Lasiochaeta pubescens (Thalhammer, 1898)

Bazyar, Zeinab, Dousti, Abu Fazel, Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, Received, Majid Fallahzadeh & Online, Published, 2015, A first overview of the fauna of Chloropidae of Iran (Diptera, Acalyptratae), Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (6), pp. 1041-1049 : 1043

7. Lasiochaeta pubescens (Thalhammer, 1898)

Records from Iran: Nartshuk, 1984 (as Melanochaeta pubescens ; for generic transfer and species characters compare Nartshuk and von Tschirnhaus (2012)); Deeming and Al-Dhafer, 2012.

Distribution: Austria, Azores, Belarus (doubtful), Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Is., Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Poland, Romania, Russia East, Russia South, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palearctic, Near East, North Africa ( Nartshuk, 2013a); Balearic Is., Corsica, Sardinia, Maltese Is. ( Nartshuk, 2013b); may well be found in Arabia ( Deeming and Al-Dhafer, 2012); common and widely distributed species in the southern Palearctic Region, from Azores and Madeira to Afghanistan, recently spreading as far north as northern Germany ( Nartshuk and von Tschirnhaus, 2012). From England, it was first recorded by Collin (1946).