Admontia blanda (Fallén, 1820)

Seyyedi Sahebari, Farnaz, Khaghaninia, Samad & Talebi, Ali Asghar, 2023, New data on the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera, Tachinidae) from northern Iran, with 11 genera and 15 new records of species for the country, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2), pp. 311-329 : 313

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.311
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023792
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scientific name	Admontia blanda (Fallén, 1820)
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Admontia blanda (Fallén, 1820) View in CoL ( Fig. 1B)

Material examined. 1♂, Iran: East Azerbaijan, Osku (Goonbarf), 46°13.17'N, 37°43'E, 2312 m, 1. V GoogleMaps .2012, sweep net, ICHMM, leg. F. Seyyedi-Sahebari.

Diagnosis. Parafrontalia with white dusting; arista thickened to half of its length; 3rd antennal segment in males about 6 times and in females about 4 times as long as the 2nd; palpus and antennae including arista black; postpronotum with 2 setae; scutum before the suture with 2 wide black longitudinal stripes that are a little wider than the dusted stripe in between.

Distribution. Oriental - China (East, West); Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia, China (Northeast, South-central) ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Diptera - Tipulidae : Nephrotoma pratensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:58).