Abstract
The genus Lygaeus Fabricius, 1794 includes more than fifty species, mainly distributed in the Old World regions, with 17 species known from the Palearctic (Péricart 2001; Wachmann et al. 2007), and only two from Central Europe, i.e., L. equestris (Linnaeus, 1758) and L. simulans Deckert, 1985 (Péricart 2001).
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