On the subspecies of Scantius aegyptius (Linnaeus) (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)
A. Carapezza, I.M. Kerzhner & Chr. Rieger
Abstract. Lobosiana Ahmad & Abbas, 1986 is synonymized with Scantius Stål, 1866. S. aegyptius is subdivided into two subspecies: S. ae. aegyptius (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Lodosiana noshkiensis Ahmad & Zaidi, 1989 = L. turbatensis Ahmad & Zaidi, 1989, synn. n.) and S. ae. rossii nom. n. (= italicus Rossi, 1790, nom. praeocc., non Müller, 1766). The first of them is distributed in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa with adjacent small Italian islands and Malta, Arabian Peninsula, Near East, Iraq, Iran, SW Turkmenistan, S Afghanistan and S. Pakistan, the second one in S Europe from France to N Caucassus, in Transcaucasia, W and N Turkey, NW Iran, E Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizia, S Kazakhstan and N Afghanistan. Populations more or less intermediate between the two subspecies are described.
Zoosystematica Rossica, 1999, 8(1): 129–131 ▪ Published in print 22 July 1999
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