Brachycarenus tigrinus (Schilling, 1829)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Linnavuori, Rauno E. & Ostovan, Hadi, 2012, An Annotated Catalog of the Iranian Coreidae, Rhopalidae, and Stenocephalidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Coreoidea), Zootaxa 3519, pp. 1-31 : 18

Brachycarenus tigrinus (Schilling, 1829)

Rhopalus tigrinus Schilling, 1829: 53 (as new species); Corizus pudicus Rambur, 1839: 143 ; Corizus laticeps Boheman, 1849: 244 ; Corizus gemmatus A. Costa, 1853: 13 ; Heterogaster punctosus Walker, 1872: 72 .

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil ( Modarres Awal 1987, 1996b; Linnavuori 2007), East Azarbaijan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Modarres Awal 1997a), Fars ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a), Golestan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Heiss 2002; Linnavuori 2007), Guilan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2007), Hormozgan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a), Isfahan ( Razmjoo et al. 2011; Linnavuori 2012), Kerman ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2012), Khorasan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Modarres Awal 1996a, 2008; Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998; Havaskary et al. 2010), Kordestan ( Wagner 1961), Mazandaran, Tehran ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2007), Semnan ( Kiritshenko 1949), West Azarbaijan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2012), Yazd ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a), Zanjan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2007), northern Iran (no locality cited) ( Lindberg 1938).

General distribution. Palaearctic, extending to Kashmir; introduced to North America ( USA).

Comments. On Medicago sativa and Onobrychis sp. (both Fabaceae ), Triticum sp. and Hordeum sp. (both Poaceae ), Nigella sp. ( Ranunculaceae ), Pinus sp. ( Pinaceae ) ( Modarres Awal 1996b), Sorghum sp. ( Poaceae ) ( Taghizadeh et al. 2010); on Brassicaceae , Chenopodiaceae , Fabaceae ( Linnavuori 2007) .