Fromundus pygmaeus (Dallas, 1851), the first species of the genus Fromundus Distant, 1901 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) recorded in Egypt

Manar Shehta* , Rabab F. Sawaby, Sohair Gad-Allah, Mohammed Okely

Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo 11566, Egypt
✉ manarshehta@sci.asu.edu.eg
*Corresponding author

Received: 11.06.2022 / Accepted: 05.09.2022 / Published: 15.09.2022
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Abstract

Fromundus pygmaeus is recorded from Egypt for the first time, where eight specimens were collected from Qift road between Qena and El-Quseer. Morphological characters of the collected specimens were illustrated with light and scanning electron microscopic images.

Keywords

Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Cydnidae, burrower bug, distribution, first country record, Egypt