Eurydema fieberi Fieber, 1837

Norbiato, Margherita, Dioli, Paride & Cianferoni, Fabio, 2019, Annotated checklist of the Hemiptera Heteroptera of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation “ Alpi Marittime ” (NW Italy), Zoosystema 41 (15), pp. 269-312 : 302

Eurydema fieberi Fieber, 1837

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Eurydema fieberi Fieber, 1837: 353 .

NEW DATA. — Vernante, loc. Palanfré, 1800 m, 44.198119°N, 7.478328°E (WGS84), 30.VIII.2014, MN, MD leg., 1 specimen, MZUF .

CHOROTYPE. — Centralasiatic-Europeano-Mediterranean.

REMARK

This record is interesting because this species normally lives at lower altitudes. Dusoulier (pers. com.) also found it once at 1750 m, in the Southern Alps. Usually, its twin species E. rotundicollis ( Dohrn, 1860) can be found above 1500 m in this part of the Alps. Indeed, in the Italian Central Alps (e.g.) it was found at 1425 m on Brassicaceae , near the Livrio stream, Sondrio Province ( Dioli 1974), while the twin species E. rotundicollis was quoted in the high mountains of the same area, at about 2000 m: “Lombardy: Sondrio, Arigna, Ghiacciaio delle Fasciere” ( Mancini 1959).

Figures

FIG. 13. — Eurydema fieberi Fieber, 1837. Scale bar: 2 mm. Photo: S. Bambi.