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Polycesta Dejean 1833
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Genus POLYCESTA Dejean, 1833
synonym: Lycaste Gistel 1834.
Polycesta iranica (Obenberger) 1923a: 24 (Pseudocastalia); Borumand 2002: 18 (as Polycesta sp.); Volkovitsh 2006: 340; Bellamy 2008a: 373.
[subgenus Polycesta].
Host plant(s) within Iran. (Adult) On Calligonum sp. (Polygonaceae) (Borumand 2002, as Polycesta sp.). Distribution within Iran. Kerman (Borumand 2002, as Polycesta sp.), Sistan & Baluchestan (Obenberger 1923a), Iran (no locality cited) (Volkovitsh 2006; Bellamy 2008a).
Distribution outside Iran.? Afghanistan (Bellamy 2008a).
Notes
Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Volkovitsh, Mark G. & Bellamy, Charles L., 2015, An annotated catalogue of the Buprestidae of Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 3984 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3984.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245157
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dejean
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Genus
- Polycesta
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polycesta Dejean, 1833 sec. Ghahari, Volkovitsh & Bellamy, 2015
References
- Obenberger, J. (1923 a) De novis Buprestidarum regionis Palaearcticae speciebus III. Acta Societatis Entomologicae Cechosloveniae, 20, 15 - 29.
- Borumand, H. (2002) Coleoptera (XXIV): Buprestoidea: Fam. (62): Buprestidae. In: Insects of Iran. The list of Coleoptera in the insect collection of Plant Pests & Diseases Research Institute. Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, Agricultural Research, Education & Extension Organization, Plant Pests & Diseases Research Institute, Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Publ. No. 8, pp. 1 - 63.
- Bellamy, C. L. (2008 a) A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea). Vol. 1. Introduction; Fossil Taxa; Schizopodidae; Buprestidae: Julodinae - Chrysochroinae: Poecilonotini. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 76. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 625 pp.