Scutelleridae, W.E.Leach, 1815

Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2021, Bugs (Heteroptera) of treeless areas of Chukotka (Russia), Ecologica Montenegrina 41, pp. 15-34 : 29

Family Scutelleridae

Phimodera laevilinea Stål, 1873

Literature. Berman 2001; Berman et al. 2002.

Material. IuD: Bolshaya Osinovaya River , Voronya Hill, 25.VII.1991 ( DB), 1 lar. AD: middle course of Anadyr River, Utesiki, 5 km above mouth, 23. VI .1996 ( DB), 1 ♂ .

Distribution and ecology. Dauro-Mongolian steppe species, north to Chukotka through the extrazonal steppes. Phytophagous, on cereals. In northeast Asia, it is distributed in the mountainous steppes of Yana, Indigirka and upper Kolyma rivers basins. In the tundra zone of Yakutia, it was found in the Kolyma Delta (Krutaya Dresva area). For Chukotka, the species was previously recorded without label data ( Berman et al. 2002) from the localities given in the "Material".