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The known distribution and habitat information of the three described species of the genus Thaumastella Horváth, 1896 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea: Thaumastellidae) are reviewed. In addition a fourth, undescribed species is reported from South Africa (Western Cape). Thaumastella aradoides Horváth, 1896, is recorded for th...
We provide corrections to 17 recent papers (published since 2013). The following new combination is proposed: Dabessus indicus Kushwaha and Jahan, 2023 = Neojurtina indica (Kushwaha and Jahan, 2023), new combination. The following corrections are provided: Miridae: Tytthus chinensis sensu Al-Anbaki et al. (2023) = Maurodactylus nigrigenis (Reuter,...
An updated version of the ‘Checklist of the Italian Fauna’ for the suborder Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) is presented here. The list reflects the state of art of chorological knowledge of both aquatic and terrestrial Italian Heteroptera in November 2020. The checklist records 1395 species-group taxa belonging to 6 infraorders and 48 families. T...
The fauna of the family Alydidae Amyot and Serville, 1843 in the Middle East comprises 33 species in 13 genera. The fauna of the Iranian Alydidae includes 22 species in 11 genera. Additionally, the fauna of the Iran is the most diverse in the Middle Eastern countries.
The following species are recorded from the Comoro Islands for the first time: 12 species of Pentatomidae: Pentatominae—Anoano pronotalis Cachan, 1952 (from Mayotte), Antestiopsis clymeneis cf. galtiei (Frappa, 1934) (Mayotte), Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister, 1835) (Mayotte), Bathycoelia rodhaini Schouteden, 1913 (Mayotte), Coquerelia ventralis Horvát...
A new species of Fulvius Stål—F. attenboroughi sp. nov.—is diagnosed and described. Schmitzofulvius bigibber Gorczyca, 1998 is redescribed. Photographic images of habitus and genital structures, as well as scanning electron micrographs of selected structures of both species, are provided. Fulvius kerzhneri Gorczyca, 2000 is diagnosed. New records o...
Preliminary results of research on the Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Israel. P. 30. In: KMENT P. & MALENOVSKÝ I. (eds.): 9th European Hemiptera Congress, Kurdějov, Czechia, 25.6.–1.7.2023. Book of abstracts. National Museum of the Czech Republic, Prague, 50 pp.
Due to the rich diversity of its insects and the great variety of its natural environments Sardinia has always attracted the attention of Italian entomologists. The history of our knowledge of its Heteroptera, commonly called true bugs, has spanned for almost two centuries, since the description of Pachycoris caudatus
Burmeister, 1835 (Scutellerida...
This contribution is the first part of a series designed to summarize the present knowledge on the fauna of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Socotra Archipelago. A review of aquatic, semiaquatic and shore bugs of the infraorders Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha of Socotra is provided. Nine families and 19 species are recorded f...
As part of the “Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana” project, which listed the whole Italian fauna, Faraci and Rizzotti Vlach (1995) published the booklet on Heteroptera. A new project, updated “Checklist of the Italian Fauna” was launched in 2020; we here present the results regarding the Heteroptera. Each co-author dealt with a part of th...
Based on recently collected material and on type specimens deposited in the collections of Muzeul de Istorie Naturală "Grigore Antipa", Bucharest, Romania, and of the Zoologische Museum, Universität Hamburg, Germany, the following new synonymies are proposed: Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) prasina (Fieber, 1864) = Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) linnavuorii Wagne...
The broad-headed bug Nemausus sordidatus (Stål, 1858) is reported as a new record for Italian fauna. Several specimens have been observed on and collected from its host plant, Acacia saligna (Labill.) H.L.Wendl. (Fabaceae), in the vicinities of Niscemi (Caltanissetta) in Sicily since 2004. The biology and distribution of the species are briefly dis...
The jasmine lacebug Corythauma ayyari is a pest of cultivated and ornamental plants mainly associated to Jasminum spp. This invasive insect is native to Asia, and it has been recently introduced in several countries, mainly within the Mediterranean basin. Here, we updated the known distribution of this species, including five new Italian regions (L...
The world catalogue of the family Ochteridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Ochteroidea) is compiled. The fossil subfamily Propreocorinae Popov, Dolling & Whalley, 1994, recently excluded from Ochteridae by other authors, is formally raised to family rank as Propreocoridae stat. nov. The fossil genus Meropachys Popov, 1986 is found to be a ju...
Psallus (Psallus) thomashenryi sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini: Phylina) is described from southern Anatolia, Turkey. Illustrations of the dorsal habitus and male genitalia are provided. Its habitus is similar to other uniformly orange species of the subgenus Psallus Fieber, 1858, particularly P.asthenicus Seidenstücker,...
Members of the family Scutelleridae (Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea) are also called shield bugs because of the greatly enlarged scutellum, or jewel bugs because of the brilliant colours of many species. All scutellerids are phytophagous, feeding on various parts of their host plants. Due to lack of obvious synapomorphies and the failu...
A list of 96 available genus-group taxa, 1459 available species-group taxa and 5 unavailable infrasubspecific taxa of Heteroptera described by Rauno E. Linnavuori is compiled. One new substitute name, Phytocoris (Eriamiris) rostriformis nom. nov., is proposed to replace the junior homonym Phytocoris rostratus Linnavuori, 2000b (Miridae). Taylorilyg...
The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to
conserve the widely used specific name Metochus abbreviatus Scott, 1874, for a species of rhyparochromid bugs from East Asia. The name is threatened by the senior subjective synonym Rhyparochromus erosus Walker, 1872, which has seldom been used since its first publication. The...
Hemiptera records gained in July 2015 in course of the 7 th European Hemiptera Congress in Styria are presented. In total, 144 Auchenorrhyncha, 143 Heteroptera, 13 Psylloidea and 2 Aphididae species were collected. Ribautodelphax imitans (Delphacidae), Eurhadina saageri (Cicadellidae), Notonecta maculata (Notonectidae), Notonecta meridionalis (Noto...
The generic name Lanchnophorus Reuter, 1887, deemed for a long time to be unavailable as incorrect original spelling of Lachnophorus (in fact Lachnophorus Distant, 1903 is an unjustified emendation of the former), is restored as a valid name of the genus. Lachnesthus Bergroth, 1915, syn. nov. (new name for the preoccupied Lachnophorus Distant, 1903...
A new species of Phytocoris (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini), P. (Exophytocoris) raunolinnavuorii sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Lebanon. The new species, easily distinguished from all the other species of the subgenus by its coloration and male genitalia, belongs to the Phytocoris pinihalepensis-group. The new species lives on...
A list of 133 species of heteropteran bugs collected from the Maltese Islands is presented; 21 of them are new records for the Maltese archipelago whereas an additional 15 represent new records for individual islands of this archipelago. The new records are of native origin in the Maltese Islands with the exception of Corythauma ayyari which is an...
The female of Plinthisus heterochtus Matocq & Pluot-Sigwalt, 2013 is described from Italy (Ligurian Alps) on two brachypterous specimens. The habitus is very similar to that of the male; it differs by the protibiae hardly curved and devoid of a tooth-like spicule, and by the absence of a metapleural conical tubercle. The spermatheca is figured but...
La femelle de Plinthisus heteroclitus Matocq & Pluot-Sigwalt, 2013, jusqu'ici inconnue, est décrite d'Italie (Alpes liguriennes) sur deux individus brachyptères. L'habitus est pratiquement semblable à celui du mâle ; il en diffère par des protibias faiblement courbés et dépourvus de spicule, et par l'absence de tubercule conique métapleural. La spe...
La révision de collections anciennes conservées dans les muséums de Paris et de Genève ont permis de trouver une espèce rarissime et deux espèces nouvelles pour la faune de France : Odontotarsus grammicus (Linnaeus, 1767) et Psacasta exanthematica cerinthe (Fabricius, 1787) en Corse, et Irochrotus maculiventris (Germar, 1839) en Provence.
RIASSUNTO – La cimice dell'olmo (Arocatus melanocephalus) negli ultimi anni è stata respon-sabile di numerosi casi di infestazioni urbane nel nord-Italia nel periodo estivo. Le cause delle importanti migrazioni estive sono state ricondotte a ragioni climatiche, in particolare all'in-nalzamento termico stagionale che induce questi insetti a ricercar...
The subgenus includes P. exanthematica exanthematica (Scopoli, 1763) (= herculeana Horváth, 1891, syn. rest.; pallida Reuter, 1902; simillima Horváth, 1917, syn. n.), P. e. conspersa Germar, 1839, stat. n. (= albopunctata Krynicky, 1871; minor Puton, 1881; argillacea Horváth, 1889; affinis Reuter, 1900; antennata Halászfy, 1954, synn. n.), P. e. ce...
In March 1995 the co-authors spent some days at the Museum of ZooIogy of the University of Naples in order to select and designate lectotypes of palaearctic Heteroptera described by Achille Costa, the most important Italian heteropterologist in the last century. Lectotypes for 80 nominaI taxa of Heteroptera were designated (1 in Berytidae; 4 in Cor...
