Meigenia dorsalis (Meigen, 1824)

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 : 62

Meigenia dorsalis (Meigen, 1824) ( Fig. 3H)

Tachina dorsalis Meigen, 1824:325 . [For further synonyms see Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993)].

Diagnosis: Eyes almost bare, with a few scattered setulae; frons in male 0.35–0.60 times as wide as an eye viewed dorsally; postpedicel in male 1.9–2.5 times and in female 1.8–2.3 times as long as pedicel; face in male 3.3–5.1 times as long as parafacial width at its narrowest point; abdominal tergite 4 usually with only 1 pair of discal setae; cercus and surstylus straight, with long setulae as in Fig. 249 in Tschorsnig & Herting (1994).

Material examined: 12♂♂, Chekab valley , 34°08′05.3″N, 50°16′25.3″E, 28.v–15.vi.2016, 2219 m, Malaise trap, leg. E. Gilasian & M. Parchami-Araghi ; 3♂♂, Sibak valley , 34°05′40.0″N, 50°14′35.3″E, 2–4.vi.2017, 2094 m, pan trap, leg. E. Gilasian & M. Parchami-Araghi.

Distribution: ASIA: Japan, China, Siberia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Transcaucasia, Israel, Turkey. EUROPE: widespread in all main parts of Europe. Also Oriental Region. New record for Iran.