A checklist of seed-beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) from Iran
Author
Ghahari, Hassan
Author
Borowiec, Lech
text
Zootaxa
2017
4268
2
215
237
journal article
33043
10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.3
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1175-5326
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Spermophagus sericeus
(Geoffroy, 1785)
Distribution in
Iran
.
Alborz
, East Azarbaijan (
Delobel 2011
),
Fars
(
Valai
et al
. 2013
),
Guilan
(
Sakenin
et al
. 2009
),
Isfahan
(
Yarmand
et al
. 2006
;
Bagheri & Nasr Isfahani 2011
),
Razavi Khorasan
(
Hooshmand 1991
;
Modarres Awal 1997
;
Mahdizadeh
et al
. 2014
),
Tehran
(
Borowiec 1991
;
Borowiec & Anton 1993
;
Anton 1998
),
Iran
(no locality cited) (
Decelle 1983
;
Borowiec 1985a
,
1987b
;
Taghizadeh
et al
. 2010
).
General distribution.
Widespread in whole Palaearctic region (
Anton 2010
;
Augul & Al-Saffar 2016
).
Host
records.
Calendula officinalis
L. (
Asteraceae
) (
Yarmand
et al
. 2006
), sorghum (
Taghizadeh
et al
. 2010
),
Lavandula angustifolia
Mill.
,
Rosmarinus officinalis
L. (both
Lamiaceae
) (
Bagheri & Nasr Isfahani 2011
),
Convolvulus arvensis
L. (
Convolvulaceae
) (
Valai
et al
. 2013
;
Mahdizadeh
et al
. 2014
).
Comments.
Modarres Awal (1997)
reported apple, cherry, horary cress, morning glory, and pear as the hosts of
S. sericeus
. In
Bruchinae
many adults feed on various flowers but as true hosts we consider only those plant species where in seeds larvae develop.