Eurygaster testudinaria subsp. testudinaria Geoffroy 1785
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Eurygaster testudinaria testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785)
Cimex testudinarius Geoffroy, 1785: 195; Eurygaster maura var. notatus Ferrari, 1874: 119; Eurygaster maura var. cinerea Rey, 1887: 1; Eurygaster maura var. grisescens Rey, 1888: 92; Eurygaster maura var. rufescens Oliveira, 1895: 105; Eurugaster sodalis Horváth, 1895: 221; Eurygaster maura var. borealis Péneau, 1911: 174; Eurygaster sodalis var. decorata Péneau, 1911: 179.
Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Brown & Eralp 1962), Guilan, Khorasan (Linnavuori 2008), Mazandaran (Modarres Awal 1997b; Sakenin et al. 2008), Iran (no locality cited) (Khanjani 2006; Göllner-Scheiding 2006b).
General distribution. Palearctic.
Host plants. On Cyperaceae (Linnavuori 2008) and on wheat (Modarres Awal 1997b; Khanjani 2006), Hibiscus trionum, Malva montana (both Malvaceae), Vicia faba (Fabaceae) (Sakenin et al. 2008). On Poaceae and Cyperaceaea in wet biotopes (Dusoulier & Lupoli 2006).
Comment. Several varieties (without taxonomic value) have been described for this species, e.g. obscuratus, triguttatus, tuberculatus, lurida, inclusa, punctulata by Wagner 1938, 1940; flavida, rosea, nigrita by Halászfy 1959.
Another subspecies (testudinaria sinica Walker, 1867) has been described from China and is distributed in China, Korea and Japan; according to Göllner-Scheiding (2006b) it is a "poorly differentiated subspecies".
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Geoffroy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Scutelleridae
- Genus
- Eurygaster
- Species
- testudinaria
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- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eurygaster testudinaria subsp. testudinaria Geoffroy, 1785 sec. Ghahari, Moulet & Rider, 2014
References
- Ferrari, P. M. (1874) Hemiptera Agri Ligustici hucusque lecta enumerat. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 6, 116 - 208.
- Brown, E. S. & Eralp, M. (1962) The distribution of the species of Eurygaster Lap. (Hemiptera, Scutelleridae) in Middle East countries. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Serial 13, vol. V, 65 - 81.
- Linnavuori, R. E. (2008) Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 48 (1), 1 - 21.
- Modarres Awal, M. (1997 b) Family Pentatomidae (Heteroptera), pp. 76 - 81. In: Modarres Awal, M. (ed.), List of agricultural pests and their natural enemies in Iran. Ferdowsi University Press, 429 pp.
- Khanjani, M. (2006) Field crop pests in Iran. Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamadan Press, 719 pp. (in Persian).
- Gollner-Scheiding, U. (2006 b) Family Scutelleridae, In: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Volume 5. Pentatomomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 190 - 227.
- Dusoulier, F. & Lupoli, R. (2006) Synopsis des Pentatomoidea Leach, 1815 de France metropolitaine (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Nouvelle Revue d'entomologie, 23, 11 - 44.
- Wagner, E. (1938) Die abarten von Eurygaster maura L. und Eurygaster testudinaria Geoffr. Verhandlungen des Vereins fur Naturwissenschaftliche Heimatforschung zu Hamburg, 26, 21 - 24.
- Wagner, E. (1940) Neue Abarten von Eurygaster maura L. und Eurygaster testudinaria Geoffr. (Hem., Het.). Bolletino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 72, 141 - 143.
- Halaszfy, H. (1959) Heteroptera II. Poloskak II. Fauna Hungariae, 46, 1 - 87.