Loricula (Loricula) issykatensis Rosenzweig, 1995

Vinokurov, Nikolai N., Cai, Wanzhi & Luo, Zhaohui, 2010, Microphysidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) newly found from China, Zootaxa 2729, pp. 51-52 : 51

Loricula (Loricula) issykatensis Rosenzweig, 1995 , new record to China

Loricula (Loricula) issykatensis Rosenzweig, 1995: 251 . HT: ♀, KI, Kyrghyz Range, Issyk Ata Valley, 1400 m; ZMAS.

Material examined. 1 ♂, China, Xinjiang , Yili, Guozigou, Dujiacun, 44°27’N, 81°10' E, 1912 m, N. Vinokurov leg. The specimen is kept in the Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University (Beijing) .

Remarks. This Central Asian mountainous species was described from Kyrghyzstan, where it inhabits litter under Juniperus semiglobosa and Picea schrenkiana ( Rosenzweig, 1995) . Our specimen was collected from lower brunches of the spruce species Picea schrenkiana in the Borohoro Range near Sailimu (Sairam-Nur) Lake at the altitude of 1912 m a.s.l. ( Fig 1).

Xinjiang occupies northwestern part of China and belongs to the Central Asian subregion of Sethian (Desert) Region of the Palaearctic ( Konstantinov et al. 2009). The fauna of bugs of this territory still remained insufficiently studied. By our estimation, 6 species of microphysids occurring in adjoining territories of Middle Asia, Siberia and the Russian Far East might probably be found in northern China, especially in Xinjiang. These microphysids are the Euro-Siberian L. (Myrmedobia) exilis Fall. and L. (M.) distinguenda Reut. , the South Siberian L. (Myrmedobia) asiatica Pér. and L. (Myrmericula) longiceps Vin. (mountainous, both on Altai Mts), the East-Siberian and Far Eastern L. (L.) pilosella Miy. L. , and the Middle Asian L. (L.) kerzhneri Pér. (Kyrghyzstan) .