Admontia blanda (Fallén, 1820) (Fig. 1B) Material examined. 1♂, Iran: East Azerbaijan, Osku (Goonbarf), 46°13.17'N, 37°43'E, 2312 m, 1. V.2012, sweep net, ICHMM, leg. F. Seyyedi-Sahebari. Diagnosis. Parafrontalia with white dusting; arista thickened to half of its length; 3rd antennal segment in males about 6 times and in females about 4 times as long as the 2nd; palpus and antennae including arista black; postpronotum with 2 setae; scutum before the suture with 2 wide black longitudinal stripes that are a little wider than the dusted stripe in between. Distribution. Oriental - China (East, West); Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia, China (Northeast, South-central) (O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record). Host range. Diptera - Tipulidae: Nephrotoma pratensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:58).

Published as part of 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, pp. 311-329 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2) on page 313, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.311, http://zenodo.org/record/17021694