Brachyleptus aurosus Reitter, 1896

Audisio, Paolo, Cline, Andrew R., Lasoń, Andrzej, Jelínek, Josef, Sabatelli, Simone & Serri, Sayeh, 2017, New species and records of pollen and sap beetles for Iran (Coleoptera: Kateretidae, Nitidulidae), Zootaxa 4216 (4), pp. 369-383 : 370

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.242293
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DCFA2B41-8D70-4FFB-891B-9D1C10536A0C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6030353
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A0D9078-7F1E-FF84-FF34-346BFE1864D5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Brachyleptus aurosus Reitter, 1896
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Examined material. IRAN: North Khorasan Province, road Quchan-Ashabad , ca. 24 km NNW Quchan, 37°20'25''N 58°30'11''E, 1930 m, 6.VI.2014, on small red-flowering Papaver sp. ( Papaveraceae ), leg. P. Audisio, 1 female ( CAR). GoogleMaps

This widespread but uncommon SE European and SW Asiatic species is known from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, northern Egypt, Greece, Iran (Khorasan and Tehran), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Russia, Syria, Turkey and Turkmenistan ( Reitter 1919; Jelínek 1980, 1981; Audisio 1989, 1993b; Audisio et al. 2000; Jelínek & Audisio 2007; Lasoń & Gahari 2013). In Iran, this species appears to be confined to northern regions of the country.