Nasocoris desertorum Kerzhner 1970
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Bryja, Josef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Nasocoris
Nasocoris desertorum

description: Nasocoris desertorum Kerzhner, 1970
Holotype. Male, Turkmenistan: ‘Turkmenskaya SSR, Ispas, 70 km sev.-zap. Chardzhou, 31 V, 1965, na Ephedra strobilacea Bge. (Kerzhner) ’ (ZMAS).
Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Sahlberg (1904): 36. Faunistics (Turkmenistan).
Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Oshanin (1909): 77 (partim, specimens from Repetek – see Kerzhner 1970). Catalogue, distribution.
Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Kiritshenko (1964): 228 (partim, specimens from Ayvadzh – see Kerzhner 1970: 643). Bionomics, faunistics (Tadjikistan).
Nasocoris argyrotrichus: Linnavuori (1968): 201, 203–204. Redescription, key, host plant, distribution (‘Turkestan’).
Nasocoris desertorum sp. nov.: Kerzhner (1970): 640 –643. Description, taxonomy, key, figure, bionomics, host plant, ecology, faunistics (Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan).
Nasocoris desertorum: Kaplin (1993): 133, 166, 168. Bionomics, host plant, ecology, faunistics (Turkmenistan).
Nasocoris desertorum: Schuh (1995): 360. Catalogue.
Nasocoris desertorum: Kerzhner et al. (1997): 127. List of types.
Nasocoris desertorum: Kerzhner and Josifov (1999): 375. Catalogue, type depository, distribution.
Nasocoris desertorum: Linnavuori (1999): 52 –55, 61–62. Redescription, key, figures, bionomics, host plant, ecology, distribution, faunistics (Iran, Turkmenistan).
Nasocoris desertorum: Linnavuori (2004a): 12–13. Key, figures.
Distribution. Iran (Linnavuori 1999), Tadjikistan (Kiritshenko 1964, Kerzhner 1970), Turkmenistan (Kerzhner 1970, Kaplin 1993, Linnavuori 1999), Uzbekistan (Kerzhner 1970).
Host plant. Ephedra strobilacea (Central Asia, Turkmenistan) (Kerzhner 1970; Kaplin 1993 – larval development; Linnavuori 1999), Ephedra sp. (Turkestan) (Linnavuori 1968).
Bionomics. Kaplin (1993) gave the following account of the bionomics of N. desertorum: ‘The Southern- Turanian plant bug Nasocoris desertorum develops on Ephedra strobilacea in three to four overlapping generations per year with winter embryonal diapause. Larvae and adults suck on young sprouts of Ephedra. Larvae of the first generation hatch in April / beginning of May, which relates to flowerage and beginning of fruitage of E. strobilacea, the last generation appears in August. Life-span of one generation lasts up to 40 days. Larvae of the last generation complete their development at the end of September / first half of October. Adults occur from the second decade of May to October. In the eastern Garagum desert, N. desertorum is a less abundant and sporadically found species. Its mean density only rarely exceeds 0.2 spec./model branch (0.6–0.7 thousands spec./ha).’ Other authors reported adults in May (Kerzhner 1970, Linnavuori 1999), June (Kerzhner 1970, Linnavuori 1999), and July (Kiritshenko 1964, Kerzhner 1970).
Ecology. Sandy steppes of Central Asia (Kerzhner 1970, Kaplin 1993). In dry habitats (Linnavuori 1999).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Bryja, Josef, 2007, Description of Nasocoris lautereri sp. nov. from the Balkan peninsula, with a review of the genus Nasocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 39-61 in Zootaxa 1633 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179468