Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov. (Bombyliidae, Phthiriinae, Phthiriini) from Northern Iran with the first record of Phthiria fulva Meigen, 1804 reared from a lepidopteran and description of the pupa Author Gharali, Babak Author Evenhuis, Neal text Zootaxa 2017 4300 1 55 70 journal article 32582 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.3 1cbc2b44-58df-4cde-8f6a-85b5aa26d1a8 1175-5326 837139 9D3A56A6-CFB1-4F72-873A-3DA1AC84872B Genus Phthiria Meigen Phthiria Meigen, 1803 : 268 . Type species: Bombylius pulicarius Mikan, 1796 , by monotypy. Ptimia Rafinesque, 1815: 221 (unjustified emendation of Phthiria Meigen, 1820 ). Type species: Bombylius pulicarius Mikan, 1796 , automatic. Diagnosis . Phthiria is the only representative of the subfamily Phthiriinae in the Palaearctic Region. This subfamily is closely related to the Usiinae but easily separated from it by an apical sulcus bearing a style, presence of dorsal and/or ventral processes on first flagellomere, presence of M2 cell on the wing (four posterior cells) and absence of lateral papillae on the sperm pump ( Evenhuis, 1990 ; Greathead & Evenhuis, 2001 ).