New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from Turkey, southeastern Europe, Near and Middle East
Author
Kment, Petr
) &) Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: sigara @ post. cz &) &) Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, CZ- 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Author
Jindra, Zdeněk
) &) Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agronomy, Czech Agricultural University, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic; e-mail: Jindra @ af. czu. cz
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2005
2005-12-31
45
3
16
journal article
7813
10.5281/zenodo.4503509
35339991-5eef-417d-9a58-b8bf6d06fa65
0374-1036
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Sehirus ovatus
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1839)
Material examined.
ARMENIA
occ.:
Yerevan
,
1.-27.vii.1974
,
1 ♀
, Z. Pádrová lgt., P. Kment det. (
PKPC
).
Euro-Siberian species recorded from
Italy
,
Austria
,
Bulgaria
,
Croatia
,
Czech Republic
,
Greece
,
Hungary
,
Moldavia
,
Romania
,
Slovakia
,
Russia
(Central and South European Territory, West and East Siberia),
Ukraine
;
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
,
Israel
,
Kazakhstan
,
Syria
, and
Turkey
(
AKRAMOVSKAJA 1959
,
LIS 1999
,
PROTIĆ 2001
). Previous records from
Armenia
(
AKRAMOVSKAJA
1959) were neglected by
LIS (1999)
. The biology of this species is poorly known; in central Europe it inhabits xerothermic biotopes on various substrates (sands, eruptive rocks, limestones). It lives on plants of the family
Boraginaceae
(
Echium vulgare
L.,
Anchusa officinalis
L.) (
STEHLÍK 1983
, STEHLÍK & VAVŘÍNOVÁ 1991,
KMENT et al. 2003
). Confirmed occurrence in
Armenia
.