Annotated catalogue of Iranian burrower bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea, Cydnidae)

By

Ghahari, Hassan
Chérot, Frédéric.
Linnavuori, Rauno
Ostovan, Hadi

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2009

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

26

Pages

3-31

Subjects

Cydnidae , Fauna , Heteroptera , Iran

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.26.214

 

Abstract

A catalogue of burrower bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Cydnidae) of Iran is provided. A total of 58 species from 5 subfamilies, 6 tribes and 22 genera is listed in this paper. Of these, 14 species are newly recorded from Iran: Byrsinus fossor (Mulsant & Rey, 1866), Byrsinus nigroscutellatus (Montandon, 1900), Byrsinus penicillatus Wagner, 1964, Canthophorus wagneri Asanova, 1964, Crocistethus waltlianus (Fieber, 1837), Geotomus antennatus Signoret, 1883, Sehirus cypriacus Dohrn, 1860, Sehirus dissimilis Horváth, 1919, Sehirus luctuosus Mulsant & Rey, 1866, Sehirus ovatus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840), Sehirus parens Mulsant & Rey, 1866, Sehirus planiceps Horváth, 1895, Stibaropus henkei (Jakovlev, 1874) and Tritomegas delagrangei (Puton, 1888). Additional Iranian records are provided for Byrsinus laeviceps (Kerzhner, 1972), Exosehirus marginatus (Signoret, 1881b), Fromundus pygmaeus (Dallas, 1851), Geotomus elongatus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840), Geotomus punctulatus (Costa, 1847), Ochetostethus sahlbergi Wagner, 1952 and Tritomegas bicolor (Linnaeus, 1758).