Tettigometridae, Germar, 1821

Mozaffarian, Fariba, Bourgoin, Thierry & Wilson, Michael R., 2018, Nomenclatural changes in the higher classification of the family Tettigometridae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) with description of a new tribe and new species and a review of the Iranian tettigometrid fauna, Zootaxa 4392 (3), pp. 469-490 : 473

3. Tettigometridae of Iran

The earliest record of Tettigometridae species from Iran was given by Melichar (1902), who recorded Tettigometra costulata Fieber, 1865 from the southeast of the country. However, much of our current knowledge on tettigrometrids in Iran were provided by the Czech entomologist Jiři Dlabola who collected and recorded many species during his fruitful collaborations with Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum ( HMIM) (Dlabola 1 971, 1972, 1981 & 1984). He also described a new species, T. demavenda Dlabola, 1981 . In 1995, seven species of Tettigometridae were listed by Mirzayans in the list of Auchenorrhyncha of Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum ( Mirzayans, 1995). Various faunistic data about Iranian tettigometrids were also provided by Barkhordari et al. (1981), Behdad (1988), Rajabi (1989), Karimzadeh Esfahani et al. (1998), Haghshenas & Khajeali (2000), Lashkari et al. (2009), Mozaffarian & Taghizadeh (2010), Moosavi Mahvelati & Modarres Awal (2011), Moosavi & Sadeghi Nameghi (2012) and Mozaffarian (2014). More recently, in their checklist of Fulgoromorpha of Iran, Mozaffarian & Wilson (2011) listed 14 species. According to the literature review and the examined material, a total of 18 Tettigometridae species are recording from Iran. One endemic new species is described.