Annotated Catalog of Iranian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Aradoidea) Author Ghahari, Hassan Author Heiss, Ernst text Zootaxa 2012 3571 81 86 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.212198 460acb3e-1c10-423e-a7d6-0a3002153402 1175-5326 212198 Aradus caucasicus Kolenati, 1857 Aradus caucasicus turkestanicus Jakovlev, 1894 . Aradus caucasicus margianus Kiritshenko, 1931 . Aradus persicus Vásárhelyi 1977 [" Persia "]. Aradus caucasicus persicus Kanyukova 1984 , all syn. Heiss 2004 . Distribution in Iran . Golestan ( Hoberlandt 1974 (as turkestanicus ) ; Heiss 2004 ), Iran (no locality cited) ( Vasarhelyi 1977 ). General distribution. Pontomediterranean, known from Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia , Turkey , Ukraine , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan . Comments. Vásárhelyi (1977) indicated as type locality for A. persicus " Persia , Kara-su" (Turkish: "black water"). As there are rivers with this name in Turkey , Georgia , and Kasachstan it is unclear, if this locality refers to present-day Iran . The record of A. turkestanicus Jakovlev, 1894 from Golestan by Hoberlandt, 1974 , refers to this species ( Heiss 2004 ). In Iran it was collected on Juniperus oxycedrus (Cupressaceae) ( Hoberlandt 1974 ) and Fagus orientalis ( Heiss 2004 ) .