Coranus (Coranus) subapterus De Geer 1773
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Cai, Wanzhi
name: Karimi, Javad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Coranus
Coranus subapterus

description: Coranus (Coranus) cf. subapterus (De Geer, 1773)
Cimex subapterus De Geer, 1773: 287 (as new species); Cimex naevius Gmelin, 1790: 2200; Cimex dimidiatus Turton, 1802: 703; Reduvius pedestris Wollf, 1811: 199; Colliocoris griseus Hahn, 1833: 25; Harpactor hahnii Kolenati, 1857: 465; Coranus tuberculifer Benedek, 1969: 44 non Reuter, 1881.
Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Dispons & Villiers 1967), East Azarbaijan (Dispons & Villiers 1967), Khorasan (Rahimi et al. 2010a, b, c), Mazandaran (Wagner 1961; Sakenin et al. 2008).
Distribution outside Iran. Euro-Siberian: Europe, Kazakhstan, northwestern China, Russia (West Siberia) (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Aukema et al. 2013).
Comments. On alfalfa and ground (Rahimi et al. 2010a). This species is not mentioned in Iran by Putshkov & Moulet (2010). The discrimination of C. subapterus and the close species (C. aethiops Jakovlev 1893, hammarstroemi Reuter 1982, kerzhneri P.V. Putshkov 1982, laticeps Wagner 1952, pectoralis Jakovlev 1883, stenopygus P.V. Putshkov 1982, tuberculifer Reuter 1881, woodroffei P.V. Putshkov 1982) is very difficult and we know that hybrid forms exist. In Bulgaria, Caucasus (Armenia, Turkey) and central Asia (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) lives Coranus cf. subapterus; this is a taxon we do not know at the moment if it represents a really valid species, or a subspecies, or only a variation of subapterus.
Coranus (Coranus) tuberculifer Reuter, 1881
Coranus lateralis Jakovlev, 1879: 158 (nomen oblitum, a color variation); Coranus tuberculifer Reuter, 1881: 162.
Distribution in Iran. Tehran (Brown 1966; Dispons & Villiers 1967).
Distribution outside Iran. Ponto-Mediterranean, from Italy, Balkan Peninsula to Near East, Azerbaijan, Asian part of Turkey, and Jordan (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Putshkov & Moulet 2010; Aukema et al. 2013). Comments. Iranian records are doubtful (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Putshkov & Moulet 2010), and most probably are other species (e.g., Caucasian C. laticeps, C. cf. subapterus).
Genus Nagusta Stål, 1859
Nagusta goedelii (Stål, 1859)
Zelus goedelii Kolenati, 1857: 459 (as new species); Nagusta rugulosa Stål, 1859: 375; Phanerocoris cornutus Jakvlev, 1876: 269.
Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Hoberlandt 1954; Modarres Awal 1997a, c; Ghahari et al. 2010a), Fars, Lorestan (Hoberlandt 1954, 1959), Isfahan (Dispons & Villiers 1967; Rakhshani et al. 2010), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 1997b; Rahimi et al. 2010a, c), Mazandaran (Seidenstücker 1957; Hoberlandt 1959), Tehran (Hoberlandt 1954, 1959; Seidenstücker 1957), Iran (without precise locality) (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Putshkov & Moulet 2010).
Distribution outside Iran. Euro-Turanian: from Austria to Central Asia (Azerbaijan); the Balkans and Creta, Near East and Caucasus (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996; Kment & Dolejšová 2010; Aukema et al. 2013).
Comments. Nagusta goedelii only lives on trees throughout its life (Citrus, Cydonia, Fraxinus, Juniperus, Populus, Pinus, Prunus, Punica, Quercus, Rosa, Ulmus, Malus, etc.); occasionally it is found on herbs (e.g., Galium, Rubiaceae) (Putshkov & Moulet 2010). Feeding of N. goedelii is poorly known; in laboratory conditions, cannibalism is very frequent. N. goedeli is univoltine and adults hibernate (Putshkov & Moulet 2010). It is a predator of alfalfa aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) (Rakhshani et al. 2010).
Nagusta simonis Puton, 1890
Nagusta simonis Puton, 1890: 228 (as new species); Nagusta simonyi Linnavuori, 1974: 125 (lapsus).
Distribution in Iran. Kerman (Seidenstücker 1958), Iran (without precise locality) (Putshkov & Putshkov 1996). Distribution outside Iran. Central Asia, Near East (Cyprus), north and tropical Africa, Saudi Arabia.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Cai, Wanzhi & Karimi, Javad, 2013, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Reduvioidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), pp. 201-238 in Zootaxa 3718 (3) on pages 208-209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3718.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217135