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Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 7
J.Het.Turk., 6(1), May 2024 (eISSN 2687-3249)
First record of Lanchnophorus singalensis (Dohrn, 1860)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae) in Cyprus
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., 2024, First record of Lanchnophorus singalensis (Dohrn, 1860) (Hemiptera:
Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae) in Cyprus, J.Het.Turk., 6(1):7-8
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11319596
To link to this article: https://www.j-ht.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/V61-A2.pdf
Received: Mar 3, 2024; Revised: —— ; Accepted: Mar 19, 2024; Published online: May 31, 2024
Short Note
ABSTRACT: The first record of Lanchnophorus singalensis (Dohrn, 1860) (Hemiptera:
Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae: Rhyparochromini) in Cyprus is reported.
Information on the known distribution of L. singalensis is summarised.
KEY WORDS: Lanchnophorus singalensis, alien species, first record, distribution, Cyprus,
Mediterranean Region.
Lanchnophorus singalensis (Dohrn, 1860)
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae:
Rhyparochrominae: Rhyparochromini) is
mainly distributed in Africa, the Arabian
Peninsula, Pakistan and India and less
common in the Oriental Region east of
India (Kment et al., 2017).
In the Mediterranean Region, L. singalensis
has been reported from Egypt and Lebanon,
so far (Kment et al., 2017; Matocq &
Azar, 2023).
Now, L. singalensis can be reported from
(Fig. 1) was found and photographed on a
balcony on the 4th floor of a building in
the capital Nicosia (Semen Pavlenov,
pers. comm.). Four photographs of the
specimen were uploaded to the online
database iNaturalist (Pavlenov, 2023).
Up to now, L. singalensis has not been
reported from Cyprus. Thus, the record
reported herein is the first one for this
country.
Journal of the Heteroptera of Turkey 8
J.Het.Turk., 6(1), May 2024 (eISSN 2687-3249)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Semen Pavlenov for
allowing me to use his photo of L.
singalensis to illustrate this note and for
additional information about his finding.
REFERENCES
Kment, P., Carapezza, A., Jindra, Z., Kondorosy,
E., 2017, Review of the genus Lanchnophorus
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae)
with description of three new species and
other nomenclatural changes, Zootaxa,
4226(1): 47-74.
Matocq, A., Azar, D., 2023, Preliminary
inventory of terrestrial Heteroptera from
Lebanon (Hemiptera: Leptopodomorpha,
Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha),
Zootaxa, 5230(1): 1-26.
Pavlenov, S., 2023, Lanchnophorus singalensis.
Photographs to be found on iNaturalist
[Online database]. Available from: https://
www.inaturalist.org/observations/184377565.
(Accessed: 03.03.2024).
Figure 1. Specimen of Lanchnophorus singalensis (Dohrn, 1860), Nicosia, Cyprus,
22.09.2023. (Photo: Semen Pavlenov).