Troilus luridus (Fabricius, 1775)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 13

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5537236
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scientific name	Troilus luridus (Fabricius, 1775)
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Cimex luridus Fabricius, 1775: 701 ; Cimex serrulatus O.F. Müller, 1776: 105 ; Cimex dentatus Schrank, 1781: 268 ; Cimex beryllinus Gmelin, 1790: 2148 ; Cimex elector Fabricius, 1794: 98 ; Cimex serratus Hahn, 1826: 3 View in CoL ; Pentatoma sublurida Westwood, 1837: 41 ; Troilus luridus var. angusta Reuter, 1881: 156 .

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Hoberlandt 1997), Northern Iran (no locality cited) ( Mohaghegh 2006), Iran (no locality cited) ( Rider 2006; Mohaghegh 2008).

General distribution. Euro-Siberian (not in South of France, south of Italy and Spain), Burma, India.

Comments. A predator which lives on numerous trees and feeds upon caterpillars and soft-bodied larvae of several insects. The eggs of T. luridus are destroyed by Microphanurus semistriatus (Nees) ( Hymenoptera : Proctotrupoidea) ( Péricart 2010).

References

Hoberlandt, L. (1997) Results of the Czechoslovak-Iranian entomological expeditions to Iran 1970, 1973 and 1977; Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae, Cydnidae, Scutelleridae, Pentatomidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 44 (1995), 181 - 293.

Mohaghegh, J. (2006) The predatory stink bugs (Het.: Pentatomidae, Asopinae) from the south coast of the Caspian Sea. Proceedings of 17 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, p. 82.

Mohaghegh, J. (2008) New records of the predatory stinkbugs (Het.: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) from Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 27 (2), Supplement, 1 - 4.

Pericart, J. (2010) Hemipteres Pentatomoidea euro-mediterraneens. Vol. 3: Podopinae et Asopinae. Faune de France, 93. F. F. S. S. N. ed., Paris, 290 pp.

Reuter, O. M. (1881) Analecta hemipterologica. Zur Artenkenntniss, Synonymie and geographischen Verbreitung palaearktischer Heteropteren. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 25, 155 - 196. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18810250205

Rider, D. A. (2006) Family Pentatomidae. In Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Volume 5. Pentatomomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xiii + 550 pp. [Article: 233 - 402].