Atholus duodecimstariatus quatuordecimstriatus

Ghahari, Hassan, Mazur, Slawomir & Ostovan, Hadi, 2017, A Checklist of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) of Iran, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3), pp. 595-611 : 599

Atholus duodecimstariatus quatuordecimstriatus

(Gyllenhal, 1808)

Distribution in Iran: Guilan (Bandar-Pahlavi = Bandar-Anzali), North Khorasan (Bajnourd) ( Thérond 1967 as Atholus duodecimstriatus quinquestriatus Motschulsky, 1862 ).

General distribution: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy (Sardinia), Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Morocco, Afghanistan, India (Arunachal Pradesh), Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, China (South-eastern

Territory), South Korea, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Atholus holzschuhi Olexa, 1988

Distribution in Iran: Alborz (Karaj) ( Olexa 1988). General distribution: Endemic to Iran.

Atholus khnzoriani Olexa, 1982

Distribution in Iran: No locality cited.

General distribution: Armenia, Iran.

Atholus rudesculptus (Reichardt, 1922)

Distribution in Iran: No locality cited.

General distribution: Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Atholus scutellaris (Erichson, 1834)

Distribution in Iran: Razavi Khorasan, Tehran (Plumari and Kazemi 2012).

General distribution: Armenia, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Comments: A mite, Lobogynium sudhiri (Datta, 1985) (Acari: Diplogyniidae ), was collected by Plumari and Kazemi (2012) as a parasite of A. scutellaris .

Atholus siculus (Tournier, 1869)

Distribution in Iran: Tehran ( Kryzhanovskij 1974).

General distribution: Armenia, Bulgaria, Iran, Italy, Russia (South European Territory), Slovakia, Spain, Turkey.