Eurydema (Rubrodorsalium) ventralis Kolenati, 1846

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 60-61

Eurydema (Rubrodorsalium) ventralis Kolenati, 1846

Eurydema ornatum var. ventralis Kolenati, 1846: 26 ; Pentatoma (Strachia) ornata hoffmanseggi Gorski, 1852: 85 ; Strachia ornata var. pectoralis Fieber, 1861: 342 ; Strachia ornata var. dissimilis Fieber, 1861: 342 .

Distribution in Iran. Alborz, Fars, Guilan, Kerman, Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad, Mazandaran, Qazvin, Sistan & Baluchestan, Tehran, West Azarbaijan, Zanjan ( Hoberlandt 1997), Ardabil ( Modarres Awal 1987), East Azarbaijan ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Wagner 1968; Modarres Awal 1997b; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009a; Ghahari et al. 2010a; Khaghaninia et al. 2010a, b), Golestan ( Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997), Isfahan (new materials, det. P. Moulet), Khorasan ( Modarres Awal 2008; Havaskary et al. 2010; Mehneh et al. 2010), Iran (no locality cited) (Serjanschi & Péricart, 2005; Rider 2006).

General distribution. Euro-Siberian but not in Great Britain, Scandinavia and North Africa.

Host plants. On colza, mustard, raddish, turnip ( Modarres Awal 1997b), lucerne ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Modarres Awal 2008), cabbage ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009a), wild Brassicaceae family plants ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Mehneh et al. 2010), wheat, hedge mustard, grasses ( Modarres Awal 2008), rape ( Khaghaninia et al. 2010a).

Comment. In his paper Tamanini (1957) described several varieties (with no taxonomic value): triguttata , lineata , dilatata , prtensa, confluens, sctutellata, caudata, connexa, ocellata; in 1961 Tamanini (in Stichel) changed some names because of homonymies: fasciipennis instead of confluens, maculosa instead of scutellata, trimaculata instead of triguttata .