Nasocoris tesquorum Kerzhner, 1970

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Nasocoris tesquorum Kerzhner, 1970

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Holotype. Male, Kazakhstan: ‘Taldy-Kurganskaya obl., Topolevka, 40 km vost. Sarkanda, Dzhungarskiy Alatau, 7 VII 1957 (Kerzhner)’ ( ZMAS).

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Reuter (1879): 206 (partim, specimen from Sarepta – see Kerzhner 1970). Description, distribution.

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Reuter (1884): 318 –319 (partim, specimen from Sarepta). Redescription, distribution.

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Reuter (1887): 33 (partim, specimen from environs of Astrakhan). Faunistics ( Russia).

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Oshanin (1909): 77 (partim, specimens from Astrakhan). Catalogue, distribution.

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Kiritshenko (1951): 127 , 188, 219 (except of figures – see Kerzhner 1970: 642). Key, distribution.

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Putshkov (1960): 368 . Faunistics ( Ukraine).

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Putshkov (1961): 90 . Bionomics, host plant, ecology, distribution, faunistics ( Ukraine).

Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Kerzhner (1964): 747 , 749. Key, figures.

Nasocoris tesquorum sp. nov.: Kerzhner (1970): 640 –642. Description, taxonomy, key, figure, bionomics, host plant, ecology, faunistics ( Kazakhstan: Asian part; Mongolia; Russia: South European Territory, Tuva; Ukraine).

Nasocoris tesquorum: Kerzhner (1973): 85 . Faunistics ( Russia: Tuva).

Nasocoris tesquorum: Schuh (1995): 360 . Catalogue.

Nasocoris tesquorum: Vinokurov and Kanyukova (1995): 79 , 115. Key.

Nasocoris tesquorum: Putshkov and Putshkov (1996): 44 . Catalogue, distribution ( Ukraine).

Nasocoris tesquorum: Kerzhner et al. (1997): 135 . List of types.

Nasocoris tesquorum: Kerzhner and Josifov (1999): 376 . Catalogue, type depository, distribution. Nasocoris tesquorum: Linnavuori (1999): 52 –55, 57–58. Redescription, key, figures, bionomics, host plant, faunistics ( Kazakhstan).

Distribution. Russia (Southern European Territory – Reuter 1879, Kerzhner 1970; Eastern Siberia: Tuva Republic – Kerzhner 1970, 1973), Ukraine ( Putshkov 1961, Kerzhner 1970, Putshkov and Putshkov 1996), Kazakhstan (Asian part – Kerzhner 1970, Linnavuori 1999), Mongolia ( Kerzhner 1970), Tadjikistan ( Kerzhner and Josifov 1999, no published record known to us), Turkmenistan ( Kerzhner and Josifov 1999, no published record known to us), Uzbekistan ( Kerzhner and Josifov 1999, no published record known to us).

Host plants. Ephedra distachya ( Kazakhstan, European Russia; Ukraine – reported larval feeding) ( Putshkov 1961, Kerzhner 1970), E. monosperma ( Mongolia, Tuva) ( Kerzhner 1970), E. strobilacea ( Kazakhstan) (Linnavuori 1999).

Bionomics. Putshkov (1961) reported the finding of numerous fourth and fifth instars and young adults on July 9, and females with developed eggs on July 27 in Crimea (southern Ukraine). Adults were collected also in June ( Kerzhner 1970, Linnavuori 1999), July ( Kerzhner 1970, Linnavuori 1999), and August ( Kerzhner 1970).

Ecology. It lives in steppes ( Kerzhner 1970). Putshkov (1961) characterized its habitat as sea coastal sands in the Odessa region, and ridges of lower mountains around the Karadag biological station in Crimea ( Ukraine).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 9. 7 – Nasocoris argyrotrichus Reuter, 1879, habitus. Female (Kazakhstan, Dzhambul region, Karasay env.) (3.3 mm); 8 – N. platycranoides Montandon, 1890, habitus. Female (Spian, Pizarra) (4.9 mm); 9 – N. tesquorum Kerzhner, 1970, habitus. Male, paratype (Kazakhstan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Topolevka) (4.6 mm).