Cantharis (Cantharis) melaspoides Wittmer, 1971

Fanti, Fabrizio & Ghahari, Hassan, 2016, A checklist of the soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Cantharidae) of Iran, Zootaxa 4196 (4), pp. 529-551 : 534

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.4

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6072839

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scientific name

Cantharis (Cantharis) melaspoides Wittmer, 1971
status

 

Cantharis (Cantharis) melaspoides Wittmer, 1971

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan: Maragheh, 37°23'N 46°24'E ( Samin et al. 2015).

Distribution outside Iran. Caucasus, Turkey ( Kerimova & Huseynova 2014), Israel ( Švihla 1999; Koçak & Kemal 2015), Jordan, Lebanon, Syria ( Švihla 1999; Kazantsev & Brancucci 2007; Samin et al. 2015).

Remarks. All record from Turkey, Caucasus and Iran are potentially erroneous and require validation because C. melaspoides Wittmer is identical, in external appearance, to both C. livida Linnaeus and C. melaspis (Chevrolat) . Recognition of this species is only possible by dissection and aedeagus examination.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

Genus

Cantharis

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