Hover flies of Khaf city in South-east of Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

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Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biological Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

In this article the fauna of the hoverflies in South-east of Razavi Khorasan Province has been identified during 2010-2011. The species were collected by sweeping net on various flowering plants. Among of 231 collected specimens, 17 species belonging to 10 genera and two subfamilies were verified. That all of them were newly recorded for the khaf region. Eumerus ornatus (Meigen, 1822) was a new record for the fauna of Razavi Khorasan Province.

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