Phaeocoris ellipticus ellipticus ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840 )

Gapon, D. A. & Baena, M., 2005, On the status, synonymy and tribal position of Phaeocoris Jakovlev, 1887 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zoosystematica Rossica (China) 14 (1), pp. 61-68 : 67

Phaeocoris ellipticus ellipticus ( Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840)

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Aelia elliptica Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840: 79 . Syntypes: Siberia; lost .

Phaeocoris semenowi Jakovlev, 1887: 308 (syn. Horváth, 1903b: 555). Holotype: ♂, Russia, Altai, Biya River ; Zoological Institute, St.Petersburg .

Timuria melanocera Horváth, 1903a: 403 (syn. Josifov & Kerzhner, 1967: 7). Syntypes: ♀, Mongolia ( Hangai ) and China (Kuku-Nor); Hungarian Museum of Natural History, Budapest .

Tancreisca breddini Jensen-Haarup, 1937: 170 (syn. Kerzhner, 1972: 366). Syntypes: ♂, ♀, China (Kuku-Nor); Zoological Museum, Hamburg University .

Lodosia gonocoxa Ahmad & Önder in Ahmad et al., 1996: 256, syn. n. Holotype: ♀, Turkey, Erzincan, Ahmediya , 883 km E of Ankara; Department of Entomology, Ege University, Izmir-Bornova .

Synonymy. We did not examine the holotype of Lodosia gonocoxa , but judging from the very detailed original description, including the structure of the female genitalia, it does not differ from Ph. ellipticus . Therefore we consider these names synonymous. The type locality of L. gonocoxa is situated far from the previously known westernmost records of Ph. ellipticus (Central Kazakhstan), but some other steppe species of Heteroptera have similar disjunctive distribution with isolated ranges in Turkey or eastern part of Armenia and reaching in some cases to North Africa, e.g. Ochetostethus perepelovi Kerzhner, 1976 ( Carapezza, 1997) or even the Iberian Peninsula like Trochiscocoris hemipterus Reuter, 1890 ( Baena & Matocq, 1994). Carapezza recorded also an example on plants of the genus Salsola , S. gemmascens.

Distribution. Turkey (east), Kazakhstan (central and eastern part), Kyrgyzstan, Russia (southern Siberia from Altai to Transbaikalia), Mongolia, China (Xinjiang, Qinghai, Xizang). It is collected mostly in mountains and highlands.