Oxycarenus (s.str.) lavaterae (Fabricius, 1787)

Cvetkovska-Gjorgievska, Aleksandra, Dedov, Ivailo, Hristovski, Slavcho, Langourov, Mario, Lazarevska, Stanislava, Prelik, Dana & Simov, Nikolay, 2019, New records of allochtonous, invasive and pest invertebrate species from the Republic of Macedonia, Ecologica Montenegrina 20, pp. 56-70 : 61

Oxycarenus (s.str.) lavaterae (Fabricius, 1787) – Lime seed bug ( Hemiptera , Oxycarenidae )

Record: town of Prilep, center of the city, 655 m a.s.l., on Tilia sp., 41.346010°N 21.555139°E, 01.11.2018, many individuals, M. Langourov obs .

Origin: Oxycarenus lavaterae is a west-mediterranean species, which during the last two decades of the 20th and first decade of 21st century, rapidly spread to the Northern and Eastern Europe ( Rabitsch 2008, 2010). The species is trophically associated generally with Tilia sp., ( Péricart 1999, Kment et al. 2006, Rabitsch 2008).

The first records in neighboring regions on Balkan Peninsula were in Bulgaria ( Kalushkov 2000; Simov et al. 2012). In the last two decades the species spread across almost all territory of the peninsula ( Rabitsch 2010, Simov et al. 2012). Up to now its remains overlooked for Macedonia. This is the first record for the Macedonian fauna. The reference for Macedonia in Arslangündoğdu et al. (2018) is misidentification with the data for Montenegro ( Rabitsch 2008, Velimirović et al. 1992).