Ornithogastia merops (Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970), comb. nov.

Guntherana (Ornithogastia) merops Vercammen-Grandjean, Rohde and Mesghali, 1970: 775 (material), 781 (description), fig. 13.

Diagnosis. SIF = 5B-N-3-2111.4300; fPp = B/B/NNB; fsp = 7.7.7; fCx = 1.1.1; fSt = 2.4; fSc: AL> PL> AM; fD = 2H-[4-4-2]-8-8- 10-2-4-2; DS = 46; VS = 48; NDV = 94; Ip = 894; eyes 2 + 2; f 1 anterior to S 1; f 2 at level of apically slightly inflated S 2; 4 basally ciliated mastitarsalae and 3 basally ciliated mastitibialae. Measurements of holotype (Vercammen-Grandjean et al. 1970): AW 49, PW 72, SB 20, ASB 25, PSB 24, SD 49, AP 36, AM 49, AL 64, PL 54, S 34, H 54, D min 30, D max 50, V min 26, V max 38, pa 304, pm 274, pp 316, Ip 894.

Type material examined. Holotype larva (IUMS) from Merops apiaster, Mashhad, 12 May 1967, coll. C.J. Rohde.

Host. Merops apiaster.

Distribution. Iran (Mashhad).

Remarks. Described from a single specimen. Following Kudryashova (1998), we regard Ornithogastia Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960 as a separate genus and thus exclude Ornithogastia merops from the genus Guntherana Womersley, 1939 .