Heteroptera - Science topic

Se aporta un nuevo registro de Vilpianus galii (Wolff, 1802) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) para la península ibérica. Se trata de la primera localización para la provincia de Alicante. Se incluyen también una fotografía de la especie y un mapa de localización de esta cita.

New records of Stephanitis pyri (Fabricius, 1775) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mazovia. Stephanitis pyri is rarely collected in Poland. So far only records from 20 th century from the Southern part of the country are known. Here we present new records from Warsaw and neighboring regions where that tingid species was very abundant and has been obser...

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The azalea lace bug Stephanitis (Stephanitis) pyrioides (Scott, 1874) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) originates from the East Palaearctic. In 2020, this alien species was recorded for the first time in the European part of Russia (Krasnodar Territory, Sochi), notably attacking Rhododendron × hybridum hort. It most likely arrived there with plan...

Se registra por primera vez la presencia de Chariesterus armatus (Thunberg, 1825) (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Chariesterini) en la región andina de Venezuela, y se describen los estadios inmaduros y el ciclo de vida de este “chinche” coreido en condiciones de laboratorio. Se capturaron ejemplares sobre plantas de Euphorbia graminea Jacq. (Eup...

Food availability plays a key role affecting almost every aspect of bird ecology, including bird population, distribution, reproduction, and behavior. Understanding the functional relationship between prey availability and insectivorous birds' diet is important in the current scenario of habitat loss and declining of insect and bird populations. We...

Naucoridae is a family of aquatic bugs, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and comprises 437 species, 47 genera, and eight subfamilies. Five subfamilies, 10 genera and 68 species have been recorded from Brazil. Pelocoris Stål is a genus exclusive to the New World, with 14 species described; eight species and two subspecie...

Biological invasions increase with the intensity of globalization, human activities, and climate change. Insects represent a high potential of invasive species due to their adaptability to new environment. We analysed here the invasiveness of an Asian phytophagous bug, Corythauma ayyari (Heteroptera, Tingidae), recently recorded in Europe, and that...

The study aims to model the current and future (2041–2060 and 2081–2100) potential distribution areas of Oak lace bug [ Corythucha arcuata ) according to SSP2 and SSP5 emission scenarios of the HadGEM3-GC31-LL model. Pearson Correlation Analysis performed to select the bioclimatic data to be run in the model and it was decided to use 7 variables to...

A new cryptic oxycarenid seed bug, Crophius arribus new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Oxycarenidae), is described from the Mexican states of Chiapas, México, Puebla, and Querétaro, and Arizona, USA. The new species is assigned to the genus Crophius Stål even though the length of the labium and the number of fore femoral spines exceed the establi...

Neopetissius slaterorum O'Donnell, 2001 (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae), previously known from Mexico to South America, is reported for the first time in the United States based on specimens collected in Cameron and Hidalgo counties, Texas. Data are presented for records from unpublished online resources as well as physical vouchers col...

New faunistic data on the occurrence of true bugs in the location of Pacław, part of Kalwaria Pacławska (the Eastern Beskid Mts.), are presented. The observations were carried out in three different habitats with the participation of oaks-an exposed (without undergrowth) luminous oak forest (394 m asl), a fresh upland forest (407 m asl) and a soli...

New faunistic data concerning the distribution of 19 species from the family Tingidae from Northwestern Poland are presented and discussed.

Adult individuals of Fulvius oxycarenoides (Reuter, 1878) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae: Fulviini) were observed and collected in July 2022 and March, May and July 2023 in Domaszék, Csongrád-Csanád county, Hungary. They were found in a woodpile and attracted to artificial light at night. This is the first Hungarian record of the speci...

Given their great importance in aquatic ecosystems, the literature on aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera is quite extensive worldwide. However, relatively little literature is available on the taxonomy and distribution of aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera in the Gharb Plain, specifically the two wetland areas classified as Ramsar sites, the Bi...

Background The true bugs (Heteroptera) occupy nearly all of the known ecological niches of insects. Among them, as a group containing more than 30,000 species, the phytophagous true bugs are making increasing impacts on agricultural and forestry ecosystems. Previous studies proved that symbiotic bacteria play important roles in these insects in fit...

Aim . Study of the genetic variability of the pear lace bug Stephanitis pyri F. depending on geographical location and trophic specialization. Material and Methods . The object of the study was insect samples (n=60) from the natural population of the pear lace bug Stephanitis pyri F. (Tingidae: Heteroptera) in the Krasnodar Territory: in Krasnodar,...

The first record of Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann, 1910 (Heteroptera: Coreidae) on the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands, Spain) is reported. The known distribution of the species in the archipelago is summarised. Furthermore, an incorrect record of Beosus maritimus (Scopoli, 1763) (Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae) reported before is correcte...

Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Arthropods in the Mediterranean Basin covers the entire Mediterranean basin, including parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean islands, but excluding other biogeographic locations with Mediterranean climates located outside the region. The book provides an extensive description of the taxonomy an...

The paper contains data on 79 species of true bugs, collected by the third author at of the Tigirek Strict Reserve in 2013-2015, comprising 23 species new for the Asian part of Russia, Western Siberia, the Altai Krai and the reserve area. The species recorded for the first time include Heterogaster artemisiae Schilling, 1829 (Lygaeidae) for the Asi...

A new seed bug species, Stigmatonotum macronotum sp. nov., collected from southern Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan is described. It is the seventh species in the genus Stigmatonotum Lindberg, 1927. Stigmatonotum geniculatum (Motschulsky, 1863) is recorded from South Korea for the first time. Illustrations of genital structures of the new sp...

The Natura 2000 initiative and National Parks are the most important forms of nature protection in European countries. However, conservation efforts are often hampered by biological invasions, which are some of the most serious environmental problems. The aim of this study was to assess, in protected areas, the impacts of invasive plants – alien So...

The insect drift is a natural phenomenon characterized by the passive movement of insects through air or water currents, which influences their dispersal. The phenomenon of insect drift in ocean beaches represents one of the best-known cases. One of the prominent insect group associated with ocean beach drifts is the Heteroptera, commonly known as...

The discovery of a remarkable new palm bug species on Norfolk Island brings into question its systematic position within the family Thaumastocoridae, and the validity and biogeography of the three extant subfamilies. Latebracoris norfolcensis gen. nov., sp. nov. is described from remote Norfolk Island in the Southwest Pacific. The species was found...

FIRST RECORDS OF THE BUG CAMPTOPUS LATERALIS IN THE NETHERLANDS (HETEROPTERA: ALYDIDAE) During a field trip of the Wantsenstudiegroep (bug study group) of the Natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg on 15 September 2023, the first specimen of the bug Camptopus lateralis for the Netherlands was caught. The catch was made in a grassland on a southern...

Simple Summary Sex differentiation plays a vital role in the survival of any species with sexual reproduction. The sex determination pathway in holometabolous insects has been extensively researched and demonstrated to be both complex and diverse, and in particular, it has been shown that the primary signals are not conserved. However, the investig...

Renicoris gen. nov. and its type species Renicoris robustus sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from Yunnan, China, are described and illustrated. A key to separate the new genus and its closely related genera is provided.

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The distribution of the two alien species, Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 and Nagusta goedelii (Kolenati, 1857) in Sardinia is summarized and commented, with the addition of some new records, including the first populations of Z. renardii in the northern and central-west of the island (Sassari and Oristano) and the first finding of N. goedelii in ce...

Simple Summary Water measurers (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Hydrometridae) can be found mainly on marginal vegetation or on plants on the surface of freshwater bodies. Recently, two monotypic genera restricted to subterranean habitats were described from Brazil, namely Cephalometra Polhemus & Ferreira, 2018 and Spelaeometra Polhemus & Ferreira, 2018. H...

Paratelenomus saccharalis (Dodd) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) parasitizing Brachyplatys subaeneus (Westwood) eggs is reported for the first time for Panama. Brachyplatys subaeneus is an invasive species from Asia and is regarded as an important agricultural pest in the Americas.

The diversity and distribution of aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemipterans were studied from Amrabad and Kawal Tiger Reserve of the state Telangana. This report documents 38 species of aquatic and semi-aquatic hemipterans belonging to 22 genera and tenfamilies from Amrabad and Kawal Tiger Reserve. Interestingly, 20 species were noted as additions to th...

Kodormus davidmartinsi sp. nov. is described. Taxonomic notes on the other species of Kodormus Barber, 1930, including the description of their male genitalia, are provided. The record of Kodormus bruneosus Barber, 1930 from Brazil and information about the female of the species are presented for the first time. A redescription of Kodormus and a ke...

Microvelia albonotata Champion, 1898 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerridae) is a small semiaquatic bug distributed from southeastern Canada to Peru, including the West Indies. Despite this wide range and an easy identification of male specimens, it was recorded for the first time from Colombia only in 2021. Here, we report this species from the country...

Microvelia albonotata Champion, 1898 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerridae) is a small semiaquatic bug distributed from southeastern Canada to Peru, including the West Indies. Despite this wide range and an easy identification of male specimens, it was recorded for the first time from Colombia only in 2021. Here, we report this species from the country...

The brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) is a harmful polyphagous species that recently became a key pest of hazelnut. Its rapid spread in different areas worldwide is causing yield losses. For this reason, several studies have focused on low-impact control strategies in an integrated pest management (IPM) framew...

Hazelnut cultivation is continuously exposed to biotic adversities, with insect pests typically causing considerable production losses. Most of the damage is the result of feeding activity of ‘true bug’ species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), which affects both nut quality and quantity. True bugs can cause the traumatic abortion of cotyledon tissues or o...

The presence of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) on the island of Gran Canaria is discussed. The known distribution of the species on the Canary Islands is summarised.

El conocimiento actual de Heteroptera en el norte de la Patagonia y la región central de Argentina es muy disperso y ciertamente muy incompleto. En el presente trabajo proporcionamos una lista de 17 especies del norte de la Patagonia y la región central de Argentina, incluyendo 16 nuevos registros para provincias, y un nuevo registro para el país....

The stinkbug Edessa leucogramma (Perty) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae) is reported as a pest of young yellow guayacán trees (Handroanthus chrysanthus (Jacq.) S.O. Grose, Bignoniaceae) in the metropolitan area of the Aburra Valley in Antioquia, Colombia (AMVA). We provide a short description of the adult and immature stages and report for the...

The species of Rhyacobates Esaki, 1923 are reviewed. Three new species, R. bui sp. nov. from Guangxi, China and Lạng Sơn, Vietnam, R. elongatus sp. nov. from Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam and R. turgidus sp. nov. from Sichuan and Chongqing, China are described. Supplemental descriptions, diagnoses and new distribution records are provided for the fourteen previ...

Our study evaluated the effects of environmental factors and ecological integrity on the communities of semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) in Cerrado (= Brazilian savanna) streams. We tested the following predictions: (i) altered streams will show a decreased level of environmental heterogeneity at regional scales; (ii) there wi...

The paper presents the results of winter end early spring 2023 studies conducted at 174 locations in 100 10x10 km UTM squares within nine zoogeographical regions of southern and eastern Poland: the Eastern Beskids Mts., the Western Beskids Mts., the Sandomierz Lowland, the Roztocze, the Kraków-Wieluń Upland, the Lublin Upland, the Lesser Poland Upl...

The first record of Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Nezarini) from Slovakia is presented. The presence of adults of both sexes as well as larvae indicates a probable viable population in Ivanka pri Dunaji (southern Slovakia). The species was most probably introduced to Slovakia from Hungary, whe...

Species richness and abundance of hosts and parasites are often not perfectly correlated. This may be caused by higher parasite than host extinction rates or population declines, but lower parasite discovery effort has also been suggested. The Mexican free‐tailed bat Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most common and widespread vertebrates in the...

Simple Summary Hemiptera is one of the largest and most diverse insect orders, yet our knowledge about visual opsin evolution in this group remains preliminary. This study provides an updated survey of visual opsin genes in the Hemiptera, which reveals that the subfamily of blue-sensitive opsin receptor genes has been independently lost in planthop...

The damsel bug genus Alloeorhynchus Fieber, 1860 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Nabidae, Prostemmatinae, Prostemmatini) comprises at least 50 species worldwide, and seven species have been recorded from East Asia. In Japan, two species, A. (Alloeorhynchus) reinhardi Kerzhner & Günther, 1999 and A. (A.) vinulus Stål, 1864, are currently known. In this stu...

Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a harmful pest of many agricultural crops in different parts of the world. This stink bug is the preferred host species of Aridelus rufotestaceus Tobias (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), an endoparasitoid of nymphs and adults of pentatomids. With the aim to improve the rearing procedure of this beneficial...

The invasive stink bug, Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister), recently became established in the southwestern United States and has become a major pest of broccoli and other cole crops. Due to concerns about its possible establishment in Florida, a colony of this pest was maintained in quarantine to conduct research on its environmental requirements. The c...

We studied the influence of some environmental factors, like water salinity, on distribution, abundance and species diversity of aquatic and semi aquatic water bugs (Heteroptera) in Škocjanski Zatok Nature Reserve (Slovenia).

Riptortus pedestris (Hemiptera: Alydidae) establish endosymbiosis with specific bacteria from extremely diverse microbiota in soil. To better understand ecology and evolution of the symbiosis, it is important to characterize bacterial species diversity colonizing R. pedestris and evaluate their symbiotic effects. Nonetheless, previous research was...

New record of Philomyrmex insignis R.F. Sahlberg, 1848 (Heteroptera: Oxycarenidae) in Poland. This paper presents a new record of Philomyrmex insignis in Poland. The species is represented by a single representative in the Palaearctic region and is limited to the central and northern parts of Europe. Information about its habitat preference, associ...

Se documenta por primera vez la presencia de la “chinche cazadora de lunar amarillo” Rasahus hamatus (Fabricius, 1781) (Peiratinae) en el estado Barinas (región llanos occidentales), y la “chinche crestada o rueda” Arilus gallus (Stål, 1872) (Harpactorinae: Harpactorini) en el estado Mérida (región andina)(Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Reduviidae), Venezu...

Nesidiocoris tenuis (Hemiptera, Miridae) is a predatory bug which is widely used in biocontrol. This bug can consume both plant and animal matter. In the present paper, three alternative diets were evaluated in mass rearing of nymphs of N. tenuis maintained in cages on tobacco plants: eggs of the grain moth Sitotroga cerealella, cysts of Artemia sa...

Abstract Background and Objective: Schleichera oleosa, a pest and feeder of the kusum plant, Leptocoris augur is a brilliant red polyphagous sap-sucking beetle. The salivary composition may change depending on the bugʼs life cycle. For instance, salivary amylase activity rose with instar in the herbivorous beetle (L. augur). Hence, in this study, t...

A case of tarsus teratology in Pterotmetus staphyliniformis (Schilling, 1829) (Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae). This note presents an observation of the teratology of the hind tarsus of Pterotmetus staphyliniformis, along with a short summary of the history of teratological research.

The observation concerning the foraging of Cetonia aurata aurata (L.) on the fruiting bodies of Phallus impudicus L. has been presented. The beetle was flying between the fungi positioned a few metres apart from one another and foraged in their upper parts. On one of the fungi, it was accompanied by the specimens of Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) (Hetero...

The first record of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) on the island of Fuerteventura is reported. The known distribution of the species on the Canary Islands is summarised.

Due to the variation of the body coloration and the similarity of the related species, there are still some unresolved problems and debates in the taxonomic study of the genus Sycanus in China. We conducted the inter-specific phylogenetic analyses and the species delimitation for Sycanus in China based on DNA barcoding dataset of the mitochondrial...

The symptoms of "shot hole leaves" and "excess bud growth" in Arabica coffee have significantly increased in northern Thailand since 2017, resulting in the death of shoots and reduced flowering, ultimately leading to yield loss. This study investigates whether the "shot hole leaves" symptom is caused by the tea mosquito bug (Helopeltis theivora Wat...

Myrmecophytes have mutualistic relationships with symbiotic ants. Although myrmecophytic Macaranga (Malpighiales: Euphorbiaceae) species are well protected by aggressive Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ants, some bug species occur on the myrmecophytes. To clarify the associations of these bugs with the plants and the ants, we studied the fo...

The presence of Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) in Algeria is discussed. Recent records of the species in the country are reported.

Simple Summary The bean bug Riptortus pedestris causes a significant decrease in soybean production and economic losses. To understand how these bugs adapt to different parts of the soybean plant, we studied their gut transcriptomic changes when feeding on soybean leaves, beans, and pods. We discovered that when they fed on pods and beans, there wa...

Sunn pest (SP), Eurygaster integriceps Puton (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae), is one of the most important pests. SP spends nine months of the year under the plants in the overwintering area in the passive period. Therefore, knowing the overwintering characteristics of SP is thought to be very important in the struggle against SP. In this study, ıt was...

This Special Issue aims to address the important gap in knowledge associated with the biological, systematic, taxonomic, and evolutionary processes related to Heteroptera. Our goal is to compile and publish scientific articles from prominent research groups in this Special Issue to help broaden our understanding on issues related to diversity and b...

Fifty-five samples of marine insects collected in the Maldives between 1998 and 2013 were identified and analysed. Five species previously recorded from the Maldives, namely Halobates micans and H. formidabilis (Gerridae), Hermatobates djiboutensis (Hermatobatidae), Halovelia convexa (Veliidae), and Pontomyia natans (Chironomidae), are reported her...

New faunistic data concerning the distribution of 5 species from the family Reduviidae from Northwestern Poland are presented and discussed.

A synopsis of the geocorine true bugs distributed in the Malagasy biogeographic region is presented, including the description Geocoris (Piocoris) petofii sp. n. and proposal of the new synonymy Geocoris (Geocoris) insularis China, 1955 = Geocoris (Geocoris) pallidipennis mauritii Stål, 1854. Keys, diagnoses, taxonomic notes, and distribution data...

The first record of the rare true bug species Heterogaster cathariae (Geoffroy, 1785) (Heteroptera, Heterogastridae) in Luxembourg was made in October 2022 using the community science application iNaturalist. The subsequent collection of four specimens – deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg – led to the first global produ...

Due to the variation of the body coloration and the similarity of the related species, there are still some unresolved problems and debates in the taxonomic study of the genus Sycanus in China. We conducted the inter-specific phylogenetic analyses and the species delimitation for Sycanus in China based on DNA barcoding dataset of the mitochondrial...

Satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are highly repeated tandem sequences primarily located in het-erochromatin, although their occurrence in euchromatin has been reported. Here, our aim was to advance the understanding of satDNA and multiple sex chromosome evolution in heteropterans. We combined cytogenetic and genomic approaches to study, for the first time,...

Simple Summary Cylapocoris is a genus of the cylapine tribe Fulviini distributed in the Neotropics, with most species being recorded from Central America. By the descriptions of five new species and redescriptions of six species, we provide a robust amount of morphological data, including the novel study of female genitalia, offering an updated dia...