Canthophorus melanopterus (HERRICH-SCHAEFFER, 1835)

Protic, Ljiljana, 2003, Species of the genus Canthophorus MULSANT et REY, 1866 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) in Yugoslavia and adjacent countries, Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 72, No. 1, pp. 81-88 : 84-85

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scientific name	Canthophorus melanopterus (HERRICH-SCHAEFFER, 1835)
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Treatment

NHMB collection data

The Heteroptera collection of the Natural History Museum includes only specimens collected by Dr. Eugen Jaeger on the Krk Island in Dalmatia [VK79], and which now is in the Nikola Kormilev's collection of Heteroptera - Inv. nr. 48.

Bibliography

AL: HORVATH 1916, CSIKI 1940, MANCINI 1952- 1953; BH: PROTIC 1987a; BU: JOSIFOV 1969, 1986; CR: KORLEVIC 1-887, NOVAK & WAGNER 1951, BALARIN 1963, PROTIC 1987b, FuRLAN & GOGALA 1995; GR: LIS 1999; MC: GOLLNER-SCHEIDING 1978, 1982; RU: KIS 1984; SL: GOGALA & GOGALA 1986, 1989; SR: KORMILEV 1936, CSIKI 1940, PROTIC 2001.

Distribution

Mediterranean species. The northern boundary of range of C. melanopterus goes through Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary. Southward boundaries stretch across the peninsulas: Iberian, Ligurian and Balkan, and end in North African countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. In the east Syria, Iran and south Russia are the southernmost localities.

Remarks

The range of this species matches exactly the localities where it was recorded in exYugoslavia. These localities have the typical characteristic of the Mediterranean biogeographic subregion: Dalmatia, southern Serbia, and Macedonia. C. melanopterus was most often recorded on plants representing two genera, namely Thesium and Helichrysum . These plants grow in dry meadows, grassy places, and sunny slopes. The species was also recorded on Fraxinus ornus on Kozjak Mt. ( NOVAK & WAGNER 1951).

Considering the habitat type where C. melanopterus was collected in the adjacent countries, it may be assumed that it also lived in Montenegro.