Hydrochus nodulifer Reitter, 1897

Hidalgo-Galiana, Amparo, Jäch, Manfred A. & Ribera, Ignacio, 2010, Hydrochus farsicus sp. n. from Iran and notes on other Palearctic species of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrochidae), Zootaxa 2344, pp. 61-64 : 63

Hydrochus nodulifer Reitter, 1897

Material studied. One male (Coll. Pütz, Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany): IRAN: Prov. Gilan, Siahkal County, Elburz Mts., S-Slope, Deylaman-Barresar road, sifted, 1688 m, 36º51'07''N, 49º49'67.3''E, 07.VI.2008, leg. A. Pütz “IR08-25”.

Remarks. First record for Iran. This species was described from “Elisabethpol” [= Ganja (or Ganca), Azerbaijan] ( Reitter, 1897). A lectotype was designated by Shatrovskij (1993), who also figured the aedeagus. Hydrochus nodulifer has also been recorded from Eastern Anatolia and the Black Sea Area of Turkey ( Mart et al., 2009).