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On the change of biotopes by aphidophagous coccinellids (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)

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Abstract

Several types of biotope changes have been revealed in aphidophagous coccinellids, based on long-term observations over the territory extending from the Kola Peninsula to the south of Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Zonal, seasonal, and annual biotope changes are supplemented with zonal changes of the plant organ inhabited by coccinelids. For example, Anisosticta novemdecimnotata L. is a typical hygrophilous species occurring in the marshes and shores of various water bodies. In the arid environment of the Chu Valley in Kyrghyzstan, this species preys on aphids sitting on sugar-beet roots, thus changing its normal habit of dweller on green parts of plant to partly soil-dwelling. Such a change of biotopes has not been recorded in this species previously.

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Original Russian Text © V. P. Semyanov, 2006, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2006, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 35–38.

Paper at the session of the Russian Entomological Society in honor of the 100th birthday of Prof. Grigorii Yakovlevich Bey-Bienko, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, President of the All-Union Entomological Society, on February 7, 2003.

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Semyanov, V.P. On the change of biotopes by aphidophagous coccinellids (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Entmol. Rev. 86, 249–251 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873806030018

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