Ecologica Montenegrina 38: 25-35 (2020) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.38.5 New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai) NIKOLAY N. VINOKUROV1 & VALENTIN V. RUDOI2* 1 Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch RAS, 677980 Yakutsk, 41 Lenin Av., Russia E-mail:
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[email protected] Received 2 November 2020 │ Accepted by V. Pešić: 26 November 2020 │ Published online 30 November 2020. Abstract The paper provides information on the distribution of 45 species of Heteroptera from 10 families in the Kurai steppe in the southeast of the Russian Altai (Altai Republic). Of these, Mimula scutellaris Kiritshenko, 1931 recorded for the first time for the fauna of Russia and Bagrada stolida (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1839) — for Siberia. Following 15 species are recorded as new for the Altai Republic: Nabis punctatus mimoferus Hsiao, 1964 (Nabidae); Deraeocoris ventralis ventralis Reuter, 1904, Apolygus nigronasutus (Stål, 1858), Lygidea illota (Stål, 1858), Lygus rugulipennis Poppus, 1911, Lygus wagneri Remane, 1955, Globiceps fulvicollis Jakovlev, 1877, Psallus betuleti (Fallén, 1807) (Miridae); Neides propinquus Horváth, 1901 (Berytidae); Ortholomus punctipennis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1838), Kleidocerys resedae resedae (Panzer, 1797), Cymus glandicolor Hahn, 1832, Xanthochilus quadratus (Fabricius, 1798) (Lygaeidae); Myrmus calcaratus Reuter, 1891 (Rhopalidae); Sciocoris abbreviatus (Reuter, 1879) (Pentatomidae). Key words: Biodiversity, Heteroptera, Kurai Steppe, south-western Altai, Siberia, fauna, new records. Introduction In the paper presents new data on true bugs of the Kurai steppe which occupies vast intermontane depression up to 20 km across and 1500–1600 m above sea level in the middle reaches of the river Chuya in the South- East of Altai Mountains (Altai Republic).