Tettigometra (Metroplaca) longicornis Signoret, 1866

Mozaffarian, Fariba, Bourgoin, Thierry & Wilson, Michael R., 2018, Nomenclatural changes in the higher classification of the family Tettigometridae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) with description of a new tribe and new species and a review of the Iranian tettigometrid fauna, Zootaxa 4392 (3), pp. 469-490 : 480-481

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scientific name	Tettigometra (Metroplaca) longicornis Signoret, 1866
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Tettigometra longicornis Signoret, 1866: 159 Material examined. Ardabil province: Majareh, 21–22.vii.1996, leg. R. Linnavuori, 1 specimen ( NMWC) ; Gilan province: Rostamabad, Salansar, 6–8.v.2001, leg. R. & S. Linnavuori, 1 specimen ( NMWC). This is the first record of the species from Iran .

Distribution and habitat. Dlabola (1981) recognized the species as an arboreal-pontomediteranean faunal element, found in steppes of Anatoly. According to Nast (1972), the species is distributed in Northern Africa, Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Turkey, Central Asia and Afghanistan. These records in northwestern Iran ( Fig. 26) are the first ones for the country. However, due to the distribution of the species from north of Africa to central Asia and Afghanistan, it may be present also in central north and northeast of Iran.