Scarites Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Scarites

description: Genus Scarites Fabricius, 1775
Subgenus Parallelomorphus Motschulsky, 1849
Scarites (Parallelomorphus) subcylindricus Chaudoir, 1843
Studied material: Geno Mts, near Bandar Abbas, 2015 and 5 km South east of Khoshangan, Fin C. (Prov. of Hormozgan), 7 km east of Bazangan (Prov. of Razavi Khorasan), Shiraz, Maharloo Lake (Prov. of Fars). Citations: Sabzawaran (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963); Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Scarites (Parallelomorphus) terricola persicus Chaudoir, 1842
Studied material: Sirch and Mahan (Prov. of Kerman), Ahmady and Rodan, C (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Razavi Khorasan (Hosseini et al., 2012); Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Comment: Several dozen specimens (not concretely cited here) of this largely distributed species have been recently studied from Provinces East Azarbaijan, Gilan, Fars, Golestan, Hormozgan, Kerman, Sistan va Baluchestan, Razavi Khorasan, Qazvin, North Khorasan, West Azarbaijan, etc. It is not possible to clearly assign some of these specimens to appropriate subspecies. Validity of ssp. persicus must be checked but very probably it is only a form of the nominotypical subspecies, without taxonomic value.
Samin et al. (2011) cited S. terricola pacificus Bates, 1873 from Bandar-Torkman (Prov. of Golestan). This subspecies is known only from SE Asia and the occurrence in Iran is not expectable so that this citation very probably belongs to S. terricola terricola Bonelli, 1813 or S. terricola persicus Chaudoir, 1842.
Scarites (Parallelomorphus) terricola terricola Bonelli, 1813
Studied material: (ZMTU): Kordak River, 2008 (Prov. of Qazvin), NowShahr, 2010 (Prov. of Mazandaran) and Bandar-e Anzali, 2012 (Prov. of Gilan).
Citations: Farsistan region (prov. of Fars; Redtenfoacher, 1848); Kuh-rang, 2400 m (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1963); Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Subgenus Scarites Fabricius, 1775
Scarites (Scarites) angustus Chaudoir, 1855
= mandli Jedlička, 1963
Citations: Salzufer Nargiz Niris-Sea; Bander Danala (Prov. of West Azarbaijan; Jedlička, 1963 sp mandli); Urumie see (Prov. of West Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963, sp mandli); Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Scarites (Scarites) bengalensis Dejean, 1826
Studied material: 15 km South of Minab (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Scarites (Scarites) cylindronotus Faldermann, 1836 Citations: Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Scarites (Scarites) procerus eurytus Fischer von Waldheim, 1828
Studied material: (ZMTU): Bandar-e Anzali, 2012 and 20 km east of Astara (Prov. of Gilan), Kuh-e Khvajeh (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan), 10 km east of Tuzh village (Prov. of Hormozgan), Shurlaq (both Prov. of Razavi Khorasan), Miankaleh, Ghalhe Palangan (Prov. of Mazandaran).
Citations: Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1842); Sabzewaran (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963); Nehbandan (Prov. of South Khorasan; Ghahari & Kesdek, 2012).
Scarites (Scarites) salinus Dejean, 1825
= impressicollis Zoubkoff, 1837
Citations: Astarabad (Prov. of Golestan; Zoubkoff, 1837); Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1842).
Subgenus Scallophorites Motschulsky, 1858 Scarites (Scarites) bucida Pallas, 1776
Citations: Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Scarites (Scarites) guineensis Dejean, 1831
Citations: Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
Scarites (Scarites) nitens Andrewes, 1929
Citations: Without exact locality (Balkenohl, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494