First record of Phimodera flori Fieber, 1863 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae) in the Apennines massif in southern Italy

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Emanuele Santarelli¹, Roland Lupoli²*

¹ Via Vasche di Bazzano 9, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
² 79, rue Jules Ferry, 94120 Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
✉ lupoli@free.fr
*Corresponding author

Received: 27.06.2024 / Accepted: 19.08.2024 / Published: 28.08.2024
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Abstract

Phimodera flori, a rare high-altitude Scutelleridae known in Italy only in three regions of the Alps, is observed for the first time in the Apennines massif, in the Abruzzo region of Italy, 600 km south of these places.

Keywords

Heteroptera, Scutelleridae, Phimodera flori, distribution, new record, Alps, Apennines, Italy