<mods:titleid="CAA914ECC491810E4E5ECFE7520D0375">An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha)</mods:title>
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), East Azarbaijan (
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<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF61FF9A5C9CF89FDE843962"author="Farahbakhsh"box="[705,918,1838,1863]"pageId="64"pageNumber="65"refString="Farahbakhsh, Gh. (1961) Family Pentatomidae (Heteroptera), In: Farahbakhsh, Gh. (ed.). A checklist of economically important insects and other enemies of plants and agricultural products in Iran. Department of Plant Protection, Ministry of Agriculture, Tehran, Publication No. 1, pp. 25 - 28."type="book chapter"year="1961">Farahbakhsh 1961</bibRefCitation>
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), Tehran (
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<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF61FF9A5C3FF8C7DE1F39AA"author="Pericart"box="[610,781,1910,1935]"pageId="64"pageNumber="65"refString="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."type="book"year="2010">Péricart (2010)</bibRefCitation>
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Workers do not agree upon the taxonomy of these two taxa. Some consider them to be two valid species (
<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF60FF9B5CA8FEB5D9043F38"author="Dusolier"box="[757,1046,260,285]"pageId="65"pageNumber="66"refString="Dusoulier, F. & Lupoli, R. (2006) Synopsis des Pentatomoidea Leach, 1815 de France metropolitaine (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Nouvelle Revue d'entomologie, 23, 11 - 44."type="journal article"year="2006">Dusolier & Lupoli 2006</bibRefCitation>
), others consider them to be two subspecies (
<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF60FF9B5F40FE96DCAB3F65"author="Pericart"box="[285,441,295,320]"pageId="65"pageNumber="66"refString="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."type="book"year="2010">Péricart 2010</bibRefCitation>
), and still others treat them as a single species (i.e.
<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF60FF9B5A2DFE96D9E13F65"author="Rider"box="[1136,1267,295,320]"pageId="65"pageNumber="66"refString="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]."type="book chapter"year="2006">Rider 2006</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF60FF9B5EB4FEFDDF003F40"author="Dusolier"box="[233,530,332,357]"pageId="65"pageNumber="66"refString="Dusoulier, F. & Lupoli, R. (2006) Synopsis des Pentatomoidea Leach, 1815 de France metropolitaine (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Nouvelle Revue d'entomologie, 23, 11 - 44."type="journal article"year="2006">Dusolier & Lupoli (2006)</bibRefCitation>
believe that the geographic distributions of the two taxa are clear cut and not overlapping (except in the southernmost
); other authors believe that there are no morphological differences between the taxa or the differences are so slight that they represent normal variation. Here we follow the last work on the subject (
<bibRefCitationid="88614B01AF60FF9B5F62FE06DCC93FF5"author="Pericart"box="[319,475,439,464]"pageId="65"pageNumber="66"refString="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."type="book"year="2010">Péricart 2010</bibRefCitation>
). We cite the records according to the original literature sources, but we believe that in some cases, the records have been given more or less arbitrarily, and that distribution of both subspecies in