Coranus (Coranus) cf. subapterus ( De Geer, 1773)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Cai, Wanzhi & Karimi, Javad, 2013, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Reduvioidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), Zootaxa 3718 (3), pp. 201-238 : 208-209

Coranus (Coranus) cf. subapterus ( De Geer, 1773)

Cimex subapterus De Geer, 1773: 287 (as new species); Cimex naevius Gmelin, 1790: 2200 ; Cimex dimidiatus Turton, 1802: 703 ; Reduvius pedestris Wollf, 1811: 199 ; Colliocoris griseus Hahn, 1833: 25 ; Harpactor hahnii Kolenati, 1857: 465 ; Coranus tuberculifer Benedek, 1969: 44 non Reuter, 1881.

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Dispons & Villiers 1967), East Azarbaijan (Dispons & Villiers 1967), Khorasan (Rahimi et al. 2010a, b, c), Mazandaran (Wagner 1961; Sakenin et al. 2008).

Distribution outside Iran. Euro-Siberian: Europe, Kazakhstan, northwestern China, Russia (West Siberia) (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Aukema et al. 2013).

Comments. On alfalfa and ground (Rahimi et al. 2010a). This species is not mentioned in Iran by Putshkov & Moulet (2010). The discrimination of C. subapterus and the close species ( C. aethiops Jakovlev 1893 , hammarstroemi Reuter 1982, kerzhneri P.V. Putshkov 1982, laticeps Wagner 1952 , pectoralis Jakovlev 1883, stenopygus P.V. Putshkov 1982, tuberculifer Reuter 1881 , woodroffei P.V. Putshkov 1982) is very difficult and we know that hybrid forms exist. In Bulgaria, Caucasus ( Armenia, Turkey) and central Asia ( Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) lives Coranus cf. subapterus ; this is a taxon we do not know at the moment if it represents a really valid species, or a subspecies, or only a variation of subapterus .

Coranus (Coranus) tuberculifer Reuter, 1881

Coranus lateralis Jakovlev, 1879: 158 (nomen oblitum, a color variation); Coranus tuberculifer Reuter, 1881: 162 .

Distribution in Iran. Tehran (Brown 1966; Dispons & Villiers 1967).

Distribution outside Iran. Ponto-Mediterranean, from Italy, Balkan Peninsula to Near East, Azerbaijan, Asian part of Turkey, and Jordan (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Putshkov & Moulet 2010; Aukema et al. 2013). Comments. Iranian records are doubtful (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Putshkov & Moulet 2010), and most probably are other species (e.g., Caucasian C. laticeps , C. cf. subapterus ).

Genus Nagusta Stål, 1859

Nagusta goedelii (Stål, 1859)

Zelus goedelii Kolenati, 1857: 459 (as new species); Nagusta rugulosa Stål, 1859: 375 ; Phanerocoris cornutus Jakvlev, 1876: 269.

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Hoberlandt 1954; Modarres Awal 1997a, c; Ghahari et al. 2010a), Fars, Lorestan (Hoberlandt 1954, 1959), Isfahan (Dispons & Villiers 1967; Rakhshani et al. 2010), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 1997b; Rahimi et al. 2010a, c), Mazandaran (Seidenstücker 1957; Hoberlandt 1959), Tehran (Hoberlandt 1954, 1959; Seidenstücker 1957), Iran (without precise locality) (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Putshkov & Moulet 2010).

Distribution outside Iran. Euro-Turanian: from Austria to Central Asia ( Azerbaijan); the Balkans and Creta, Near East and Caucasus (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Kment & Dolejšová 2010; Aukema et al. 2013).

Comments. Nagusta goedelii only lives on trees throughout its life ( Citrus , Cydonia , Fraxinus , Juniperus , Populus , Pinus , Prunus , Punica , Quercus , Rosa , Ulmus , Malus , etc.); occasionally it is found on herbs (e.g., Galium , Rubiaceae ) (Putshkov & Moulet 2010). Feeding of N. goedelii is poorly known; in laboratory conditions, cannibalism is very frequent. N. goedeli is univoltine and adults hibernate (Putshkov & Moulet 2010). It is a predator of alfalfa aphids ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) (Rakhshani et al. 2010).

Nagusta simonis Puton, 1890

Nagusta simonis Puton, 1890: 228 (as new species); Nagusta simonyi Linnavuori, 1974: 125 (lapsus).

Distribution in Iran. Kerman (Seidenstücker 1958), Iran (without precise locality) (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996). Distribution outside Iran. Central Asia, Near East ( Cyprus), north and tropical Africa, Saudi Arabia.