First records of Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Gonocerini) for Albania

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The first records of Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) in Albania are reported. Additional information on the distribution and the ecology of this species is given.

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van der Heyden (2017)
ARQUIVOS ENTOMOLÓXICOS, 18: 131-132
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NOTA / NOTE
First records of Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Gonocerini)
for Albania.
Torsten van der Heyden
Immenweide 83, D-22523 Hamburg (GERMANY). e-mail: tmvdh@web.de
Abstract: The first records of Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) in Albania are reported.
Additional information on the distribution and the ecology of this species is given.
Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae, Coreinae, Gonocerini, Gonocerus insidiator, distribution, ecology, first
records, Albania.
Resumen: Primeras citas de Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae:
Gonocerini) para Albania. Se dan a conocer las primeras citas de Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787) (Heteroptera:
Coreidae) en Albania. Se aporta también información adicional sobre la distribución y la ecología de esta especie.
Palabras clave: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae, Coreinae, Gonocerini, Gonocerus insidiator, distribución, ecología,
primeras citas, Albania.
Recibido: 22 de septiembre de 2017 Publicado on-line: 9 de octubre de 2017
Aceptado: 26 de septiembre de 2017
Recently, the coreid species Plinachtus imitator (Reuter, 1891), which originally was described by
Reuter (1891) as Gonocerus insidiator F. var. imitator, was reported as new to the fauna of Albania (van
der Heyden, 2017). In this note, the first records of the very similar species Gonocerus insidiator
(Fabricius, 1787) in Albania are published.
The genus Gonocerus Berthold, 1827 includes nine species; three of them can be found in the
Mediterranean Region: Gonocerus acuteangulatus (Goeze, 1778), G. insidiator and G. juniperi Herrich-
Schäffer, 1839 (Fauna Europaea, 2017).
G. insidiator is considered a Holomediterranean species. So far, in Europe it has been reported
from Portugal, Spain (including the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands), France, Italy, Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Greece and Cyprus (Dolling, 2006; Aukema et al., 2013; Moulet, 2013;
BiodiversidadVirtual.org, 2017; Fauna Europaea, 2017). Records from Malta are incorrect (Carapezza &
Mifsud, 2015).
The species has been found on various host plants such as Cistus sp. (Cistaceae), Quercus sp.
(Fagaceae), Pistacia sp. (Anacardiaceae), Daphne sp. (Thymelaeaceae), Phlomis sp. and Lavandula sp.
(Lamiaceae) and Arbutus sp. (Ericaceae) (CoreoideaSF Team, 2017).
On 7.07.2017, Aleksander Golemaj was able to take photographs of an imago of G. insidiator in
Jalë near the city of Vlorë in southern Albania (Fig. 1). One month later, on 10.08.2017, he observed and
photographed an adult specimen of G. insidiator at the same locality.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Aleksander Golemaj (Vlorë, Albania) for allowing me to use his photograph

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of G. insidiator to illustrate this paper. Furthermore, I would like to thank Paride Dioli (Milan, Italy) and
Pierre Moulet (Avignon, France) for helpful information.
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Fig. 1.- Gonocerus insidiator (Fabricius, 1787), Jalë,
Albania, 7.07.2017. (Photograph: Aleksander Golemaj).
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