Eurygaster testudinaria testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785) Cimex testudinarius Geoffroy, 1785: 195; Eurygaster maura var. notatus Ferrari, 1874: 119; Eurygaster maura var. cinerea Rey, 1887: 1; Eurygaster maura var. grisescens Rey, 1888: 92; Eurygaster maura var. rufescens Oliveira, 1895: 105; Eurugaster sodalis Horváth, 1895: 221; Eurygaster maura var. borealis Péneau, 1911: 174; Eurygaster sodalis var. decorata Péneau, 1911: 179. Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Brown & Eralp 1962), Guilan, Khorasan (Linnavuori 2008), Mazandaran (Modarres Awal 1997b; Sakenin et al. 2008), Iran (no locality cited) (Khanjani 2006; Göllner-Scheiding 2006b). General distribution. Palearctic. Host plants. On Cyperaceae (Linnavuori 2008) and on wheat (Modarres Awal 1997b; Khanjani 2006), Hibiscus trionum, Malva montana (both Malvaceae), Vicia faba (Fabaceae) (Sakenin et al. 2008). On Poaceae and Cyperaceaea in wet biotopes (Dusoulier & Lupoli 2006). Comment. Several varieties (without taxonomic value) have been described for this species, e.g. obscuratus, triguttatus, tuberculatus, lurida, inclusa, punctulata by Wagner 1938, 1940; flavida, rosea, nigrita by Halászfy 1959. Another subspecies (testudinaria sinica Walker, 1867) has been described from China and is distributed in China, Korea and Japan; according to Göllner-Scheiding (2006b) it is a "poorly differentiated subspecies".

Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722