New records of snail-killing flies (diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Iran

Jonas Mortelmans1, Diederik Volckaert2, Ali Ashgar Talebi3, Farzaneh Kazerani3, Saeed Namin Mohamadzade4

1 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Jutestraat 30, 9000, Ghent, Belgium; 2 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vierwegenstraat 10, 9620, Zottegem, Belgium; 3 Tarbiat Modares University, Jalal AleAhmad Nasr P.O., 14115-111, Tehran, Iran (islamic Republic Of); 4 Islamic Azad University of Varamin-Pishva, Naqshe Jahan, 33817-7489, Tehran, Iran (islamic Republic Of)

Corresponding author(s): Jonas Mortelmans (jonasmortelmans@gmail.com)Diederik Volckaert (staffelientje@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Mortelmans J, Volckaert D (2016): New records of snail-killing flies (diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Iran. v1.4. Belgium Biodiversity Platform. Dataset/Occurrence.doi:10.15468/cw73bc doi:10.15468/cw73bc

Abstract

During a two-week sampling campaign in Iran from April 17th to May 1th 2016, 14 species of snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) were caught. Three species, Pherbellia schoenherri, P. nana and P. ventralis are mentioned for the first time from Iran.

Keywords: Islamic Republic of Iran, Sciomyzidae, faunistics, Islamic Republic of Iran, Sciomyzidae, faunistics

General description

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Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: New records of 12 species of Snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) are given: Pherbina coryleti, Psacadina verbekei, Tetanocera hyalipennis, Ilione turcestanica, Hydromya dorsata, Sepedon sphegea, Sepedon spinipes, Coremacera catenata, Pherbellia griscescens, Pherbellia spec.,  Pherbellia cinerella, Pherbellia nana and Pherbellia griseola.

Three species of Snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) are new to Iran: Pherbellia ventralis, Pherbellia schoenherri and Pherbellia nana

Nomenclature is according to Systema Dipterorum (http://www.diptera.org/index.php).
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Sciomyzidae
Species: Pherbellia nana, Pherbellia griseola, Pherbellia cinerella, Pherbellia schoenherri, Pherbellia ventralis, Ditaeniella grisecens, Coremacera catenata, Sepedon spinipes, Sepedon sphegea, Hydromya dorsata, Ilione turcestanica, Tetanocera hyalipennis, Psacadina verbekei, Pherbina coryleti
Common names: snail-killing flies

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Iran
Coordinates: 24°30'0''N and 40°12'0''N Latitude; 43°42'0''E and 63°42'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 17, 2016 - May 1, 2016

Natural collections description

Collection name: Jonas Mortelmans Private collection
Specimen preservation method: Pinned

Methods

Method step description: collecting, dry pinning, shipping to Belgium, identifying
Study extent description: Six provinces were visited: Kerman province, Khuzestan province, Mazandaran province, Qazvin province, Alborz province and Teheran province
Sampling description: All materials were collected by hand-netting the insects, and stored as dry, pinned materials.
Quality control description: Of all species, at least one specimen was collected.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive New records of snail-killing flies (diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Iran
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=sciomyzidae_iran_mortelmans
Publication date of data: 2017-02-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-08-08
Hierarchy level: Dataset