Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874

Çerçý, Bariş, Gorczyca, Jacek & Koçak, Özgür, 2021, Description of New Miridae and Tingidae Species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and New Records from Southern Turkey, Zootaxa 4949 (2), pp. 312-332 : 327

Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874

( Fig. 36B )

Material examined: Turkey: Mersin, Anamur, 15.06.2020, 1 ♂, Ö. Koçak leg., B. Çerçi det. (BCIT) Comments: Tempyra biguttula is a Nearctic species originally described from Texas, USA ( Stål 1874). Later it was found from several southern and northern states of USA, Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Galápagos Islands and Argentina ( Kirkaldy 1910; Slater, 1964; Froeschner 1985; Baranowski & Slater 2005; Carpintero et al. 2006). More recently, in 2011, this species was introduced to Spain and started to spread along the coastline of Western Mediterranean Region as an invasive alien species. It was recorded from several localities in Spain (Baena & Torres 2012), Portugal, France ( Maurel & Porteneuve 2018) and Sardinia ( Rattu & Dioli 2018). This new record from Mersin, Turkey greatly enlarges the known distribution of this species in the Palaearctic Region from West Mediterranean to the East Mediterranean ( Map 2 ). Although the biology and ecology of this species is almost completely unknown, Rattu & Dioli (2018) put the argument forward, based on previous observations in Europe, that it could take refuge in occasional shelters where there were seeds of different plants, particularly Fabaceae seeds and easily adapt to the plant species available in the newly colonized territories.

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MAP 2. Distribution of Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874 in the Palaearctic Region. Circles mark previous records, star marks the new record from Turkey.

FIG. 36A–B. 36A—Hallodapus costae (Reuter, 1890), female, 36B—Tempyra biguttula (Stål, 1874), male (Scale bar = 1 mm).