Nemotelus pantherinus (Linnaeus, 1758) * (fig. 1, e–f) Material examined: Iran, East Azerbaijan, Chichekli (located in western part of Arasbaran forests): 38°30ʹ34.02˝ N, 46°37ʹ23.46˝ E, 1689 m, 7.07.2009, 1} (Khaghaninia leg.). D i s t r i b u t i o n: Widespread Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey, Tajikistan (Woodley 2001), first record for Iran. R e m a r k: The most important characters for identification of this species are: length of last FLagellomere as long as the three preceding ones and postocular band as wide as length of the 3 basal FLagellomere (fig. 1, f); male abdomen mostly white, only the last segments black (fig. 1, e).

Published as part of Khaghaninia, S., Kazerani, F. & Hauser, M., 2015, The Genera Nemotelus And Oxycera (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) In The Arasbaran Forests, pp. 401-406 in Vestnik Zoologii 49 (5) on page 404, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2015-0045, http://zenodo.org/record/6449247

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