An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran Beaver, Roger A. Ghahari, Hassan Sanguansub, Sunisa Zootaxa 2016 4098 3 401 441 563TS Rosenhauer, 1856 Rosenhauer 1856 [151,647,834,859] Insecta Curculionidae Thamnurgus Animalia Coleoptera 6 407 Arthropoda species delphinii   Distribution in Iran.Ardabil ( Samin et al. 2011).  General distribution.Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Turkmenistan. Biology.Despite its specific name, this species develops on species of  Consolida(Ranunculaceae)and  Teucrium(Lamiaceae), and not  Delphinium(Ranunculaceae)( Mandelshtam et al. 2012). The larvae cause the development of galls on the stems of the host plant close to the petioles ( Korotyaev et al. 2005).