Hemiptera

Bezděk, Jan & Hájek, Jiří, 2017, Insect biodiversity of the Socotra Archipelago - underlined and counted, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57, pp. 1-39 : 8

Hemiptera : Heteroptera

Literature sources. TASCHENBERG (1883), KIRKALDY (1899, 1903), DISTANT (1901, 1903), BROWN (1956), LANSBURY (1964), USINGER (1966), SCUDDER (1967), EYLES (1973), ANDERSEN (1980), GÖLLNER- SCHEIDING (1980), LINNAVUORI (1989, 1994, 1997), RIBES & SCHMITZ (1992), WRANIK (1998, 1999, 2000, 2003), LINNAVUORI & HARTEN (2000, 2002), LIS (2000), MOULET (2001, 2004), CHEUNG & DEVANTIER (2006), CARAPEZZA (2011), DECKERT (2012), KMENT et al. (2015a, b, 2017).

Comments. At present days the fauna of Heteroptera is intensively studied. To date 60 species from 51 genera and 22 families have been published from Socotra. Of them one genus ( Socantestia Ribes & Schmitz, 1992 ) and 18 species (30%) are treated as endemic. Only one species, Chroantha ornatula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1842) , is recorded from Abd el Kuri. Based on the preliminary information published by KMENT et al. (2015a,b), the number of species will rapidly increase in the near future, as currently 196 species from 153 genera and 31 families are recorded and waiting to be published. Heteroptera shows high level of endemism (ca. 57 species and 10 genera, i.e. 29%), however, in some phytophagous families ( Miridae , Tingidae ) the endemism reaches even 52%.