Reesa vespulae ( Milliron, 1939 )

Grosso-Silva, José Manuel, 2019, New and interesting beetle (Coleoptera) records from Portugal (7 note)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 21, pp. 211-216 : 212

Reesa vespulae ( Milliron, 1939)

Material examined: PORTO: Vila Nova de Gaia: Laborim de Baixo (29 TNF3350 ), 23-06-2019, 1 specimen, on a window inside a house .

Comments: Species described from Minnesota, United States of America ( MILLIRON, 1939). In the fourth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera , HAVÁ (2007) did not include Portugal or Spain in the known European range of the species. No Iberian records were traced in more recent literature, namely HAGSTRUM & SUBRAMANYAM (2009) and HAGSTRUM et al. (2013). A very recent contribution, published by HOLLOWAY et al. (2019), deserves a special note as it concludes that there are no supported Spanish records of R. vespulae . We therefore consider the present record as the first of the monotypic genus Reesa Beal, 1967 not only for Portugal but for the whole Iberian Peninsula. According to PEACOCK (1993), Reesa vespulae is a synanthropic species found in seeds and insect collections. An insect collection is in fact kept in the house where the specimen was collected; all the entomological boxes in that collection have since been examined and no Reesa specimens or damage to the collection were found.