Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861

Heyden, Torsten van der, 2024, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), XII, Arquivos Entomolóxicos 28, pp. 199-200 : 199-200

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12813264
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14947482
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scientific name	Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861
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So far, Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861

( Heteroptera : Pentatomidae ) has been reported for the Canary islands of La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura ( HEISS, 1997; AUKEMA et al., 2013; ROCA-CUSACHS et al., 2020).

The island of Lanzarote can be added to the list of the distribution of A. heegeri in the Canary archipelago: On 28-11-2021, a nymph ( Fig. 2 View Fig ) was found in Playa Blanca, located in the south of the island. The nymph was found behind an apartment in the Elba Hotel complex (James Senn, pers. comm.). A photograph of the specimen was uploaded to the online database iNaturalist (see here).

Furthermore, on 17-03-2024 an adult specimen of this species was found in the same apartment complex where the above mentioned nymph had been found. A photograph of that specimen was uploaded to the online database Observation.org (see here).

References

AUKEMA, B., DUFFELS, H., GUNTHER, H., RIEGER, C. & STRAUss, G. 2013. New data on the Heteroptera fauna of La Palma, Canary Islands (Insecta ¦ Hemiptera). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae, 98 (2) ¦ 459 - 493.

HEISS, E. 1997. Nachtrag zur Heteropterenfauna der Kanarischen Inseln V (Insecta, Heteroptera). Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 84 ¦ 359 - 369.

ROCA-CUSACHS, M., SUAREZ, D., OSORIO, V., GARCIA-BECERRA, R., GARCIA-PEREZ, J., HERNANDEZ- TEIXIDOR, D., PEREZ-DELGADO, A. J., PEREZ-VALCARCEL, J., PARIS, M., OROMI, P. & GOULA, M. 2020. Updated check-list and geographic database of new chorological data of true bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from the Canary Islands. Arquivos Entomoloxicos, 22 ¦ 169 - 218.