Dorcus parallelipipedus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bartolozzi, Luca, Ghahari, Hassan, Sprecher-Uebersax, Eva & Zilioli, Michele, 2014, A checklist of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 3887 (3), pp. 422-436 : 429

Dorcus parallelipipedus (Linnaeus, 1758)

( Figs. 16–17 )

Scarabaeus parallelipipedus Linnaeus, 1758: 354 .

Dorcus parallelipipedus reichei Ganglbauer, 1886: 81 .

Examined material. 1 male, Hamadan: Malayer, IV.2005, H. Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 female, Mazandaran: Qaemshahr, IX.2002, H. Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 male, 2 females, Mazandaran: 3 km S of Kelerd, ~ 200 m (36°29.8'N 52°17.21'E), 27.IV.1999, L. Nádai (CLN) ; 1 male, Semnan: Damghan, X.2004, H. Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 female, East Azarbaijan: Maragheh, VIII.2003, Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 male, Alborz: Karaj, VI.2004, H. Ghahari ( CLB) ; 1 male, Khorasan: Mashhad, VII.2003, H. Ghahari ( CLB) ; 1 male, Fars: Abadeh, IX.2003, H. Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 female, Isfahan: Najaf-Abad, VIII.2000, H. Ghahari ( CLB) ; 1 male, 1 female, Ilam: Ilam, IX.2002, H. Ghahari ( CLB) ; 1 male, Kerman: Kerman, VI.2001, H. Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 female, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari: Shahrekord, VII.2003, H. Ghahari ( MZUF) ; 1 male, Guilan: 10 km S Asalem, 150 m, 18.V.2002 ( CGLM) ; 9 males, 9 females (as D. parallelipipedus reichei , det. K.-D. Schenk), Mazandaran: about 19 km SE Sari, 300 m, 26–30.VI.1998, Heinz ( CKDS) ; 1 male, Mazandaran: Nur National Park, Kajvil Forest, ~ 28 m (36°34.763'N, 52°04.035'E), 13.V.2008, K. Víg (CLN) ; 1 male, 1 female, Guilan: Astara, Chubar, 14.VIII.1976, Reznavi ( NMNHI) ; 1 female, Guilan: 36 km W Bandar-e Anzali, 9.V.1974, Kimbali ( NMNHI) ; 1 female, Guilan: road from Asalem to Heroabad, 10.V.1974, N. Thireau ( NMNHI) ; 8 males, 5 females, Golestan: 150 m, 10 km S Bandar e Gaz (36.45°N, 53.57°E), 27.V–7.VI.2001, G. Sama ( MZUF, CLB) ; 2 males, 5 females (as D. parallelipipedus reichei ), Pers. Kopet-Dagh , Siaret [= Golestan: Ziarat], 1160 m, 6.1899 coll. Hauser ( NMB) ; 1 male (as D. parallelipipedus reichei ), Pers. Kopet-Dagh , Dascht, 6.1902, coll. Hauser ( NMB).

Distribution. Widely distributed Palaearctic species (see Bartolozzi & Sprecher-Uebersax 2006).

Distribution in Iran. Golestan, Guilan, Khorasan, Mazandaran ( Král 2004; Sakenin et al. 2008), West Azerbaijan ( Sakenin et al. 2008), Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Fars, Hamadan, Ilam, Isfahan, Kerman, Semnan, Tehran (new records).

Remarks. We consider Dorcus parallelipipedus reichei to be a synonym of Dorcus parallelipipedus , as in Bartolozzi & Sprecher-Uebersax (2006).

Quoted host plants in Iran are Ficus carica (Moraceae) and Ulmus campestris (Ulmaceae) ( Sakenin et al. 2008).

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 27. 16 — Dorcus parallelipipedus (male), 17 — Dorcus parallelipipedus (female), 18 — Dorcus peyronis (male), 19 — Dorcus peyronis (female), 20 — Dorcus prochazkai (male), 21 — Dorcus prochazkai (female), 22 — Lucanus xerxes (male), 23 — Lucanus xerxes (female), 24 — Lucanus ibericus ibericus (male), 25 — Lucanus ibericus ibericus (female), 26 — Lucanus ibericus subvelutinus (male), 27 — Lucanus ibericus subvelutinus (female).