Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Cicadella viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cicadella viridis: Le Quesne 1965: 24, fig. 115.

Material examined.

Ardabil: 8 ♂♀, Heiran, 1527 m, 37°41'07.4"N, 48°23'57.4"E, 18.January.2007, leg. Mozaffarian, Light trap (Fig. 1, A4).

Ardabil: 1♂, 7♀, 10 km to Parsabad, 39°36'8.3"N, 47°48'45.5"E, 18.January. 2007, leg. Mozaffarian (Fig. 1, A2).

Azarbaijan-e-Sharghi: 25 ♂♀, Eskanlu, Aras river, 290 m, 39° 12'13.4"N, 47° 04'23.2"E, 3.Sebtember.2007, leg. Mozaffarian & Nematian (Fig. 1, ASh1).

Azarbaijan-e-Gharbi: 1♂, Maku, Cheshme Soraya, 900 m, 22.August.1994, leg. Ebrahimi & Sarafrazi (Fig. 1, AG1).

Dlabola (1981) reported this species from Zonuschay (Fig. 1, ASh5).

Worldwide distribution.

East Palaearctic, Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Britain I., Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia North, South Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia), Near East, Nearctic region, Oriental region (De Jong 2013).

Comment.

Behdad (1993) reported this species as a rice pest.