PBI collecting trip to the Russian Far East

August 01 – 21, 2006

The Far Eastern fauna encompasses a greater species-level diversity of Miridae than any other Russian region

Russian Far East

The collectors of the field trip at the Lazo Nature Reserve (from left to right): Post –Doc Fedor Konstantinov, Alexey Solovyev, and Anna Namyatova (St. Petersburg State University)

We mainly concentrated on the Lazo Nature Reserve in the vicinity of Kievka and Koreyskaya Pad’ on the East, the Gornotaezhnoe Field Station on the North, Vostok and Andreevka Bays on the South.

We collected in Lazo Nature Reserve because little has been collected from there and the biota of the eastern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin’ Mountains is known to be highly diverse

Alex and Anna crossing the creek…

Anna investigating feeding habits of Halticus bicoloratus Kulik

Gornotaezhnoe Field Station was chosen first of all for sampling of coniferous forests

Fedor and Anna collecting at light in Gornotaezhnoe

Faunas of the Vostok Bay and Andreevka Bay were sampled because they are enriched by the introduction of subtropical species from China, Korea and Japan

Fedor collecting mirids from Artemisia spp near Vostok Bay

Tilia mandshurica documented as host for peculiar eccritotarsine Sinevia tricolor Kerzhner

Numerous specimens of Kasumiphylus kyushuensis (Linnavuori) were taken from Pinus sibirica

A variety of mirids, including two species of Europiella, were collected from Artemisia gmelinii

Pilophorus choii Josifov was collected from Ulmus spp

Some pentatomids…

Urochela flavoannulata Stal Acrocorisellus serraticollis Jak.

Pentatoma semiannulata Motsch.

… and other creatures we saw on the way

Trip Results:Trip Results:

~5,000 plant bugs collected

~70 host plants documented