The first records of lace bugs (Heteroptera, Tingidae) in Penza region 

Yulia B. Shveenkova, Candidate of biological sciences, researcher of scientific department, State Natural Reserve “Privolzhskaya lesostep” (12a Okruzhnaya street, Penza, Russia), E-mail: jushv@mail.ru
Tamara G. Stoyko, Candidate of biological sciences, associate professor, associate professor of the sub-department of zoology and ecology, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), E-mail: tgstojko@mail.ru 

Background. Lace bugs remain an insufficiently studied family of Heteroptera in Penza region. Materials and methods. The material was collected in meadow biotopes on the right bank of Penza reservoir. Other researchers in various regions of the Eastern European forest-steppe revealed these species earlier. Voronezh region is also inhabited by all four species presented in this work. D. longispina has not been recorded in Samara, Orenburg and Saratov regions. Results and conclusions. Four species of lace bugs – Stephanitis pyri, Dictyla rotundata, Oncochila simplex, Derephysia longispina – are registered for the first time in the Penza region. 

Heteroptera, Tingidae, lacebugs, Eastern European forest-steppe, Penza region 

Shveenkova Yu.B., Stoyko T.G. The first records of lace bugs (Heteroptera, Tingidae) in Penza region. Izvestiya vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy. Povolzhskiy region. Estestvennye nauki = University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences. 2022;(3):101–105. (In Russ.). doi:10.21685/2307-9150-2022-3-9