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Published: 2014-03-06
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On plant bugs of conifers in Xinjiang (Western China)  (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)

Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land and Xinjiang Institute of Ecology & Geography, China Academy of Sciences, 818, South Beijing Road, Urumchi, Xinjiang, 830011P. R. China.
Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Prospekt Lenina 41, Yakutsk 677980, Russia.
Miridae Heteroptera China Xinjiang conifers

Abstract

In the northern and central part of Xinjiang (Western China) are distributed 14 species of coniferous plant bugs of these, 10 species are recorded for the first time for China. In the Mongolian Altai are 9 species: 6 widely distributed in the Palearctic, Deraeocoris annulipes (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842), Dichrooscytus intermedius Reuter, 1885, Pinalitus rubricatus (Fallén, 1807), Atractotomus morio J. Sahlberg, 1883, Plagiognathus vitellinus (Scholtz, 1847), Phoenicocoris obscurellus (Fallén, 1829), and 3 Siberian Psallus (Pityopsallus) laricinus Vinokurov, 1998, P. (P.) laticeps Reuter, 1878, P. (P.) sachaensis Vinokurov, 1998. In Chinese Tian Shan and Jungar Alatau occur 5 mountain-Central Asian species: Dichrooscytus consorbinus Horváth, 1904, D. josifovi Kerzhner, 1997, D. kerzhneri Josifov, 1974 and D. pseudosabinae Reuter, 1896, and Compsidolon schrenkianum Konstantinov, Vinokurov, 2011. A key for 5 species of the subgenus Pithyopsallus Wagn. is given.