Empicoris vagabundus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Golub, Viktor B., Vinokurov, Nikolay N., Golub, Natalia V., Soboleva, Viktoria A. & Aksenenko, Evgeniy V., 2021, True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the taiga zone of the mountainous Altai of Russia: the first records and new data on rare species, Ecologica Montenegrina 40, pp. 164-175 : 170

Empicoris vagabundus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material. Altai Republic, the vicinity of field station “ Teletskaya ”, 51º47'07" N, 87º19'45" E, 510 m a. s. l., taiga, on the fir ( Abies sibirica Ledeb. ), 03.08.2019 (N. Golub), 1 male, 1 fifth instar larva .

Distribution. Holarctic species. In Western Siberia it was recorded from the Tyumen and Kemerovo Provinces. First record from the Altai Republic and Altai as a whole. The nearest localities in Eastern Siberia are in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Province.

Ecology. Both specimens were collected on Abies sibirica Ledebur, 1833 in a moist and shaded habitat that corresponds to the ecological requirements of this species ( Putshkov & Moulet, 2010).