Two new species and ten new records of Heteroptera from Turkey, including the first record of the potential alien Campylomma miyamotoi in the Western Palaearctic
Author
Çerçi, Barış
Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; e-mail: www. heteropteran 99 @ gmail. com
Author
Koçak, Özgür
Çevre ve Şehircilik Müdürlüğü Başakşehir Mah. 2020 Sk. No:
Author
Tezcan, Serdar
Karaman, Turkey; e-mail: turkelebek @ yahoo. com
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2019
2019-07-17
59
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295
306
journal article
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10.2478/aemnp-2019-0023
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Montandoniola moraguesi
(Puton, 1896)
(
Fig. 5F
)
Material examined:
TURKEY
:
MERSIN
:
Anamur,
36°02′08.3″N
32°48′31.7″E
,
17.vii.2018
, 13, Ö. Koçak leg., B. Çerçi det.The specimen was only photographed but not collected.
Comment.
Montandoniola moraguesi
is an important biological control agent used to fight thrips invasions on economically important crops. It is unique among the
Anthocoridae
species known from Turkey because of its thrips-like appearance (Fig.11B). It lives inside the galls or gall-like deformations caused by the thrips on which it feeds (PLUOT- SIGWALT et al. 2009).
Montandoniola moraguesi
is known from the following countries: the Balearic Islands, France, Italy, Spain, the Canary Islands, Israel, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso, and South Africa (PLUOT- SIGWALT et al. 2009). Considering its wide distribution along the Mediterranean coasts, it is possible that this species has a stable population in
Mersin
, Turkey and was not introduced here by farmers.
Distribution in
Turkey
.
Mersin
(this work).