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Issue: Vol. 5493 No. 2: 9 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5493.2.1
Page range: 101-128
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Checklist and distribution of ladybirds (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in Iranian provinces

Department of Plant Protection; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran
Department of Plant Protection; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran
Buzulucká 1105; 500 03 Hradec Králové; Czech Republic
Zrebar Lake Environmental Research; Kurdistan Studies Institute; University of Kurdistan; Sanandaj; Iran
Plant Protection Research Department; North Khorasan Agricultural and Natural Resources; Research and Education Center; AREEO; Bojnourd; Iran
Yazd Provincial Office of Department of Environment; Yazd; Iran
Plant Protection Research Department; Lorestan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center; AREEO; Khorramabad; Iran
University of South Bohemia; Faculty of Science; České Budějovice; Czech Republic; Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Entomology; České Budějovice; Czech Republic
Department of Plant Protection; Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Razi University; Kermanshah; Iran
Institute of Biological Sciences; Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University; Wóycickiego 1/3; 00-938; Warsaw; Poland
Coleoptera biodiversity Coccinelloidea Middle East new records

Abstract

Although checklists of the Iranian ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) have been made twice in recent years, they have a number of shortcomings. Moreover, since these checklist were published, several ladybird species have been added to the Iranian fauna and several previously reported have been excluded. We therefore compiled an updated checklist of Coccinellidae found in Iran and its individual provinces based on available literature and previously unpublished records. The unpublished data allowed the addition of one species, Hyperaspis guttulata Fairmaire, 1870, to the Iranian fauna. On the other hand, some species previously reported from Iran are unlikely to occur there due to their general distribution and lack of information on their introduction into the region. We found 14 such misreported species in the literature, mostly of the Nearctic and Neotropical origin. Our revised checklist contains 149 species, of which 19 have only generally been reported as occurring in Iran (without attribution to provinces). The ladybird fauna of the different Iranian provinces has been studied very unevenly, with the number of reported species ranging from 7 (Bushehr) to 59 (Fars).

 

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