Lyctocoris (Lyctocoris) campestris (Fabricius, 1794)

Moulet, Pierre, 2017, Updated catalogue of Iranian Anthocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), Zootaxa 4311 (4), pp. 451-479 : 471

Lyctocoris (Lyctocoris) campestris (Fabricius, 1794)

Acanthia campestris Fabricius, 1794: 75 (as new species); Cimex pallidus Rossi, 1794: 55 ; Lygaeus arvicola Latreille, 1804: 220 ; Phytocoris pallens Fallén, 1829: 103 ; Cimex domesticus Schilling, 1834: 738 ; Xylocoris americanus Dallas, 1852: 589 ; Xylocoris (Lyctocoris) distinguendus Flor, 1860: 666 ; Cardiastethus currax Garbiglietti, 1869: 123 ; Lyctocoris fitchii Reuter, 1871: 557 ; Xylocoris latus Walker, 1872: 159 ; Nesidiocheilus hawaiiensis Kirkaldy, 1902: 127; Lyctocoris campestris var. poppiusi Kiritshenko, 1918: 127 .

Distribution in Iran. Khuzestan (Modarres Awal 1997), Tehran (Lindeberg 1938).

General distribution. Euro Siberian, Near and Middle East; introduced elsewhere (probably cosmopolitan but not yet found in Far East ( Japan, Korea, Far East Russia) and China).

Prey records. Larvae of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera (Modarres Awal 1997) , nymphs of Anthocoris sp. ( Heteroptera ), Psocoptera, Acari (Péricart 1972).

Biology. Lyctocoris campestris , a blood-sucker, can overwinter in grain storages, agricultural buildings, nests of birds or mammals (Saulich & Musolin 2009). The development is continuous all the year round (homodynamic seasonal cycle) (Saulich & Musolin 2009). In Great Britain there are up to 3 generations per year (Saulich & Musolin 2009).