Sehirus luctuosus Mulsant & Rey, 1866

Ghahari, Hassan, Chérot, Frédéric, Linnavuori, Rauno & Ostovan, Hadi, 2009, Annotated catalogue of Iranian burrower bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea, Cydnidae), ZooKeys 26 (26), pp. 3-31 : 20

50) Sehirus luctuosus Mulsant & Rey, 1866

? Cimex niger spinipes De Geer, 1773: 269 [unavailable non binominal name; the synonymy with S. luctuosus by Reuter (1888); the synonymy with Cydnus aterrimus ( Forster, 1771) by Amyot, 1845 seems doubtful since Reuter (1888) did examine De Geer’s types ( Lis 2006 contra 1999)].

Sehirus luctuosus Mulsant and Rey 1866: 52 (new combination).

Material examined: East Azerbaijan province, Arasbaran (826m), 2♁♁, 4♀♀, July 2005. New record for Iran.

Distribution outside Iran: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaidjan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Den- mark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Turkey, Ukraine.