Entomologia Croatica, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2025.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17971/ec.24.1.6
New observations of alien species Trichopoda pictipennis Bigot, 1876 (Diptera: Tachinidae) for the Balkan Peninsula
Dejan Kulijer
orcid.org/0000-0003-0274-6335
; National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zmaja od Bosne 3, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Alien species Trichopoda (Galactomyia) pictipennis Bigot, 1876 was found in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in June and August 2024. This is the first record of this species for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the southeastern part of Croatia. Additionally, this report includes the records from Montenegro and Bulgaria obtained from the online data platform iNaturalist representing the first observations of T. pictipennis for Montenegro and the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria.
Keywords
biological control; Nezara viridula; Hemiptera; parasitoid; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
336352
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Publication date:
1.10.2025.
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