turkey is a favourite place for the growth and the development of myxomycete due to its climatic conditions and flora. during routine field trips to several locations of gökçeada (çanakkale), which is the largest island of turkey, numerous samples of myxomycetes were collected. according to the available checklists, diderma effusum (schw.) morgan records for the first time from turkey. it has b...

during 2010–2011, a faunistic study of the family syrphidae was carried out in torbat heydarie, roshtkhar and khaf (razavi khorasan province), northeastern iran. among the collected specimens, we found two species, paragus gussakovskii bańkowska and platycheirus immarginatus zetterstedt which are new records for the fauna of iran.

this paper provides faunistic data for 27 species of cryptinae in iran, of which 12 species and three genera, buathra cameron, myrmeleonostenus uchida and glyphicnemis foerster, are newly recorded from iran. previously recorded species with related references are also included. distributional map is given for all species of cryptinae. this study increases the number of known species of iranian ...

among the recently collected chalcidoid wasps in a rice field of eastern guilan province (coast of caspian sea), in july 2012, there was a specimen of pteromalidae belonging to the genus callitula. it was identified as callitula ferrierei (bouček, 1964). both genus and species are new record for iranian fauna. morphological characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded species ...

specimens of the subfamily milesiinae (diptera: syrphidae) were collected using sweeping net from saqqez region, kordestan province located in the northwestern iran during 2012-2013. in total 25 species in 12 genera were identified. of which eumerus transcaspicus (stackelberg, 1952) is reported for first time from iran. diagnostic characters besides supplementary photos of the new record are pr...