Michael Hadjiconstantis

University of Cyprus · Department of Biological Sciences

Citizen science has gradually become an important source of data for science. In the present work, we further corroborate this notion by confirming the presence of the Giant water bug, Lethocerus patruelis on the island of Cyprus, based on citizen findings. Our records rely almost entirely on information initially provided through social networks b...

The leaf beetle Chrysolina (Chrysolinopsis) americana (Linnaeus, 1758), commonly known as the Rosemary beetle, is native to some parts of the Mediterranean region. In the last few decades, it has expanded its distribution to new regions in the North and Eastern Mediterranean basin. Chrysolina americana feeds on plants of the Lamiaceae family, such...

In this work, new locality records for the species Aegaeobuthus cyprius (Gantenbein & Kropf, 2000) are given in Cyprus.

The Turkestan cockroach Shelfordella lateralis is a peridomestic species originally from the Middle East and Central Asia, which has recently become an invasive species in the USA, Mexico, Japan and Sardinia, where it is considered as a pest. We provide the first records of this species from Cyprus and turkey, making these the second records of est...

The arachnofauna of Cyprus currently includes 449 species, of which all known and all new localities are presented. Nineteen species are considered endemic, but several new species will be described in the future. The unknown male of Dipoena galilaea Levy & Amitai and the unknown females of Improphantes cypriot Tanasevitch, I. turok Tanasevitch, Pa...

The antlions (Myrmeleontidae) of Cyprus have been poorly studied and only 13 species were known from this biogeographically interesting island. In light of new field research, we provide an updated checklist to the Cypriot antlions, including seven species reported for the first time from the island. Of these, the findings of the Middle Eastern spe...

The genus Oxythyrea Mulsant, 1842 comprises ten currently recognized species. So far, larval descriptions for only three species are available. Here, we present comprehensive descriptions of third instar larval morphology for the six previously unstudied Oxythyrea species along with detailed re-descriptions of larval morphology for the previously d...

Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina 2006 is known from the holotype male collected in Cyprus without an exact locality. Here we describe the female of this species for the first time, provide new data on species distribution and biology.

The presence of Ploiaria domestica scopoli, 1786 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: re-du viidae: emesinae) in Cyprus was considered doubtful. Hereby we report the first con firmed occurrence of this species in the island. Images of a living spe­ ci men and dia gnostic characters for recognition of this species are provided. Whether this spe cies has a nativ...

Propomacrus cypriacus a saproxylic beetle endemic to Cyprus, was described as a species distinct from P. bimucronatus on the basis of a few morphological characters and has been evaluated as Critically Endangered by IUCN, as it depends on veteran trees and has a restricted distribution. Herein we explored the distribution, ecology, morphology and g...