Medina collaris (Fallén, 1820) (Fig. 1C) Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Noor, 36°34.88'N, 52°2.76'E, 14 m, 4.VIII.2011, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. A. Nadimi; 4♀♀, Iran, East Azerbaijan, Arasbaran (Makidi valley), 38°50.42'N, 46°54.74'E, 1496 m, 25.VII.2014, sweep net, ICHMM leg. F. Seyyedi-Sahebari. Diagnosis. Arista pubescent and thickened in basal 1/5; fore tibia with one erect setae; scutum before the suture with white coating and five thin dark longitudinal stripes; apical scutellar setae absent; lateral scutellar setae as long and as strong as the basal setae; halters yellow; abdomen with broad bands of pruinescence along anterior margin of tregites 3–5; sternite 7 at the end with a plate-like sclerite. Distribution. Oriental - China (East); Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia, Japan, China (Central, Northeast, South-Central) (O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record). Host range. Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae: Galerucella lineola (Fabricius, 1781), Lochmaea caprea (Linnaeus, 1758), L. suturalis (Thomson, 1866), Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull, 1799), Xanthogaleruca luteola (Müller, 1766) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:53).

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 315, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.311, http://zenodo.org/record/17021694