Paracoelopterus berytensis (Weise, 1884)

Biranvand, Amir, Nedved, Oldrich, Tomaszewska, Wioletta, Canepari, Claudio, Shakarami, Jahanshir, Fekrat, Lida & Khormizi, Mehdi Zare, 2016, An annotated checklist of Microweiseinae and Sticholotidini of Iran (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), ZooKeys 587, pp. 37-48 : 39

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Coccinellidae

Paracoelopterus berytensis (Weise, 1884)

Paracoelopterus berytensis (= Diloponis fuerschi Yazdani & Ahmadi, 1992)

General distribution.

Greece, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia ( Kovář 2007).

Distribution in Iran.

Fars, Sistan and Baluchestan ( Ahmadi and Yazdani 1993; Moddarres-Awal 2012).

Host plants and prey species in Iran.

This species has been collected from almond, ash, date palm, willow and wild pistachio as the predator of Hemiptera , Diaspididae : Chionaspis salicis (Linnaeus), Lepidosaphes malicola Borchsenius, Melanaspis inopinata (Leonardi), Parlatoria blanchardi Targioni Tozzetti, Pistaciaspis pistaciae Borchsenius, Pistaciaspis pistacicola Borchsenius, Tecaspis asiatica Bazarov ( Moddarres-Awal 2012).