“…Global warming and the globalized movement of people and goods are the main factors that are facilitating the expansion of historical distribution and the colonization of new territories by V. orientalis (Archer, 1998 ; Graziani and Cianferoni, 2021 ; Mahfouz et al., 2022 ). They originally appeared in the southern part of southwest Asia (Khoobdel et al., 2014 ), India, the Middle East, North‐eastern/Eastern Africa (Fouad et al., 2021 ) and the South‐eastern Mediterranean Area (Ćetković, 2003 ; Temreshev, 2018 ). Over the past few years, partly thanks to anthropogenic introductions, V. orientalis has also colonized several European countries, recorded since 2012 in Spain (Hernández et al., 2013 ), 2019 in Romania (Zachi and Ruicanescu, 2021 ) and 2021 in France (Brunet et al., 2022 ; Gereys et al., 2021 ) and the Greek islands (Ceccolini, 2022 ) (Figure 1 ).…”