Montandoniola moraguesi
Creators
- 1. Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; e-mail: www. heteropteran 99 @ gmail. com
- 2. Çevre ve Şehircilik Müdürlüğü Başakşehir Mah. 2020 Sk. No:
- 3. Karaman, Turkey; e-mail: turkelebek @ yahoo. com
Description
Montandoniola moraguesi (Puton, 1896)
(Fig. 5F)
Material examined: TURKEY: MERSIN: Anamur, 36°02′08.3″N 32°48′31.7″E, 17.vii.2018, 13, Ö. Koçak leg., B. Çerçi det.The specimen was only photographed but not collected.
Comment. Montandoniola moraguesi is an important biological control agent used to fight thrips invasions on economically important crops. It is unique among the Anthocoridae species known from Turkey because of its thrips-like appearance (Fig.11B). It lives inside the galls or gall-like deformations caused by the thrips on which it feeds (PLUOT- SIGWALT et al. 2009). Montandoniola moraguesi is known from the following countries: the Balearic Islands, France, Italy, Spain, the Canary Islands, Israel, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso, and South Africa (PLUOT- SIGWALT et al. 2009). Considering its wide distribution along the Mediterranean coasts, it is possible that this species has a stable population in Mersin, Turkey and was not introduced here by farmers.
Distribution in Turkey. Mersin (this work).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anthocoridae
- Genus
- Montandoniola
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Puton
- Species
- moraguesi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Montandoniola moraguesi (Puton, 1896) sec. Çerçi, Koçak & Tezcan, 2019