Acrosternum breviceps (Jakovlev, 1889 )

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 42

Acrosternum breviceps (Jakovlev, 1889)

Nezara breviceps Jkovlev, 1889: 323 ; Nezara sahlbergi Reuter, 1900: 236 ; Nezara satunini Jakovlev, 1903: 290 ; Nezara (Acrosternum) bactriana Kiritshenko, 1912: 382 .

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil ( Modarres Awal 1996 b, 1997 b), East Azarbaijan ( Modarres Awal 1997 a; Havaskary et al. 2012), Fars, Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2012), Guilan, Zanjan ( Linnavuori 2008), Hormozgan ( Wagner 1968), Isfahan ( Hoberlandt 1997), Khorasan ( Modarres Awal 1996 a, 1997 b, 2008; Linnavuori 2008), Mazandaran (Sakenin et al. 2008), Tehran ( Wagner 1968; Linnavuori 2008), Iran (no locality cited) ( Rider 2006; Ribes & Pagola Carte 2013).

General distribution. Asia from Asian part of Turkey, Caucasus, central Asia and Saudi Arabia.

Host plants. On Pinus sp. ( Pinaceae ) ( Modarres Awal 1996 b, 1997 b; Sakenin et al. 2008), Verbena officinalis ( Verbenaceae ) (Sakenin et al. 2008), alfalfa ( Mehneh et al. 2010). Also, in Azerbaijan lives on shrubs, in wet meadows, on halophytes or on cotton ( Gossypium spp.) ( Malvaceae ) (Ribes & Pagola Carte 2013).