Aelia acuminata Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Rider, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Aelia
Aelia acuminata

description: Aelia acuminata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cimex acuminatus Linnaeus, 1758: 446; Cimex rostratus De Geer, 1773: 271; Cimex tessarophthalmus Schrank, 1781: 277; Aelia neglecta Dallas, 1851: 223; Aelia burmeisteri Küster, 1852: 393; Aelia pallida Küster, 1852: 394; Aelia rostrata Mulsant & Rey, 1866: 134 (non Boheman, 1852); Aelia turanica Horváth, 1895: 221; Aelia punctiventris Horváth, 1911: 100; Aelia acuminata var. annulipes Zangheri, 1934: 28; Aelia acuminata var. nigripes Wagner, 1938: 9; Aelia baluchistanensis Ahmad & Zaidi, 1988: 457.
Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Hoberlandt 1997 as Aelia turanica; Samin et al. 2010a), Ardabil (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1987; Linnavuori 2008), East Azarbaijan (Safavi 1959; Modarres Awal 1997b; Khalilzadeh et al. 2007; Havaskary et al. 2012), Fars (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori 2012), Golestan (Kiritshenko 1949; Hoberlandt 1997; Linnavuori 2008; Habibi Nokhandan et al. 2012), Guilan (Hoberlandt 1997 as Aelia punctiventris; Linnavuori 2008), Isfahan (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b; Samin & Asgari 2012), Kerman (Hoberlandt 1997 as Aelia turanica), Kermanshah (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Khorasan (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1996a, 1997b; Linnavuori 2008; Havaskary et al. 2010; Mehneh et al. 2010), Lorestan (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), Markazi (Hoberlandt 1997), Mazandaran (Farahbakhsh 1961; Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997; Modarres Awal 1997b; Sakenin et al. 2008; Linnavuori 2008), Qazvin (Hoberlandt 1997), Semnan (Hoberlandt 1997), Tehran (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Brown 1962; Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt 1997 as Aelia turanica; Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori 2008; Samin 2010), West Azarbaijan (Safavi 1959; Farahbakhsh 1961; Hoberlandt 1997; Modarres Awal 1997b; Nateq Golestan 2004; Nateq Golestan et al. 2004, 2010a, b, c, 2011), Zanjan (Linnavuori 2008), Iran (no locality cited) (Oshanin 1906, 1912; Putshkov 1965 as Aelia turanica; Derjanschi & Péricart 2005; Khanjani 2006; Rider 2006).
General distribution. Euro-Siberian.
Host plants. On barley (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997b), wild Poaceae (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1996a, 1997b; Linnavuori 2008; Mehneh et al. 2010; Nateq Golestan et al. 2011), Triticum sp. (Poaceae) (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1996a, 1997b; Khanjani 2006), Medicago sativa (Fabaceae) (Khalilzadeh et al. 2007), Xanthium stramarium (Asteraceae), Triticum vulgare, Hordeum vulgare (both Poaceae) (Sakenin et al. 2008), Avena sp., and Triticum sativum (both Poaceae) (Nateq Golestan et al. 2010a). Mainly on Poaceae (Festuca sp., Poa sp., Agropyrum sp., Dactylis sp., Phleum sp.), sometimes on Carex sp. (Cyperaceae), Papaver sp. (Papaveraceae) (Derjanschi & Péricart 2005). Aelia acuminata is a plague for agriculture and greatly destroys cereals (Derjanschi & Péricart 2005).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722