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.