Annotated catalogue of Iranian burrower bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea, Cydnidae) Author Ghahari, Hassan Islamic Azad University, Share Rey Branch, Tehran ,, Author Chérot, Frédéric ,, Belgium Author Linnavuori, Rauno Raisio ,, Finland Author Ostovan, Hadi Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht ,, text ZooKeys 2009 2009-10-30 26 26 3 31 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.26.214 e98d00b2-67b2-49a6-803e-7a1520600ed0 1313–2970 576560 6) Cydnus aterrimus ( Forster 1771 ) Cimex aterrimus Forster, 1771: 71 (as new species). Cydnus aterrimus : Dallas 1851: 121 (new combination). Cydnus infernalis Kiritshenko 1966: 799 (as new species; the synonymy by Lis 1996: 405 ). Iran records : Askari et al. 2009: 562 ; Baroughi 1978: 22 ; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009: 22; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009: 529; Hoberlandt 1955: 122 , 1995: 187 ; Lindberg 1938: 89 ; Linnavuori 2007: 88 ; Lis 1999: 180 , 2006: 124 ; Modarres Awal 1987: 19 , 1996a: 127 , 1997: 71 , 2008: 246 ; Sadeghi et al. 2009: 499 ; Safavi 1959: 31 ; Wagner 1968: 438 . Distribution in Iran : Bushehr , East Azarbaijan, Fars , Golestan , Gorgan, Kerman , Khorasan , Mazandaran , Sistan & Balouchestan, Tehran , Zanjan provinces. Distribution outside Iran : Afghanistan , Albania , Algeria , Armenia , Austria , Azerbaidjan , Bangladesh , Belgium , Bosnia Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Canary Islands, China ( Neimenggu , Ningxia ), Congo (?), Crimea, Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Egypt , France , Georgia, Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iraq , India , Israel , Italy , Jordan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizia, Lebanon , Libya , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia, Madeira, Malta , Malaya (?), Malta , Moldavia , Morocco , Netherlands , Pakistan , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia (South European Territory, West Siberia), Senegal , Serbia and Montenegro , Slovakia , Slovenia , South Africa (introduction), Spain , Sri Lanka , Switzerland , Syria , Tadzhikistan , Tunisia , Turkey , Turkmenistan , Ukraine , USA (introduction), Uzbekistan , West Indies (introduction), Yemen .