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First record of ferrugata (F.) (: : Acanthosomatidae) from Montenegro

VLADIMÍR HEMALA1 and VÁCLAV HANZLÍK2

1 Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Za lesem 246, CZ-277 11 Neratovice, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected]

Received 17 March 2015 │ Accepted 24 March 2015 │ Published online 25 March 2015.

Elasmucha ferrugata (Fabricius, 1787) (Fig. 1). Montenegro, Prokletje Mts., Gusinje-Grbaja valley, 42°31'18.462"N, 19°47'5.349"E, 26.–27.v.2014, on Rubus spp. on the edge of a pasture, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, V. Hanzlík lgt., V. Hemala det., P. Kment revid. (coll. V. Hanzlík, Neratovice, Czech Republic).

Figure 1. Specimens of Elasmucha ferrugata from Gusinje-Grbaja valley, Prokletje Mts. Left: male; right: female (photo by V. Hanzlík).

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It is an Eurosiberian species so far known in Balkan Peninsula from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovenia (Protić 2001, 2010; Göllner-Scheiding 2006); in other European parts from Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia (European part), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine; and in Asia from China (Northern, Northeastern and Southwestern Territories), Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia and Russia (West Siberia, East Siberia and Far East) (Göllner-Scheiding 2006; Aukema et al. 2013). This species lives on Vaccinium spp. (especially on V. myrtillus and also on V. vitis-idaea) in light forests and at forest edges; it was found occasionally also on other berry plants, e.g. on Grossularia, Ribes, Rubus, Prunus, Lonicera and Crataegus (Kerzhner 1972; Stehlík 1984; Wachmann et al. 2008). It hibernates in the adult stage, and active adults can be found at the end of April or the first half of May; the new generation of adults has been observed in August and September (Stehlík 1984). According to Stehlík (1984) in Moravia (Czech Republic) the species does not occur in plains (>260 m a.s.l.) but only in hilly, incidentally mountainous terrain up to 650 m a.s.l. Parental care and reproductive investments of three Elasmucha species, including E. ferrugata, was studied by Kaitala & Mappes (1997), informations about behaviour, oviposition and Pendergrast's organs of E. ferrugata (and other Acanthosomatidae) were summarized and updated by Fischer (2006) and Hanelová & Vilímová (2013). Keys of European species of the genus Elasmucha Stål, 1864 are given e.g. by Wagner (1966), Kerzhner (1972), Lis & Lis (1998), and Lis et al. (2012). New species for the fauna of Montenegro.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank Ljiljana Protić (Natural History Museum, Belgrade) for help with occurrence data and to Petr Kment (National Museum, Prague) for providing literature. Special thanks from the first author goes to the project No. MUNI/A/1484/2014 for the support.

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