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Expansion of Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) to European Russia and adjacent regions

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An invasive alien species, the harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773), has quickly expanded its distribution in Eastern Europe. Records of H. axyridis from 31 localities in Lithuania, Latvia, the Ukraine, European Russia, and the Northern Caucasus are summarized and mapped. Within the last few years this species has established in south Latvia, on the Baltic Sea shore (Kaliningrad oblast and Lithuania), in the western and central Ukraine, Crimea, and in the Northern Caucasus. Besides that, individual specimens have been found in 4 more localities in European Russia. The species is recorded from Lipetsk oblast (European Russia), Crimea, and Nikolaev oblast (the Ukraine) for the first time.

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Acknowledgments

The specimen of H. axyridis was collected in Lipetsk oblast by S. K. Mazurov and identified by M. N. Tsurikov. Numerous specimens have been collected in Crimea by E. V. Rybalchenko. We are grateful to them for placing this material at our disposal. We are also grateful to V. I. Alekseev, P. N. Sheshurak, and V. V. Strenado for the information about new findings of H. axyridis in Kaliningrad, Chernigov, and Nikolaev oblasts, and to A. Barševskis, O. V. Binkovskaya, V. F. Khabibullin, T. A. Mogilevich, V. Tamutis, V.Yu. Nazarenko, and O. D. Nekrasova, who kindly answered our questions about their records of H. axyridis. We thank P. M. J. Brown (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) for valuable remarks.

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    Andrey S. Ukrainsky

  2. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 33 Leninskiy Prospect, 119071, Moscow, Russia

    Marina Ja. Orlova-Bienkowskaja

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Ukrainsky, A.S., Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. Expansion of Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) to European Russia and adjacent regions. Biol Invasions 16, 1003–1008 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0571-3

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