New Records and Updated Checklist of the Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Greece

Antonios Tsagkarakis; Zoi Thanou; Aikaterini Chaldeou; Ioanna Moschou; Argyro Kalaitzaki; Sakis Drosopoulos

doi:10.3390/insects13080749

New Records and Updated Checklist of the Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Greece

Insects. 2022 Aug 19;13(8):749. doi: 10.3390/insects13080749.

Authors

Antonios Tsagkarakis^{1

2}, Zoi Thanou¹, Aikaterini Chaldeou¹, Ioanna Moschou¹, Argyro Kalaitzaki³, Sakis Drosopoulos⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens 118 55, Greece.
² Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens 118 55, Greece.
³ Laboratory of Agricultural Entomology, Institute for Olive Tree, Subtropical Plants and Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization 'DEMETER', Agrokipio, Chania 731 00, Greece.
⁴ Laboratory of Genetics, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens 118 55, Greece.

Abstract

Eight species of the superfamily Pentatomoidea are recorded from Greece for the first time: Aelia germari Küster 1852, Eurygaster hottentotta (Fabricius 1775), Eysarcoris aeneus (Scopoli 1763), Neottiglossa lineolata (Herrich-Schaeffer 1830), Neottiglossa pusilla (Gallen 1789), Picromerus bidens (Linnaeus 1758), Podops (Podops) inunctus (Fabricius 1775) and Tarisa pallescens (Jakovlev 1871). A complete updated species checklist with distributional data notes for all the new species for Greece are provided.

Keywords: Acanthosomatidae; Cydnidae; Greece; Pentatomidae; Plataspidae; Scutelleridae; burrower bugs; jewel bugs; new records; shield bugs; stink bugs.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.