Temnostethus (Temnostethus) gracilis Horváth, 1907

Kim, Wonwoong, Oh, Minsuk, Kim, Wongun, Ahn, Soojeong & Cho, Geonho, 2025, Additions, corrections, and bibliographic issues on the Heteropteran fauna of Korea (Insecta: Hemiptera), Zootaxa 5636 (1), pp. 69-101 : 76-78

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scientific name	Temnostethus (Temnostethus) gracilis Horváth, 1907
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Material examined. South Korea. Gyeonggi-do: 2 ♂, 5 ♀, Goyang-si, Ilsan Lake Park (37.660541, 126.760339), on the bark of Zelkova serrata (Thunb.) Makino , 13.v.2024, leg. Wonwoong Kim ( SCNU) GoogleMaps .

Photographic record. South Korea. Gyeongsangnam-do: 1 ♂, Sancheong-gun, Jirisan National Park (35.337108, 127.730695), 20.vi.2022, photo by Wonwoong Kim GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Widely distributed in the Palaearctic region (Péricart 1996). In East Asia: Korea (Gyeonggi-do, Gyeongsangnam-do) and Russia (Far East: South Primorsky) ( Kerzhner 1988b).

Comments. Three species of Temnostethus are known from East Asia: T. gracilis Horváth, 1907 , T. distans Kerzhner, 1973 and T. mirificus Yamada & Yasunaga, 2021 ; the Korean specimens key out to T. gracilis by having all tibiae light yellow ( Kerzhner 1988b; Yamada & Yasunaga 2021).