Perotis Dejean 1833
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Volkovitsh, Mark G.
name: Bellamy, Charles L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Perotis

description: Genus PEROTIS Dejean, 1833
synonym: Aurigena Laporte & Gory 1836.
Perotis cuprata (Klug) 1829: No. 18 (Buprestis); Théry 1925: 80 (Aurigena); Richter 1952: 179; Borumand 2002: 39; Kubáň 2006: 349; Bellamy 2008b: 965; Ghobari et al. 2012: 237.
synonym: orientalis (Laporte & Gory) 1836: 4 (Aurigena); Kubáň 2006: 49 (synonym of cuprata).
synonym: cuprea Hampe 1852: 311; Kubáň 2006: 45 (new assignment), 349.
synonym: capnodiformis Reitter 1883: 114 (Aurigena); Radjabi 1968: 75, 1976: 129 (variety of cuprata); Modarres Awal 1997: 138 (variety of cuprata); Kubáň 2006: 49 (synonym of cuprata).
Biology/Bionomy: Richter 1952: 180 (with bibliography).
Distribution within Iran. "Poucht-é-Kouh: Arko-Waz" (Théry 1925). East Azarbaijan (Radjabi 1968; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002), Fars (Radjabi 1968, 1976; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002), Isfahan, Kerman, Kermanshah (var. capnodiformis) (Radjabi 1968; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002), Kordestan (Ghobari et al. 2012), Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad, Lorestan, West Azarbaijan (Borumand 2002), Yazd (Radjabi 1976), Iran (no locality cited) (Richter 1952; Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Distribution outside Iran. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Perotis lugubris (Fabricius) 1777: 236 (Buprestis); Salavatian 1950: 9; Richter 1952: 180; Davatchi et al. 1959: 245; Farahbakhsh 1960: 75; Radjabi 1968: 75, 1976: 129; Abai & Adeli 1984: 105; Behdad 1988:?; Modarres Awal 1997: 138; Borumand 2002: 40; Kubáň 2006: 349; Bellamy 2008b: 966; Barimani et al. 2009: 65; Ghobari et al. 2012: 237.
Immatures: Mokrzecki 1901: 25; Reichart 1950a: 139, 1951: 87; Richter 1952: 181; Reichart 1953a: 71; Bílý 1999: 21.
synonym: laportea (Brullé) 1832: 133 (Buprestis).
synonym: europaea Abeille de Perrin 1896: 273 (subspecies of aeneiventris); Kubáň 2006: 52 (available name), 349.
synonym: prolongata Obenberger 1918b: 21.
Biology/Bionomy: Bílý 2003: 68.
Host plant(s) within Iran. Rosa canina, abricotier, cerisier (Prunus spp.) (Davatchi et al. 1959); apricot, sour cherry (Prunus spp.), rose, dog rose (Rosa spp., Rosaceae) (Farahbakhsh 1960; Abai & Adeli 1984), dog rose and other roses (Rosa spp.), apricot, cherry, sour-cherry, garden-plum, plum (Prunus spp.), apple (Malus sp.), pear (Pyrus sp.), quince (Cydonia, Rosaceae), sind poplar, black poplar, white poplar (Populus spp., Salicaceae) (Modarres Awal 1997).
Distribution within Iran. East Azarbaijan, Hamadan, Kerman, Lorestan, Markazi, Zanjan (Modarres Awal 1997), Fars (Salavatian 1950; Farahbakhsh 1960; Radjabi 1976; Abai & Adeli 1984), Golestan, Ilam, Kermanshah (Radjabi 1968; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002), Isfahan (Salavatian 1950; Farahbakhsh 1960; Radjabi 1976; Abai & Adeli 1984; Modarres Awal 1997), Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad (Farahbakhsh 1960; Borumand 2002), Mazandaran (Barimani et al. 2009), Qazvin (Salavatian 1950; Farahbakhsh 1960; Borumand 2002), Tehran (Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002), Yazd (Radjabi 1976; Modarres Awal 1997), central provinces (Abai & Adeli 1984), northern Iran (Richter 1952; Farahbakhsh 1960; Abai & Adeli 1984), Iran (no locality cited) (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Distribution outside Iran. Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Perotis lugubris longicollis Kraatz 1880: 142; Richter 1952: 182; Farahbakhsh 1960: 75; Radjabi 1968: 75, 1976: 129; Abai & Adeli 1984: 105; Modarres Awal 1997: 138; Borumand 2002: 39; Kubáň 2006: 349; Bellamy 2008b: 967; Ghobari et al. 2012: 237.
synonym: subcostata (Reitter) 1889: 281 (Aurigena); Kubáň 2006: 52 (available name), 349. synonym: punctulata (Abeille de Perrin) 1896: 273 (Aurigena); Kubáň 2006: 45 (new assignment), 349. Host plant(s) within Iran. Dog rose (Rosa sp., Rosaceae) (Farahbakhsh 1960; Modarres Awal 1997); Rosa spp., roots (Abai & Adeli 1984).
Distribution within Iran. Fars (Radjabi 1976; Borumand 2002), Kerman, Qazvin, Tehran (Radjabi 1968; Borumand 2002), Kordestan (Ghobari et al. 2012), northern provinces (Richter 1952; Farahbakhsh 1960; Abai & Adeli 1984; Modarres Awal 1997), Iran (no locality cited) (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Distribution outside Iran. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Russia, Turkmenistan (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Perotis lugubris mutabilis (Abeille de Perrin) 1896: 273 (Aurigena); Bílý 1983a: 56; Borumand 2002: 40; Kubáň 2006: 349; Bellamy 2008b: 967.
Distribution within Iran. Fars (Bílý 1983a), Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad (Bílý 1983a; Borumand 2002), Iran (no locality cited) (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Distribution outside Iran. Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Perotis lugubris transcaspica (Semenov-Tian-Shanskij) 1891: 332 (Psiloptera (Aurigena )); Kubáň 2006: 349; Bellamy 2008b: 967.
synonym: guttipennis (Abeille de Perrin) 1904: 213 (Aurigena); Richter 1952: 183 (morpha of malachitica Abeille de Perrin, 1896); Kubáň 2006: 45 (new assignment), 349.
Distribution within Iran. Southern-east Iran (as malachitica morpha guttipennis) (Richter 1952), Iran (no locality cited) (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Distribution outside Iran. Turkmenistan (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Note. According to Kubáň (2006) P. malachitica Abeille de Perrin, 1896 is a subspecies of P. xerxes (Marseul) 1865, so the record of P. lugubris transcaspica in Southern-east Iran is doubtful. The records for Populus spp. as host plants (Modarres Awal 1997) are also doubtful.
Perotis xerxes (Marseul) 1865: 109 (Psiloptera); Richter 1952: 183 (as morpha of chlorana Laporte & Gory 1836); Davatchi et al. 1959: 245 (as chlorana); Farahbakhsh 1960: 75 (as chlorana); Abai & Adeli 1984: 20 (as chlordna [sic!]); Modarres Awal 1997: 138 (as chlorana); Sakenin et al. 2008:34; Kubáň 2006: 349; Bellamy 2008b: 969.
Host plant(s) within Iran. Amandier (Amygdalus sp.), abricotier, prunier (Prunus spp., Rosaceae), Grenadier (Punica granatum, Lythraceae) (Davatchi et al. 1959; Farahbakhsh 1960; Modarres Awal 1997); Amygdalus spp., sapwood (Abai & Adeli 1984); Euphorbia peplus (Euphorbiaceae) (Sakenin et al. 2008).
Distribution within Iran. East Azarbaijan (Modarres Awal 1997), Golestan (Sakenin et al. 2008), southern Iran (as chlorana) (Richter 1952; Farahbakhsh 1960; Abai & Adeli 1984; Modarres Awal 1997), Iran (no locality cited) (Marseul 1865; Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Distribution outside Iran. Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Kubáň 2006; Bellamy 2008b).
Note. Records for Golestan and Euphorbia as a host plant in Sakenin et al. (2008) are doubtful, Euphorbia species are known to be the host plants for P. cuprata.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Volkovitsh, Mark G. & Bellamy, Charles L., 2015, An annotated catalogue of the Buprestidae of Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 3984 (1) on pages 72-74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3984.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245157