Aradus caucasicus Kolenati, 1857

Ghahari, Hassan & Heiss, Ernst, 2012, Annotated Catalog of Iranian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Aradoidea), Zootaxa 3571, pp. 81-86 : 83

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.212198
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6175284
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scientific name	Aradus caucasicus Kolenati, 1857
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Aradus caucasicus turkestanicus Jakovlev, 1894 .

Aradus caucasicus margianus Kiritshenko, 1931 .

Aradus persicus Vásárhelyi 1977 [" Persia "].

Aradus caucasicus persicus Kanyukova 1984 , all syn. Heiss 2004.

Distribution in Iran. Golestan ( Hoberlandt 1974 (as turkestanicus ); Heiss 2004), Iran (no locality cited) ( Vasarhelyi 1977).

General distribution. Pontomediterranean, known from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Comments. Vásárhelyi (1977) indicated as type locality for A. persicus " Persia, Kara-su" (Turkish: "black water"). As there are rivers with this name in Turkey, Georgia, and Kasachstan it is unclear, if this locality refers to present-day Iran. The record of A. turkestanicus Jakovlev, 1894 from Golestan by Hoberlandt, 1974, refers to this species ( Heiss 2004). In Iran it was collected on Juniperus oxycedrus (Cupressaceae) ( Hoberlandt 1974) and Fagus orientalis ( Heiss 2004) .