Bunopus crassicauda Nikolsky, 1907

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 10233, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).

TYPE LOCALITY. Restricted to Khara-Magommed-Abad by lectotype designation by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986); originally Kum [= Qom], Maljat-Abad and Khara-Magommed-Abad, Irak-Adschemi Prov. [today Esfahan Prov.], Iran (Nikolsky 1907).

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 30. Central Iranian Plateau in the area around Tehran, Qom, Esfahan, Yazd, and Kerman; also S of the Kopet Dagh .

HABITAT. Cultivated alluvial plains, gravely and sandy areas with vegetation containing Alhagi, Artemisiam, Prosopis, and Tamarix (Mozaffari et al. 2011a).

REMARKS. Bunopus crassicauda was confirmed to occur syntopically with B. tuberculatus in NE Iran (Kamali & Mozaffari 2013).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996); Anderson (1999); Kamali & Mozaffari (2013).