Troilus luridus (Fabricius, 1775)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 13

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.5537236
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/645987E6-AF2D-FFD6-5ECA-FE6BDF183D4A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Troilus luridus (Fabricius, 1775)
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Treatment

Cimex luridus Fabricius, 1775: 701 ; Cimex serrulatus O.F. Müller, 1776: 105 ; Cimex dentatus Schrank, 1781: 268 ; Cimex beryllinus Gmelin, 1790: 2148 ; Cimex elector Fabricius, 1794: 98 ; Cimex serratus Hahn, 1826: 3 View in CoL ; Pentatoma sublurida Westwood, 1837: 41 ; Troilus luridus var. angusta Reuter, 1881: 156 .

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Hoberlandt 1997), Northern Iran (no locality cited) ( Mohaghegh 2006), Iran (no locality cited) ( Rider 2006; Mohaghegh 2008).

General distribution. Euro-Siberian (not in South of France, south of Italy and Spain), Burma, India.

Comments. A predator which lives on numerous trees and feeds upon caterpillars and soft-bodied larvae of several insects. The eggs of T. luridus are destroyed by Microphanurus semistriatus (Nees) ( Hymenoptera : Proctotrupoidea) ( Péricart 2010).