Geotomus elongatus ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840 )

Ghahari, Hassan, Chérot, Frédéric, Linnavuori, Rauno & Ostovan, Hadi, 2009, Annotated catalogue of Iranian burrower bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea, Cydnidae), ZooKeys 26 (26), pp. 3-31 : 13

29) Geotomus elongatus ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840)

Cydnus elongatus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840: 96 (as new species).

Cydnus caucasicus Kolenati 1846: 70 (as new species, the new combination by Horváth 1917: 371 and the synonymy by Kerzhner 2003: 95).

Geotomus elongatus: Mulsant and Rey 1866: 38 (new combination).

Iran records: Hoberlandt 1995: 186–187 (under the name G. elongatus and the junior synonym G. caucasicus ); Lis 2006: 133; Wagner 1953: 471–472, 475.

Additional data: Golestan province, National Park (185m), 1♁, 2♀♀, October 2003.

Distribution in Iran: Abbassi, Baluchestan, Bushehr, Golestan, Kerman, Tehran provinces.

Distribution outside Iran: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, China (Neimenggu), Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Macedonia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia (South European Territory), Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.