Species diversity, chorology, and biogeography of the Steninae MacLeay, 1825 of Iran, with comparative notes on Scopaeus Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) Author Serri, Sayeh Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, 19395 - 1454, Iran serrisayeh@gmail.com Author Frisch, Johannes Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, 19395 - 1454, Iran text Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 2016 2016-01-25 63 1 17 44 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.63.5885 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.63.5885 1860-1324-1-17 70C12A8100A746A38AF09FC20EB39AA6 DB22FFC7FF988742CF6E4A590479FFBC 575768 Stenus erythrocnemus Eppelsheim, 1884 Fig. 13 , Suppl. material 1 Chorology . Stenus erythrocnemus is a Middle Eastern species, which is distributed from Anatolia and Caucasia across the Iranian Plateau eastwards to Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Stenus erythrocnemus has a vast distribution in the mountain ranges of Iran (Fig. 13 ). Biogeographical characterization. Because the majority of records originated from the highlands of Iran ( Assing 2005 : 307), we consider Stenus erythrocnemus to be an expansive Iranian faunal element, which dispersed northwestwards to Anatolia and Caucasia and eastwards to Central Asia and the Hindu Kush.