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On the southeastern border of the forest area of the Voronezh Nature Reserve (51°52ʹ24ʺ N; 39°38ʹ57ʺ E) on white goosefoot (Chenopodium album), four imagoes of the desert shield bug Brachynema germari (Kolenati, 1846) were encountered on June 12, 2020. This finding, the northernmost one in the European part of Russia, is probably the result of self-dispersal of the species in the northern direction that could have been facilitated by abnormally hot weather in early June 2020 on the European territory of Russia. The ways of B. germari expansion in the northern direction can be the right-of-way lanes along railways on which xerophytic groups are growing.
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The author expresses his gratitude to N.N. Vinokurov (Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Systematics and Ecology of Invertebrates, Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk) for his work on studying the photograph of the collection specimen of B. germari and confirmation of its species identity.
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The study was carried out within the framework of the state assignment on the topic “Annals of Nature” (implementation of state environmental monitoring), no. 051-00029-20-00.
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Emets, V.M. Finding of Desert Shield Bug Brachynema germari (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in the Voronezh Nature Reserve (Central Russia). Russ J Biol Invasions 12, 50–52 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111721010045
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