Pherbina coryleti (Scopoli, 1763)

Khaghaninia, S., Kazerani, F. & Vala, Jean-Claude, 2018, New Data About Snail-Killing Flies (Diptera, Sciomyzidae) In Iran, Vestnik Zoologii 52 (1), pp. 21-30 : 25

Pherbina coryleti (Scopoli, 1763)

Material examined: Iran: East Azerbaijan Province, Kandovan (moist grassland habitat) [37°45´N, 46°18´E, 2840 m], 20.05.2010, 3 ♂, 1 ♀ ; Jolfa (grassland habitat) [38°52´N, 46°01´E, 1350 m], 5.07.2010, 4 ♂, 6 ♀ (Khaghaninia leg.) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Most of Eurasia. Iran: Yano (1987); Seddighi Sadr, Mohammadzade Namin (2016).

Biology. Knutson et al. (1975) studied the larval development of this species, and described all immature stages. The larvae are predators of various freshwater and terrestrial gastropods, also hygrophilous Succinids ( Knutson et al., 1975). The species is univoltine and overwintering as a third-instar larva ( Gaponov, 2016).