Empis (Empis) temryukiensis Kustov et Shamshev, 2013

Kazerani, F., Shamshev, I. V., Morinière, J. & Thorn, S., 2022, New records of Empididae and Hybotidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Hyrcanian forest in Iran and Azerbaijan, Far Eastern Entomologist 462, pp. 20-28 : 25

Empis (Empis) temryukiensis Kustov et Shamshev, 2013

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran: Tabriz , 06.IV 1914, 5 ♂, leg. Andriewsky [ ZMUM] ;

the same locality and collector, 05.IV 1914, 1 ♂,[ ZMUM]; the same locality and collector ,

23.IV 1914, 1♂, 1♀, [ ZMUM] .

DESCRIPTION. Female (hitherto unknown). Similar to male (Kustov & Shamshev,

2013), except as follows. Eyes dichoptic, with ommatidia equally small. Frons broad,

densely greyish pollinose, bearing several marginal setulae; occiput and ocellar tubercle with stronger setae than in male. Legs somewhat shorter, more robust; fore and hind basitarsi slender, hind tibia almost uniformly slightly flattened (except extreme base). Fore tibia with somewhat flattened dorsal setae on about apical 2/3; fore tarsomeres with shorter setae of subapical circlet. Mid femur with long, pennate, dorsal setae over entire length and similar anteroventral setae on about apical 2/3; mid tibia with short, somewhat flattened, anterodorsal setae almost over entire length (absent near base and apex) and similar ventral setae on about basal 1/3. Hind femur with pennate, long anterodorsal and short posterodorsal setae almost over entire length (except short subapical portion) as well as with long pennate anteroventral setae on about apical half; mid tibia with moderately long anterodorsal setae almost over entire length (except extreme base and apex) and similar setae on about basal half ventrally.

Abdomen mostly covered with short setae; cercus long, slender, with minute setae.

REMARKS. First record for Iran. Up to now, Empis temryukiensis was known only after the type specimens taken from Taman Peninsula of Russia (Krasnodarsky Krai) (Kustov &

Shamshev, 2013; Shamshev, 2016). According to label data, it is an early spring species recorded from the beginning of April till the beginning of May in Tabriz of Iran and at the end of April in environs of Temryuk of Russia.

DISTRIBUTION. Iran (East Azerbaijan Province), Russia (Krasnodarsky Krai).

Family Hybotidae Meigen, 1820

REMARKS. Only four species of Hybotidae were recorded from Iran: Hybos vagans

Loew, 1874, Ocydromia glabricula (Fallén, 1816) , Platypalpus longiseta (Zetterstedt, 1842) ,

and Tachydromia parva Chvála, 1970 (Shamshev & Grootaert, 2005; Shamshev et al., 2015).

Subfamily Ocydromiinae Schiner, 1862