Brachinus Weber, 1801

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Genus Brachinus Weber, 1801

Subgenus Brachinus Weber, 1801

Brachinus (Brachinus) crepitans Linnaeus, 1758

Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran).

Citations: North part from the Provinces Golestan to Gilan and west part of Iran; Kelardascht (Prov. of Mazandaran; Mandl, 1963); Khirood forest, NowShahr (Prov. of Mazandaran; Azadbakhsh et al., 2015).

Brachinus (Brachinus) ejaculans Fischer von Waldheim, 1828

Citations: Kelardascht (Prov. of Mazandaran; Mandl, 1963); Sabzawaran (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963); HassanKiandeh (Prov. of Mazandaran; Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973).

Brachinus (Brachinus) elegans Chaudoir, 1842

Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran).

Citations: Astrabad (Prov. of Mazandaran; Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973); without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988); Khirood forest, NowShahr (Prov. of Mazandaran; Azadbakhsh et al., 2015).

Brachinus (Brachinus) plagiatus Reiche, 1868

Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran).

Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973); Without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988).

Brachinus (Brachinus) psophia Audinet-Serville, 1821

Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran); Bragan River, 2012 (Prov. of Elburz). Citations: AzadShahr (Prov. of Golestan; Rezaie-Node, 2012).

Subgenus Brachynolomus Reitter, 1919

= Brachynidius Reitter, 1919

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) bodemeyeri Apfelbeck, 1904 Studied material: Kermanshah, 2014 (Prov. of Kermanshah). Citations: Without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988).

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) brevicollis Motschulsky, 1844

Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran).

Citations: Distributed in north of Iran. Astrabad (Prov. of Mazandaran; Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973); AzadShahr (Prov. of Golestan; Rezaie-Node, 2012), but this record is probably wrong because in this author identified the species as having a small seta on the lateral margin of Elytra, but B. brevicollis has this margin completely glabrous; Gorgan env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014).

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) explodens (Duftschmid, 1812)

Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran); Kermanshah, 2014 (Prov. of Kermanshah). Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Chaudoir, 1844); Farsistan region (Prov. of Fars; Redtenfoacher, 1850); Mashahd (Prov. of Razavi Khorasan; Hosseini et al., 2012); Kalkhuran Village (Prov. of Ardabil; Atamehr, 2013); Gorgan, env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014).

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) sclopeta (Fabricius, 1792)

Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Chaudoir, 1842; Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973); North of Iran ( Reitter, 1919).

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) sichemita Reiche & Saulcy, 1855 Citations : Without exact locality ( Hrdlička, 2003).

Subgenus Brachynolomus Reitter, 1919

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) costatulus (Quensel In Schoenherr, 1806) Citations : Gonbad (Prov. of Golestan; Samin & Kesdek, 2014).

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) immaculicornis apfelbecki Jakobson, 1908

Citations: Farsistan region (Prov. of Fars; Redtenfoacher, 1850); Without exact locality ( Hrdlička, 2003).

Brachinus (Brachynolomus) nigricornis Gebler, 1829

Studied material: (ZMTU): Pol-e Sefid, 870 m (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Talesh, Mts. (Prov. of Gilan; Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973).

Subgenus Aploa Hope, 1833

Brachinus (Aploa) nobilis Dejean, 1831

Studied material: Geno, 2015 (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Without exact locality ( Hrdlička, 2003); Tange-Surhkeh village, 1000 m (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Anichtchenko, 2013).

Brachinus (Aploa) pictus Hope, 1833

Citations: Without exact locality ( Hrdlička, 2003).

Subgenus Cnecostolus Reitter, 1919

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) bagdatensis Pic, 1902

= richteri ( Jedlicka, 1961)

Studied material: Hasan Langi, 2015 (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Jiroft, Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Kerman; Jedlička, 1961); Without exact locality ( Hrdlička, 2003).

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) bayardi Dejean, 1831

Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Chaudoir, 1842); Farsistan region (Prov. of Fars; Redtenfoacher, 1850); Kuhräng and Pirbakran (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1963).

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) bipustulatus Quensel in Schoenherr, 1806 Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Chaudoir, 1842).

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) cruciatus (Quensel in Schoenherr, 1806) = Dromius petrovitzi Mandl, 1973

Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Chaudoir, 1842); Without exact locality ( Reitter, 1919).

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) exhalans P. Rossi, 1792

Citations: Without exact locality ( Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973).

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) hamatus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828) Citations: Without exact locality ( Jablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973).

Brachinus (Cnecostolus) subnotatus Chaudoir, 1844

Citations: Province Mazandaran ( Chaudoir, 1844); Astrabad (Prov. of Golestan; Reitter, 1919).