Spilostethus pandurus (Scopoli, 1763)

Ghahari, Hassan & Moulet, Pierre, 2012, An Annotated Catalog of the Iranian Lygaeoidea (excluding Berytidae and Piesmatidae) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3408, pp. 1-33 : 5-6

Spilostethus pandurus (Scopoli, 1763)

Distribution in Iran. Alborz ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Kheradmand et al. 2002, 2005), Ardabil ( Modarres Awal 1987, 1996a; Linnavuori 2007), Bushehr ( China 1927; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), East Azarbaijan ( Baroughi 1978; Sadaghian et al. 2002; Nikdel et al. 2011), Fars ( Kiritshenko 1966; Linnavuori 2011), Golestan ( Karimian & Khormali 2006; Ghahari et al. 2011), Guilan ( Linnavuori 2007), Hormozgan ( Kiritshenko 1966; Linnavuori 2004), Ilam ( Samin et al. 2011, as Lygaeus pandurus ssp. pandurus ), Isfahan ( Kiritshenko 1966; Hatami 1992), Kerman ( Kiritshenko 1966; Baroughi 1978; Linnavuori 2011), Khorasan ( Modarres Awal 1996b; Ghahari et al. 2011), Mazandaran ( Wagner 1968), Semnan ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Sistan & Baluchestan (Hoberlandt 1954; Seidenstücker 1957; Farahbakhsh 1961; Kiritshenko 1966; Wagner 1968; Modarres Awal 1997b), Tehran ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori 2007), Yazd ( China 1938; Farahbakhsh 1961), Northern Iran (no locality cited) ( Lindberg 1938), Iran (no locality cited) ( Jakovlev 1877).

General distribution. A Trans Palearctic species, apparently absent in Korea and Japan; quoted from Australia. Palaeotropical, extending to the Mediterranean subregion, Central Europe, and the Middle East.

Comments. The form (or variety) militaris Fabricius 1775, which takes the place of the nominal form in North Africa, has often been cited erroneously from the Near East, Caucasus, and Mid-Asia. S. pandurus was recorded on Senecio ( Kiritshenko 1966) .