Coccinella (Coccinella) iranica Dobrzhanskiy, 1926

Kovář, Ivo, 2005, Revision of the Palaearctic species of the Coccinella transversoguttata species group with notes on some other species of the genus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 129-164 : 59

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scientific name	Coccinella (Coccinella) iranica Dobrzhanskiy, 1926
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II. Coccinella (Coccinella) iranica Dobrzhanskiy, 1926

Coccinella iranica Dobrzhanskiy, 1926: 28 ; MADER (1930 in 1926-1937): 165; KORSCHEFSKY (1932): 467 (catalogue).

Coccinella (s. str.) iranica : IABLOKOFF- KHNZORIAN (1979): 68 (incertae sedis); IABLOKOFF- KHNZORIAN (1982): 382.

Material examined. IRAN: N Iran, C. Elburz Mts., Tochal Mt. , 3600-3900 m a.s.l., 1 spec., Loc. no. 61 ; C. Elburz Mts., Damavand , east, 3000-3500 m a.s.l., 22.vii.1970, 3 spec., Loc no. 66 ; Kandavan valley , 2545 m a.s.l., 10.-11.viii.1970, 1 spec., Loc no 86 ; Kandavan pass, 3000 m a.s.l., 11.viii.1970, 1 spec., Loc. no. 87 ; Elburz Mts, Tochal Mt. , 2000-3500 m a.s.l., 29.-30.vi.1973, 1 spec., Loc. no. 261 ; Kandavan pass, 2700-2900 m a.s.l., 4.-9.vii.1977, Loc. no. 395, all Exped. Nat. Mus. Praha (all NMPC) . TURKEY: BİTLİS province, (ca 30 km NNW), Nemrud Dağı , 2250-3050 m a.s.l., volcano, (38°39´N 42°15´E), 1.vii.2003, 1 J, J. Hájek & J. Hotový lgt. ( NMPC) GoogleMaps .

Little known species described by DOBRZHANSKIY (1926) from northern Iran. Its coloration of elytra and especially the aedeagus are quite peculiar, making so its identification easy. DOBRZHANSKIY (1931) placed it into the C. difficilis species group together with C. tianshanica Dobrzhanskiy, 1927 . IABLOKOFF- KHNZORIAN (1979, 1982), having seen no material, placed the species into subgenus Coccinella s. str. FÜRSCH (1981) compared the outline of median lobe of C. iranica with C. hodeki sp. nov. (see Discussion of that species) and concluded that the two species are not closely related. It is a montane species, living at ca 2500-3900 m a.s.l. of the Elburz range. It is here recorded as a new species for Turkey.