Solieria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849

Gilasian, Ebrahim & Ziegler, Joachim, 2025, A new species of the genus Solieria Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (1), pp. 227-237 : 229

Genus Solieria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849

Solieria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1849:461 . Type species: Tachina inanis Fallén, 1810 , by subsequent designation of Coquillett (1910:606), see O’Hara & Wood (2004:264) and Evenhuis et al. (2010:150). [For synonyms see O’Hara et al. (2020:696).]

Diagnosis. Pedicel, tegula, legs and abdomen more or less yellowish-orange; eye bare; ocellar setae well developed; upper 1/3 of back of head with 1‒4 rows of black setulae behind postocular row; lower facial margin visible in lateral view; antenna longer than height of gena; prosternum bare; scutum with 2 pairs of presutural dorsocentral and 3 pairs of postsutural intra-alar setae; katepisternum with 3 setae; lateral scutellar setae absent; vein R 1 bare; second costal section with short setulae ventrally; preapical anterodorsal seta on fore tibia shorter than preapical dorsal seta; mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; preapical posteroventral seta on hind tibia distinctly shorter than preapical anteroventral seta; middorsal depression of syntergite 1+2 not extending to posterior margin of that segment.