DOI: 10.15468/f3av9s
title: New Records and Updated Checklist of the Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Greece

description: This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Tsagkarakis, Antonios, Thanou, Zoi, Chaldeou, Aikaterini, Moschou, Ioanna, Kalaitzaki, Argyro, Drosopoulos, Sakis (2022): New Records and Updated Checklist of the Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Greece. Insects 13 (8): 1-29, DOI: 10.3390/insects13080749, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13080749Abstract: Eight species of the superfamily Pentatomoidea are recorded from Greece for the first time: Aelia germari Küster 1852, Eurygaster hottentotta (Fabricius 1775), Eysarcoris aeneus (Scopoli 1763), Neottiglossa lineolata (Herrich-Schaeffer 1830), Neottiglossa pusilla (Gallen 1789), Picromerus bidens (Linnaeus 1758), Podops (Podops) inunctus (Fabricius 1775) and Tarisa pallescens (Jakovlev 1871). A complete updated species checklist with distributional data notes for all the new species for Greece are provided.Citation: Tsagkarakis, A.;Thanou, Z.; Chaldeou, A.;Moschou, I.; Kalaitzaki, A.; Drosopoulos, S. New Records and Updated Checklist of the Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Greece. Insects 2022, 13, 749. https://doi.org/10.3390/ insects13080749Keywords: Acanthosomatidae; Cydnidae; Pentatomidae; Plataspidae; Scutelleridae; burrower bugs; jewel bugs; shield bugs; stink bugs; new records; Greece1. IntroductionAcademic Editors: Sergey Ya Reznik; Dmitry L. Musolin and Anne L.The superfamily Pentatomoidea constitutes one of the most important insect groups of the suborder Heteroptera. It includes 1080 genera and 5907 species belonging to 16 families of which the Cydnidae, Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae and Tessaratomidae are the most important; 94% of the species belong to these four families [1–3]. Pentatomidae is the fourth most numerous family within Heteroptera with more than 4700 species, commonly known as stink bugs [4]. It includes predominantly herbivorous species, some of them having high economic importance, such as the brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys (Stål) and the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula (L.).NielsenReceived: 26 July 2022Accepted: 16 August 2022Published: 19 August 2022Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.Halyomorpha halys is a polyphagous stink bug native to China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan [5]. It was introduced into the United States in the mid-1990s, resulting in losses of apples, peaches, tomatoes and other important crops [6]. Recently, it has been detected in Europe for the first time in Switzerland in 2007, damaging stone fruits and legume pods [7]. Until recently, it has been recorded in many European countries including Greece [8], and it is considered a potential threat to agricultural productivity in all these regions [9,10] since it has a broad host range and is capable to disperse long-distance by flight [11].Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).There have been sporadic references on specific species of Pentatomoidea in Greece [8,12–43], and two overall studies, one in 1980 [44] and the other in 2019, which updated the previous one and included all new species [45]. Given the worldwide problem of the brown marmorated stink bug pest status [6] and its presence in Greece [8], understanding this family in Greece may assist in distinguishing this pest species from native ones, and provide more targeted response for future detections of this pest. The aim of the present study is to present new records and an updated checklist of the Pentatomoidea of Greece.