'' Himacerus boops '' is a species of damsel bug in the family Nabidae. It is found from South Scandinavia and the South of the British Isles over Western and Central Europe and East across the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

to Siberia and in the Caspian region. They are not present in most parts of the Mediterranean. Many different habitats without vegetation are inhabited by this species. They occur in wet meadows and even in dry, warm, sandy habitats with barren vegetation, on

moorland Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils. Moorland, nowadays, generally ...

or on grassland and also in habitats influenced by salt near the coast or inland. Both the nymphs and the imagines of ''Himacerus boops'' live on the ground and rarely climb on grass. They are mainly nocturnal. Overwintering occurs as the egg. They are inserted by the females in blades of grass. The nymphs occur from May until the end of July, the adult from early July ( under favourable conditions from mid-June).Pairing can be seen until well into the autumn and individual have been found in November. Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: ''Wanzen. Band 1: Cimicomorpha: Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha (Teil 1)'' (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 77. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, , S. 175ff.

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British Bugs
Nabidae Insects described in 1870 Taxa named by Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte {{Cimicomorpha-stub