Rhopalidae, Amyot & Serville, 1843

Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2021, Bugs (Heteroptera) of treeless areas of Chukotka (Russia), Ecologica Montenegrina 41, pp. 15-34 : 29

Family Rhopalidae

Stictopleurus crassicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Literature. Matis 1986.

Material. ChnD: Valkumey vill. (18 km S of Pevek), 23.VI.2011 (ОKh), 2 exs.

Distribution and ecology. Transeurasian. Polyphytophagous, on shrubs. First record for treeless areas of Chukotka. Species were collected in a stream valley with willow and willow-alder bushes.

Stictopleurus sericeus (Horváth, 1896) .

Literature. Marusik 1993; Berman 2001; Kanyukova & Vinokurov 2009.

Material. ChnD: lower course of Apapelgyn River (20 km NE of Pevek), 14. VI –22.VII.2011 (ОKh), 19 exs. Distribution and ecology. Euroasian steppe. Phytophagous, on Asteraceae . The adults and larvae were collected on a dry hillock in the river valley with predominated of Artemisia kruhsiana .