A checklist of the soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Cantharidae) of Iran
Author
Fanti, Fabrizio
Author
Ghahari, Hassan
text
Zootaxa
2016
4196
4
529
551
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.4
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Rhagonycha
(
Rhagonycha
)
lencoranica
Kazantsev, 1992
Distribution in
Iran
.
Guilan
:
Assalem, between Hashtpar and Heroabad,
1,300 m
(
Wittmer 1972, as
Rhagonycha talyschensis
), Tales (
Kazantsev 1992
: Iranian Talysh [
Wittmer 1972
]).
Generic records:
Iran
(
Delkeskamp 1977, as
Rhagonycha talyschensis
).
Distribution outside
Iran
.
Azerbaijan
(
Delkeskamp 1977
;
Kazantsev 2004
,
2011
;
Kazantsev & Brancucci 2007
;
Koçak & Kemal 2015
).
Remarks.
Kazantsev (1992)
referred Wittmer’s (1972) record of
Rhagonycha talyschensis
Yablokov- Khnzorian, from Assalem, Iranian Talysh to
Rhagonycha lencoranica
. Regarding this last species being explicitly cited for Iran, it is unclear why subsequent articles (
Kazantsev 2004
,
2011
;
Kazantsev & Brancucci 2007
;
Koçak & Kemal 2015
) stated it as endemic to Azerbaijan.
Both species are present in
Lenkoran
District/Talysh (
Azerbaijan
) near the Iranian border (see above and under
Rhagonycha talyschensis
below).