Golub V.B.1, Balakhnina I.V.2 2019. [The first record of poplar pest Monosteira unicostata (Mulsant et Rey) from the Krasnodarskii Krai (Heteroptera, Tingidae)] // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.18. No.2: 125–128 [in Russian, with English summary].
1 Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya Pl. 1, Voronezh 394018 Russia. E-mail: v.golub@inbox.ru
2 All-Russian Research Institute of Biological Plant Protection, р/о-39, Krasnodar 350039 Russia. E-mail: balakhnina@yandex.ru
doi: 10.15298/euroasentj.18.2.07
ABSTRACT. The lace bug Monosteira unicostata (Mulsant et Rey) (Heteroptera, Tingidae), a pest of poplar (Populus spp.) and willow tree (Salix spp.), is recorded from Krasnodarskii Krai for the first time. The pest was found in Krasnodar in large numbers in 2018. An illustrated morphological description and general distribution of this species, information on a degree of the crown occupancy of the P. nigra L. by imago and larvae of M. unicostata in three points of Krasnodar are given.
KEY WORDS: Monosteira unicostata, Heteroptera, Tingidae, pest, Krasnodar, Populus nigra.