Aradus caucasicus Kolenati, 1857

Aradus caucasicus turkestanicus Jakovlev, 1894 .

Aradus caucasicus margianus Kiritshenko, 1931 .

Aradus persicus Vásárhelyi 1977 [" Persia "].

Aradus caucasicus persicus Kanyukova 1984, all syn. Heiss 2004.

Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Hoberlandt 1974 (as turkestanicus); Heiss 2004), Iran (no locality cited) (Vasarhelyi 1977).

General distribution. Pontomediterranean, known from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Comments. Vásárhelyi (1977) indicated as type locality for A. persicus " Persia, Kara-su" (Turkish: "black water"). As there are rivers with this name in Turkey, Georgia, and Kasachstan it is unclear, if this locality refers to present-day Iran. The record of A. turkestanicus Jakovlev, 1894 from Golestan by Hoberlandt, 1974, refers to this species (Heiss 2004). In Iran it was collected on Juniperus oxycedrus (Cupressaceae) (Hoberlandt 1974) and Fagus orientalis (Heiss 2004) .