New data on Empis Linnaeus (Diptera: Empididae) from Iran, with description of a new species of the subgenus Lissempis Bezzi Author Kazerani, Farzaneh Author Khaghaninia, Samad Author Talebi, Ali Asghar Author Shamshev, Igor text Zootaxa 2014 3884 2 185 193 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.7 877ae302-0eb1-44c9-b7d3-a277a5292ef7 1175-5326 225533 B769B761-CE47-48F9-8AAD-E15EB1973BA5 Subgenus Polyblepharis Bezzi The subgenus Polyblepharis (with E. albicans Meigen, 1822 as type-species) currently includes 70 species. Only two species ( E. brandti Shamshev & Grootaert, 2005 and E. turanica Shamshev & Grootaert, 2005 ) have been recorded from Iran ( Shamshev & Grootaert 2005 ). We found for the first time four other species of this subgenus from Iran .