Dasytes (Mesodasytes) plumbeus (Müller, 1776)

Plonski, Isidor S. & Ghahari, Hassan, 2018, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Dasytidae and Rhadalidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea), Zootaxa 4472 (3), pp. 452-470 : 463

Dasytes (Mesodasytes) plumbeus (Müller, 1776)

Thelephorus plumbeus Müller, 1776 ; Lagria flavipes Fabricius, 1787 ; Cicindela plumbea (Müller, 1779) ; Melyris plumbeus (Müller, 1779) ; Dasytes plumbeus var. coerulescens Schilsky, 1898 ; Dasytes plumbeus var. nigrofemoralis Schilsky, 1898 ; Dasytes plumbeus var. nigrinus Schilsky, 1898 ; Dasytes plumbeus var. atripes Sainte-Claire Deville, 1908 ; Dasytes plumbeus var. pueli Fagniez, 1946 ; Dasytes coxalis Mulsant & Rey, 1868 ; Dasytes ragusae Schilsky, 1894 .

Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) ( Constantin et al. 2011).

New material examined. Ilam province, 7 km S Ilam , 1819 m, 39°40’N 48°29’E, 25.vii.2004, 2 ♀♀, leg. S. Kadlec, det . & coll. I. Plonski (more specimens in NMPC); Guilan province, Elborz Mts. 40 km E Rudbar , 1030 m, 36°48’N 49°38’E, 27.v.2003, 1 ♂, leg. S. Kadlec, det . & coll. I. Plonski (more specimens in NMPC); Mazandaran province, Ramsar county, N slope of Elburz Mts., Eshkatechal , small stream, 1458 m, 36°50’53,0’’N 50°34’64,4’’E, 08.vi.2008, 4 ♀♀, leg. A. Pütz, det . I. Plonski , coll. A. Pütz & I. Plonski.

General distribution. European-Siberian.

Comments. Blacus (Blacus) errans (Nees, 1811) ( Hymenoptera : Braconidae ), which is a parasitoid of D. plumbeus ( Çetin Erdoğan 2010) , was collected from Aligoodarz (Lorestan province) ( Ghahari et al. 2012).