Malacocoris chlorizans Panzer, 1794

Jerinic-Prodanovic, Dusanka & Protic, Ljiljana, 2013, True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) as psyllid predators (Hemiptera, Psylloidea), ZooKeys 319, pp. 169-189 : 179

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.319.4316

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scientific name

Malacocoris chlorizans Panzer, 1794
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Malacocoris