Phaedrotoma nitidulator (Nees, 1834)

Material examined. 3♀, Ardabil province, Germi, 39°00′N 47°57′E, September 2009 (new record).

Distribution outside Iran. Austria (Nees 1834 as Opius vittatus; Yu et al. 2012), Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain (Yu et al. 2012), Germany (Belokobylskij et al. 2003 as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Canada (Fischer 1964, 1984 as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012; Sharanowski et al. 2014), England (Marshall 1899; Broad et al. 2012 as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Hungary (Papp 2006 as Apodesmia nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Libya (Papp 1979a as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Russia, USA (Fischer 1963 as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Sweden (Thomson 1895 as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Tunisia (Papp 1979a as Opius nitidulator; Fischer 1984 as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012), Turkey (Fischer and Beyarslan 2005a as Opius nitidulator; Yu et al. 2012; Beyarslan and Fischer 2013 as Opius nitidulator; Beyarslan 2015 as Opius (Apodesmia) nitidulator).

Host records. Calliphora vomitoria (L., 1758), Lucilia caesar (L., 1758) ( Diptera: Calliphoridae), Musca domestica L., 1758 ( Diptera: Muscidae), Pegomya atriplicis (Goureau, 1851), P. betae (Curtis, 1847), P. conf ormis (Fallen, 1825), P. hyoscyami (Panzer, 1809), P. m i xt a Villeneuve, 1922, P. solennis (Meigen, 1826) ( Diptera: Anthomyiidae) (Yu et al. 2012).