Aelia furcula Fieber, 1868

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 14-15

Aelia furcula Fieber, 1868

Aelia furcula Fieber, 1868: 472 ; Aelia simillima Reuter, 1900: 233 .

Distribution in Iran. Alborz ( Hoberlandt 1997), East Azarbaijan (Brown 1962, 1966; Modarres Awal 1997b; Havaskary et al. 2012), Fars ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997; Safavi 1959; Linnavuori 2012), Golestan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Hamadan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997; Modarres Awal 1997b), Isfahan ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b; Samin & Asgari 2012), Kermanshah ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1966; Safavi 1959; Modarres Awal 1997b), Khorasan ( Safavi 1959; Modarres Awal 1997b), Kordestan ( Wagner 1961, 1968; Brown 1962, 1968; Hoberlandt 1997), Lorestan, Mazandaran ( Modarres Awal 1997b), Markazi ( Modarres Awal 1997b), Qazvin ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966), Tehran ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Hoberlandt 1997; Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori 2008), West Azarbaijan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Zanjan ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962, 1966; Modarres Awal 1997b), Iran (no locality cited) ( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005; Khanjani 2006; Rider 2006).

General distribution. Ponto-Mediterranean and Central Asia: Greece, Turkey, European Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005); Cyprus (P. Moulet, unpublished data).

Host plants. On Poaceae ( Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), wheat ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b; Khanjani 2006), barley ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), brome chess, Agropyron caespitosum , Bromus tectorum var. hirsutus , Eremopyrum bonapartis var. s ublanuginosum, Heteranthelium pitiferum , Hordeum spontaneum (all Poaceae ), Helichrysum oligocephalum ( Asteraceae ) ( Modarres Awal 1997b) and Agropyrum pectiniforme , Alopecurus arundinaceus , Arrhenatherum kotschyi , Boisseria squarrosa , Bromus lanceolatus , B. danthoniae , Eremopoa persica Hordeum violaceum , Poa bulbosa , Melica jacquemonti , Pucinellia bulbosa (all Poaceae ) ( Derjanschi & Péricart 2005). Aelia furcula is a pest of cereals but, in Iran, eggs are destroyed by several Hymenoptera (families Selionidae and Encyrtidae ), and also the nymphs are parasitized by Diptera ( Tachinidae : Phasiinae ) ( Radjabi 1998; Samin 2010).