Pipunculus zermattensis Becker, 1897: 77. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52157 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran ; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667 ; decimalLongitude: 45.816667 ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2016-09-07 ; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52158 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran ; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667 ; decimalLongitude: 45.816667 ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2016-09-07 ; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52162 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; associatedSequences: GB: MN549662; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran ; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667 ; decimalLongitude: 45.816667 ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2016-09-07 ; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52210 ; recordedBy: E. Gilasian ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran ; stateProvince: Tehran; locality: Tehran ; decimalLatitude: 35.783333 ; decimalLongitude: 51.4 ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2010-05-01 ; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52159 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran ; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667 ; decimalLongitude: 45.816667 ; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap ; eventDate: 2016-09-07 ; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Diagnosis This species can be recognised by ovate surstyli in ground shape, longer than wide in dorsal view (Fig. 20 B), right surstylus with small projection towards left surstylus (Fig. 20 B); gonopods unequal, right higher than left one in ventral view (Fig. 20 C); phallic guide medially with small bulge and apically with hook-like projection towards subepandrial sclerite in lateral view (Fig. 20 E). Distribution Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Kehlmaier 2005a , Kehlmaier et al. 2019 , Skevington 2020 ) (Fig. 12 ). Notes Intraspecific distances of E. zermattensis specimens range from 0.0-0.71%.