Bessa parallela (Meigen, 1824)

Seyyedi Sahebari, Farnaz, Khaghaninia, Samad & Talebi, Ali Asghar, 2023, New data on the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera, Tachinidae) from northern Iran, with 11 genera and 15 new records of species for the country, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2), pp. 311-329 : 317

Bessa parallela (Meigen, 1824) ( Fig. 1E)

Material examined. 1♂, Iran, Guilan, Astaneh- Ashrafieh (Eshman-Kamachal) 37°21.17'N, 49°57.93'E, 2 m, 11.VIII.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish.

Diagnosis. Second aristomere 5 times as long as its diameter; scutum black with white coating and 5 longitudinal stripes before the suture; abdominal tergites with broad bands of white pruinescence interrupted with black longitudinal stripe; tergites 3–4 without median discal setae.

Distribution. Oriental - China (East, West); Palaearctic - Widespread throughout Europe and Scandinavian countries also from Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia ( Armenia), China (Central, Northeast, South-Central), Japan. ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record).

Host range. Coleoptera - Coccinellidae : Epilachna pustulosa Kono, 1937 ; Curculionidae : Hypera postica (Gyllenhal, 1813) , Neoglanis salviae (Schrank, 1789) ; Hymenoptera : Tenthredinidae : Craesus japonicus Takeuchi, 1921 , Nematus turgaiensis Safjanov, 1977 , Pristiphora ezomatsuvora Togashi, 1989 , Trichiocampus populi Okamoto, 1912 and many genera and species of Lepidoptera (see Tschorsnig, 2017:40–46).