Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 97. (Budapest 2005)

Rédei, D.: A new species of Stirogaster from Iran (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATION ALIS HUNGARICI Volume 97 Budapest, 2005 pp. 33-39. A new species of Stirogaster from Iran (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae) D. RÉDEI Department of Entomology, Corvinus University of Budapest, H-l 118 Budapest, Ménesi út 44, Hungary. E-mail: dredei@freemail.hu Abstract- Stirogaster ahriman sp. n. is described from Southern Iran. The new species is closely related to S. uvarovi CHINA, 1934. With 16 figures. Key words - Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Stenopodainae, Stirogaster, new species, Iran. INTRODUCTION Stenopodainae is one of the most speciose subfamilies in the family Reduviidae, comprising more than 700 described species of about 114 genera in the world fauna (MALDONADO-CAPRILES 1990). Fourteen genera and 111 species, Oncocephalus KLUG, 1830, have been reported to occur in the Palaearctic Region in the catalogue by PUTSHKOV & PUTSHKOV (1996). The genus Stirogaster was erected for Stirogaster fausti by JAKOVLEV (1874). Over the next almost eighty years, only three species belonging to this genus were described, namely S. desertorum HORVÁTH, 1913, S. uvarovi CHINA, 1934 and S. ruttledgei MILLER, 1952. LlNNAVUORl (1964) described a new species, S. laticeps and presented a key to the species of the genus. Later, the same author (LlNNAVUORl 1986) described two further species, S. pilosus and S. hanifa, and keyed the genus again. Most recently, MOULET (2003) synonymised the monotypic genus Davatchicoris DlSPONS et VlLLIERS, 1967 with Stirogaster and therefore transferred its single species D. balachowskyi DlSPONS et VlLLIERS, 1967 to this genus. The same author (MOULET in press) described S. carayoni and presented a new key to all known Stirogaster. The genus seems to be restricted to the Middle East and North Africa, entering the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions marginally. The species with the widest range are S. fausti and S. desertorum. Both species are widely distributed in the Middle East and North Africa, the former also occurring in Northern India, whereas the latter in Niger. The other species have been reported only from a few