1202 _____________Mun. Ent. Zool. Vol. 5, Suppl., October 2010________ SCIENTIFIC NOTE NEW RECORDS OF FRUIT FLIES FROM IRAN (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) Ebrahim Zarghani*, Samad Khaghaninia*, Valery Alexeyevich Korneyev**, Murat Kutuk***, Reza Farshbaf Pour Abad*, Babak Gharali**** and Yaser Gharajedaghi* * Dept. of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, IRAN. E-mail: [email protected] ** I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Biogeography, B. Khmelnitski str. 15 UA 252601, Kiev-1, UKRAINE. *** University of Gaziantep, Faculty of Science and Art, Department of Biology, 27310, Gaziantep, TURKEY. **** Dept. Plant Protection, Ghazvin Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resource, IRAN. Family Tephritidae (true fruit flies), With 471 genera and 4400 species, is a family of Attractive picture-winged flies. This family is more specious than mammals. Fruit flies are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical areas of the world, being absent only from the high arctic and antarctic regions. They are almost all phytophagous, and unique in having two opposite roles in human᾿s economy. It includes some serious pests of fruit and vegetable crops, as well as species useful for biological control of weeds. (Norrbom et al. 1999, Thompson, 1998, and White, 1988). A few species induce the formation of galls in the upper or subterranean parts of stems of Asteraceae (Freidberg, 1984; Korneyev, 2003). The members of the family are united by the combination of following characters: Medium or small size; usually with variegated wings; frontalia reach frons with one to five or six frontal bristles; vertical plate usually does not reach midpoint of frons and carries one or more orbital bristles; antenna with glabrous or plumous arista; costal vein with two interruptions (Richter, 1988; White & Elson-Harris, 1992). The fruit fly fauna of Iran was studied by Becker (1913), Parchami (1995), Gharali et al. (2006), Karimpour & Merz (2006), Gilasian & Merz (2008), Mohamadzade & Rasoulian (2009), Mohamadzade, Nozari & Rasoulian (2010), Mohamadzade & Nozari (2010), Hajighorbani, Goldasteh & Mohamadzade (2010), and Zarghani et al. (2010). Nevertheless the tephritid fauna of Ajabshir region in East Azerbaijan province was poorly known. The present study represented eight species wiche previously not recorded for Iran Fauna. The materials were deposited at the insect collection, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. As follow: Tephritis nigricauda (Loew, 1856) Material examined. 2♂♂ 2♀♀: Bag Dere; 37°29' N 45°52' E, 2037 m, 2 April 2010 (leg, Y. Gharajedaghi, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). Terellia lappae Cederhielm, 1798 Material examined. 2♀♀: Galachay; 37°31' N 46°07' E, 1469 m, 24 March 2010 (leg, Y. Gharajedaghi, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). _____________Mun. Ent. Zool. Vol. 5, Suppl., October 2010________ 1203 Terellia nigronota Korneyev, 1985 Material examined: 15♂♂ 18♀♀: Qurigol; 37°55' N 46°41' E, 1888 m, 4 Augest 2009 (leg, S. Khaghaninia, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). Terellia virens Loew, 1846 Material examined: 5♂♂ 4♀♀: Huri; 37°32' N 45°50' E, 1750 m, 1 April 2010 (leg, Y. Gharajedaghi, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). Urophora affinis Frauenfeld, 1857 Material examined: 3♂♂ 2♀♀: Gunbed; 37°30' N 46°01' E, 1437 m, 13 February 2010 (leg, Y. Gharajedaghi, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). Urophora hermonis Freidberg, 1947 Material examined: 1♀: Uskulu; 38°51' N 46°59' E, 1367 m, 1 Jully 2009 (leg, S. Khaghaninia, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). Urophora solaris Korneyev 1984 Material examined: 1♂: Das Bulag; 37°33' N 45°52' E, 1526 m, 25 February 2010 (leg, Y. Gharajedaghi, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). Urophora solstitialis Linnaeus, 1758 Material examined: 1♀: Zaviyeh; 37°29' N 45°52' E, 1320 m, 24 March 2010 (leg, Y. Gharajedaghi, Depasited at Insect Museum of Tabriz University). LITERATURE CITED Becker, T. 1913. Persische Dipteren von den Expeditionen des Herrn N. Zarudny 1898 und 1901. Ezheg. Zool. Muz. (1912) 17: 503-654. Friedberg, A. 1984. Gall Tephritidae (Diptera). In: Ananthakrishnan, T. N. (ed.), Biology of Gall Insects, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delphi:1 29-167. Gharali, B., Merz, B. & Lotfalizadeh, H. 2006. The first report of Urophora impicta (Hering, 1942) (Diptera; Tephritidae) from Iran. Proceedings of the 18th Iranian plant protection congress. p. 96. Gilasian, E. & Merz, B. 2008. The first report of three genera and fifteen species of Tephritidae (Diptera) from Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 27: 11-14. Hajighorbani, S., Goldasteh, S. H. & Mohammadzade Namin, S. 2010. 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