Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830

Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830: Ghahari & Deans 2010: 295 (tax., East Azarbaijan (Ahar), Golestan (Gorgan), Mazandaran (Qaemshahr), Semnan (Damghan, Semnan), Tehran (Shahriyar)).

* Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Schletterer 1889: 128 (key), 130 (key), 138 (taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)), pl. 6 (figures 7a, b).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: de Dalla Torre 1902: 1080 (world catalogue).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Kieffer 1902: 3 (world catalogue).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Kieffer 1904: 387 (key, taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)).

Evania dimidiata dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Kieffer 1912: 65 (key), 81 (taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Tirgari 1975: 57 (biology, Ardabil (Khalkhal), East Azarbaijan (without locality) , Golestan (Gorgan), Guilan ( Bandar Anzali) , Isfahan (Isfahan), Mazandaran (Sari), Qom (Qom), Tehran (Tehran)) . Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Modarres Awal 1997: 273 (Golestan (without locality) , Markazi (without locality), Tehran (without locality)).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838: Deans 2005: 35 (world catalogue).

* Evania hunteri Mani, 1943: Ghahari et al. 2008: 701 (biol., Razavi Khorasan (Kashmar)). * Evania stenochela Kieffer, 1911: Ghahari et al. 2008: 701 (biol., Golestan (Ali-Abad, Gonbad, Gorgan)). Host in Iran. Unknown.

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Tirgari 1975), East Azarbaijan (Ghahari & Deans 2008), Golestan (Tirgari 1975; Modarres Awal 1997; Ghahari et al. 2008, 2014 as E. stenochela; Ghahari & Dean 2010), Guilan (Tirgari 1975), Isfahan (Tirgari 1975), Mazandaran (Ghahari & Deans 2010), Qom (Tirgari 1975), Razavi Khorasan (Ghahari et al. 2008, 2014 as E. hunteri), Semnam (Ghahari & Deans 2010), Sistan & Baluchestan (Tirgari 1975; Modarres Awal 1997), Tehran (Tirgari 1975; Modarres Awal 1997; Ghahari & Dean 2010).

General distribution. Evania caspia is recorded from Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Israel and Turkey. It is known also from the Afrotropical region (Ethiopia, Sudan).

Comments. Stenopogon laevigatus (Loew, 1851) and Dysmachus dasyproctus Loew, 1871 ( Diptera: Asilidae) have been recorded as the predators of E. caspia (Ghahari et al. 2008, 2014). Evania caspia is is probably a parasitoid of Blatta orientalis (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Blattodea: Blattidae) (Deans 2005).