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Issue: Vol. 1740 No. 1: 2 Apr. 2008
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2008-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1740.1.8
Page range: 66–68
Abstract views: 162
PDF downloaded: 6

Will the invasive western conifer seed bug Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) seize all of Europe?

Department of Biosystematics, University of Opole, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Department of Biosystematics, University of Opole, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Faculty of Biotechnology, Wrocław University, S. Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland
Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae

Abstract

In our day, thanks to high-speed transport systems, people are moving living species (intentionally or not) across ecosystems and countless borders. As we know, most introduced species usually do not survive, because they find neither a tolerable environment nor an available ecological niche. Sometimes, successful establishment may also require multiple introductions (Balcom 2004).

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