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

By its body size, S. ahriman sp. n. is near to S. desertorum and S. laticeps, however, these species have distinctly bicoloured pronotum and somewhat longer first antennái joint. According to the two syntypes deposited in the HNHM examined by the author, S. desertorum has much shorter fore pronotal lobe (hind lobe 1.42-1.56 times longer than fore lobe) and more elongate fore femora (4.93-5.15 times longer than its greatest width). According to its original description, S. laticeps - which must be taxonomically closely related to S. desertorum - has highly different armature on fore femora. * Acknowledgements - I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. PIERRE MOULET (Avignon) for his invaluable help and suggestions, and for providing me with the manuscript of his paper in press. I would also like to thank to Dr. IZYASLAV M. KERZHNER (St. Petersburg) for his help in some questions concerning the type material of Stirogaster desertorum. REFERENCES JAKOVLEV, V. E. ( 1874): Materialy dl'a entomologicheskoy Fauny europeyskoy Rossii. IV. [Contributions to the entomological fauna of European Russia. IV.] - Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva 8: 46-82. LlNNAVUORl, R. (1964): Hemiptera of Egypt, with remarks on some species of the adjacent Eremian region. - Annales Zoologie! Fennici 1: 306-356. LlNNAVUORl, R. ( 1986): Heteroptera of Saudi Arabia. - In: KRUPP, F. & BÜTTIKER, W. (eds): Fauna of Saudi Arabia 8. Natural History Museum, Basel, pp. 31-197. MALDONADO-CAPRILES, J. (1990): Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). - Caribbean Journal of Sciences, Special Edition: i-x, 1-694. MOULET, P. (2003): Contribution à l'étude des Stenopodainae paléarctiques (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). - Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N.S.) 20(3): 281-297. MOULET, P. (in press): Sur quelques Stenopodainae paléarctiques (Hemiptera, Reduviidae). - Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. PUTSHKOV, P. V. & PUTSHKOV, V. G. (1996): Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 - assassin-bugs. In: AUKEMA, B. & RlEGER, C. (eds): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 2. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 148-265.