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The first overview on the Heteroptera of peat bogs of the Belarusian Lakeland is presented. Five natural oligotrophic peat bogs were studied in 2012–2014 by entomological sweep-net. A total of almost 2,612 true bugs were sampled, representing 83 species of 13 families. Ten species (12.11–36.72% of the individuals) were tyrphobiontic or tyrphophilous. The five most abundant species represented 71.39–82.30% of the individuals. The most common species were Stictopleurus crassicornis (14.56–59.63%) and Stephanitis oberti (10.25–36.21%). The number of individuals of adult Heteroptera in peat bogs was low in spring and high in July-August. The natural peat bog offered favorable conditions to phytophagous (72.29%) polyphagous (60.00%) true bugs species. The most preferred host plants were ericales shrubs.
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Sushko, G.G. Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) of the peat bogs of Belarusian Lakeland. Biologia 71, 688–694 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2016-0085
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