Blissus hirtulus Burmeister, 1835

Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2024, Review of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) fauna of Turkey: perspectives for future research, European Journal of Taxonomy 937, pp. 1-127 : 31

Blissus hirtulus Burmeister, 1835

Fig. 9A

Material examined

TURKEY – Hatay Province • 1 ♂; İslahiye ; 3 Jun. 1985; EUAPP exped.; LEMT .

Comments

A rarely collected species that lives on banks of water. Its biology is unknown ( Péricart 1998a). It has a wide distribution range spanning from North Africa and the Afrotropical region to the Arabian Peninsula and extends to India, China, and Japan in the east ( Aukema 2023). It was recorded from Egypt, Tunisia, and Israel in the Mediterraean basin ( Péricart 1998a; Kment & Batelka 2005; Linnavuori et al. 2014). A close relative of this species, Blissus putoni Jakovlev, 1875 has a Central Asian-Mediterranean distribution extending from Greece to SW China ( Aukema 2023). This species was recorded from Selçuk, İzmir in Turkey, lives in an ecological niche similar to that of B. hirtulus . It is distinguished from the latter by the rounded apex of scutellum, hemelytra not reaching to the apex of abdomen and clavi of hemelytra not touching each other ( Péricart 1998a).

Figures

Fig. 9. A. Blissus hirtulus Burmeister, 1835, ♀ (LEMT). B. Heterocordylus (Heterocordylus) cytisi Josifov, 1958, ♀ (LEMT). Scale bars = 1 mm.