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
.