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

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this paper, two new Miridae species are described from Turkey, <jats:italic>Adelphophylus oenderi</jats:italic> sp. nov. from Silifke (Mersin province) and <jats:italic>Phytocoris</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Exophytocoris</jats:italic>) <jats:italic>carapezzai</jats:italic> sp. nov. from Merkez (Karaman province). Habitus of males and females and male genitalia of both species and female genitalia of <jats:italic>A. oenderi</jats:italic> sp. nov. are illustrated. Additionally, 10 Heteroptera species are recorded from Turkey for the first time: <jats:italic>Campylomma miyamotoi</jats:italic> Yasunaga, 2001, <jats:italic>Compsidolon</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Compsidolon</jats:italic>) <jats:italic>elegantulum</jats:italic> Reuter, 1899, <jats:italic>Hallodapus concolor</jats:italic> (Reuter, 1890), <jats:italic>Maurodactylus kukuensis</jats:italic> V. G. Putshkov, 1978, <jats:italic>Pinalitus viscicola</jats:italic> (Puton, 1888), <jats:italic>Platycranus alkestis</jats:italic> Linnavuori, 1999, <jats:italic>Zanchius breviceps</jats:italic> (Wagner, 1951), <jats:italic>Montandoniola moraguesi</jats:italic> (Puton, 1896), <jats:italic>Temnostethus</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Temnostethus</jats:italic>) <jats:italic>gracilis</jats:italic> Horváth, 1907, and <jats:italic>Plinthisus</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Isioscytus</jats:italic>) <jats:italic>minutissimus</jats:italic> Fieber, 1864. <jats:italic>Campylomma miyamotoi</jats:italic> Yasunaga, 2001, an Eastern Palaearctic species bound to the ornamental <jats:italic>Albizia julibrissin</jats:italic>, is a new potentially alien species in the Western Palaearctic. The species status of <jats:italic>Compsidolon</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Compsidolon</jats:italic>) <jats:italic>parietariae</jats:italic> V. G. Putshkov, 1984 is discussed.</jats:p>

A new species of Plagiognathus (Heteroptera: Miridae) associated with the locally endemic Phlomis leucophracta (Lamiales: Lamiaceae) from Karaman, Turkey

“…Contrastingly, there are also species of Plagiognathus with restricted distribution but not host specificity, e.g., Plagiognathus olivaceus, known only from France and Spain, and associated with Lavandula stoechas L. and Thymus vulgaris L. (Wagner 1975;Schuh 2001). In any case, the discovery of this new species and others described from Karaman and its neighboring provinces in the recent years (Carapezza & Kment 2018;Çerçi et al 2019, 2021Pagola-Carte 2019), highlights the fact that further field work in this region is necessary to truly illustrate its Heteroptera diversity.…”