Piezodorus hybneri (Gmelin, 1790)

Nicolas, Vincent, Carapezza, Attilio, Rider, David A. & Kment, Petr, 2024, New records, diagnostics and preliminary checklist of the superfamily Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Comoro Islands, Zootaxa 5481 (1), pp. 1-29 : 13-15

Piezodorus hybneri (Gmelin, 1790)

( Fig. 25 )

= Cimex rubrofasciatus Fabricius, 1773 (junior primary homonym of Cimex rubrofasciatus DeGeer, 1773 , Reduviidae )

= Raphigaster [sic] flavolineatus Westwood, 1837 (synonymised by Stål 1876: 100)

= Rhaphigaster virescens Amyot & Serville, 1843 (junior primary homonym of Rhaphigaster virescens Westwood, 1837 )

= Nezara pellucida Ellenrieder, 1862 (synonymised by Stål 1876: 100)

Material examined. MAYOTTE: Bandraboua , 15.x.2023, 1♂, V. Nicolas lgt., P. Kment det. ( VNBF) .— ANGOLA: Cabinda: Kabinda, Bas.-Congo , 1♀, Škulina lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . SIERRA LEONE: Mambolo , 22.i.1979, 3♂, 1♀, no collector, P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . TAIWAN: Formosa, Anping , 7.v.1911, 1♂, 1♀, 7.vi.1911, 1♂, 1♀, 7.viii.1911, 2♂, 6♀, H. Sauter lgt., P. Kment det. ( SDEI) ; Formosa, Kosempo [= Jiasian], 7.vii.1911, 1♂, H. Sauter lgt., P. Kment det. ( SDEI) .

Biology. The One-banded stink bug, P. hybneri , primarily prefers the plants of the family Fabaceae , and is a major pest of soybean and other leguminous crops in Asia and Africa (e.g., Cajanus cajan , Indigofera , Medicago , Phaseolus , Pueraria , Trifolium , Vigna ) (e.g., Miller 1931, Hoffmann 1932, Ahmad et al. 1974, Tayutivutikul & Kusigemati 1992, Bundy et al. 2018a, Salini 2020). In Mauritius, it was collected on Tephrosia sp. ( Mamet 1957). It has also been recorded from other plant families, but as is uncertain if it can develop on them, suggests these may be incidental associations (e.g., Ahmad et al. 1974, Tayutivutikul & Kusigemati 1992, Bundy et al. 2018a, Salini 2020). The immatures were described by Miller (1931). For additional information on its biology, see e.g. Miller (1931), Hoffmann (1932) and Bundy et al. (2018a).

Distribution. Comoros: Mayotte (new record), Madagascar ( Cachan 1952, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Mauritius ( Mamet 1957, as P. rubrofasciatus ). Africa: Angola ( Leston 1954, no exact locality), incl. Cabinda (new record), Benin ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Burkina Faso ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Cameroon ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Cape Verde Islands ( Lindberg 1959, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Chad ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Mayné & Ghesquière 1934, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Eritrea ( Schouteden 1905a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Ethiopia ( Mancini 1956, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Ghana ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Ivory Coast ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Kenya ( Jeannel 1913, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Niger ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Nigeria ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Republic of the Congo ( Villiers 1967, as P. hubneri [sic!]), Senegal ( Etienne et al. 1992, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Sierra Leone (new record), Socotra ( Linnavuori 1994, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Somalia ( Mancini 1937, 1939, 1964, as P. rubrofasciatus ), South Sudan ( Linnavuori 1975, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Sudan ( Linnavuori 1975, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Tanzania ( Lindberg 1959, as P. rubrofasciatus ; Schouteden 1910), Togo ( Linnavuori 1982a, as P. rubrofasciatus ). Asia: Bangladesh ( Biswas & Das 2011), Cambodia ( Hasegawa 1962, as P. hubneri ), China ( Hoffmann 1935, 1954, Hsiao et al. 1977, all as P. rubrofasciatus ; Hua 2000; Rider et al. 2002), India ( Distant 1902, Hoffmann 1935, both as P. rubrofasciatus ; Salini & Viraktamath 2015), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra) ( Westwood 1837, as Raphigaster [sic] flavolineatus ; Amyot & Serville 1843, as Rhaphigaster virescens ; Ellenrieder 1862, as Nezara pellucida ; Hoffmann 1935, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Iran ( Hoberlandt 1955, as P. rubrofasciatus ; Ghahari et al. 2014), Japan ( Hayashi et al. 2016), Korea ( Roca-Cusachs & Jung 2020), Laos ( Dean 1978), Malaysia ( Miller 1931), Maledive Islands ( Phillips 1959, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Myanmar ( Distant 1902, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Pakistan ( Ahmad 1995), Philippines ( Hoffmann 1935, 1954, as P. rubrofasciatus ), Sri Lanka ( Distant 1902, Breddin 1909, both as P. rubrofasciatus ), Taiwan ( Rider 2006, no exact record; this paper), Yemen ( Linnavuori 1989, as P. rubrofasciatus ; Linnavuori & van Harten 1997), Vietnam ( Girard 1971, 1972).

The records from Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia (e.g., Hoffmann 1935, as P. rubrofasciatus ; Young 1984, as P. sp. near rubrofasciatus ) belong to P. oceanicus (Montrouzier, 1864) ( Ahmad 1995, Staddon 1997, as P. grossi ; Cassis & Gross 2002).

Figures

FIGURES 24–29. Habitus of Comoro Pentatomidae and Plataspidae: 24—Antestiopsis clymeneis cf. galtiei (Frappa, 1934), 25—Piezodorus hybneri (Gmelin, 1790), 26—Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister, 1835), 27—Stenozygum mirabile (Signoret, 1861) (scale bar 5 mm), 28—Brachyplatys hemisphaerica (Westwood, 1837), 29—Coptosoma maculatum Westwood, 1837. Photos: V. Nicolas (24–26, 28–29), T. Ramage (27).