Canthophorus impressus (HORVATH, 1881)

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 : 83-84

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scientific name	Canthophorus impressus (HORVATH, 1881)
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Treatment

NHMB collection data

MC: Valandovo: Pupkov Rid [FL37] 1995.05.07. leg. T. Trajkovski - Inv. nr. 3032 ; SR: Beograd: Topcider [DQ55] 1942.07.22. leg. B. Petrov - Inv. nr. 3031 .

Bibliography

AL: HORVATI-I 1916, CSIKI 1940; BH: PROTI<: 1987a; BU: JOSIFOV 1969, 1986; CR: HORVATI-I 1897, MANCINI 1952- 1953, BALARIN 1963; MC: G6LLNER-SCHAEIDING 1982; MN: SCHUMACHER 1914, PROTIC et al 1990; RU: Krs 1984; SL: GOGALA & GOGALA 1986; SR: CSIKI 1940, PROTIC 2001.

Distribution

European-Middle Asian species. The northern border of its continuous range in Europe locates about 52° N. One of the northernmost localities of C. impressus continuous range lies in the Erzgebirges Mountains on the boundary between Germany and Czech Republic ( STYS 1963), but a few isolated localities of the species were also found in the southern parts of Poland on the xerothermic localities ( LIS 1989). This species is characterised by a large amplitude of vertical distribution, as was confirmed by many authors ( TAMANINI 1982, STYS 1963, HEISS 1977, VOIGT 1980, STEHLIK 1983, LIS 1989). Specimens from the collection of the Natural History Museum have been collected at]ow altitudes, not exceedexceeding 500 m. In Poland the species was also collected at very low altitudes, between 200 and 500 m a.s.l. ( LIS 1989).

Remarks

Mountain species. In ex-Yugoslavia it was recorded in many high mountains: Alps, Kopaonik, Durmitor, Sara, Korab. Previously, it was considered a monophagous species living on Thesium alpinum . However, results of many studies have shown that it was a poliphagous species. TAMANINI (1982) recorded it in the northern Italy on T. montanum and T. bavarum , and SCHUSTER (1979) in the Schwaben area on T. linophyllum . Even more precise data on plants were presented by STEHLIK (1983), who collected this species at Vesely Zleb, Jedornice (550 m a.s.l.) on Euphorbia ciparissias , as well as on almost all other plants at that locality. In Bulgaria it was caught at as low altitude as 170 m on the Vitosha Mt. ( JOSIFOV 1969). In some areas it coexits with C. dubius. Many authors ( RIEGER 1973, HEISS 1977, GUNTHER 1981, STEHLIK 1983) confirmed that C. impressus was more abundant than C. dubius.