Macrolophus melanotoma (A. Costa, 1853)

Ghahari, Hassan & Chérot, Frédéric, 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), Zootaxa 3845 (1), pp. 1-101 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3845.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C77D93A3-6AB3-4887-8BBB-ADC9C584FFEC
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6128304
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scientific name	Macrolophus melanotoma (A. Costa, 1853)
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Synonym: Macrolophus caliginosus Wagner, 1951 (synonymy by Carapezza 1995).

Distribution in Iran. Alborz ( Linnavuori 2007), Fars (Linnavuori 2009; Zarei et al. 2012), Golestan (Ghahari 2013), Guilan ( Linnavuori 2007; Hosseini 2013b), Ilam (Linnavuori 2009), Khorasan ( Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1999), Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2009), Mazandaran ( Moazeni et al. 2012 under the junior synonym M. caliginosus Wagner, 1951 ), West Azarbaijan (Linnavuori 2009), Zanjan ( Linnavuori 2007), Iran (no locality cited) ( Aukema et al. 2013).

General distribution and prey. Holomediterranean species. Predator of greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood ( Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ) ( Moazeni et al. 2012).