Hyphoporus solieri (AUBÉ 1838) Hydroporus solieri AUBÉ 1838: 554 (original description); SHARP 1882: 391. Hyphoporus solieri (AUBÉ 1838): RÉGIMBART 1895: 37; ZIMMERMANN 1920: 73; 1930: 115; GUIGNOT 1959a: 337; ALFIERI 1976: 33; AL- HOUTY & ANGUS 1999: 184; ZALAT et al. 2000: 28; NILSSON 2012 (distribution). This species has been described by AUBÉ (1838: 554) from " Égypte " (African part and Sinai). So far it was, additionally, known from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (NILSSON 2012). SHARP (1882: 391) gave also the areas " Persia " and "northern India " which later on, however, have not been accepted by any author and are most probably due to a misidentification of another species. We can report the following record from close to the Iraqi border: 4, 4, " 12.9.2010 Iran, Khuzestan, 8 km SE Abadan, altitude 8 m, Darvishzadeh leg., ca. 30.29N 48.36E, pond" (CHF) (Fig. 23; square 1). This is the f i r s t r e c o r d of H. solieri from Iran. To our knowledge a photo of the habitus of this species has never been provided before (Fig. 14). Notes: We could not recognise extern morphological differences to specimens from Egypt; the male genitalia also equal those of Egyptian specimens. It seems to be likely that the species occur also in the southern parts of Iraq.

Published as part of Ewalka, Pešić, V. & Darvishzadeh, I., 2012, Faunistic notes on some Hydradephaga from the Khuzestan, Hormozgan and Sistan & Baluchestan provinces in Iran, with descriptive notes on the female of Glareadessus franzi WEWALKA & BISTRÖM 1998 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Noteridae), pp. 1057-1070 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 1061, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5328829