A contribution to the distribution of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Poland – V
Grzegorz Gierlasiński¹*
, Grzegorz Kolago², Artur Taszakowski³ ⁵, Marek Miłkowski⁴, Jarosław Regner, Dariusz Kojder, Jan Krzysztof Kowalczyk⁶, Janusz Grzywocz⁵, Martyna Burda³, Adrian Masłowski³, Tomasz Rutkowski¹
¹ Zbiory Przyrodnicze, Wydział Biologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań
² ul. Czarnieckiego 5/8, 30-536 Kraków
³ Instytut Biologii, Biotechnologii i Ochrony Środowiska, Wydział Nauk Przyrodniczych, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice
⁴ ul. Królowej Jadwigi 19/21, 26-600 Radom
⁵ Dział Przyrody, Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiu, pl. Jana III Sobieskiego 2, 41-902 Bytom
⁶ ul. Matejki 13/45, 81-407 Gdynia
✉ ggierlas@gmail.com
*Autor do korespondencji (corresponding author)
Otrzymano (received): 17.03.2023 / Zaakceptowano (accepted): 17.07.2023 / Opublikowano (published): 15.08.2023
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Abstract
This paper continues a series of publications on the distribution of true bugs in Poland. It includes new faunistic data for 306 true bug species, including some rarely collected: Tupiocoris rhododendri, Empicoris baerensprungi, Emblethis duplicatus, Actinonotus pulcher, Chlamydatus evanescens, Leptopus marmoratus, Xylocoris formicetorum, Xylocoris galactinus, Isometopus intrusus, Odontoscelis lineola, and Phimodera flori. Additionally, data on 37 species previously unreported in 13 zoogeographical regions of Poland are presented. It is also noteworthy that this paper was largely prepared using citizen science. Many people (non-specialists in Heteroptera) collected data constituting almost 40% of the presented records. Notably, the true bugs recorded in this way include species very rarely collected in Poland and species alien to Polish fauna (e. g. Oxycarenus lavaterae, and Halyomorpha halys). Due to the lack of funding being a significant obstacle to biodiversity studies in Poland, citizen science seems to be the only way to effectively monitor all the dynamic places in national entomofauna.
Keywords
true bugs, faunistics, new records, big data, citizen science, biodiversity, monitoring of fauna, expansive species, alien species, distribution
