Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 66(1): 135-141, doi: 10.3897/travaux.66.e90065

First record of Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Hemiptera, Thaumastocoridae) in Cyprus

Jakovos Demetriou^‡§, Christodoulos Makris^|, Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou^¶

‡ Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus, Akrotiri, Cyprus§ Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus| Unaffiliated, Limassol, Cyprus¶ University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Corresponding author: Jakovos Demetriou ( jakovosdemetriou@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Ionuț Ștefan Iorgu

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Citation: Demetriou J, Makris C, Davranoglou L-R (2023) First record of Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Hemiptera, Thaumastocoridae) in Cyprus. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 66(1): 135-141. https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.66.e90065

Abstract

Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero and Dellapé, 2006, originally from Australia, has become a cosmopolitan alien species associated with Eucalyptus spp. (Myrtaceae). In this study, the species is recorded for the first time in Cyprus from the Limassol district and the Akrotiri UK Sovereign Base Area. The adverse socioeconomic impacts of the species on the island are briefly discussed.

Keywords

alien species, biological invasions, bronze bug, Eucalyptus, Mediterranean, plantations