Strigopteroides, Cobos, 1981

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Genus STRIGOPTEROIDES Cobos, 1981

Strigopteroides depressa ( Fabricius) 1775 : 219 ( Buprestis , preoccupied by depressus Linnaeus 1771); ICZN 2002 (validated); Kubáň 2006: 50; Volkovitsh 2006: 340.

synonym: aegyptiaca ( Gmelin) 1790: 1928 ( Buprestis , nomen novum for depressus Fabricius 1775); Théry 1925: 79 ( Pseudocastalia ); Salavatian 1950: 7 ( Pseudocastalia ); Davatchi et al. 1959: 243 ( Pseudocastalia ); Farahbakhsh 1960: 76 (Pseudocastalis); Radjabi 1968: 70 ( Pseudocastalia ); Bílý 1983a: 38; Modarres Awal 1997: 138; Borumand 2002: 17 ( Pseudocastalia ); Bellamy 2008a: 382.

synonym: castelnaudi ( Saunders) 1871: 59 ( Polycesta , nomen novum for aegyptiaca Gory & Laporte 1838); Kubáň 2006: 52 (comments).

synonym: hellenica Cobos 1990: 276.

Host plant(s) within Iran. Hard wood timbers used in furniture and buildings (as aegyptiaca) ( Salavatian 1950; Farahbakhsh 1960; Modarres Awal 1997).

Distribution within Iran. Fars ( Salavatian 1950; Davatchi et al. 1959, as aegyptiaca; Farahbakhsh 1960; Bílý 1983a; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002, as aegyptiaca), Isfahan ( Borumand 2002, as aegyptiaca), Khuzestan (as aegyptiaca) ( Théry 1925; Farahbakhsh 1960; Radjabi 1968; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002), Qazvin ( Davatchi et al. 1959, as aegyptiaca), Tehran (as aegyptiaca) ( Salavatian 1950; Davatchi et al. 1959, as aegyptiaca; Radjabi 1968; Farahbakhsh 1960; Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 2002, as aegyptiaca), Caspian Sea area (including, Golestan, Guilan, Mazandaran provinces), Iran (no locality cited) (Volkovitsh 2006; Bellamy 2008a, as aegyptiaca).

Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (Volkovitsh 2006; Bellamy 2008a).

Note. Records for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Bellamy (2008a) are dubious.