Nepa Linnaeus, 1758

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Ostovan, Hadi & Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2013, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Dipsocoromorpha, Enicocephalomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha and Nepomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 3641 (4), pp. 301-342 : 328

Genus Nepa Linnaeus, 1758

Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758: 440 (as new species); Nepa rubra Linnaeus, 1758: 440 ; Nepa scorpioaquaticus De Geer, 1773: 361 ; Nepa cinerea var. minor Puton, 1886: 8 ; Nepa seurati Bergevin, 1926: 290 ; Nepa cinerea var. major Bergevin , 294; Neap dollfusi Esaki, 1928: 436; Nepa cinerea var. orientalis Esaki, 1928: 436 ; Nepa rubra meridionalis Poisson, 1961: 635 ; Nepa remyi Poisson, 1961: 636 ; Nepa cinerea poissoni Tamanini, 1973: 239 .

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Cox & Cox 1995; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Mazandaran (Linnavuori & Hosseini, 2000), Ilam (Samin et al. 2011), Isfahan (New material), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 2008), Markazi (Vafaei 2005), West Azerbaijan (Sakenin et al. 2010; Ghahari et al. 2010a; Ahmadi et al. 2011, 2012).

General distribution. Euro-Siberian (Polhemus 1995; Fent et al. 2011).