Tephritis azari Mohamadzade Namin & Korneyev

Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade, Korneyev, Severyn V., Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad & Gilasian, Ebrahim, 2015, Revision of the Tephritis maccus species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) with description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 589-599 : 591

Tephritis azari Mohamadzade Namin & Korneyev

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Tephritis azari Mohamadzade & Korneyev 2012: 80 .

Meterial examined. Type material. Holotype (female): Iran: West Azerbaijan province, 10 km W Ziveh, 2700 m, 37°08'N, 44°52'E, 24.vii.2012 (Mohamadzade & Najarpoor leg.) ( JAZM); Paratypes: Azerbaijan: Talysh, vic. Lerik, Dzhoni vil. [=Çoni, 38°36.8'N 48°30.5'E, h= 1390 m], 5.vi.1981, 1♀ (V. Ermolenko leg.) ( SIZK); Iran: same collection data as in holotype, 3♀, 2♂; East Azerbaijan Province, Sahand ski resort, 30 km of Tabriz, 37°45.850' N 46°30.754' E, 2900 m, 30.viii.2011, 1♀, 1♂ (Mohamadzade & Najarpoor leg.); Ardabil Province, Sabalan Mountain, 2900 m; 12.vii.2012, swept from Senecio sp., 1♀, 1♂ (Mohamadzade & Najarpoor leg.) ( JAZM, SIZK and SMNC); Non-type: Sabalan Mountain, 2900 m; 4.vii.2014, 1♂ (Korneyev & Mohamadzade) ( SIZK).

Distribution. Azerbaijan and Iran ( Mohamadzade Namin & Korneyev 2012).

Diagnosis. Tephritis azari is similar to T. maccus Hering and T. gharalii sp. nov. in the wing pattern (hyaline basally, with brown radiate pattern on apical two-thirds, and usually with one large hyaline spot in cell r1), flagellomere 1 pointed, oviscape short, aculeus relatively blunt, with short acute apex and similar spermathecae shape. It differs from both species by the size of the brown ray in cell dm basal to the level of r-m, which is absent or short, usually reaching only the mid-width of cell dm, at most reaching Cu1 (long, reaching middle of cell cu 1 in T. maccus and T. gharalii ).