Stachygethes khnzoriani ( Kirejtshuk, 1979 )

Audisio, Paolo, Cline, Andrew R., Lasoń, Andrzej, Jelínek, Josef, Sabatelli, Simone & Serri, Sayeh, 2017, New species and records of pollen and sap beetles for Iran (Coleoptera: Kateretidae, Nitidulidae), Zootaxa 4216 (4), pp. 369-383 : 379

Stachygethes khnzoriani ( Kirejtshuk, 1979)

Examined material. IRAN: Hamadan Province, Gardaneye Avaj, SE Avaj, 35°29'N 49°13'E, 2600 m, 12.VI.2014, leg. P. Audisio, on the white-flowering Salvia staminea Montbret & Aucher ex Benth. (Lamiaceae) , 3 males, 4 females ( CAR, HMIM, NMPC).

This species was only known thus far from Turkey and Armenia ( Kirejtshuk 1979; Audisio 1988b, 1993a, b; Jelínek & Audisio 2007; Lasoń 2007). The newly collected material shows that this species in Iran is associated as larvae with Salvia staminea , one of its previously recognized larval host-plants also in NE Turkey ( Audisio 1988b, 1993a, b). New country record for Iran.