An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Nabidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
Author
Ghahari, Hassan
Department of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Shahre Rey Branch, Tehran, Iran; e-mail: hghahari @ yahoo. com
Author
Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Saukkokuja 10, FIN- 21220 Raisio, Finland; e-mail: rauno. linnavuori @ kolumbus. fi
Author
Moulet, Pierre
Museum Requien, 67 rue Joseph Vernet, F- 84000 Avignon, France; e-mail: musee. requien @ mairie-avignon. com
Author
Ostovan, Hadi
Department of Entomology, Fars Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran; e-mail: ostovan 2001 @ yahoo. com
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2010
2010-06-30
50
1
33
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5325663
0374-1036
5325663
[
Nabis
(
Nabis
)
ferus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
]
General distribution.
Euro-Siberian species, reaching to Caucasus, Central Asia, and
Afghanistan
(
KERZHNER 1996
).
Comment.
The record of
Nabis ferus
from Keredj (= Karaj) near
Tehran
by
LINDBERG (1938)
was considered doubtful by
KERZHNER (1987)
and subsequent revision (
KERZHNER 1988
) revealed its identity as
N. punctatus
. Also the records from
Hamedan
(MIRAB- BALOU et al. 2007a,b, 2008;
RASOULIAN et al. 2007
), for which
N. ferus
is the only species mentioned, cannot be accepted without revision.
GHARAAT et al. (2009)
listed two localities from
West Azerbaijan
, claiming erroneously that the specimens were identified or revised by R. Linnavuori. Currently, there is no verified record of
N. ferus
from
Iran
; see also
LINNAVUORI & HOSSEINI (2000)
.