Lygus pratensis Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Chérot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Lygus
Lygus pratensis

description: Lygus pratensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Farahbakhsh 1961), Ardabil (Modarres Awal 1987 under the combination Exolygus pratensis; Linnavuori 2007; Havaskary et al. 2012), East Azarbaijan (Farshbaf Pour-Abad 2000 under the combination Exolygus pratensis; Khalilzadeh 2008 under the combination Exolygus pratensis; Modarres Awal 1997a; Linnavuori 2009; Sadeghi et al. 2009; Gharaat et al. 2009; Khaghaninia et al. 2010a, c; Khaghaninia et al. 2011), Fars (Linnavuori 2009; Zarei et al. 2012), Golestan (Khormali 2000; Heiss & Linnavuori 2002; Karimian & Khormali 2006 under the spelling Ligus [sic] pratensis; Linnavuori 2007; Ghahari et al. 2011), Guilan (Linnavuori 2007), Hamadan (Khanjani & Kalafchi 2000; Mirab-balou et al. 2007, 2008; Mirab-balou & Radjabi 2013), Isfahan (Linnavuori 2009), Kerman (Linnavuori 2009; Memand et al. 2012), Kermanshah (Linnavuori 2009), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1999; Heiss & Linnavuori 2002; Havaskary et al. 2010; Ghahari et al. 2011), Kordestan (Linnavuori 2009; Ebrahimi et al. 2012), Kohgiluyeh & Boyerahmad (Linnavuori 2009), Lorestan (Linnavuori 2009), Markazi (Linnavuori 2009; Arkani et al. 2011), Mazandaran (Heiss & Linnavuori 2002; Linnavuori 2007; Ghahari et al. 2008a; Wagner 1968a under the combination Exolygus pratensis), Semnan (Kiritshenko 1949; Hoberlandt 1954 as from Khorasan; Farahbakhsh 1961), Tehran (Linnavuori 2007), West Azarbaijan (Linnavuori 2009; Gharaat et al. 2009), Zanjan (Linnavuori 2007; Askari et al. 2009), Iran (no locality cited) (Lindberg 1938; Kerzhner & Josifov 1999); generally distributed (Modarres Awal 1997c).
General distribution and hosts. Holopalaearctic species, observed on numerous plants including, Avena sativa (Modarres Awal 1997b), Chenopodium album (Ebrahimi et al. 2012), Dacus carota (Ebrahimi et al. 2012), kanaf (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997c), lucerne (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997c), Medicago sativa (Ebrahimi et al. 2012), Pisum sativum (Ebrahimi et al. 2012), potato (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997c; Askari et al. 2009; Ebrahimi et al. 2012), sugar beet (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997c), sunflower (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997c), sainfoin (Modarres Awal 1997c), tamariks (Modarres Awal 1997; Askari et al. 2009), Triflium sp. (Ebrahimi et al. 2012) and Vaccaria pyramidata (Ghahari et al. 2008a) in different environments such undergrowth in deciduous forests (Linnavuori 2009), alfalfa (Khanjani & Kalafchi 2000; Mirab-balou et al. 2007, 2008; Khaghaninia et al. 2010c, 2011; Farshbaf Pour-Abad 2000; Khalilzadeh 2008) cotton (Farahbakhsh 1961; Modarres Awal 1997c; Khormali 2000; Ghahari et al. 2011) or rice fields (Ghahari et al. 2008a).
Lygus punctatus (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Listed from Hamadan by Khanjani & Kalafchi (2000), Mirab-balou et al. (2007, 2008) and Mirab-balou & Radjabi (2013). The records from Iran and Pakistan need confirmation (Aukema et al. 2013). General distribution. Widely distributed in Europe and Northern Palaearctic Asia.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Chérot, Frédéric, 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 3845 (1) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3845.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/230400