Bagrada (Bagrada) hilaris (Burmeister, 1855)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 55-56

Bagrada (Bagrada) hilaris (Burmeister, 1855)

Cimex pictus Fabricius, 1775: 715 (non Drury, 1773); Cimex hilaris Burmeister, 1835 ; Cimex hebraicus Germar, 1838: 177 ; Cimex jucundus Klug, 1845 : [sign. d]; Bagrada cruciferarum Kirkaldy, 1909: 108 ; Bagrada (Bagrada) picta var. connectens Horváth, 1936: 29 ; Bagrada (Bagrada) picta var. modesta Horváth, 1936: 29 .

Distribution in Iran. Hormozgan ( Linnavuori 2004), Ilam, Kermanshah ( Hoberlandt 1955, Safavi 1959, Modarres Awal 1997b as Bagrada picta (Fabricius, 1776)) , Khorasan ( Horváth 1936 as Bagrada picta ), Khuzestan ( Horváth 1936; Hoberlandt 1997), Mazandaran (Sakenin et al. 2008 as Bagrada picta ), Sistan & Baluchestan ( Hoberlandt 1997), Iran (no locality cited) ( Hoberlandt 1961 as Bagrada picta ; Derjanschi & Péricart 2005; Rider 2006).

General distribution. North Africa, Near East, Central Asia ( Iran, Iraq), Arabian Peninsula, tropical Africa ( Cape Verde Archipelago), China. Also Derjanschi and Péricart (2005) mention this species from India and Sri Lanka.

Host plants. On Brassicaceae ( Modarres Awal 1997b) and Brassica campestris (Brassicaceae) (Sakenin et al. 2008); according to Derjanschi & Péricart (2005) B. hilaris feeds on Capparidaceae ( Capparis spp.) and Brassicaceae (e.g. Colza spp.).