Piesma capitatum (Wolff, 1804)

Ghahari, Hassan & Moulet, Pierre, 2012, An Annotated Catalog of the Iranian Berytidae and Piesmatidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Lygaeoidea), Zootaxa 3547, pp. 35-45 : 42

Piesma capitatum (Wolff, 1804)

Acanthia capitatum Wolff, 1804: 131 ; Tingis collaris Zetterstedt, 1828: 481 ; Tingis anticus Stephens, 1829: 336 ; Tingis pedicularis Herrich-Schaeffer, 1833: 19 ; Piesma maculatum A. Costa, 1847: 21 (non Laporte, 1833); Zosmenus stephensii Fieber, 1844: 35 ; Tingis apiaster Gistel, 1857: 87 ; Piesma pallidum A. Costa, 1862: 36 ; Piesma capitatum var. declivis Rey, 1893: 97 ; Piesma capitatum var. divergens Rey, 1893: 97 .

Distribution in Iran. Kordestan ( Sakenin et al. 2010; Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. Palearctic; doubtful in Spain and the Maghreb.

Comment. Péricart (1974) divided the genus Piesma into three subgenera including, Parapiesma Péricart, 1974 , Afropiesma Péricart, 1974, and Piesma s. str. based on the structure of the antennal tubercle (pre-ocular tubercle of Heiss & Péricart 1983) and the spermatheca. Heiss & Péricart (1997) proposed that these subgenera should be elevated to the generic level. Schaefer (1972, 1981) conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the extant genera of Piesmatidae which included Piesma , Parapiesma, Afropiesma , Mcateella, Miespa , and Thaicoris . According to Heiss & Popov (2007), Thaicoris (and more generally the subfamily Thaicorinae) must be removed from Piesmatidae and transferred to Thaumastocoridae .