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Topic: New Species request - Adelphocoris quadripunctatus (Fabricius 1794)

Hi, Can you add this Heteropteran to the Inventory please. First recorded in the UK in the past few days.

Taxonomy details here:
http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452255

Thanks,
Dave

Dave Slade
Senior IT & Records Officer,
15 Talbot Road, Talbot Green, Pontyclun, CF72 8AD
www.sewbrec.org.uk, www.sewbrecord.org.uk

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Re: New Species request - Adelphocoris quadripunctatus (Fabricius 1794)

No problem - here it is:

Adelphocoris quadripunctatus (Fabricius, 1794)
tvk NHMSYS0021164220

Do you know whether it was likely to have been brought in by human action or is it just a natural newcomer? :)

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)

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Re: New Species request - Adelphocoris quadripunctatus (Fabricius 1794)

It is pretty widespread in South Wales now that we have started looking for it, so I think it has been here unnoticed for a while. I'll leave the question of how it got to South Wales without being noticed in England to the heteropterists!

Dave Slade
Senior IT & Records Officer,
15 Talbot Road, Talbot Green, Pontyclun, CF72 8AD
www.sewbrec.org.uk, www.sewbrecord.org.uk