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First record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Egypt

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The first record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933) for Egypt is reported. Information on the known distribution of this invasive species in the Mediterranean Region is summarized and discussed.
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Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey, 2(1), May 2020
Research Article
First record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Egypt
Torsten van der Heyden
Immenweide 83, D-22523 Hamburg, Germany.
E-mail: tmvdh@web.de ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4138-7160
ABSTRACT: The first record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933) for Egypt is
reported. Information on the known distribution of this invasive species in the
Mediterranean Region is summarized and discussed.
KEYWORDS: Corythauma ayyari, first record, invasive species, distribution,
Mediterranean Region, pest.
INTRODUCTION
Fifteen years ago, the Oriental tingid
Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), which
is native to India, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam
(Roca-Cusachs & Goula, 2014; Haouas et al.,
2015; van der Heyden, 2019), was found in
the Mediterranean Region for the first time
(Novoselsky & Freidberg, 2013). Since then,
the species has spread in the area. So far,
C. ayyari has been reported from France
(Streito et al., 2010), Italy (Pedata et al.,
2013; Carapezza, 2014), Spain (Roca-Cusachs
& Goula, 2014), Greece (Rietschel, 2015), Mal-
ta (Carapezza & Mifsud, 2015) and Monaco
(van der Heyden, 2019) in Europe, from Israel
(Novoselsky & Freidberg, 2013), the United
Arab Emirates (Carapezza, 2014; Carapezza
et al., 2014) and Syria (Zeity & Ali, 2019) in
the Middle East as well as from Tunisia
(Haouas et al., 2015) in Northern Africa.
C. ayyari is considered a serious pest, as
nymphs and adults of the species are
causing severe damages by feeding on
different ornamental plants, especially on
various species of Jasminum (Oleaceae)
(van der Heyden, 2019).
MATERIAL AND METHODS
On 01.06.2017, Yasmin Abdel Monem
photographed a specimen of C. ayyari in
Cairo, the capital of Egypt. On that
occasion, several specimens of C. ayyari
were invading Jasminum sambac L. The
photograph was published in the online
database iNaturalist (Abdel Monem, 2017).
To cite this article: van der Heyden, T., 2020, First record of Corythauma ayyari (Drake, 1933) (Hemiptera:
Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Egypt, J.Het.Turk.,2 (1):1-2.
To link to this article: https://www.j-ht.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/V21-A1.pdf
Received: Dec 28, 2019; Revised: Feb 15, 2020; Accepted: March 20, 2020; Published online: May 7, 2020
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Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey, 2(1), May 2020
DISCUSSION
As C. ayyari has not been reported for
Egypt in scientific publications yet, the
record reported in this note is the first
one for this country. Very likely, the
species is present in other countries of
the Mediterranean Region, but has been
overlooked so far.
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Tingidae) in Monaco, Revista Chilena de
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