True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) as psyllid predators (Hemiptera, Psylloidea)
Author
Jerinic-Prodanovic, Dusanka
Author
Protic, Ljiljana
text
ZooKeys
2013
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.319.4316
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.319.4316
1313-2970-319-169
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Malacocoris chlorizans Panzer, 1794
Trophic status.
Zoophagous.
Distribution.
Eurasia.
Prey.
Homotoma ficus
, from
Ficus carica
,
Beograd-Hotel
Jugoslavija, 16.V.2007, collected 1♂, 1♀;
Beograd-Vozdovac
, 26.V.2007, collected 5♂♂, 1♀; Zemunski kej, 15.V.2008, collected 1 larva.
A general predator on aphids, psyllids, eggs and larvae of leaf miner moths (
Wheeler 2000b
,
Wyniger and Burckhardt 2003
). In Croatia, it is registered as a predator of
Panonychus ulmi
in apple orchards by
Arcanin
and Balarin (1972)
.
Malacocoris chlorizans
has been already registered in Serbia (
Protic
1998
) but in the present paper is reported for the first time as a predator of psyllids in this country.