Marta Goula

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Animal Biology

Faunistic data of 107 species belonging to the family Miridae Hahn, 1833 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) for the area of Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) are compiled. In that territory 48 species and 1 subspecies are reported for the first time. Unpublished records of another 29 species are also provided. The data on the remaining 29 species and one subspe...

List and data of the type specimens belonging to the Jordi Ribes collection deposited at the Centre de Recursos de Biodiversitat Animal (University of Barcelona)

The first records from Catalonia and Aragon of Fulvius oxycarenoides (Reuter, 1878) (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) are presented, enlarging its known Iberian distribution to the northeasternmost peninsular regions.

Campylomma miyamotoi Yasunaga, 2001, an alien plant bug species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) associated to the Persian silk tree Albizia julibrissin Durazz, 1772 (Fabaceae), is recorded for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula. Described from Japan, it is also found in Korea. The species was recently reported for the first time from Turkey....

Alloeorhynchus (Alloeorhynchus) flavipes (Fieber, 1836), espècie reconfirmada per a la fauna ibèrica (Hemiptera: Heteroptera; Nabidae) Alloeorhynchus (Alloeorhynchus) flavipes (Fieber, 1836), reconfirmed species to the Iberian fauna (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae)

First records of the laurel lace bug, Stephanitis lauri Rietschel, 2014 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae) from the Iberian Peninsula

It has been ten years since the first version of the Checklist of Heteroptera of Catalonia (Goula et al., 2010b), and both the general taxonomic changes within the suborder Heteroptera (Schuh & Weirauch, 2020) and the synonimies and incorporations that took place in this decade made it necessary to review and amend the previous document. The new pa...

In this study, the presence, distribution, and chorology of more than 3,000 individuals belonging 38 families and 173 species of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands has been revised. Specimens of the suborder Heteroptera were collected from the different islands and an updated checklist of the species occurring in the archipelago is presented. Thre...

Resumen: Se recopilan datos faunísticos de 91 especies de Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) registrados en Galicia (N.O. de la Península Ibérica). De ellas, 18 especies se citan de Galicia por primera vez. Abstract: Contributions to the inventory of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of Galicia (N.W. Iberian Peninsula). VI. Superfamily Lygaeoidea Schil...

The waterbug Aphelocheirus aestivalis is herein recorded for the first time in Northeastern Iberian Peninsula, constituting the first citation of the family Aphelocheiridae in the region. Yet, later on in 1989, the description of three new endemic Iberian species belonging to Aphelocheirus implied the assumption that A. aestivalis was absent in the...

After the first record of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 in Spain in 2012, the species has been recorded in other provinces in the south of this country, and part of the information is only on the internet. In this paper, the species is reported for the first time from several Spanish Provinces: Barcelona (first record for Catalonia), Castellon (Val...

A new genus, Iberolygus Kim, Goula & Jung, gen. nov. is described from the Iberian Peninsula to accommodate the species Apolygus rubrostriatus (Wagner, 1971) based on re-examination of Iberian specimens. Morphological information such as diagnosis and description of the Iberolygus gen. nov. and redescription of I. rubrostriatus comb. nov. is presen...

El presente listado muestra la representación de la familia Miridae en la península ibérica, islas Baleares e islas Canarias compuesta por 7 subfamilias, 201 géneros y 595 especies. This checklist shows the representation of the family Miridae in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic and the Canary Islands. It is composed of 7 subfamilies, 201 ge...

In the Iberian fauna, only Isometopus intrusus was known as representative of the Isometopinae subfamily. A male of M. fieberi was collected in la Garrotxa (Catalonia), Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, and it is the first record for both genus and species for the Iberian fauna. Moreover, a new Catalan locality is stated for I. intrusus. For both...

Aquesta és la primera guia de camp sobre els heteròpters a Catalunya. En ella hi trobareu les espècies més comunes i també una àmplia representació de les famílies del país. El volum recull 142 espècies, ordenades en fitxes que inclouen una fotografia per poder-les identificar i altres dades d’interès com ara el nom científic, la mida, la família,...

Key words: Heteroptera, Lygaeidae, Lygaeinae, Melanocoryphus albomaculatus, necrophagy, Galicia, Iberian Peninsula.

Changes in habitat structure are the main driving forces for responses of animal assemblages to fire. According to the disturbance theory, generalist species are expected to outperform specialists in variable environments. Thus, we hypothesized that omnivorous and polyphagous species will become more abundant in unstable postfire successional veget...

The brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) is reported in the province of Barcelona for the first time. Now locations are a hundred kilometer southwards from the first report in the Iberian Peninsula. An alert is made due to the economic importance that this plant pest species has on field, fruit and vegetable crops. Nuisance to...

No existen precedentes de un listado exhaustivo de Pentatomoidea en el ámbito íbero-balear, más allá de trabajos antiguos, incompletos o regionales. En el conjunto de la península ibérica, islas Baleares e islas Canarias encontramos en total 6 familias de Pentatomoidea: Acanthosomatidae, Cydnidae, Pentatomidae, Plataspidae, Scutelleridae y Thyreoco...

The first record of the shield bug species Trochiscocoris hemipterus (Jakovlev, 1879) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in the province of Madrid (Spain) is provided. With this finding, the distribution of the species within the Iberian Peninsula is enlarged westwards.

The photosharing Spanish website " Biodiversidad Virtual " contains more than 18.300 uploaded true bug photographs belonging to 68 genera and 134 species within the superfamily Pentatomoidea. A selection of 977 photographs, based on the recog-nability of specimens at species level after verification by the authors, was used to produce a partial cat...

Malcus elongatus Štys, 1967 (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Malcidae) was collected in Crete (Greece), resulting in the first Western Palaearctic record for the family Malcidae. A short discussion about whereas this is a casual record or a new invasive species to take into consideration is made. Resumen: Primera cita de la familia Malcidae (Heteroptera:...

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...

Sciocoris (Neosciocoris) sideritidis is known from Western Mediterranen region and the Macaronesia. The species is recorded in the Iberian Peninsula through pictures in the photosharing website «Biodiversidad Virtual», and in a key to the species of Pentatomoidea of France. With this note, we confirm the record in the Iberian Peninsula and we widen...

Dicyphus geniculatus (Fieber) (Heteroptera Miridae) is a Mediterranean mirid that has been observed in public green areas in towns of eastern and western provinces of Spain feeding on whiteflies and thrips on Dianthus caryophyllus L. carnations. In this article, the relative importance of feeding behaviour with respect to the duration of nymphal de...

Genus Perenotus and species Perenotus malobae were recently described as a new genus and species by Roca-Cusachs & Goula (2016). Article 16.4.2 of ICZN (1999) requires a statement of intent that the holotype is deposited in a collection and a statement indicating the name and location of that collection. Unfortunately, it is unclear if this require...

Perenotus gen. nov. is described based on males and females from the Canary Islands, Spain. This new genus is easily recognized by having a myrmecomorphic appearance and a scutellar hump in both sexes. Systellonotus stysi J. Ribes, Pagola-Carte et Heiss, 2008, was described based on females collected in Tenerife and La Palma, but careful examinatio...

ulvius borgesi Chérot, J. Ribes & Gorczyca, 2006 (Heteroptera: Miridae) is recorded for the first time in the Canary Islands. The species was described on specimens from the Azores Islands and a record was reported later from the northern Iberian Peninsula. F. borgesi belongs to the Fulvius bisbistillatus species group, mainly including New World s...

Belonochilus numenius is a Nearctic seed bug living on different species of Platanus (Platanaceae). It was first found in Europe in 2008 and since then it has spread rapidly across the continent. It is likely that this rapid expansion has been favored by the widespread presence of its Platanus spp. host plants, which is used everywhere as an orname...

The project BioBlitz Barcelona is held once a year. From 2010 up to now the BioBlitz BCN has assembled experts and citizens in order to survey the biodiversity in several areas of the city of Barcelona, mainly in urban parks. At the beginning the Natural History Museum of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona have coordinated the tasks. At the...

With the aim of gaining insight into true bugs assemblages, and of giving tools to enhance environmental manager tasks, an analysis was made of the alpha and beta diversity of true bug assemblages in the NE Iberian Peninsula. The study took place during the years 1999, 2000, and 2001. The diversity of true bug assemblages among four typical Mediter...

Native herbivores can establish novel interactions with alien plants after invasion. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether these new associations are quantitatively significant compared to the assemblages with native flora under natural conditions. Herbivores associated with two exotic plants, namely Senecio inaequidens and S. pterophorus, and two co...

Understanding how global environmental change impacts insect biodiversity is central to the core principals of conservation biology. To preserve the ecosystem services provided by insects in cities, it is crucial to understand how insect species are influenced by the degree of urbanization of the surrounding landscape. Using a hierarchical occupanc...

Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) is reported for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula. Four specimens were collected in Puigmoltó (Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona, Spain), 45 km southwest of Barcelona city. This Oriental invasive species may become pest causing necrosis on the leaves of its host plant species, usually orname...

Aquesta guia, com el seu nom indica, és un llibre que ens ajuda a conèixer de manera fàcil i amena l’entorn natural del nostre territori. El seu format és força adequat per trobar de manera ràpida allò que necessitem saber. Els continguts es divideixen en 12 parts: medi físic, flora i vegetació, fongs, insectes, invertebrats no insectes, invertebra...

We summarize data from published entomological literature, collected specimens, field observations, and biodiversity web resources to review the state of knowledge regarding Pyrrhocoridae from the Iberian Peninsula, including their taxonomical diagnosis, contemporary systematics, general biology and geographic distribution. An identification key to...

Internet photosharing websites is a very recent and powerful tool for the study of biodiversity, and a meeting point of general public fond of nature and professional naturalists. The article discusses when an uploaded picture is scientifically valuable, and the benefits of structured hosting websites for the most fruitful information retrieval. Ex...

A checklist of 43 Heteropteran species collected in the area of influence of Can Coll School of Nature is given. By its rarity in the Catalan fauna, the mirid Deraeocoris (D.) schach (Fabricius, 1781) and the pentatomid Sciocoris (N.) maculatus Fieber, 1851 are interesting species. Plus being rare species, the mirid Macrotylus (A.) solitarius (Meye...

Abstract Wheat is a very important crop in Italy, and is infested by wheat bugs belonging to the genera Eurygaster (Hemiptera: Scutellaridae) and Aelia (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Many wheat bug infestations have been reported in the north, south, and center of Italy, both in the past as well as recently. The present study was carried out in Sardini...

Spilostethus furcula (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850), primera cita en el NE ibérico, y otros heterópteros interesantes de la región (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae) Resumen.– Se aportan citas interesantes de Heterópteros para el NE ibérico. Spilostethus furcula (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850) es novedad para la región, y el registro más septentrional de la especie has...

The authors report the first record of Orthotylus (Parapachylops) caprai Wagner, 1955, in the Iberian Peninsula, from five specimens collected in a domestic garden and one specimen collected in a municipal park, both in the city of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). The host plant at both collecting sites was the ornamental tree Cupressus sempervirens L...

A més de posar en evidència el valor natural i l’elevada riquesa d’aquest territori, l’estudi dels boscos, les pastures, el paisatge i els usos tradicionals han fet possible que en el llibre es proposin tot un seguit de criteris de gestió. També, que es posi de manifest que l’activitat humana ha contribuït a l’enriquiment de l’espai però, alhora, q...

First Conference on Biological Prospecting in Catalonia. The Direccó General for the Natural Environment, in collaboration with the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio), has organised this conference. The aim of these conferences is to increase general knowledge about the biodiversity of Catalonia and to compile as...

Wheat bugs are widely distributed in various areas of Europe, Asia and North Africa. Species belonging to the genus Eurygaster and Aelia pierce wheat kernels affecting protein quality. The effects of these insects'feeding activity have been studied mainly in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). This study provides information on the degradation of p...

Resum L'any 2006, cada mes entre maig i octubre es prospectà sistemàticament, amb mànega la vegetació de l'avetosa, el bedollar, la pineda de pi negre, el balegar i el prat d'alta muntanya. Llevat del balegar, també s'hi disposaren trampes pit-fall. S'incorpora també material capturat no sistemàticament amb la mànega, amb trampes de llum i trampes...

Clau dicotòmica senzilla per a identificar heteròpters terrestres del Parc Natural de Collserola, útil també per la fauna d'heteròpters de Catalunya en general

Belonochilus numenius (Say) (Heteroptera Lygaeidae) is reported for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula, from two specimens, one at each of two urban areas in Catalonia (Spain). The suspected host plant, Platanus sp., is very common as an ornamental at the collecting sites. This is the second report for the Palaearctic Region, after collections...

Les xinxes dels cereals (Aelia sp., Eurygaster sp.) presents a Catalunya poden esdevenir plaga. La nostra investigació de camp pretenia establir les espècies presents, la seva fenologia i preferències pel que fa a la varietat de blat, la zona del camp i les seves característiques. S'estudiaren vuit camps de blat tou (Triticum aestivum) als Prats de...

The results are given of the Hemiptera collection excursions in the Mont Avic Natural Park (Aosta Valley, NW Italy) that took place during the 4th European Hemiptera Congress held in Ivrea in September 2007. Altogether 126 species of Heteroptera, belonging to 89 genera, 108 species of Auchenorrhyncha, belonging to 75 genera, and 30 species of Stern...

The Sunn Pest belong to genera Eurygaster and Aelia. Their feeding activity changes protein quality, due to an enzyme complex (proteases, lipases, alfa and beta amylases, and invertase) present in the bug's saliva. In Spain, the effects of Sunn Pests cause important economic losses, either by crop reduction or by the resulting low quality flour, wh...

In the area comprising "Planes de Son" (Son Valley) and "mata de València", of the valleys of Àneu, near the national park of Aigüestortes and the Lake of Sant Maurici (Lleida, Catalonia, Spain), a biennial research on Heteroptera was conducted. Three types of wood (birch, mountain pine, silver fir), a mixed Genista purgans L. and Juniperus communi...

INTRODUCTION Visual defects such as Sunn pest damaged wheat, blackpoint and kernel smudge can be found in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and durum wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum). • Sunn pest damaged wheat, is caused by wheat bug species belonging to genera Eurygaster and Aelia which pierce wheat kernels. Flour or semolina produced from bug-d...

The genus Dicyphus Fieber includes zoophytophagous mirid bugs, some of which are well-known as effective pest control agents in horticultural crops in Europe. To complete the information gathered on their distribution and host plants in northwestern Italy, Dicyphus species were sampled in eighteen valleys of Piedmontese Alps, from June to September...

L’objectiu d’aquest treball és elaborar una llista d’espècies d’invertebrats que requereixen l’adopció de mesures de conservació i que es podrien incloure en un futur decret de protecció dels invertebrats de Catalunya. En una primera etapa, hauria calgut elaborar els corresponents llibres vermells, però per raó d’oportunitat la Institució Catalana...

Th e authors were in charge of selecting Heteroptera species under threat in Spain, in order to publish a Red List of Invertebrates, launched by the Spanish Ministry of Environment in 1998 in the frame of the National Inventory of Biodiversity. Twenty-three bug species were suggested. Nine of them, in the category of “Vulnerable” according to the U...

This work aims to evaluate the effect of crop type and density on insects’ community in the Mediterranean re-gion. In winter of 2004, four 35m x 10m blocks (replicates) were delimited and 24 equidistant 2m x 3m plots were marked. Seven crop types (barley, vetch, turnip, barley-vetch, barley-turnip, vetch-turnip and barley-vetch-turnip) at three den...

Study of the Heteroptera collected in a Malaise trap al Santa Coloma (Andorra). A Malaise trap was installed between August 1992 and December 1993, in an spot of mediterranean characteristics, at 1050 m high. Samples were taken monthly in 1992 and forenightly in 1993. 870 specimens and 91 species were collected, belonging to the families: Tingidae,...

El policultivo posee una amplia variedad de usos como son la atracción de insectos benéficos y la alteración del ciclo vital de las plagas. La coexistencia de diferentes especies vegetales cultivadas proporciona una mayor disponibilidad de refugios y recursos alimenticios para la entomofauna (Altieri & Nicholls, 2004). Este trabajo pretende evaluar...

Colonization of tomato greenhouses by native predatory mirid bugs at the end of the spring cycle is common in the western Mediterranean area when no broad-spectrum insecticides are applied. Due to their polyphagy, these predators interact with pest populations and also with other natural enemies present in the crop. In this work we evaluate the abu...

Some Mediterranean greenhouses are inserted in a landscape of open fields, non-agricultural and woody habitats. Both the greenhouse whitefly and its polyphagous predators are well adapted to protected and field crops. The phenology and intensity of whitefly and predator exchange between greenhouses and surrounding habitats were investigated in two...

Hom ha abordat l'estudi del complex del mosquit Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758. La hipòtesi de treball fou que poblacions d'aquest mosquit, que poden pondre ous sense ingesta prèvia de sang (poblacions autògenes), podrien constituir per alguns autors una entitat taxonòmica diferent, Culex molestus Forskal, 1775, aïllada genèticament en biòtops subter...

A correct taxonomic identification of predators is of paramount importance in biological control for both research and the transfer of results to integrated pest management (IPM) technicians. Dicyphus spp. are zoophytophagous mirid bugs that are well known for their role in the control of several horticultural crop pests in Europe. The genus is org...

In 2004 J. Ribes, A. Serra and M. Goula published the Catàleg dels heteròpters de Catalunya, in which 1,037 species belonging to 36 families were compiled. The subsequent research by the authors, together with the generous communication of collectings by other colleagues, leads to an increase in the present paper of 23 species for the fauna of Cata...

Publicado en Boletin Sanidad y Plagas En los trigos españoles se han encontrado cuatro especies del pentatómido Aelia (A. rostrata, A. acuminata, A. germari y A. cribrosa), y cuatro especies del escutelérido Eurygaster (E. hottentotta, E. maura, E. testudinaria y E. austriaca). Con el fin de facilitar la tarea a los técnicos e investigadores de es...

Des de l'any 1999 al 2001 es va dur a terme un estudi dels heteròpters al Parc Natural del Garraf. Es mostregen mensualment tres parcel·les de prat sec, brolla, garriga i alzinar. En aquest treball es presenten els resultats del primer any. S'han trobat 641 exemplars, pertanyents a quaranta-sis espècies i onze famílies. Els mírids són la família do...

Dicyphus tamaninii and Macrolophus caliginosus are predatory bugs that significantly contribute to control of pests in tomato crops following early colonisation in spring from winter refuges. This paper aimed to determine the influence of the richness of nearby potential predator sources at the time of arrival, amount and establishment of the mirid...

Study of wheat bugs (Insecta, Heteroptera) found in spanish wheats. Campaigns 1999-2000. Wheat bug specimens studied came from the samples of the Annual Inquiry of the Quality of Spanish wheat, managed by the Spanish Cerealist Technicians Association. Samples were taken in Andalusia, Aragón, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadu...

Des de l'octubre de 1991 fins al març de 1993 es van estudiar les poblacions de Culicidae (Diptera) de la comarca del Baix Llobregat, i es van completar les dades que d'aquest grup es tenien al Servei de Control de Mosquits del Baix Llobregat. S'han examinat 169 mostres amb un total de 4.324 individus en estat larvari, obtingudes de la prospecció d...

The phytophagous bug Oxycarenus lavaterae F. may sometimes cause major public concern because of its breeding in large numbers near towns. This happened between 1994 and 1996 in Cornelia de Llobregat, Baix Llobregat, northeastern Spain. As information on its susceptibility to pesticides was scarce, a laboratory susceptibility test was designed. Dif...

Descriptions, drawings and colour photographs are given of Macrolophus pygmaeus, M. caliginosus, Cyrtopeltis tenuis, C. geniculata [C. modesta], Dicyphus tamaninii and D. errans. These mirids were found to be the most common predators in tomato fields in Catalonia, Spain, and play an important role in integrated pest management of tomato. A key is...

Per a la redacció d'aquest catàleg, s'aporten dades d'observació pròpia al llarg dels anys 1980-1984, així com les troballes publicades per CUNI (1889a,1889b,1889c,1891) i per RIBES (1978a,1978b,1980,1984). Totes aquestes observacions s'han fet en localitats del Massis del Garraf, que será objecte d'una curta descripció.