Trachysiphonella Enderlein, 1936

Bazyar, Zeinab, Dousti, Abu Fazel, Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, Received, Majid Fallahzadeh & Online, Published, 2015, A first overview of the fauna of Chloropidae of Iran (Diptera, Acalyptratae), Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (6), pp. 1041-1049 : 1044

3.1.7. Trachysiphonella Enderlein, 1936 16. Trachysiphonella ruficeps (Macquart, 1835)

This species was treated by authors in recent years mostly as T. pygmaea (Meigen, 1838) or as T. flavella (Zetterstedt, 1848) . Both taxa are now treated as synonyms (by Nartshuk and Andersson, 2013) of the oldest name for the darkest variety of this very variable and abundant species. The larval development of all species in the genus is completely unknown.

Records from Iran: Alikhani et al., 2012; Rabieh et al., 2012.

Distribution, including that of the recently synonymized taxon pygmaea : Austria, Belarus, Belgium, British Is., Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Russia, Central Russia, Northwest Russia, South Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palearctic, Near East ( Nartshuk, 2013a). M.v.T. collected it also in Catalonia ( Spain), Corfu and Sciathos ( Greece), Gomera and Tenerife (Canary Is.).