Peltodytes caesus (Duftschmid, 1805)

Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 4216 (3), pp. 225-246 : 236-237

Peltodytes caesus (Duftschmid, 1805)

Distribution in Iran. Alborz ( Hematyian et al. 2010), East Azarbaijan ( Atamehr 2002; Atamehr et al. 2004; Atamehr & Alaei 2010; Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011; Vondel: Table 1 ), Fars ( Hosseinie 1974, 1978; Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998; Vondel: Table 1 ), Golestan ( Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011), Guilan ( Guéorguiev 1965c; Cox & Cox 1982; Kamali 2008; Vondel: Table 1 ), Khuzestan ( Guéorguiev 1965c; Zahiri 1996; Hosseinie & Zahiri 1998), Mazandaran ( Darilmaz et al. 2013; Mousavi et al. 2016; Vondel: Table 1 ), Razavi Khorasan ( Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011), West Azarbaijan ( Ghahari & Jedryczkowski 2011; Samin et al. 2015).

General distribution. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, “Caucasus”, China (Xinjiang) , Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central and South European Territory) , Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, “Transcaucasia”, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Vondel 2005), Iran ( Guéorguiev 1981; Vondel 1992, 2003, 2005; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006), Montenegro ( Vondel 2013).

Comments. Living in eutrophic fresh or occasionally brackish stagnant water of ponds and slowly running streams, marshes. Among vegetation of Batrachium , Callitriche , Elodea and Chara . Feeding on filamantous algae and probably Characeans ( Vondel 1997). In rice fields ( Mousavi et al. 2016)