Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1885

Biranvand, Amir, Tomaszewska, Wioletta, Nedvěd, Oldřich, Khormizi, Mehdi Zare, Nicolas, Vincent, Canepari, Claudio, Shakarami, Jahanshir, Fekrat, Lida & Fürsch, Helmut, 2017, Review of the tribe Hyperaspidini Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4236 (2), pp. 311-326 : 318

Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1885

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Hyperaspis polita Weise 1885: 60 .

Hyperaspis decemguttata Fleischer 1900: 119 .

Distribution in Iran. Deeh-Bala region, Ramine region (Duverger 1983), Fras ( Yazdani 1990), Golestan ( Montazeri & Mossadegh 1995), Kermanshah ( Jalilvand et al. 2014), Kerman, Khuzestan, Mazandaran, Zanjan ( Moddarres-Awal 2012).

General distribution. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Libya, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen (Duverger 1983), Iraq ( Ali et al. 1990), Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey ( Kovář 2007).

Host plants and prey species in Iran. This species has been collected from Ficus sp., Citrus sp., Morus sp. as a predator of Maconellicoccus hirsutus Green and Nipaecoccus viridis (Newstead) ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ) ( Yazdani 1990; Moddarres-Awal 2012).

Remarks. We used the species descriptions and photographs by Capra (1929), Mader (1955) and Iablokoff- Khnzorian (1971) with some modifications.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Tegmen of the male genitalia of Hyperaspis species. 1. H. concolor Suffrian. 2. H. duvergeri Fürsch. 3. H. femorata (Motschulsky). 4. H. histeroides (Faldermann). 5. H. marmottani (Fairmaire). 6. H. persica Duverger. 7. H. polita Weise. 8. H. quadrimaculata Redtenbacher.

FIGURES 14 – 22. Dorsal habitus of Hyperaspis species. 14. H. concolor Suffrian. 15. H. duvergeri Fürsch. 16. H. femorata (Motschulsky). 17. H. histeroides (Faldermann). 18. H. marmottani (Fairmaire). 19. H. persica Duverger (female). 20. H. persica Duverger (male). 21. H. polita Weise. 22. H. quadrimaculata Redtenbacher.