Picromerus conformis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1841)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5537232
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scientific name	Picromerus conformis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1841)
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Asopus conformis Herrich-Schaeffer, 1841: 72 ; Picromerus nigridens Fieber, 1861: 349 (non Fabricius, 1803).

Distribution in Iran. Guilan ( Hérard et al. 1979), Northern Iran (no locality cited) ( Mohaghegh 2006), Iran (no locality cited) ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Mohaghegh 2008; Aukema et al. 2013).

General distribution. Southern Europe except France, Spain and Portugal extending to Azerbaijan (according to Péricart 2010); the mention from Algeria ( Rider 2006) seems erroneous to us and not repeated by Péricart (2010).

Comments. Predator of larvae of L. dispar ( Hérard et al. 1979; Modarres Awal 1997b). Members of the genus Picromerus are generalist predators feeding especially on larval stages of leaf eating Lepidoptera , Coleoptera and Hymenoptera ( Larivière & Larochelle 1989) .