Zeuxia zernyi Mesnil, 1963

Gilasian, Ebrahim, Ziegler, Joachim & Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad, 2022, The fauna of the family Tachinidae (Diptera) in Haftad-Qolleh Protected Area (Markazi Province), with forty-six new records from Iran and description of a new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (1), pp. 49-91 : 56-57

Zeuxia zernyi Mesnil, 1963

Peyritschia erythraea Villeneuve, 1933:210 ; Zeuxia mera Kolomiets, 1971:51 .

Diagnosis: Eye bare; fronto-orbital plate in male with long proclinate setae, about as long as frontal setae; face convex, well visible in lateral view; parafacial bare; postpedicel at least 1.2 times as long as pedicel; aristal trichia 1.1–3.7 times as wide as maximum diameter of arista; proepisternum bare; cell r 4+5 open; abdominal syntergite 1+2 without medium marginal setae; middorsal depression on abdominal syntergite 1+2 extending back to hind margin; abdominal tergites 2–4 reddish-orange laterally; abdominal tergites with median and lateral discal setae, male surstylus broad and lobiform as in plate 3 Fig. 14 in Cerretti (2006).

Material examined: 1♂, Chekab valley , 34°08′07.2″N, 50°15′56.1″E, 11.vi.2018, 2090 m, pan trap, leg. E. Gilasian & M. Parchami-Araghi.

Distribution: ASIA: Western Siberia, Kazakhstan. EUROPE: Western Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal. New record for Iran.