Leptodemus minutus (Jakovlev, 1876)

Heyden, Torsten van der, 2023, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), V, Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26, pp. 213-214 : 213

Until now,

Leptodemus minutus (Jakovlev, 1876)

( Heteroptera : Oxycarenidae ) has been reported for the islands of Tenerife and Fuerteventura ( HEISS et al., 1996; AUKEMA et al., 2006, 2013; RIEGER, 2020; ROCA-CUSACHS et al., 2020). The species is present on the island of Lanzarote, too: On 12-07- 2022, an adult specimen of L. minutus ( Fig. 2 ) was photographed in the courtyard of a private house in Costa Teguise (see here).

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Fig. 2.- Adult specimen of Leptodemus minutus (Jakovlev, 1876), Costa Teguise, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. (Photo: Ángel Quirós).