Three new true bugs were recorded in Serbia and species are listed with notes on records. Anisops sardeus Herrich-Schäffer, 1849; Henestaris laticeps (Curtis, 1836); Caenocoris nerii (Germar, 1847)

Nadaždin, Bojana

Vujić, Mihailo

Šeat, Jelena

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 Acta entomologica serbica, 2019, 24(1): 95-99 UDC: 595.754(497.11)  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2648459  Short communication  NEW FAUNAL DATA ON TRUE BUGS (HETEROPTERA) IN SERBIA   JELENA ŠEAT1,2, MIHAILO VUJIĆ1 AND BOJANA NADAŽDIN1  1 HabiProt, Janka Čmelika 28a 3/25, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia 2 Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary E-mail: jelena@habiprot.org.rs    In the last decade, numerous records of new true bug species in Serbia were published. Some of them were invasive alien species from other continents (Protić, 2009; Protić & Živić, 2012; Šeat, 2015; Protić & Šeat, 2016), but some were Mediterranean species, well known from surrounding countries (Protić, 2010, 2011; Jerinić-Prodanović & Protić, 2011). Even though Serbia is a landlocked country, its climate and vegetation in some parts are sub-Mediterranean and can provide a suitable environment for certain Mediterranean true bugs. Additionally, it is known that many Mediterranean species have shifted their ranges northwards in the last decades and Rabitsch (2008) stated that habitat and climate change, as well as the interactions of these two, are the main reasons for areal expansion. On their way to ’mediterraneanizing’ central Europe, species of southern Balkan Peninsula first have to pass through Serbia. Recently, new true bugs were recorded in our country and species are listed with notes on records, as follows.  Anisops sardeus Herrich-Schäffer, 1849  Serbia: Lake Ludaš: Hajdukovo, 46°06'23"N 19°50'06"E, 93 m a.s.l, 21.08.2014, 2 ♀♀, leg. and det. Jelena Šeat (Fig. 1A, Fig. 2).  Notes: Ludaš is a shallow Pannonian lake surrounded by a wide reed bed, and the whole area is recognizable by its saline steppe and marshy features. It is known that this aquatic true bug tolerates salty waters very well (Brooks, 1951), and it has often been found nearby or in saline lakes in Hungary (Soós et al., 2010; Boda et al., 2012; Petri et al., 2012). The specimens of A. sardeus from Lake Ludaš were attracted by a light trap that was installed 200 m away from the waterbody. The locality where the species was recorded in Serbia is c. 10 km away from Lake Madarász, the nearest published record from Hungary (Petri et al., 2012).  Distribution of A. sardeus in the region: the species has already been recorded in all neighboring countries, except Macedonia (Josifov, 1986; Protić, 1998; Soós et al., 2010; Berchi 2011, 2013; Kment & Beran, 2011; Boda et al., 2012; Petri et al., 2012; Csbai et al., 2015; Gligorović et al., 2016; Stoianova & Simov, 2016) (Fig. 4). 96 J. ŠEAT et al.   Figure 1. New true bug species in Serbian fauna: A) Anisops sardeus, B) Henestaris laticeps, C) Caenocoris nerii.   Henestaris laticeps (Curtis, 1836)  Serbia: Rujen (or Rujan) Mountain: Buštranje, 42°19'06"N 21°46'17"E, 635 m a.s.l, 14.09.2018, 1 ♀, leg. and det. Bojana Nadaždin (Fig. 1B, Fig. 2).  Notes: The locality where the H. laticeps specimen was recorded has Mediterranean steppe-like vegetation on rocky ground with occasional bushes (Fig. 3). The true bug was collected by sweep-netting of vegetation.  Distribution of H. laticeps in the region: The species has already been recorded in most of the Balkan countries (Josifov, 1986; Protić, 2001) (Fig. 4).  Caenocoris nerii (Germar, 1847)  Serbia: Belgrade: Vrčin, 44°40'36.74"N 20°36'25.70"E, 160 m a.s.l, 07.11.2018, 1 ♀, leg. and det. Mihailo Vujić (Fig. 1C, Fig. 2).  Notes: It is known that the main host plant of the species is the Mediterranean Nerium oleander L., which is widely used as an ornamental shrub. However, due to the harsh winters in Serbia, oleanders are mostly planted in pots and overwinter indoors. The C. nerii specimen was collected on an ornamental Chrysanthemum L. plant in a private garden of a suburban settlement, Vrčin. There are numerous potted oleanders in the same garden and throughout the neighborhood, but no other specimen of C. nerii was found after checking nearby shrubs. In addition, the first half of November 2018 was extremely warm in Serbia, with average temperatures around 20°C, and in the Belgrade surroundings two more Mediterranean species were recorded, the hoverfly Eristalinus taeniops (Wiedemann, 1818) (recorded by the second author of this manuscript) and the moth Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758), whose caterpillar also feeds on oleander         (Hric, pers. comm). These newcomers possibly migrated northwards, driven by the unusually warm autumn weather.  Distribution of C. nerii in the region: The species has been recorded only in Greece, Albania and Bulgaria (Josifov, 1986, 1999; Simov, 2011) (Fig. 4). New data on true bugs in Serbia 97   Figure 2. Locations where the new species were recorded.    Figure 4. Distribution of the new species in neighboring countries   Figure 3. Habitat of Henestaris laticeps in southern Serbia. 98 J. ŠEAT et al.  Acknowledgments:We would like to thank Tanja Tomić for English revision of our manuscript and reviewers for helpful and kind suggestions.   References: Berchi, M.G. (2011). North-Western Journal of Zoology, 7(2), 339-341; Berchi, M.G. (2013). Zootaxa, 3682(1), 121-132; Boda, P., Várbíró, G. & Deák Cs. (2012). Acta biologica Debrecina. Supplementum oecologica hungarica, 28, 17-32; Brooks, G.T. (1951). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 34(1), 301-519; Csbai, Z., Boda, P., Boda, R., Bódis, E., Danyik, T., Deák, Cs., Farkas, A., Kálmán, Z., Lıkkös, A., Málnás, K., Mauchart, P. & Móra, A. (2015). Acta biologica Debrecina. Supplementum oecologica hungarica, 33, 9-70; Gligorović, B., Savić, A., Protić, Lj. & Pešić, V. (2016). 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Нове врсте стеница у националној фауни су такође врсте топлијих крајева, већ бележене у региону: Anisops sardeus Herrich-Schäffer, 1849, Henestaris laticeps (Curtis, 1836) и Caenocoris nerii (Germar, 1847).     Received: March 21st, 2019 Accepted: April 14th, 2019 

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