Pantilius (Pantilius) tunicatus, (Fabricius, 1781) (Fabricius, 1781) KERZHNER & JOSIFOV, 1999

Images examined and iNaturalist Portuguese records View in CoL

PORTUGAL:

Guarda district:

— Gouveia municipality:

x Near São Paio (40.509377, -7.577646; MGRS: 29TPE2085; alt.: 565 m a.s.l.), 11/10/2022 (1 adult specimen and 1 nymph photographed by Thijs Valkenburg (see here and here).

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Viana do Castelo district:

— Ponte da Lima municipality:

x Near Lagoa do Mimoso ( Mimoso lagoon) (41.771229, -8.630225; MGRS: 29TNG3024; 14 m a.s.l.), 06/10/2022 (1 adult specimen photographed by Ernesto Gonçalves).

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x Near Lagoa de S. Pedro d’Arcos (S. Pedro d’Arcos lagoon) (41.767675, -8.641820; MGRS: 29TNG2924; 7 m a.s.l.), 01/10/2023 (1 adult specimen photographed by Ernesto Gonçalves) GoogleMaps .

Vila Real district:

— Boticas municipality:

x Boticas Parque (41.675577, -7.716609; MGRS: 29TPG0614; alt.: 723 m a.s.l.), 01/10/2022 (1 adult specimen photographed by J.M. Grosso-Silva on Betula , shown in Figs. 1-2 View Figs ).

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Comments

The records of P. (P.) tunicatus presented in this study, besides adding the species to the Portuguese mirid catalogue, significantly expand its known distribution range in northern Iberia, as shown in Map 1 View Map 1 . This extensive westward expansion suggests a very poor knowledge about the species area of occurrence in both the Spanish and Portuguese territories which may be derived from a lower field sampling effort during its predominantly early autumnal adult phenology [all the Iberian records presented by RIBES (1982), GOULA (1986, 1988) and PAGOLA-CARTE et al. (2005, 2006) are from late September and early to mid-October, as the new ones presented here].