15) Malacocoris chlorizans Panzer, 1794

Trophic status.

Zoophagous.

Distribution.

Eurasia.

Prey.

Homotoma ficus, from Ficus carica, Beograd–Hotel Jugoslavija, 16.V.2007, collected 1♂, 1♀; Beograd–Voždovac, 26.V.2007, collected 5♂♂, 1♀; Zemunski kej, 15.V.2008, collected 1 larva.

A general predator on aphids, psyllids, eggs and larvae of leaf miner moths (Wheeler 2000b, Wyniger and Burckhardt 2003). In Croatia, it is registered as a predator of Panonychus ulmi in apple orchards by Arčanin and Balarin (1972).

Malacocoris chlorizans has been already registered in Serbia ( Protić 1998) but in the present paper is reported for the first time as a predator of psyllids in this country.