Anthocoris amplicollis ( Horvath , 1839)

Jerinic-Prodanovic, Dusanka & Protic, Ljiljana, 2013, True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) as psyllid predators (Hemiptera, Psylloidea), ZooKeys 319, pp. 169-189 : 170

1) Anthocoris amplicollis ( Horvath, 1839)

Trophic status.

Zoophagous.

Distribution.

Europe.

Prey.

Psylla buxi (Linnaeus, 1758), from Buxus sempervirens , Nova Galenika, 13.VI.2009, reared 3♂♂, 2♀♀.

Anthocoris amplicollis was already reported in Serbia ( Protić and Stojanović 2003) but the above mentioned record is the first one in Serbia as a psyllid predator. In Switzerland, it was registered by Wyniger and Burckhardt (2003) in galls of Psyllopsis fraxini . According to available literature data, Anthocoris amplicollis has not been published as a predator of Psylla buxi .