Aquatic Hemiptera (Heteroptera) of Kazakhstan, with notes on life history, ecology and distribution
Author
Esenbekova, Perizat Abdykairovna
Author
Nurushev, Murat Zhusupbekovich
Author
Homziak, Jurij
text
Zootaxa
2015
4013
2
195
206
journal article
39988
10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.2
b3e74c1c-da85-4406-bb57-87f68563b33c
1175-5326
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869E0951-2401-435C-90FC-E58FD7054DD0
Family
Naucoridae
Ilyocoris cimicoides
(Linnaeus)
In permanent, standing and slow moving water bodies with well-developed vegetation; zoophage (prefer prey lacking or with weak exoskeletons: dragonfly larvae, leeches, amphipods, and the larvae of
Aedes
and
Culex
mosquitoes); univoltine; imago overwinters on land, burrowing into the upper soil layer, also noted in other studies (
Kerzhner and Yachevsky 1964
,
Vinokurov and Kanyukova 1995
,
Kanyukova 2006
). Trans-Eurasian.