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Review of the occurrence of Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in Italy, with an update of its European and World distribution

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The regions in which Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) occurs in Italy are summarized and ordered chronologically according to the date of the first record. Details and verification about the first Italian record from Liguria (often overlooked), that dates back to 2007 the introduction of H. halys in this country, are also given. First exact localities are listed for the Italian regions of Tuscany, Marche, Latium, Abruzzo, Campania, and Apulia, in which only general occurrence was known so far. We included also additional records from Trentino-Alto Adige, where the presence of H. halys has only recently been reported through a few data. Furthermore first records for Sweden, Central Macedonia (Greece), and Manitoba (Canada) are reported, as well as first intercepted specimens from Iceland.

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We are very grateful to Moreno Dutto (Verzuolo, Cuneo, Italy) who allowed us to view the material in his collection and to the following people who provided photographic material: Simonetta Cutini, Luca Puglisi, Valerio Sbordoni, Pier Luigi Taiariol (OR), Daniel Iversen, Jason Gibbs, Silvia Graziani, Fabio Minati, Danio Miserocchi, R. Negroni, Andrea Peterlongo, M. Sargent, Karol Tabarelli de Fatis, Chiara Paniccia, Andrea Tomedi, Kostas Zontanos, (IN), Riccardo Allegretti, Giacomo Giovagnoli, Marco Paglialunga (EI), Lorenzo Rapa (NM, OR), Lenny Worthington (FW), Micke Johansson (AP), Alessandra Cruso (FB), Erling Ólafsson (Icelandig Institute of Natural History, Garðabær, Iceland), Daniele Altobelli (Florence, Italy), Saulo Bambi (Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Italy), Stefano Cianferoni (Florence, Italy), Serena Giunti (Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy), and Noemi Papini (Florence, Italy). We thanks also Riccardo Minucci and Luca Poli (Florence, Italy) for field research. We are also grateful to Petr Kment (National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic) for his suggestions which have improved the article.

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Cianferoni, F., Graziani, F., Dioli, P. et al. Review of the occurrence of Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in Italy, with an update of its European and World distribution. Biologia 73, 599–607 (2018). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0067-9

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