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Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 219
J.Het.Turk., 5(2), Nov 2023 (eISSN 2687-3249)
First records of Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae)
in Cyprus, Greece and Malta
Immenweide 83, D-22523 Hamburg, Germany.
E-mail: tmvdh@web.de ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4138-7160
Torsten van der Heyden
To cite this article: van der Heyden, T., 2023, First records of Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera:
Rhyparochromidae) in Cyprus, Greece and Malta, J.Het.Turk., 5(2): 219-221
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10207178
To link to this article: https://www.j-ht.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/V52-A2.pdf
Received: Sep 4, 2023; Revised: Sep 12, 2023; Accepted: Nov 3, 2023; Published online: Nov 30, 2023
Short Note
ABSTRACT: The first records of Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera:
Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae: Udeocorini) in Cyprus, Greece and Malta are reported.
Information on the known distribution of T. biguttula in Europe is summarised.
KEY WORDS: Tempyra biguttula, alien species, first records, distribution, Cyprus, Greece,
Malta, Mediterranean Region.
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So far, the Nearctic bug species Tempyra
Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae:
Udeocorini) has been reported from the
following European countries: France,
Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily), Portugal
and Spain (Baena & Torres, 2012; Maurel
& Porteneuve, 2018; Rattu & Dioli, 2018;
Dioli et al., 2021).
Now, the first records of T. biguttula in
Cyprus, Greece and in Malta can be
reported:
an
adult specimen near the village of
Mellieħa in the northern part of the
island of Malta. Two photographs of the
specimen were uploaded to the online
database iNaturalist (Lund, 2022).
On 17.06.2023, an adult specimen of T.
biguttula was photographed by Loïs
Rancilhac in Aglantzia, a suburb of
Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. A photo of
the specimen was uploaded to the online
database iNaturalist (Rancilhac, 2023).
Recently, on 24.08.2023, an adult
specimen of T. biguttula (Fig. 1) was
photographed by Paolo Mazzei in Psili
Ammos, located at the eastern coast of
the Greek island of Serifos which is one
of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. Two
photographs of the specimen were
uploaded to the online database
iNaturalist (Mazzei, 2023).
Figure 1. Specimen of Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874, Psili Ammos, Serifos, Greece,
24.08.2023. (Photo: Paolo Mazzei).
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Paolo Mazzei for
allowing me to use his photo of T.
biguttula to illustrate this note.
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