Corizus hyoscyami hyoscyami (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Linnavuori, Rauno E. & Ostovan, Hadi, 2012, An Annotated Catalog of the Iranian Coreidae, Rhopalidae, and Stenocephalidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Coreoidea), Zootaxa 3519, pp. 1-31 : 18-19

Corizus hyoscyami hyoscyami (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cimex hyoscyami Linnaeus, 1758: 477 (as new species); Consivius collinus Distant, 1909: 321 ; Corizus monticola Horváth, 1917: 166 ; Therapha atropyga Blöte, 1934: 256 .

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil ( Modarres Awal 1987; Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2007; Ghahari et al. 2010c), East Azarbaijan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Farshbaf Pour-Abad 2000; Khalilzadeh et al. 2007; Khalilzadeh 2008; Hassanzadeh et al. 2009a, b; Sadeghi et al. 2009; Khaghaninia et al. 2010a, b, 2011; Nikdel et al. 2011), Fars ( Wagner 1968; Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2012), Golestan ( Kiritshenko 1949; Wagner 1968; Heiss 2002; Ghahari et al. 2011), Guilan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2007), Isfahan ( China 1938), Hormozgan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a), Kerman ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2012), Khorasan ( Modarres Awal 1996a; Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998), Kordestan ( Linnavuori 2012), Kuhgiluyeh & Boyerahmad ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a), Mazandaran ( Farahbakhsh 1961), Semnan ( Kiritshenko 1949; Farahbakhsh 1961; Linnavuori 2007), Tehran ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a; Linnavuori 2007), West Azarbaijan ( Hoberlandt & Švihla 1990a), Zanjan ( Askari et al. 2009), northern Iran (no locality cited) ( Jakovlev 1877; Lindberg 1938).

General distribution. Palearctic (reaches the Polar Circle).

Comments. On tobacco ( Solanaceae ), Medicago sativa (Fabaceae) ( Farahbakhsh 1961), Asteraceae and Fabaceae ( Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998) , and in cotton fields ( Ghahari et al. 2011).

Note. Corizus hyoscyami nigridorsum Puton, 1874 from West Mediterranean basin, formerly considered as a valid species, is now treated as subspecies despite subtile but regular genitalic differences between these taxa.