Checklist of Heteroptera of Montenegro

Abstract

This is the first checklist of Heteroptera of Montenegro, including 517 species. The short historical review includes names of the most important collectors and heteropterologists who have studied the Heteroptera fauna of Montenegro. The list was compiled from data published in numerous monographs and individual papers, as well as from specimens stored in museum collections. The list also includes 20 species previously unpublished for the territory of Montenegro: Corixa dentipes Thomson, Saldula c-album (Fieber), Bryocoris pteridis (Fallén), Dichrooscytus intermedius Reuter, Dionconotus neglectus neglectus (Fabricius), Phytocoris populi (Linnaeus), Halticus apterus apterus (Linnaeus), Europiella alpina (Reuter), Heterocordylus genistae (Scopoli), Heterocordylus (Heterodactylus) tumidicornis (Herrich-Schaeffer), Temnostethus (Temnostethus) pusillus (Herrich-Scheffer), Xylocoris (Xylocoris) cursitans (Fallén), Nysius ericae ericae (Schilling), Brachyplax tenuis (Mulsant & Rey), Dryoderes umbraculatus (Fabricius), Odontoscelis minuta Jakovlev, 1881, Eurygaster austriaca (Schrank), Eurygaster dilaticollis Dohrn, Coptosoma scutellatum (Geoffroy) and Zicrona coerulea (Linnaeus).

DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin

“…The fauna of true water bugs in the Skadar Lake area is definitely understudied. Up to now, including our findings, 24 species are known from the area and, in a broader view, only 38 and 40 species are known from Montenegro and Albania, respectively, at the country scale (Aukema and Rieger 1995;Aukema et al 2013;Protić 2016). The majority of our records represent species that have already been reported from the region.…”

“…Summarizing available literature (Aukema and Rieger 1995;Fent et al 2011;Aukema et al 2013;Protić 2016), at least 147 species of aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera were reported from Europe. Given their diversity, abundance and ecology, presence in various types of water bodies, habitat specialisation and sensitivity to pollutants, aquatic true bugs can be used in biomonitoring as important indicators of aquatic habitat quality and pollution impact (reviewed by Bakonyi et al 2022).…”

“…Most information on Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha comes from the general works on Heteroptera by Josifov (1986); Aukema and Rieger (1995); Protić (1998); Protić (2001); Aukema et al (2013), where they listed 83 species from the Balkan Peninsula, which makes 56% of European fauna. Only most recently the ecology of true aquatic bugs of Montenegro was studied by Gligorović et al (2016) and their checklist was provided by Protić (2016), who reported the presence of 13 species of Gerromorpha and 21 species of Nepomorpha in the country (23% of European fauna, 41% of Balkan Peninsula). According to the Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palearctic Region, there are reports about 23 species of Nepomorpha and 16 species of Gerromorpha from Albania.…”