Eurycolpus flaveolus (Stål, 1858)

TASZAKOWSK, Artur & PASIŃSKA, Agnieszka, 2017, New data on the occurrence of terrestrial true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Pieniny Mountains, Fragmenta Faunistica 60 (1), pp. 1-13 : 4

Eurycolpus flaveolus (Stål, 1858)

Kotłowy Stream, 20 Aug 2005, 1 ex. Marcelowy Ravine, 16 Aug 2005, 1 ex. Podłaźce Clearing, 19 Aug 2006, 1 ex.; 06 Jul 2007, 1 ex.

Re ma r k s: Species known from European countries, northern and north-western territories of China, Georgia, Kirgizia, Mongolia, East Siberia and the Far East of Russia ( Kerzhner & Josifov 1999). In Poland extremely rare, reported so far only from Pieniny Mts (vicinity of Krościenko), where 11 individuals were collected in 1910 ( Smreczyński 1954, Gorczyca 1991). Earlier it was also found somewhere in "Galicja" ( Gorczyca 1991, 2004b). Because it is a very characteristically and contrastingly colored insect ( Fig. 1 ), oversight by entomologists seems unlikely. Individuals of this species prefer sunny and thermophilic grasslands. Adults feed on plants of genus Bupleurum L., and are exclusively macropterous. It overwinters as an egg, and has one generation per year ( Gorczyca 2004a).

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Fig. 1. Eurycolpus flaveolus: A – Distribution in Poland; ● – confirmed data; B – dorsal habitus. Photo by A. Taszakowski