Amnesias raunoi J. A. Lis, the only representative of the Amnestinae in the Old World: a synonym of Amnesias pus ill us Uhler (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae)

摘要

The genus Amnestus was described by Dallas in 1851, as a New World genus, and it was ratified by Froeschner (1960) in his revision for the Western Hemisphere Cydnidae.Jerzy A. Lis (1998), in a short paper and based on one male and three females collected by Linnavouri in Iran in 1994, described Amnestus raunoi, as the first representative of the subfamily Amnestinae in the Old World. Later, Linnavouri collected A. raunoi in several regions of the Gilan Province; in the localities of Sume-eh Sara, Anzali, Dasht-e-Veel, Rasht, Seravan, also in Iran (Linnavouri, 2007). Ghahari et al. (2009) in their catalog of the Iranian burrower bugs, reported A. raunoi only for the Gilan Province. Lis (1998) in his paper mentioned its similarity to Amnestus pusillus Uhler, distributed from Canada to Guatemala.