Xanthogramma dives (Rondani, 1857) MATERIAL EXAMINED. Azerbaijan: NAR, Shakhbuz, Zarnatun, 1550 m [39°31ʹN 45°46ʹE], 14. VI 2019, 1 ♀. DISTRIBUTION. Reported for NAR for the first time. The species is widespread in the Western Palaearctic, recorded in Turkey and Georgia. REMARKS. It was considered a synonym of X. pedissequum (Harris, 1778) for some time (Peck, 1988). Stackelberg & Richter (1968) considered X. pedissequum as a common species throughout the Caucasus region and counted the synonym of X. maculipenne Mik, 1887 which was described for specimens collected in Göygöl (Azerbaijan). Probably, latter is conspecific X. dives (Mengual et al., 2020). Speight (2024) think, that in the Mediterranean zone X. pedissequum is largely replaced by X. dives and X. stackelbergi Violovitsh, 1975. The results of recent review of Georgia‘s hoverflies actually confirms this opinion (Mengual et al., 2020). The research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme No. 124012400285-7).

Published as part of Mutin, V. A. & Proshchalykin, M. Yu, 2025, A NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF HOVERFLIES (DIPTERA: SYRPHIDAE) FROM THE NAKHCHIVAN AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN, pp. 1-14 in Far Eastern Entomologist 537 (537) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.25221/fee.537.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20504652