author(s)
Akoev МТ, Khenzhegaliev АМ, Esenbekova PА and Homziak J

abstract
A biodiversity inventory of the woody vegetation in five protected areas in SE Kazakhstan (Kulsay kulderi, Altyn-Emel, Charyn, Ile-Alatau and Alakol Nature Reserves) recorded 23 species of Pentatomidae associated with trees, shrubs and woody understory vegetation. Two species, Arma custos and Zicrona caerulea, are listed as threatened in the Red Data Book of the Almaty region. Of the 23 recorded species, 8 species are predators (zoophagous), with the remainder plant feeders (phytophagous), further divided by dietary breadth into polyphagous -10 species, broad oligophages – 2 species, and narrow oligophages - 3 species. Moisture preference strongly affected the distribution of species: 78.3%, were collected from mesophilic habitats, 8.7% were xeromesophiles, 4.3% mesoxerophiles and 8.7% xerophiles. The majority of species (20) go through diapause as adults; one species diapauses as larva. All were univoltine.