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Oedemera (Oedemera) femorata Scopoli 1763

Description

Oedemera (Oedemera) femorata (Scopoli, 1763)

Distribution in Iran. Golestan, Northern Khorasan (Švihla 1983), Guilan (Samin et al. 2015), Mazandaran (Švihla 1983; Modarres Awal 1997).

General distribution. Central Asia, Europe, Russia, South Caucasus, Turkey (Švihla 1999b, 2008a; Vázquez 2002; Kerimova & Huseynova 2014).

Chorotype. Turano-European.

Comments. Larvae unknown. Adult beetles are found in open habitats: grasslands, forest sites on various flowering plants, particularly Apiacaeae and Rubus, Achillea, Galium and Ranunculus (Kubisz 2006; Ferenca et al. 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Vázquez, Xavier A. & Kubisz, Daniel, 2017, Annotated checklist of the false blister beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Oedemeridae) from Iran, pp. 321-334 in Zootaxa 4237 (2) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/343834

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References

  • Svihla, V. (1983) Results of the Czechoslovak-Iranian entomological expeditions in Iran 1970, 1973 and 1977. Coleoptera - Oedemeridae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 41, 107 - 132.
  • Samin, N., Jedryczkowski, W. B., Galini, N., Sakenin, H. & Naderian, H. (2015) A faunistic study on some families of Coleoptera from Iran. Arquivos Entomoloxicos, 14, 253 - 260.
  • Modarres Awal, M. (1997) Family Oedemeridae. In: Modarres Awal, M. (Ed.), List of agricultural pests and their natural enemies in Iran. Ferdowsi University Press, Mashhad, pp. 187
  • Svihla, V. (1999 b) Revision of the subgenera Stenaxis and Oedemera s. str. of the genus Oedemera (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae). Folia Heyrovskyana Supplement, 4, 1 - 117.
  • Svihla, V. (2008 a) Family Oedemeridae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Fol. 5.
  • Vazquez, X. A. (2002) European fauna of Oedemeridae (Coleoptera). Agraria Editio, Barcelona, 178.
  • Kerimova, I. G. & Huseynova, E. A. (2014) Species composition of chortobiont beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae, Lampyridae, Cantharidae, Oedemeridae) less studied in Azerbaijan. Journal of Forestry Faculty, 15 (1), 1 - 8.
  • Kubisz, D. (2006) Oedemeridae and Scraptiidae of Poland. Monografie Faunistyczne 24. Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, 165 pp.
  • Ferenca, R., Tamutis, V. & Kinduris, R. (2013) New records of rare false blister beetle (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae) species in Lithuania. New and rare for Lithuania insect species. Records and descriptions, 25, 10 - 17.