Orius (Heterorius) horvathi ( Reuter, 1884 )

Moulet, Pierre, 2017, Updated catalogue of Iranian Anthocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), Zootaxa 4311 (4), pp. 451-479 : 462-463

Orius (Heterorius) horvathi ( Reuter, 1884)

Triphleps horvathi Reuter, 1884: 95 (as new species); Orius (Heterorius) ribauti Wagner, 1952: 45 .

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil ( Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari ( Esfandiari 2000; Khajehali & Poorjavad 2015), Fars ( Modarres Awal 1997; Ostovan & Niakan 2000; Erfanfar & Ostovan 2002; Ostovan & Mirhelli 2005; Ganji 2007; Falamarzi et al. 2009; Farzaneh et al. 2010a, b, 2011; Erfanfar 2014; Ostovan et al. 2015), Golestan (Ghahari et al. 2015), Guilan ( Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Isfahan ( Ghahari et al. 2011), Kerman ( Modarres Awal 1997; Razavi & Ahmadi 2016), Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad ( Abd-Rabou & Ghahari 2006; Erfanfar 2014; Davari et al. 2015), Mazandaran ( Ghahari et al. 2008a, b, 2009c), Northern Khorasan ( Malkeshi et al. 1998; Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998), Razavi Khorasan ( Haddad Sabzevar 2007; Hassanzadeh Awal & Modarres Awal 2010a), Semnan ( Niknam 2000; Galini et al. 2013), Yazd ( Zare Khormizi et al. 2013), Iran (no exact locality cited) ( Ostovan 2004; Erfanfar et al. 2014, 2015).

General distribution. Euro Siberian, Caucasus and Near East (Jordan), not in Scandinavia and Great Britain.

Plant associates. Asteraceae and other herbaceous plants hilly meadows ( Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998), Alfalfa ( Niknam 2000; Hassanzadeh Awal & Modarres Awal 2010a), corn ( Haddad Sabzevar 2007), potato, tomato ( Niknam 2000), rice field ( Ghahari et al. 2008a, b, 2009c), sunflower ( Haddad Sabzevar 2007; Hassanzadeh Awal & Modarres Awal 2010a), Zinnia sp. ( Asteraceae ) ( Farzaneh et al. 2010b), Amygdalus communis (Rosaceae) , Crataegus sp. ( Rosaceae ), Glycyrrhiza glabra (Fabaceae) , Medicago sativa (Fabaceae) , Nerium oleander (Apocynaceae) , Plantago sp. ( Plantaginaceae ), Prunus persicae (Rosaceae) , Rosa beggariana (Rosaceae) , Salix sp. ( Salicaceae ), Zea mays (Poaceae) , Zizyphus spinachristi (Rhamnaceae) (Falamarzi et al. 2009), Acacia salicina (Fabaceae) , Mentha longifolia (Lamiaceae) , Punica granatum (Punicaceae) , Zinnia violacea (= Z. elegans Jacquin ) ( Asteraceae ) ( Farzaneh et al. 2011), Absena velvetleaf ( Malvaceae ) ( Ghahari et al. 2011), Mentha longifolia (Lamiaceae) ( Farzaneh et al. 2010b; Ostovan et al. 2015).

Prey records. Aphids of pome fruit trees ( Malkeshi et al. 1998), whiteflies ( Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ) (Abd- Rabou & Ghahari 2006), Asiphonella cynodonti (Das, B.C., 1918) ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) ( Modarres Awal 1997), Hyalopterus pruni (Geoffroy, 1762) , Sipha sp. ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ), Therioaphis maculata (Buckton, 1899) ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ), Thrips meridionalis (Priesner, 1926) ( Thysanoptera : Thripidae ) (Falamarzi et al. 2009), Tinocallis nevskyi Remaudiere, Qucdnau & Heie, 1988 ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) ( Khajehali & Poorjavad 2015), Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) ( Thysanoptera : Thripidae ) ( Razavi & Ahmadi 2016); Aphis pomi ( Hemiptera : Aphididae ) ( Péricart 1972).