Xylocoris cursitans (Fallén, 1807)

Golub, Viktor B., Vinokurov, Nikolay N., Golub, Natalia V., Soboleva, Viktoria A. & Aksenenko, Evgeniy V., 2021, True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the taiga zone of the mountainous Altai of Russia: the first records and new data on rare species, Ecologica Montenegrina 40, pp. 164-175 : 168

Xylocoris cursitans (Fallén, 1807)

Fig. 6

Material. Altai Republic, southern outskirts of the Artybash villalge, 51º47'43" N, 87º19'32" E, 530 m a. s. l., under the bark of a sawn pin 03.08.2019 (E. Aksenenko, V. Golub, V. Soboleva), 1 male, 3 females .

Distribution. Holarctic species. In Western Siberia it was previously recorded from the Tyumen Province (Vinokurov & Golub 2009; Vinokurov et al. 2010). First record from the Altai Republic and Altai as a whole. The nearest localities of the species in Eastern Siberia are the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Province.

Ecology. The specimens collected under the bark of a recently sawn pine with the other invertebrates, including the larvae of bark beetles ( Coleoptera , Ipidae ), that corresponds to the described ecological features of this species ( Péricart 1972).

Figures

Figures 4–9. Adult specimens and paramere of Heteroptera. 4, 5. Nabis (Dolichonabis) americolimbatus (Carayon) (4 – dorsal view, 5 – paramere, arrow indicates lamellar carina at its base), 6. Xylocoris cursitans (Fallén), 7. Bryocoris pteridis (Fallén), 8. Phytocoris longipennis Flor, 9. Gampsocoris culicinus Seidenstücker (Photo by V.A. Soboleva).