Mecidea pallida Horváth, 1909: 290 Mecidea lindbergi Lindberg, 1953: 36 Mecidea lindbergi Wagner, 1954: 3 Mecidea lindbergi var. virescens Wagner, 1954: 5 Mecidea pallida Carapezza, 1981: 88 An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha) Ghahari, Hassan Moulet, Pierre Rider, David A. Zootaxa 2014 3837 1 1 95 Wagner, 1954 Wagner 1954 [151,529,1361,1386] Insecta Pentatomidae Mecidea Animalia Hemiptera 34 35 Arthropoda species lindbergi    Mecidea pallidaHorváth, 1909: 290(non Stål, 1854);  Mecidea lindbergiLindberg, 1953: 36;  Mecidea lindbergiWagner, 1954: 3;  Mecidea lindbergivar. virescensWagner, 1954: 5;  Mecidea pallidaCarapezza, 1981: 88(non Stål, 1854).   Distribution in Iran.Bushehr ( Hoberlandt 1997; Linnavuori 2012), Hormozgan ( Hoberlandt 1997; Linnavuori 2004), Kerman ( Seidenstücker 1958; Hoberlandt 1997), Khorasan ( Hoberlandt 1997), Khuzestan, Lorestan (Linnavuori 2012), Sistan & Baluchestan ( Seidenstücker 1957; Wagner 1957, 1958; Hoberlandt 1955, 1961, 1997; Wagner 1968), Iran(no locality cited) ( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005; Rider 2006).  General distribution.Tropical Africa, North Africa (Canary Archipelago), Near East, Central Asia, Saudi Arabia.