Palomena viridissima (Poda, 1761)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:848FCF21-B70B-401F-ABC2-F9BE1F9DBFFC
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5537436
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/645987E6-AF0A-FFF1-5ECA-FE4EDC313D8B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Palomena viridissima (Poda, 1761)
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Cimex viridissimus Poda, 1761: 56 ; Pentatoma rotundicollis Westwood, 1837: 9 ; Pentatoma dissimilis Amyot & Serville, 1843: 131 (non Fabricius, 1781); Carpocoris prasina Kolenati, 1846: 48 (non Linnaeus, 1761); Pentatoma (Pentatoma) prasina Gorski, 1852: 93 (non Linnaeus, 1761); Pentatoma (Pentatoma) prasina var. subrubescens Gorski, 1852: 95 ; Palomena prasinus Fieber, 1861: 339 (non Linnaeus, 1761); Palomena amplificata Distant, 1880: 148 ; Palomena viridissima var. simulans Puton, 1881: 63 ; Palomena viridissima var. rubicunda Westhoff, 1884: 43 .

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Ghahari et al. 2010a), Iran (no locality cited) ( Aukema et al. 2013). General distribution. Palearctic except Great Britain and Scandinavia; also known from the Indian subcontinent.

Comments. Ecology and host plants of P. viridissima are nearly the same as for P. prasina (Ribes & Pagola Carte 2013) .