An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera) Author Van Vondel, Bernhard J. Author Ostovan, Hadi Author Ghahari, Hassan text Zootaxa 2017 4216 3 225 246 journal article 37360 10.5281/zenodo.231790 ab89dbb2-7b32-43ee-baa6-1ef41471f76e 1175-5326 231790 CE0F1638-5B5B-43F9-9BAB-97ABAA326E90 Peltodytes caesus (Duftschmid, 1805) Distribution in Iran . Alborz ( Hematyian et al . 2010 ), East Azarbaijan ( Atamehr 2002 ; Atamehr et al . 2004 ; Atamehr & Alaei 2010 ; Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011 ; Vondel: Table 1 ), Fars ( Hosseinie 1974 , 1978 ; Zahiri 1996 ; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998 ; Vondel: Table 1 ), Golestan ( Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011 ), Guilan ( Guéorguiev 1965c ; Cox & Cox 1982 ; Kamali 2008 ; Vondel: Table 1 ), Khuzestan ( Guéorguiev 1965c ; Zahiri 1996 ; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998 ), Mazandaran ( Darilmaz et al . 2013 ; Mousavi et al . 2016 ; Vondel: Table 1 ), Razavi Khorasan ( Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011 ), West Azarbaijan ( Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011 ; Samin et al . 2015 ). General distribution. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, “Caucasus”, China ( Xinjiang ) , Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia ( Central and South European Territory) , Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, “Transcaucasia”, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Vondel 2005 ), Iran ( Guéorguiev 1981 ; Vondel 1992 , 2003 , 2005 ; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006), Montenegro ( Vondel 2013 ). Comments. Living in eutrophic fresh or occasionally brackish stagnant water of ponds and slowly running streams, marshes. Among vegetation of Batrachium , Callitriche , Elodea and Chara . Feeding on filamantous algae and probably Characeans ( Vondel 1997 ). In rice fields ( Mousavi et al . 2016 )