Montandoniola moraguesi (Puton, 1896)

Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2019, Two new species and ten new records of Heteroptera from Turkey, including the first record of the potential alien Campylomma miyamotoi in the Western Palaearctic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59 (1), pp. 295-306 : 304

Montandoniola moraguesi (Puton, 1896)

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Material examined: TURKEY: MERSIN: Anamur, 36°02′08.3″N 32°48′31.7″E, 17.vii.2018, 13, Ö. Koçak leg., B. Çerçi det.The specimen was only photographed but not collected.

Comment. Montandoniola moraguesi is an important biological control agent used to fight thrips invasions on economically important crops. It is unique among the Anthocoridae species known from Turkey because of its thrips-like appearance (Fig.11B). It lives inside the galls or gall-like deformations caused by the thrips on which it feeds (PLUOT- SIGWALT et al. 2009). Montandoniola moraguesi is known from the following countries: the Balearic Islands, France, Italy, Spain, the Canary Islands, Israel, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso, and South Africa (PLUOT- SIGWALT et al. 2009). Considering its wide distribution along the Mediterranean coasts, it is possible that this species has a stable population in Mersin, Turkey and was not introduced here by farmers.

Distribution in Turkey. Mersin (this work).

Figures

Fig. 5. A ‒ Phytocoris (Exophytocoris) carapezzai sp. nov., alive female attracted to UV light; B‒C ‒ Campylomma miyamotoi Yasunaga, 2001 (B ‒ male; C ‒ female). D ‒ Hallodapus concolor (Reuter, 1890), male; E ‒ Zanchius breviceps (Wagner, 1951), alive male on Ficus sp.; F ‒ Montandoniola moraguesi (Puton, 1896), alive male attracted to UV light; G ‒ Temnostethus (Temnostethus) gracilis Horváth, 1907, male; H ‒ Plinthisus (Isioscytus) minutissimus Fieber, 1864, female.