Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontoppidan, 1763)

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Coccinella quadripunctata Pontoppidan, 1763; C. albida Gmelin, 1790; C. marginella Müller, 1776; C. marginepunctata Schaller, 1783; C. notata Olivier, 1791; C. sedecimpunctata Fabricius, 1781 .

Material examined. IRAN: NORTH KHORASAN PROVINCE: Bojnord County, Bojnurd, Baba Aman Park, 37°29.338′N, 57°26.123′E, vi.2013, 4 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀, (3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ ex Hordeum sp.), E. Hamidi leg., O. Nedvěd & C. Canepari det. SEMNAN PROVINCE: Shahrud County, Bastam, 36°30.314′N, 55°00.290′E, v.2014, 2 ♂♂ 1♀, M. Toozandejani leg., A. Biranvand det. TURKEY: BILECIK PROVINCE: Bilecik Central District, Pelitözü, 40°11′06.9756″N, 29°58′05.5704″E, iv.–xi.2015, vii.2016, 31 spec., ex Malus sp., Pinus sp., Prunus sp., weeds, D. Şenal leg. et det. ; Osmaneli District, 2.6 km NE Düzmeşe, 40°23′55.5″N, 29°56′40.092″E, vi.–ix.2015, vi.–viii.2016, 5 spec., ex Olea sp., Paliurus sp., Prunus spp., D. Şenal leg.et det. ; İnhisar District, Güner Orbay Mahallesi, 1.9 km NW İnhisar, 40°03′37.116″N, 30°22′5.088″E, vi.2016, 1 spec., ex Paliurus sp., D. Şenal leg. et det.

Notes. Harmonia quadripunctata was originally described from Denmark (PONTOPPIDAN 1763). It is native to the Palearctic Region, distributed especially in Europe and eastern Asia – Russia, China, and Korea (BIELAWSKI 1963, 1980; VANDENBERG 1990; PANG et al. 2004; KOVÁŘ 2007). However, there aresome reports of thisspecies from other countries of the Palearctic Regionincluding Syria (KHALIL & MOURAD 2006), Israel (HALPERIN et al. 1995), Lebanon and Turkey (GÜNTHER 1958, BIELAWSKI 1963). Harmonia quadripunctata was introduced into the USA and reported there since 1924 (VANDENBERG 1990). In southern America, introduced populations have only been reported from Argentina and Chile so far (GONZÁLEZ 2006).

The earliest record of H. quadripunctata in Turkey was provided by GÜNTHER (1958). Since then, many studies reported H. quadripunctata in 22 of Turkey’s 81 provinces: Ankara (GÜNTHER 1958, UYGUN 1981, ÜLGENTÜRK & TOROS 2000), Kayseri (GÜNTHER 1958), Konya (GÜNTHER 1958, ŞAHBAZ & UYSAL 2006), Adana, Afyon, Bursa, Denizli (UYGUN 1981), Isparta (UYGUN, 1981, ASLAN & KARACA 2005, KARACA et al. 2006, KAYA BAŞAR & YAŞAR 2011, OĞUZOĞLU 2017), Amasya, Samsun, Tokat (KILIÇ & AYKAÇ 1989), Erzurum (ÖZBEK & ÇETIN 1991), İzmir, Manisa (TEZCAN & UYGUN 2003), Kahramanmaraş (ASLAN & UYGUN 2005), Balıkesir (VURAL VARLI et al. 2013), Artvin (PORTAKALDALI & SATAR 2010), Çanakkale (BAŞTUĞ & KASAP 2015), Bartın (TOPER KAYGIN & SOBUTAY KAPTAN 2017), Yozgat (TIFTIKÇI 2017), Düzce (ÖZTEMIZ & YAYLA 2018), and Bilecik (this study).

In Iran, H. quadripunctata was first reportedfrom North Khorasan Province in 2013 (BIRANVAND et al. 2017). It was subsequently reported from Mazandaran Province, in northern Iran (PAHLAVAN YALI et al. 2017). Here, wepresent the first report from Semnan Province.