Genus Stenodema Laporte, 1833

Stenodema Laporte, 1832:40; Kerzhner, 1964:958 (key); Wagner, 1974 (key, description); Muminov, 1989 (revision); Schwartz, 2008 (diagnosis).

This genus currently includes 57 species and has a principally Holarctic distribution, with several species reported from Southeast Asia and one from South Africa (Schwartz, 2008; Schuh, 2002 –2013). So far five species ( S. calcarata, S. pilosa, S. laevigata, S. turanica, and S. virens) have been found and documented from Iran (Hosseini, 2013).