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Eurygaster testudinaria subsp. testudinaria Geoffroy 1785

Description

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".

Notes

Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722

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References

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  • 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.
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  • Dusoulier, F. & Lupoli, R. (2006) Synopsis des Pentatomoidea Leach, 1815 de France metropolitaine (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Nouvelle Revue d'entomologie, 23, 11 - 44.
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