First record of two species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Iran
نویسندگان
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
3 Institute of Encyclopedy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague
doi
10.52547/jibs.3.4.309چکیده
Five species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) were found during investigations in the Kerman province in the years 2010-2016. Two of these, Xerephedromyia bipartita Mamaev, 1972 and Xerephedromyia mitroshinae Fedotova, 1992, causing galls on Ephedra major (Ephedraceae), were recorded for the first time from Iran. Both species are very rare and have not been found since the time of their original description. Rhopalomyia efremovi (Fedotova, 1999), Rhopalomyia hispanica Tavares, 1904 and Rhopalomyia navasi Tavares, 1904, causing galls on various species of Artemisia (Asteraceae), already known to occur in north-eastern and central Iran, were recorded for the first time in the Kerman provin
