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(Pentatomidae) DISSERTATION Presented
Genome Evolution During Development of Symbiosis in Extracellular Mutualists of Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Alejandro Otero-Bravo Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology The Ohio State University 2020 Dissertation Committee: Zakee L. Sabree, Advisor Rachelle Adams Norman Johnson Laura Kubatko Copyrighted by Alejandro Otero-Bravo 2020 Abstract Nutritional symbioses between bacteria and insects are prevalent, diverse, and have allowed insects to expand their feeding strategies and niches. It has been well characterized that long-term insect-bacterial mutualisms cause genome reduction resulting in extremely small genomes, some even approaching sizes more similar to organelles than bacteria. While several symbioses have been described, each provides a limited view of a single or few stages of the process of reduction and the minority of these are of extracellular symbionts. This dissertation aims to address the knowledge gap in the genome evolution of extracellular insect symbionts using the stink bug – Pantoea system. Specifically, how do these symbionts genomes evolve and differ from their free- living or intracellular counterparts? In the introduction, we review the literature on extracellular symbionts of stink bugs and explore the characteristics of this system that make it valuable for the study of symbiosis. We find that stink bug symbiont genomes are very valuable for the study of genome evolution due not only to their biphasic lifestyle, but also to the degree of coevolution with their hosts. i In Chapter 1 we investigate one of the traits associated with genome reduction, high mutation rates, for Candidatus ‘Pantoea carbekii’ the symbiont of the economically important pest insect Halyomorpha halys, the brown marmorated stink bug, and evaluate its potential for elucidating host distribution, an analysis which has been successfully used with other intracellular symbionts. -
Súčasný Stav Poznania Bzdôch (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) Na Poľskej a Slovenskej Strane Pohoria Pienin
Pieniny – Przyroda i Człowiek 15: 65–82 (2018) Súčasný stav poznania bzdôch (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) na poľskej a slovenskej strane pohoria Pienin Present knowledge of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Polish and Slovak sides of the Pieniny Mts. Vladimír Hemala Ústav botaniky a zoologie, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Česká republika; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. True bugs are relatively poorly known in the Pieniny Mts., while, significantly better situation is in the Polish part of the mountains where 263 species have been known until now. Unfortunately, only 34 species had been recorded from the Slovak part of the Pieniny Mts. until 2017. During the last short survey in 2017, which took place within XLI. East Slovak Camp of Environmentalists, 54 previously unrecorded species were examined increasing the number of species known from the Slovak part of Pieniny Mts. to 88. The total number of species in Polish and Slovak parts of the Pieniny Mts. reaches as many as 272. Key words: Heteroptera, Poland, Slovakia, Carpathians, Pieniny Mts., faunistics ÚVOD 2000; Hoberlandt 1977; Biesiadka 1979; Bazyluk, Liana 1982; Lis 1988, 1989a, b, 1990a, b; Gor- Pohorie Pienin je súčasťou Západných Karpát czyca 1991, 1992, 2004, 2007; Skórka 1995; Lis a leží na slovensko-poľskom pomedzí. Väčšina 1996, 2001; Stroiński 2001; Gorczyca, Chłond územia pohoria patrí do pôsobnosti dvoch národ- 2005; Lis, Lis 2009; Gorczyca, Wolski 2011; Lis ných parkov: Pieninský národný park (PIENAP) et al. 2012; Hebda, Ścibior 2013, 2016; Doma- na slovenskej strane a Pieniński Park Narodowy gała, Ziaja 2016; Taszakowski, Gierlasiński 2017; (PPN) na poľskej strane. -
Insecta Zeitschrift Für Entomologie Und Naturschutz
Insecta Zeitschrift für Entomologie und Naturschutz Heft 9/2004 Insecta Bundesfachausschuss Entomologie Zeitschrift für Entomologie und Naturschutz Heft 9/2004 Impressum © 2005 NABU – Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V. Herausgeber: NABU-Bundesfachausschuss Entomologie Schriftleiter: Dr. JÜRGEN DECKERT Museum für Naturkunde der Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Systematische Zoologie Invalidenstraße 43 10115 Berlin E-Mail: [email protected] Redaktion: Dr. JÜRGEN DECKERT, Berlin Dr. REINHARD GAEDIKE, Eberswalde JOACHIM SCHULZE, Berlin Verlag: NABU Postanschrift: NABU, 53223 Bonn Telefon: 0228.40 36-0 Telefax: 0228.40 36-200 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: www.NABU.de Titelbild: Die Kastanienminiermotte Cameraria ohridella (Foto: J. DECKERT) siehe Beitrag ab Seite 9. Gesamtherstellung: Satz- und Druckprojekte TEXTART Verlag, ERIK PIECK, Postfach 42 03 11, 42403 Solingen; Wolfsfeld 12, 42659 Solingen, Telefon 0212.43343 E-Mail: [email protected] Insecta erscheint in etwa jährlichen Abständen ISSN 1431-9721 Insecta, Heft 9, 2004 Inhalt Vorwort . .5 SCHULZE, W. „Nachbar Natur – Insekten im Siedlungsbereich des Menschen“ Workshop des BFA Entomologie in Greifswald (11.-13. April 2003) . .7 HOFFMANN, H.-J. Insekten als Neozoen in der Stadt . .9 FLÜGEL, H.-J. Bienen in der Großstadt . .21 SPRICK, P. Zum vermeintlichen Nutzen von Insektenkillerlampen . .27 MARTSCHEI, T. Wanzen (Heteroptera) als Indikatoren des Lebensraumtyps Trockenheide in unterschiedlichen Altersphasen am Beispiel der „Retzower Heide“ (Brandenburg) . .35 MARTSCHEI, T., Checkliste der bis jetzt bekannten Wanzenarten H. D. ENGELMANN Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns . .49 DECKERT, J. Zum Vorkommen von Oxycareninae (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae) in Berlin und Brandenburg . .67 LEHMANN, U. Die Bedeutung alter Funddaten für die aktuelle Naturschutzpraxis, insbesondere für das FFH-Monitoring . -
A New Family of Coreoidea from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber (Hemiptera: Pentatomomorpha)
P O L I S H JOUR NAL OF ENTOMOLO G Y POLSKIE PISMO ENTOMOL OGICZ N E VOL. 80: 627-644 Gdynia 31 December 2011 DOI: 10.2478/v10200-011-0049-5 A new family of Coreoidea from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber (Hemiptera: Pentatomomorpha) DANY AZAR1, ANDRÉ NEL2, MICHAEL S. ENGEL3, 4, ROMAIN GARROUSTE2, ARMAND MATOCQ2 1Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, PO box 26110217, Fanar – Matn, Lebanon, e-mail: [email protected]; 2CNRS UMR 7205, CP 50, Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France, e-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]; 3Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049-2811, USA, e-mail: [email protected]; 4Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049-2811, USA ABSTRACT. A new genus and species, Yuripopovina magnifica, belonging to a new coreoid family, Yuripopovinidae (Hemiptera: Pentatomomorpha), is described and illustrated from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon. The species represents the first definitive Mesozoic record for the Coreoidea. A cladistic analysis of Coreoidea, including the new family, is undertaken. KEY WORDS: Pentatomomorpha, Coreoidea, Yuripopovinidae, fam. n., gen. n., sp. n., Lebanon, phylogeny. INTRODUCTION The Pentatomomorpha with its 14 000 known living species (WEIRAUCH & SCHUH 2011) is the second largest of the seven heteropteran infraorders (SCHAEFER 1993, ŠTYS & KERZHNER 1975) (Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptodomorpha, Cimicomorpha, and Pentatomorpha). Most authors recognize five superfamilies within Pentatomomorpha, but there remains controversy regarding the 628 Polish Journal of Entomology 80 (4) composition of these superfamilies (SCHAEFER 1993, ŠTYS 1961). -
Familia Miridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) En La Península Ibérica, Islas Baleares E Islas Canarias (Edición 2018)
Edición Electrónica DFI-0008 Checklist de Fauna Ibérica. Familia Miridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) en la península ibérica, islas Baleares e islas Canarias (edición 2018). Marta Goula, Marcos Roca-Cusachs, Fernando Prieto Piloña & Javier Pérez Valcárcel 31-12-2018 Documentos Fauna Ibérica, 8. Edición electrónica. ISSN: 2445-4133 Documentos Fauna Ibérica. Edición electrónica http://www.faunaiberica.es/publicaciones/dfi/dfi-0008.pdf Proyecto Fauna Ibérica Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Madrid Editores: Autores: Mª Ángeles Ramos Sánchez Marta Goula Manuel Sánchez Ruiz Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals (BEECA) i IRBIo, Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC. Madrid. Av. Diagonal 643. E-08028 Barcelona. [email protected] Marcos Roca-Cusachs Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals (BEECA), Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona. Av. Diagonal 643. E-08028 Barcelona. [email protected] Fernando Prieto Piloña [email protected] Javier Pérez Valcárcel [email protected] Forma de citar el trabajo: Goula, M.; Roca-Cusachs, M.; Prieto Piloña, F. & Pérez Valcárcel, J. 2018. Checklist de Fauna Ibérica. Familia Miridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) en la península ibérica, islas Baleares e islas Canarias (edición 2018). En: Documentos Fauna Ibérica, 8. Ramos, M.A. & Sánchez Ruiz, M. (Eds.). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC. Madrid: [2] + 35 pp. Edición electrónica ISSN 2445-4133 Fecha 31/12/2018 Con licencia Creative Commons: Reconocimiento - NoComercial - CompartirIgual (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): No se permite un uso comercial de la obra original ni de las posibles obras derivadas, la distribución de las cuales se debe hacer con una licencia igual a la que regula la obra original. -
Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Oriental Region
ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE Published 8.xii.2008 Volume 48(2), pp. 611-648 ISSN 0374-1036 New taxa of the Largidae and Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Oriental Region Jaroslav L. STEHLÍK1) & Zdeněk JINDRA2) 1) Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno – Slatina, Czech Republic 2) Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Agriculture, CZ-165 21 Praha 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. The following new taxa are described in the Largidae and Pyrrhocoridae: Largidae – Delacampius alboarcuatus sp. nov. (Indonesia: Bali), D. parvulus sp. nov. (Thailand), D. siberutensis sp. nov. (Indonesia: Siberut), Iphita fasciata sp. nov. (India: Maharastra), I. fuscorubra sp. nov. (India: Maharastra), I. heissi sp. nov. (Indonesia: Sumatra), I. rubricata albolutea subsp. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), I. varians rubra subsp. nov. (Indonesia: Nias), Physopelta kotheae sp. nov. (Indonesia: Sumatra, Java), Ph. melanopyga rufi femur subsp. nov. (Indonesia: Seram), and Ph. trimaculata sp. nov. (India: Maharastra); Pyrrhocoridae – Arma- tillus sulawesiensis sp. nov. (Indonesia: Sulawesi), Brancucciana (Rubriascopus) orientalis sp. nov. (Indonesia: Alor, Sumatra, Timor, Yamdena; Philippines: Mindanao), Dindymus (Dindymus) baliensis sp. nov. (Indonesia: Bali), D. (Din- dymus) sundaensis sp. nov. (Indonesia: Alor), D. (Pseudodindymus) albicornis siberutensis subsp. nov. (Indonesia: Siberut, Nias), D. (Pseudodindymus) stysi sp. nov. (Indonesia: Butung Island), Dysdercus (Paradysdercus) transversalis castaneus subsp. nov. (Indonesia: Yamdena, Banda Islands), Ectatops riedeli sp. nov. (Indonesia: Sulawesi), E. schoenitzeri sp. nov. (Indonesia: Sulawesi), and Eu- scopus tristis sp. nov. (India: Kerala). Two new combinations within the Largidae are established: Iphita fi mbriata (Stål, 1863) comb. -
Silver Spring
LAND NORTH OF BIGGINS WOOD ROAD FOLKESTONE KENT: ECOLOGICAL SURVEY BY MARTIN NEWCOMBE th 29 December 2011 D63.TR203374.FolkSilver.Rv2 Martin Newcombe Wildlife Management Consultancy 01233 720229 CONTENTS PAGE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 3 2.0 METHODS 4 3.0 RESULTS 5 4.0 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 6 5.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 APPENDIX 1 LIST OF SPECIES RECORDED FROM THE SITE. FIGURE 1 THE APPROXIMATE EXTENT OF THE SURVEY AREA. 2 LOCATION OF THE MAIN POINTS OF INTEREST. 3 A GENERAL VIEW OF THE SITE. 4 A CLOSER VIEW OF THE VEGETATION. 5 THE DEAD TREES THAT WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE BAT POTENTIAL. 6 PART OF ONE OF THE RETAINED REPTILE AREA CONTRASTED WITH THE MAINTAINED AND SCRUB - CLEAR PART OF THE SITE. Land north of Biggins Wood Road, Folkestone, Kent. Page 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 This document was compiled in order to report upon a general ecological survey of an area of land located north of Elventon Close and Charles Crescent (off Biggins Wood Road), east of Caesar’s Way and south of the M20 motorway at Folkestone, Kent (OS / TR2033741). The land is a former minerals quarry that has been used as a rubbish tip in the past, with consequent deposition of a range of different soil types and related materials. It is at present undeveloped and largely consists of an intimate mixture of vegetation types such as the OV25 Urtica dioica – Cirsium arvense, the Filipendula ulmaria – Angelica sylvestris sub community of the OV26 Epilobium hirsutum community and the OV27 Epilobium angustifolium communities of Rodwell (2000), and varying stages of succession of the W22 Prunus spinosa – Rubus fruticosus scrub and W21 Crataegus monogyna – Hedera helix scrub types of Rodwell (1998), amongst others. -
Building-Up of a DNA Barcode Library for True Bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Germany Reveals Taxonomic Uncertainties and Surprises
Building-Up of a DNA Barcode Library for True Bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Germany Reveals Taxonomic Uncertainties and Surprises Michael J. Raupach1*, Lars Hendrich2*, Stefan M. Ku¨ chler3, Fabian Deister1,Je´rome Morinie`re4, Martin M. Gossner5 1 Molecular Taxonomy of Marine Organisms, German Center of Marine Biodiversity (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 2 Sektion Insecta varia, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (SNSB – ZSM), Mu¨nchen, Germany, 3 Department of Animal Ecology II, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, 4 Taxonomic coordinator – Barcoding Fauna Bavarica, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (SNSB – ZSM), Mu¨nchen, Germany, 5 Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universita¨tMu¨nchen, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany Abstract During the last few years, DNA barcoding has become an efficient method for the identification of species. In the case of insects, most published DNA barcoding studies focus on species of the Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Hymenoptera and especially Lepidoptera. In this study we test the efficiency of DNA barcoding for true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), an ecological and economical highly important as well as morphologically diverse insect taxon. As part of our study we analyzed DNA barcodes for 1742 specimens of 457 species, comprising 39 families of the Heteroptera. We found low nucleotide distances with a minimum pairwise K2P distance ,2.2% within 21 species pairs (39 species). For ten of these species pairs (18 species), minimum pairwise distances were zero. In contrast to this, deep intraspecific sequence divergences with maximum pairwise distances .2.2% were detected for 16 traditionally recognized and valid species. With a successful identification rate of 91.5% (418 species) our study emphasizes the use of DNA barcodes for the identification of true bugs and represents an important step in building-up a comprehensive barcode library for true bugs in Germany and Central Europe as well. -
An Annotated Catalog of the Iranian Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha)
Zootaxa 3845 (1): 001–101 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2014 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3845.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C77D93A3-6AB3-4887-8BBB-ADC9C584FFEC ZOOTAXA 3845 An annotated catalog of the Iranian Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) HASSAN GHAHARI1 & FRÉDÉRIC CHÉROT2 1Department of Plant Protection, Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] 2DEMNA, DGO3, Service Public de Wallonie, Gembloux, Belgium, U. E. E-mail: [email protected] Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by M. Malipatil: 15 May 2014; published: 30 Jul. 2014 HASSAN GHAHARI & FRÉDÉRIC CHÉROT An annotated catalog of the Iranian Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) (Zootaxa 3845) 101 pp.; 30 cm. 30 Jul. 2014 ISBN 978-1-77557-463-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77557-464-4 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2014 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2014 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 3845 (1) © 2014 Magnolia Press GHAHARI & CHÉROT Table of contents Abstract . -
Through Arthropod Eyes Gaining Mechanistic Understanding of Calcareous Grassland Diversity
Through arthropod eyes Gaining mechanistic understanding of calcareous grassland diversity Toos van Noordwijk Through arthropod eyes Gaining mechanistic understanding of calcareous grassland diversity Van Noordwijk, C.G.E. 2014. Through arthropod eyes. Gaining mechanistic understanding of calcareous grassland diversity. Ph.D. thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Keywords: Biodiversity, chalk grassland, dispersal tactics, conservation management, ecosystem restoration, fragmentation, grazing, insect conservation, life‑history strategies, traits. ©2014, C.G.E. van Noordwijk ISBN: 978‑90‑77522‑06‑6 Printed by: Gildeprint ‑ Enschede Lay‑out: A.M. Antheunisse Cover photos: Aart Noordam (Bijenwolf, Philanthus triangulum) Toos van Noordwijk (Laamhei) The research presented in this thesis was financially spupported by and carried out at: 1) Bargerveen Foundation, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 2) Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 3) Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Belgium. The research was in part commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation as part of the O+BN program (Development and Management of Nature Quality). Financial support from Radboud University for printing this thesis is gratefully acknowledged. Through arthropod eyes Gaining mechanistic understanding of calcareous grassland diversity Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen op gezag van de rector magnificus prof. mr. S.C.J.J. Kortmann volgens besluit van het college van decanen en ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor in de biologie aan de Universiteit Gent op gezag van de rector prof. dr. Anne De Paepe, in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 om 10.30 uur precies door Catharina Gesina Elisabeth van Noordwijk geboren op 9 februari 1981 te Smithtown, USA Promotoren: Prof. -
Hemiptera: Heteroptera) Berend Aukema, Frank Bos, Dik Hermes & Philip Zeinstra
nieuwe en interessante nederlandse wantsen ii, met een geactualiseerde naamlijst (hemiptera: heteroptera) Berend Aukema, Frank Bos, Dik Hermes & Philip Zeinstra Dit artikel biedt een overzicht van 42 soorten nieuwe of anderszins interessante Nederlandse wantsen, waargenomen of ontdekt in de periode 1998 tot en met 2004. Tupiocoris rhododendri (Miridae), Xylocoridea brevipennis (Anthocoridae), Metopoplax fuscinervis (Lygaeidae) en Elasmostethus minor (Acanthosomatidae) zijn nieuw voor de Nederlandse fauna. De tingiden Copium clavicorne en Derephysia sinuatocollis, de anthocoride Amphiareus obscuriceps, de lygaeiden Horvathiolus superbus en Holcocranum saturejae en de pentatomide Stagonomus bipunctatus pusillus werden elders al als Nederlandse soorten genoemd, maar worden hier voor het eerst in detail behandeld. Tupiocoris rhododendri, Stephanitis takeyai en Nysius huttoni zijn exoten, die ons land op niet-natuurlijke wijze hebben bereikt. Tot besluit wordt een geactualiseerde lijst gegeven van alle 618 in Nederland waargenomen soorten. inleiding in voorbereiding is. Tenzij anders tussen haakjes Sinds het vorige overzicht van nieuwe, zeldzame vermeld bevindt het materiaal zich in de collectie of anderszins interessante wantsen (Aukema et van de verzamelaar. Gebruikte afkortingen: al. 1997) zijn inmiddels veel vermeldenswaardige ac Amersfoortcoördinaten, ba - Berend Aukema, vonsten gedaan, die nog niet of niet in detail fb - Frank Bos, dh - Dik Hermes, pd - Planten- gepubliceerd zijn. ziektenkundige Dienst, pz - Philip Zeinstra, Met deze -
Pyrrhocoris Apterus L. (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae), a Newly Introduced Family, Genus, and Species to Ontario and Canada
Pyrrhocoris apterus , newly introduced to Ontario and Canada JESO Volume 149, 2018 PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS L. (HEMIPTERA: PYRRHOCORIDAE), A NEWLY INTRODUCED FAMILY, GENUS, AND SPECIES TO ONTARIO AND CANADA P. J. OVIEDO RojAS1* AND M. D. JACKsoN1 1University of Guelph: 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 email, [email protected] Scientific Note J. ent. Soc. Ont. 149: 27–32 The family Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera: Pentatomomorpha) has a widespread range, having its greatest diversity in the tropics yet also containing members endemic to the Holarctic region (Schuh and Slater 1995), although none are native to Canada. Dysdercus Guérin-Méneville (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae), which includes the economically important cotton stainers, is the only pyrrhocorid genus with members native to the New World, but is chiefly tropical and more diverse in the Old World (Schaefer 2015). One species has been recorded from as far north as South Carolina and Georgia, USA (Henry 1988a). Pyrrhocoris apterus L. (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae), commonly known as the European firebug, linden bug, or red soldier bug, is found natively throughout Europe and neighbouring regions of Asia. Pyrrhocoris apterus has also been recorded historically from Costa Rica (Distant 1880–1893) and reported in New Jersey, USA in 1896 (Barber 1911; Henry 1988a), though it was not considered established in North America until it was found in Utah, USA in 2008 (Hodgson 2008). This paper will describe the first account of P. apterus, and the family Pyrrhocoridae, in Canada, with evidence that the species has become locally established. The first author first noticed P. apterus in a backyard in Etobicoke, Ontario near the intersection of Martin Grove Road and The Westway (43°41’N 79°34’W) in August 2017.