Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica vol. 8 (2): 29-30. Opole, 31 XII 2014 ISSN 2083-201X Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica, vol. 8(2): 29-30. Opole, 31 XII 2014 ISSN 2083-201X Short communication A new record of Thyreocoris pakistanensis Ahmad and Moizuddin, 1982 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Thyreocoridae) from Pakistan JERZY A. LIS 1 , DARIUSZ J. ZIAJA 2 Center for Biodiversity Studies, Department of Biosystematics, Opole University 45-052 Opole, Oleska 22 e-mails: 1 cydnus@uni.opole.pl, 2 d.ziaja@uni.opole.pl Abstract. Thyreocoris pakistanensis Ahmad and Moizuddin, 1982 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Thyreocoridae), known only by the type material collected in Karachi (South Pakistan) is recorded from a vicinity of Rawalpindi (North Pakistan). It is the second known locality of this endemic species. Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Thyreocoris pakistanensis, faunistics, new record, Pakistan, Oriental Region. Thyreocoris pakistanensis Ahmad and Moizuddin, 1982 was described from Karachi on the basis of three spec- imens collected at light in 1977 and 1979 (Ahmad & Moizuddin 1982). However, this species was already mentioned three years earlier as Thyreocoris paki- stanensis (MS) (Ahmad 1979), and was based on the same specimens. The species is closely allied to the Palaearctic T. scarabaeoides (L.), but it can be separated from it by several important characters provided in Ahmad & Moizuddin (1982). Since that time no other specimens of this species have been identified (Lis 2006). When we were looking for the museum material suitable for our molecular study in Pentatomoidea (Lis et al. 2011) we found a specimen of Thyreocoris paki- stanensis among the material borrowed from the Zoo- logical Museum, Munich, Germany (Zoologische Staatssammlung München). Because no detailed collection data for this speci- men were presented in our molecular papers (Lis et al. 2011) we provide them hereby (Material examined: West Pakistan, Rawalpindi Umg., Basal, 4.-7. 1. 56, Ka- lachitta Range, Chr. Lindemann leg.). Kala Chitta (= Kalachitta) Range, where the speci- men was collected, is a mountain range located in the Attock District of Punjab in northern Pakistan. This new locality expands the distribution range of this species by about 1500 km to the north (Map). Map. The only two presently known localities of Thyreocoris pakistanensis (literature data: southern Pakistan, Sindh pro- vince, Karachi – black star; a new record: northern Pakistan, Punjab province, environ of Riwalpindi, Kalachitta Range – red star). Acknowledgements We thank Dr. K. Schönitzer (Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany) for the loan of the specimen for our study.