Phyllomorpha lacerata Herrich-Schäffer, 1835

Kment, Petr & Rédei, Dávid, 2013, Paranotocoris Ahmad & Shadab, 1973, a new synonym of Phyllomorpha Laporte, 1833 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae), Zootaxa 3652 (3), pp. 397-400 : 399

Phyllomorpha lacerata Herrich-Schäffer, 1835

Phyllomorpha laceratus Herrich-Schäffer, 1835: 41 , 73.

Phyllomorpha persica Westwood, 1841: 8 . Synonymized by Horváth (1889: 326).

Paranotocoris echinus Ahmad & Shadab, 1974: 181 –186, figs 1–8, syn. nov. Holotype: male, Pakistan, Baluchistan, Mekran, 8 mile to Turbat on Kalat and Turbat Highway, 24.iv.1969, I. Ahmad lgt. (coll. Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, University of Karachi).

Paranotocoris echinus: Ahmad et al. (1977: 14: figs 4, 24, 37) (catalogue, habitus figure); Ahmad (1979: 42) (checklist); Ahmad (1980: 131) (checklist).

Taxonomy. As it was discussed above, the original description and illustrations of Paranotocoris echinus fit perfectly the characters of Ph. lacerata . In spite of occurrence of Ph. lacerata in the neighbouring regions of Afghanistan and Iran (including the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan) (see Wagner 1961, 1968; Kiritshenko 1963; Brown 1966; Hoberlandt 1989; Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990; Linnavuori 2007, 2012; Ghahari et al. 2012), the latter species was omitted by the authors when diagnosing P. e c h i n u s. We propose the following new subjective synonymy: Paranotocoris echinus Ahmad & Shadab, 1974 , syn. nov. = Phyllomorpha lacerata Herrich- Schäffer, 1835.

Distribution. Southern Europe ( Albania, Greece, Italy,? Yugoslavia), North Africa ( Algeria), Near East (Asian Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria), Transcaucasia ( Azerbaijan, Armenia), Central Asia (Asian Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (Dolling 2006). There seems to be no reliable record published from the former Yugoslavia (see Protiċ 2001).