Abstract
IN the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for August 1932 Mr. W. E. China, of the British Museum (Natural History), discusses the occurrence of large numbers of a very small capsid on apple trees in a nursery near Chertsey, Surrey. The species Campylomma nicolasi Put. and Reut, is an inhabitant of the Mediterranean region and its appearance in Surrey in large numbers is of special interest. The genus Campylomma contains ten palæarctic species but none has previously been found in Britain. It seems unlikely that the species C. nicolasi is an indigenous insect, since it could scarcely have been overlooked in so well-worked a county as Surrey. Mr. China is of opinion that it is more likely to have been introduced with some Mediterranean plant, since the eggs of the family Capsidæ are almost invariably inserted into plant tissues. Whether a southern insect of this kind will survive the English climate seems questionable: the description and figure given by him will enable, it to be identified should it be found again in subsequent years.
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A Capsid Bug New in Britain. Nature 130, 607 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130607a0
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