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A new species of the genus Hendrella (Diptera: Tephritidae), Hendrella kermanensis Mohamadzade Namin, Madjdzadeh & Moeinadini, sp. n. was described for the first time from southeastern Iran (Kerman province). This species was reared from stem galls of Artemisia aucheri (Asteraceae).
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Why is it important?
Finding and describing new species is an important task in taxonomy. Hendrella Munro, 1938 is a small genus including eight species occurring mostly in the Central Asian part of the Palaearctic Region; six Oriental and Australasian species that were included in the catalogue of fruit flies.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had active collaborations. The result led to describing a new tephritid species from Southeastern Iran (Kerman province).
Seyed Massoud Madjdzadeh
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
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This page is a summary of: A New Species of Hendrella (Diptera, Tephritidae) from South-Eastern Iran, Vestnik Zoologii, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2017-0028.
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