Narges Zamani - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran.
Masumeh Shayanmehr - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran.
Majid Mirab-balou - Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

During the study of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) associated with colza (Brassica napus) fields in Sari (Mazandaran Province, Iran) in ۲۰۱۵–۲۰۱۶, a total of six species i.e. Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer), Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius), Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus), Paragus bicolor (Fabricius), Syrphus ribesii (Linnaeus) and Platycheirus jaerensis Nielsen are recorded for this region. Among them, P. jaerensis Nielsen is newly recorded for the Iranian fauna.

Syrphidae, Colza, Platycheirus, new record, Iran