Aelia furcula Fieber, 1868: 472
Reuter, 1900 : 233
An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha)
Ghahari, Hassan
Moulet, Pierre
Rider, David A.
Zootaxa
2014
3837
1
1
95
Fieber, 1868
Fieber
1868
[151,456,1833,1858]
Insecta
Pentatomidae
Aelia
Animalia
Hemiptera
13
14
Arthropoda
species
furcula
Aelia furculaFieber, 1868: 472; Aelia simillima Reuter, 1900: 233.
Distribution in Iran.Alborz ( Hoberlandt 1997), East Azarbaijan (Brown 1962, 1966; Modarres Awal 1997b; Havaskary et al. 2012), Fars( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997; Safavi 1959; Linnavuori 2012), Golestan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Hamadan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997; Modarres Awal 1997b), Isfahan ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b; Samin & Asgari 2012), Kermanshah ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1966; Safavi 1959; Modarres Awal 1997b), Khorasan ( Safavi 1959; Modarres Awal 1997b), Kordestan ( Wagner 1961, 1968; Brown 1962, 1968; Hoberlandt 1997), Lorestan, Mazandaran ( Modarres Awal 1997b), Markazi ( Modarres Awal 1997b), Qazvin ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966), Tehran ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Hoberlandt 1997; Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori 2008), West Azarbaijan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Zanjan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Modarres Awal 1997b), Iran(no locality cited) ( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005; Khanjani 2006; Rider 2006). General distribution.Ponto-Mediterranean and Central Asia: Greece, Turkey, European Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005); Cyprus(P. Moulet, unpublished data). Host plants.On Poaceae( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), wheat ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b; Khanjani 2006), barley ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), brome chess, Agropyron caespitosum, Bromus tectorumvar. hirsutus, Eremopyrum bonapartisvar. s ublanuginosum, Heteranthelium pitiferum, Hordeum spontaneum(all Poaceae), Helichrysum oligocephalum( Asteraceae) ( Modarres Awal 1997b) and Agropyrum pectiniforme, Alopecurus arundinaceus, Arrhenatherum kotschyi, Boisseria squarrosa, Bromus lanceolatus, B. danthoniae, Eremopoa persica Hordeum violaceum, Poa bulbosa, Melica jacquemonti, Pucinellia bulbosa(all Poaceae) ( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005). Aelia furculais a pest of cereals but, in Iran, eggs are destroyed by several Hymenoptera(families Selionidae and Encyrtidae), and also the nymphs are parasitized by Diptera( Tachinidae: Phasiinae) ( Radjabi 1998; Samin 2010).