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Entomologia Hellenica View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by National Documentation Centre - EKT journals ENTOMOLOGIA HELLENICA Vol. 27, 2018 First record of the bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus in Greece Petrakis Panos Hellenic Agricultural Organization – “Demeter”; Institute for Mediterranean Forest Ecosystem Research, Laboratory of Entomology https://doi.org/10.12681/eh.18703 Copyright © 2018 Panos Petrakis To cite this article: Petrakis, P. (2018). First record of the bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus in Greece. ENTOMOLOGIA HELLENICA, 27(1), 1-9. doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/eh.18703 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 20/02/2020 21:51:25 | ENTOMOLOGIA HELLENICA 27 (2018): 1-9 Received 20 November 2017 Accepted 18 March 2018 Available online 10 May 2018 SHORT COMMUNICATION First record of the bug Thaumastocoris peregrinus in Greece P.V. PETRAKIS Hellenic Agricultural Organization – “Demeter”, Institute for Mediterranean Forest Ecosystem Research, Laboratory of Entomology, Athens, Greece ABSTRACT The Australian bug species Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpineto et Dellapè (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) is reported for the first time in Greece. This is a sap-sucking consumer (mesophyll feeder) of Eucalyptus spp. foliage. Feeding damage and the egg batches of the insect were found in several locations in 2016. This invasive species recently has been recorded from Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Although in Greece there are no currently forest plantations of eucalypts (experimental plantations exempted), this insect is a serious pest of these trees in roadside verges and city parks. KEY WORDS: pest distribution, Eucalyptus, invasive species, Thaumastocoris peregrinus. Introduction considered rare (Cassis et al. 1999) but over the past twenty years, it has exploded to Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpineto et become a serious pest (Noack and Rose Dellapè (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) 2007, Noack et al. 2011, EPPO 2014). The (bronze bug) is a pest of several Eucalyptus cause of the expansion of the geographical and Corymbia species. This insect is native range of T. peregrinus is not known but in to The Australian state of New South Wales all likelihood, its invasion is mediated by (Cassis and Gross 1995), and is now human commerce and travel. widespread in Queensland and South In this paper I report the first occurrence Australia (Noack et al. 2011). It is spreading of T. peregrinus in Greece. through Africa, Europe and South and Central America (FAO 2012). CABI (2017) Materials and Methods lists its current distribution, highlighting its invasion to most continental regions of the A search of invasive insects, including T. world. Laudonia and Sasso (2012) and peregrinus, was based on examination of Garcia et al. (2013) document its European plant material from across, mostly in central distribution. T. peregrinus is found in and southern Greece. Plant material Portugal, Spain (Vivas et al. 2015), Italy consisted of branches above 3m, with a including Sicily and Sardinia (Laudonia and length of ca.50 cm, which were packed and Sasso 2012), Israel (Novoselsky and sealed in paper bags to prevent escape of Freiberg 2016) and Albania (van der Heyden this insect and simultaneously to avoid 2017). The insect has been moved in the decay. The material was collected by two ‘Alert list’ of EPPO (2012a,b). It was *Corresponding author: [email protected] http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 20/02/2020 21:51:25 | 2 ENTOMOLOGIA HELLENICA 27 (2018): 1-9 foresters (authorized prefecture plant oil. In general these traps are proved to be sanitary inspectors) in each forest and efficient method for the sampling of T. roadside locale, who forwarded the material peregrinus even for detailed studies (e.g. to the Entomology laboratory in Athens, in population dynamics in Nadel et al. 2014). the Institute for the Mediterranean Forest The identification of the insect was Ecosystems (IMFE). Many roadside planted based on morphological characters given in eucalypts in all prefectures, mostly in central the identification key of Noack et al. (2011) and southern Greece were sampled in this and photomicrographs of Garcia et al. (2013) and Laudonia and Sasso (2012). way. Our laboratory is authorized to Voucher specimens are deposited in the examine eucalypts in Greece for the insect collection at IMFE, Athens. presence of Gonipterus scutellatus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Results under the auspices of the EU program “National survey program for the We examined more than 350 samples (Fig. recognition and maintenance of protected 1). The insect was first found on road zones against organisms harmful to plants margin trees from Itea, Fokis prefecture and (quarantine pests)”. later in the city park at Peristeri, Attica. The When the bronze appearance of leaves insect body is dorso-ventrally compressed was detected together with feeding damage with length 2-3.5 mm. The head is broad and of T. peregrinus then the site revisited to bears pedicellate eyes (Fig. 2A and B). The search for this invasive insect. Further sites mandibular plates are very conspicuous, were inspected with Eucalyptus elongate, and easily seen in the field. The camaldulensis Dehnh., E. sideroxylon color varies from yellow to yellow-greenish A.Cunn. ex Woolls, E. viminalis Labill. in and brownish with sporadically darker areas. the garden of IMFE (Athens, Attica), and The eggs are black and are laid in the Corymbia citriodora Hook. on the island of underside of eucalypt leaves where the Corfu. One to five infested trees per site insect is usually found. The neonate and were sampled two or three times between young nymphs of the insect are straw yellow April and June. Also, insects were collected in color. by fumigating eucalypt trees with summer The number of insects found at Itea is oil (Vicol, Vicchem, Australia) using a 4 x 4 showed in Table 1 as an example. Many meters cloth panel spread on the ground leaves of the tree are damaged and in a few underneath fumigated trees to collect the days, they will become the characteristic bronze color (Fig. 3). No measurement of insects that dislodge from the foliage. leaf photosynthesis or stomatal conductance In places with substantial eucalypt was made but presumably the vegetation (Corinth, Patras [Achaea], photosynthetic rate at these leaves is reduced Vonitsa [Aitolia/Akarnania], Marathon, (Wilcken et al. 2010). Philothei, Maroussi, and Metamorphosis Positive records of T. peregrinus where [Attica]) we sought the presence of T. fumigation took place are the abandoned peregrinus, and other insects as well, by eucalypt plantation in Aitolia/Akarnania means of delta traps bearing the artificial (Vonitsa, Menidi), Corinth, Cyclades attractant 3-methylbut-2-enyl butanoate (Sifnos, Syros, and Tenos), and Attica (Gonzalez et al. 2012) together with three 30 (Peristeri, Philothei, Metamorphosi, Lavrio) x 20 cm sticky boards, bearing no attractant, (Fig. 1). The fumigations of trees with no made by plywood and hung on the same tree signs of leaf damage did not reveal any T. at a height above 3 meters. In these sites, peregrinus individual despite the fact that eucalypt trees without sticky traps, were several insect species were found in the sprayed with summer oil. The trees bearing catch of the ground collection clothes. sticky traps were not treated with summer www.entsoc.gr © 2018 Hellenic Entomological Society http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 20/02/2020 21:51:25 | P.V. PETRAKIS: First report of Thaumastoceris peregrinus in Greece 3 FIG. 1. Sampling sites in Greece with eucalypts. Examined sites are represented by empty circles and full circles are sites with eucalypt foliage bearing with Thaumastocoris peregrinus. A symbol may correspond to more than one site of examination. The site at Itea, Fokis where the insect was found for first time is indicated with an arrow. TABLE 1. Excerpt from the table listing the individuals of Thaumastocoris peregrinus found on Eucalyptus camaldulensis branches grown at roadsides at one of the sites searched in Itea, Fokis. Each line represents one sample corresponding to one branch on a specific date. Sample Date Tree Branch Branch T. peregrinus (sn) (yyyymmdd) number number mass (g) males females Nymphs 1 20170612 1 1 452 13 8 0 2 20170925 1 2 568 25 37 0 3 20170925 2 1 268 2 8 0 4 20170925 3 1 374 8 12 0 5 20170925 3 3 455 11 10 0 www.entsoc.gr © 2018 Hellenic Entomological Society http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 20/02/2020 21:51:25 | 4 ENTOMOLOGIA HELLENICA 27 (2018): 1-9 (A) (B) FIG. 2. Adult male (A) and penultimate instar nymph (B) of Thaumastocoris peregrinus. Τhe right hemelytron of the adult is removed. Both individuals have been collected from a city park in Peristeri, Attica. www.entsoc.gr © 2018 Hellenic Entomological Society http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 20/02/2020 21:51:25 | P.V. PETRAKIS: First report of Thaumastoceris peregrinus in Greece 5 FIG. 3. The underside of the leaf blade and the associated leaf damage (chlorotic leaf areas and areas with initiation of bronzing) caused by Thaumastocoris peregrinus is shown. The leaf in a few days becomes bronze in color, hence the vernacular name of the insect ‘bronze bug’. Discussion (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) (Petrakis and Moulet 2011) were seen to predate upon This work reports T. peregrinus for first caged T. peregrinus (PVP personal time in Greece. This species was recorded at observation). The latter species feeds by several areas and in some cases at high sticking the prey on its front legs or population densities. In the ‘Invasive impeding the movements of T. peregrinus in Species Compendium’ CABI (2017) is a way very similar to the reduviid bug stated that there is a risk of introduction of Atopozelus opsimus Elkins, which predates T. peregrinus in Greece since the climate of the same insect in Brazil (Wilcken et al.
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