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ISSN 1211-8788 Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) ISBN 978-80-7028-391-2 96(2) 2011: 323–628, 2012

True bugs (: ) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)

PETR KMENT1 & PETR BAÒAØ2 1Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, CZ-627 00 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected]

KMENT P. & BAÒAØ P. 2012: True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). In: MALENOVSKÝ I., KMENT P. & KONVIÈKA O. (eds.): inventories of selected groups in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 96(2) (2011): 323–628. – An extensive survey of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) was carried out in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) in 1998–2010, combining various methods of qualitative and quantitative sampling. Before 1998, just 98 species of Heteroptera had been recorded from the Czech side of the Bílé Karpaty Mts., as geographically defined in this contribution. The newly-acquired material yielded 10,732 faunistic records based on examination of ca. 35,984 specimens of Heteroptera. A total of 501 species of true bugs is now known from the Bílé Karpaty PLA, which constitutes 58% of the Czech heteropteran fauna. Among the various habitats, species-rich grasslands are of crucial importance for Heteroptera, harbouring many rare and threatened species, among them Criocoris nigripes Fieber, 1861, Deraeocoris morio (Boheman, 1852), Halticus pusillus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835), Heterocapillus tigripes Mulsant et Rey, 1852, decolor (Fallén, 1807), Macrotylus paykullii (Fallén, 1807), Megalocoleus molliculus (Fallén, 1807), brevis (Panzer, 1798), (Fabricius, 1777), seladonicus (Fallén, 1807), and Systellonotus triguttatus (Linnaeus, 1767). Other important habitats are hedges and forest margins, spring fens, and natural deciduous forests. Three species are recorded here for the first time from the Czech Republic: Charagochilus spiralifer Kerzhner, 1988, Heterocordylus cytisi Josifov, 1958 (both ), and Dysepicritus rufescens (A. Costa, 1847) (Anthocoridae); further, H. cytisi is a first record for central Europe. Four additional species are recorded for the first time for Moravia: Acalypta platycheila (Fieber, 1844) (Tingidae), Phytocoris (Phytocoris) hirsutulus Flor, 1861 (Miridae), Loricula (Loricula) ruficeps (Reuter, 1884) (Microphysidae), and Elatophilus (Elatophilus) nigricornis (Zetterstedt, 1838) (Anthocoridae). In addition, Ch. weberi Wagner, 1953 is removed from the list of Slovak fauna while Ch spiralifer is listed from Slovakia for the first time. Altogether 62 of the true bug species (12%) recorded in the Bílé Karpaty PLA fall into the categories defined by the Red List of threatened invertebrates of the Czech Republic. One of them, Megalotomus junceus (Scopoli, 1763), was considered extinct prior to its rediscovery in the Bílé Karpaty PLA. Four other species are classified as critically endangered: Agramma confusum (Puton, 1879), Tropidothorax leucopterus (Goeze, 1778), Coriomeris scabricornis (Panzer, 1809), and Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758), while nine are considered endangered: Gerris asper (Fieber, 1860), Macrotylus quadrilineatus (Schrank, 1785), Tytthus pygmaeus (Zetterstedt, 1838), Peritrechus gracilicornis Puton, 1877, Scolopostethus puberulus Horváth, 1887, Berytinus striola (Ferrari, 1874), Ceraleptus gracilicornis (Herrich- Schaeffer, 1835), Sehirus morio (Linnaeus, 1761), and Holcostethus sphacelatus (Fabricius, 1794). Thirty-one species are vulnerable, and seventeen near-threatened. The majority of the heteropteran fauna of the Bílé Karpaty PLA belong to a range of widely-distributed faunistic elements: 100 species (20%) are of Holopalaearctic or Holarctic distribution, 163 species (33%) are Eurosiberian, 108 species (22%) West Palaearctic or West Eurosiberian, 69 species (14%) European, and 57 species (11%) are of Mediterranean origin. Among the Mediterranean species, several are of major zoogeographical importance, reaching their northernmost distribution limits in the Bílé Karpaty: Harpocera hellenica Reuter, 1876, Heterocapillus tigripes, Heterocordylus cytisi, Icodema infuscata (Fieber, 1861), Psallus asthenicus Seidenstücker, 1966, P. cruentatus (Mulsant et Rey, 1852), Megalotomus junceus, and Vilpianus galii (Wolff, 1802). The suitability of Malaise traps as a method of assessing the heteropteran diversity in a given area is briefly discussed. Key words. Hemiptera, Heteroptera, faunistics, new records, threatened species, White Carpathians, Moravia, Malaise traps

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