Neophryxe vallina (Rondani, 1861) (Fig. 1G) Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ghazichak), 36°45.95'N, 50°19.58'E, 1803 m, 11.VII.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish. Diagnosis. Frons about 1/2 as wide as one eye in dorsal view, antenna and palpus black; arista bare and thickened to half of its length, ocellar setae hair-like; scutellum with erect dorsal setae and crossed strong apical setae; abdominal tergites covered with black long setae, tergite 5 with erect strong setae; abdomen with broad bands of pruinescence along anterior margin of tregites 3–5. Distribution. Palaearctic - Europe: East Europe (Slovakia), South Europe (Bulgaria, Italy, Spain), West Europe (France, Netherlands, Switzerland), North Africa (Canary Islands) (O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record). Host range. Lepidoptera - Nolidae: Meganola togatulalis (Hübner, 1796) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:32).

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