Anthocoris pilosus ( Jakovlev, 1877 )

Moulet, Pierre, 2017, Updated catalogue of Iranian Anthocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), Zootaxa 4311 (4), pp. 451-479 : 457

Anthocoris pilosus ( Jakovlev, 1877)

Tetraphleps pilosus Jakovlev, 1877: 95 (as new species); Anthocoris albidipennis Reuter, 1909: 7 ; Anthocoris persicus Wagner, 1957: 109 ; Anthocoris sibiricus Péricart, 1972: 143 non Reuter, 1875.

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil ( Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Fars ( Modarres Awal 1997 as A. persicus ; Erfanfar & Ostovan 2002, 2005; Falamarzi et al. 2009), East Azarbaijan ( Farshbaf Pour-Abad et al. 2017), Guilan ( Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000; Abd-Rabou & Ghahari 2006 as A. persicus ), Ilam ( Mirab-Balou 2016), Isfahan ( Rakhshani et al. 2010), Kerman (Wagner 1957; Modarres Awal 1997, both as A. persicus ), Khuzestan ( Rajabpour 2011 Rajabpour et al. 2012), Lorestan ( Sepahvand et al. 2016), Mazandaran ( Heiss 2002), Northern Khorasan ( Malkeshi et al. 1998; Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998), Razavi Khorasan ( Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998; Hassanzadeh Awal & Modarres Awal 2010a, b; Keykhosravi et al. 2016), Semnan ( Jakovlev 1877 (Shahrud - holotype, as Tetraphleps pilosus ); Kiritshenko 1949), Tehran ( Lindberg 1938; Wagner 1957 as A. persicus ).

General distribution. Palaearctic except the farmost East (Far East Russia, Korea, Japan) and North Africa.

Plant associates. Alfalfa ( Rakhshani et al. 2010; Hassanzadeh Awal & Modarres Awal 2010b), sunflower and grasses ( Hassanzadeh Awal & Modarres Awal 2010b), Salix sp. ( Salicaceae ) ( Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998), Rosa spp . ( Rosaceae ) ( Keykhosravi et al. 2016); Urtica dioica (Urticaceae) , Astragalus glaucoacanthus (Fabaceae) , Pistacia khinjukh (Anacardiaceae) , Ulmus sp. ( Ulmaceae ) (Wagner 1957 as A. persicus ).

Prey records. Aphids of pome fruit trees ( Malkeshi et al. 1998), alfalfa aphids ( Rakhshani et al. 2010), Macrosiphum rosae (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) ( Keykhosravi et al. 2016), whiteflies ( Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ) ( Abd-Rabou & Ghahari 2006 as A. persicus ), Aphididae , Miridae (Hemiptera) , young caterpillars, Microlophium evansi (Theobald, 1923) , Chaitophorus sp. ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) ( Péricart 1972), Asiphonella cynodonti (Das, 1918) and Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann, 1802) ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) ( Modarres Awal 1997 as A. persicus ), Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel) ( Thysanoptera : Thripidae ) ( Mirab-Balou 2016).