A contribution to the tachinid flies of the subfamilies Exoristinae and Tachininae (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Fars province, Iran

New data on the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera, Tachinidae) from northern Iran, with 11 genera and 15 new records of species for the country

“…Most species of Exorista are distributed in the Old World, except the six species recorded in the Nearctic region (O'Hara et al, 2020). Formerly, 10 species of this genus have been reported from Tehran, Zanjan, West Azarbaijan, Guilan, Mazandaran, Fars, Kerman and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces of Iran (Samet et al, 1977;Herting & Delay-Draskovits, 1993;Fathipour et al, 2010;Dehgani Zahedani, 2006;Gheibi et al, 2010;Karami et al, 2023). Exorista rustica Fallen is distributed from Palaearctic and Oriental and is new record for fauna of Iran.…”

A new species of the genus Minthodes Brauer & Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Iran

“…Later, Tschorsnig & Richter (1998) treated the latter as a junior synonym of Minthodes, based on the occurrence of some intermediate morphological characters in M. transiens Herting, 1987. The species M. atra (Kugler, 1971) is the first Iranian record of this genus, previously known as Pseudomintho atra Kugler, collected in the Arjan Protected Area, Fars province (Gheibi & Ostovan, 2009). In their review of the genus Minthodes in Iran, Gilasian et al (2016) described the species M. susae Gilasian & Ziegler, 2016 and reported both M. pictipennis Brauer &Bergenstamm, 1889 andM.…”