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Does anyone have a reference to Sphyracephala babadjanidesi occurring in Armenia
There's an iNaturalist thread at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229960704 making that claim.
Our well known and documented one is Sphyracephala europaea from a region to the west
There's a blog for that at https://micropezids.myspecies.info/node/237
The list of references is
Papp L., Földvári M. & Paulovics P. 1997. Sphyracephala europaea sp. n. (Diptera: Diopsidae) from Hungary represents a family new to Europe. Folia Entomol. Hungarica. 58: 137–146.
Simova–Tosic D. & Stojanovic A. 1999. Second finding of Sphyracephala europea Papp et Földvári in Europe (Diptera: Diopsidae). Acta Entomol. Serbica. 4: 149–157.
Sumner D.P. 2018. Vernacular names: European Micropezids & Tanypezids (Diptera, Nerioidea & Diopsoidea). Preprint. A 3: 1–14.
Sumner D.P. 2018. European Atlas: Micropezids & Tanypezids (Diptera, Nerioidea & Diopsoidea). Preprint. A 1: 1–94.

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The type of Sphyracephala babadjanidesi is from Azerbaijan. I'm not aware of any record from Armenia. The new record from Georgia is not surprising and the fly can also be expected to occur in Armenia. A revision of Sphyracephala is in preparation and will be published before the end of 2024.

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Dear Hans,
I am curious if anybody tried recently to obtain DNA from the Caucasian and European populations (babajanidesi / europea)? I had a case of poor synonymization in tephritids, Urophora syriaca Hendel 1927 and U. dzieduszyckii Frfld. 1864. Despite the absence of morphological differences, they showed mor than 6% differences in COI gene, which is more than enough for very good and early isolaed, perhaps in Pliocene, species. Now I have to resurrect it again, after 30 years of synonymy. This may be the case of babajanodesi and europea, too, unless the European population was introduced to Hungary and Serbia in XX century.

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The paper we're looking for is
Zaitzev, F. A. (1919): A new element of the tropical fauna in the Transcaucasia (Dipt. Diopsidae). Bulletin Museum Caucase 12: 1-6.
If anyone can obtain a copy of this there are several of us who would be grateful. Jere Kahanpaa reckons the journal is "a bit obscure"

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Searching in Russian might yield something, too: Зайцев, Ф.А., 1919. Новый представитель тропической фауны в Закавказье (Diptera, Diopsidae). Известия Кавказскаго Музея 12: 1-6.

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It may be necessary to search under the modern spelling Кавказского as well as the pre-1917 spelling Кавказскаго.