Chalcionellus blanchei blanchei (Marseul, 1855)

Ghahari, Hassan, Mazur, Slawomir & Ostovan, Hadi, 2017, A Checklist of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) of Iran, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3), pp. 595-611 : 602

Chalcionellus blanchei blanchei (Marseul, 1855)

Distribution in Iran: Kerman ( Reichardt 1932, 1941).

General distribution: Afghanistan, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Russia (South European Territory), Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.

Chalcionellus decemstriatus decemstriatus (Rossi, 1792)

Distribution in Iran: Golestan, Guilan, Northern

Khorasan ( Thérond 1967), Mazandaran

( Thérond 1967; Kryzhanovskij 1974; Sakenin et al. 2009), Tehran ( Kryzhanovskij 1974), no locality cited ( Lundyshev 2015).

General distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central European Territory, South European Territory, West Siberia), Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Ukraine.

Chalcionellus hauseri (Schmidt, 1894)

Distribution in Iran: No locality cited ( Lackner 2013).

General distribution: Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Turkmenistan.

Chalcionellus kryzhanovskii Tishechkin, 1992

Distribution in Iran: Hamadan (Behar, Sardarabad) ( Tishechkin 1992).

General distribution: Endemic to Iran.

Comments: Tishechkin (1992) stated that C. kryzhanovskii was collected from eastern Iran, but Behar (Bahar) and Sardarabad are located in Hamadan province in the western portion of Iran.

Chalcionellus persicus Lackner, 2003

Distribution in Iran: Bushehr, Khuzestan ( Lackner 2003b).

General distribution: Endemic to Iran.

Chalcionellus suspectus (J. Schmidt, 1890)

Distribution in Iran: No locality cited.

General distribution: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan.

Chalcionellus turcicus (Marseul, 1857)

Distribution in Iran: No locality cited ( Bickhardt 1916).

General distribution: Afghanistan, Armenia, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia (South European Territory, West Siberia), Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey.

Comments: Reichardt (1932) doubted the record of C. turcicus by Bickhardt (1916).

Chalcionellus tyrius (Marseul, 1857)

Distribution in Iran: Mazandaran ( Kryzhanovskij 1974).

General distribution: Afghanistan, Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, Russia (South European Territory, West Siberia), Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.