Phyllomorpha lacerata Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835

Phyllomorpha lacerata Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835: 41 (as new species); Phyllomorpha persica Westwood, 1841: 8 .

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Modarres Awal 1997a; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009b; Ghahari et al. 2010c), Fars (Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1989; Linnavuori 2012), Golestan (Ghahari et al. 2011), Guilan (Linnavuori 2007), Hamadan, Kermanshah, Tehran (Brown 1966; Hoberlandt 1989), Kerman, Sistan & Baluchestan (Wagner 1968), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 1996a, 1997b), Kordestan (Wagner 1961), West Azarbaijan (Hoberlandt 1989).

General distribution. Irano-Turanian: Balkans, Algeria, Near East, Transcaucasia, Central Asia.

Comments. On weeds (Modarres Awal 1997a); but generally this species and the following Phyllomorpha spp. live on Paronychia spp. ( Caryophyllaceae) (Moulet 1995). Also, Astragalus sp. ( Fabaceae) was recorded as the host of P. lacerata by Wagner (1968), and also was collected from the cotton fields by Ghahari et al. (2011).