Scolopostethus thomsoni Reuter, 1875

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 : 172

Scolopostethus thomsoni Reuter, 1875

Material: Altai Republic, the vicinity of the Artybash village , meadow on the edge of a mixed forest, near a stream, 51º47'47.4" N, 87º17'17.7" E, 526 m a. s. l., 28.07.2019 (E. Aksenenko), 1 male, 2 females .

Distribution. Holarctic species. In Western Siberia it was recorded from the Tyumen and Tomsk Provinces. First record from Altai as a whole. It was previousely recorded from Eastern Siberia without localities indications ( Péricart 2001).

Ecology. The species was collected in open moist biotope that corresponds to its ecological requirements as mesophilic and hygrophilic species ( Putshkov 1969; Péricart 1999b).