Oplistochilus contestor ( Kiritshenko, 1966 )

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 68

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scientific name	Oplistochilus contestor ( Kiritshenko, 1966 )
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Oplistochilus contestor ( Kiritshenko, 1966)

Sternodontus contestor Kiritshenko, 1966 ; 799.

Distribution in Iran. Hormozgan ( Kiritshenko 1966), Sistan & Baluchestan ( Kiritshenko 1966; Hoberlandt 1997, Gapon 2007a), Khorasan ( Linnavuori 2008 as Oplistochilus contestor ), Iran (no locality cited) ( Rider 2006). General distribution. Endemic to Iran.

Comments. Generic placement was revised by Gapon (2007a).

References

Gapon, D. A. (2007 a) A new combination for Sternodontus contestor Kiritshenko, 1966 (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 16, 31 - 32.

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.

Kiritshenko, A. N. (1966) Hemiptera-Heteroptera collected by D. M. Steinberg in Iran in 1955. Entomologischeskoe Obozrenie, 45, 798 - 805.

Linnavuori, R. E. (2008) Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 48 (1), 1 - 21.

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].

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SuperFamily	Pentatomoidea
Family	Pentatomidae
SubFamily	Podopinae
Tribe	Graphosomatini
Genus	Oplistochilus