Eurygaster testudinaria testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), Zootaxa 3837 (1), pp. 1-95 : 75-76

Eurygaster testudinaria testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785)

Cimex testudinarius Geoffroy, 1785: 195 ; Eurygaster maura var. notatus Ferrari, 1874: 119 ; Eurygaster maura var. cinerea Rey, 1887: 1 ; Eurygaster maura var. grisescens Rey, 1888: 92 ; Eurygaster maura var. rufescens Oliveira, 1895: 105 ; Eurugaster sodalis Horváth, 1895: 221 ; Eurygaster maura var. borealis Péneau, 1911: 174 ; Eurygaster sodalis var. decorata Péneau, 1911: 179 .

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Brown & Eralp 1962), Guilan, Khorasan ( Linnavuori 2008), Mazandaran ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Sakenin et al. 2008), Iran (no locality cited) ( Khanjani 2006; Göllner-Scheiding 2006b).

General distribution. Palearctic.

Host plants. On Cyperaceae ( Linnavuori 2008) and on wheat ( Modarres Awal 1997b; Khanjani 2006), Hibiscus trionum , Malva montana (both Malvaceae ), Vicia faba ( Fabaceae ) (Sakenin et al. 2008). On Poaceae and Cyperaceaea in wet biotopes ( Dusoulier & Lupoli 2006).

Comment. Several varieties (without taxonomic value) have been described for this species, e.g. obscuratus, triguttatus, tuberculatus , lurida, inclusa , punctulata by Wagner 1938, 1940; flavida, rosea, nigrita by Halászfy 1959.

Another subspecies ( testudinaria sinica Walker, 1867) has been described from China and is distributed in China, Korea and Japan; according to Göllner-Scheiding (2006b) it is a "poorly differentiated subspecies".