DYNAMICS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE <i>MOLIPTERYX FULIGINOSA</i> (UHLER) (HETEROPTERA, COREIDAE) IN THE FAR EAST OF RUSSIA

Abstract

The data of more than thirty years of observations of the temporal and spatial distribution of Molipteryx fuliginosa (Uhler, 1860) (Heteroptera, Coreidae) in the east of Russia are generalized. Previously known only from Southeast Asia, in 1998 it was recorded in Russia as new to the fauna. Its current range in the south of the Far East has been clarified, 51 localities of finding have been noted. The introduction of the bug into the local fauna was traced over the years, in connection with the penetration of which there is a danger of the appearance of a new pest of cultivated Rosaceae in the Primorskii Krai and in the south of the Khabarovsk territories. Three stages of the species penetration into the fauna of the south of the Russian Far East have been identified. In 1987-1992 - rare single finds of a species new to the local fauna, 1993-2011 - expansion of the bug's range while maintaining a low number, 2012-2020 - local outbreaks of numbers along with the expansion of the range in our territory.