Belyta elongata Thomson, 1858

Figs 22–27

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Mazandaran Province, Neka forest (36°21′43.03″ N, 53°32′56.7″ E, 1495 m a.s.l), 27.VI 2018, 2 ♂, leg. F. Kazerani (TMUC, RIFR).

DIAGNOSIS. Male (Fig. 22). Body length 3.6–3.7 mm; face with fine sculpture (Fig. 23); head in dorsal view transverse, 1.4 times as wide as long, smooth and densely pubescent (Fig. 24); POL 0.8 times as long as OOL; antenna slender; A3 basally with emargination, reaching 0.33 of this segment length; A4 3.5 times as long as wide (Fig. 25); mesoscutum and scutellum convex and pubescent; anterior scutellar pit large, semicircular; epomia strongly prominent; fore wing length 3.1– 3.3 mm; marginal vein 0.5 times as long as its distance from basal vein; radial cell long, 2.8 times as long as marginal vein (Fig. 26); propodeum pubescent, median propodeal keel simple (Fig. 27); petiole in dorsal view 2.0–2.1 times as long as wide, with fine longitudinal keels (Fig. 27); T2 anteriorly with a median groove, each side of median groove with two short grooves.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran (new record); Austria, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden (Nixon, 1957; Hellén, 1964; Wall, 1993: Macek, 1996).

BIOLOGY. Unknown.