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Tuponia koreana Kim et Jung 2021, sp. nov.

Description

Tuponia koreana Kim et Jung sp. nov.

(Figures 1, 2)

Diagnosis

Recognised by body oval, around 2 mm, pale greenish; head and pronotum almost greenish; labium reaching hind-coxae; scutellum yellowish green; hind-femur with small dark spots; tibial spines with dark bases (Figure 1 (a–c)); third tarsal segment distinctly longer than second segment (Figure 1 (d)); left paramere with prominent and long process, heading downside (Figure 2 (a,b)); right paramere lanceolate, lateral margins moderately rounded, with small hypophysis (Figure 2 (c)); phallotheca with long and sharp apex, its ventral margin slightly concave (Figure 2 (d)); endosoma S-shaped without membrane, twisted subapically, apical part blunt, endosomal spicule curved and thin, secondary gonopore invisible (Figure 2 (e,f)).

Description

MALE: Body oval, length 1.91–1.95. Colouration: mostly greenish with greyish membrane (Figure 1 (a–c)). Head: entirely green with posterior yellowish part on vertex; antennae mostly greenish brown; being brownish gradually towards apical part of second segment; clypeus paler; labium almost brown, apical part of fourth segment darker. Thorax: pronotum entirely greenish brown; scutellum yellowish brown, or paler than pronotum; hemelytra entirely greenish, sometimes tinged with deeper greenish colouration in embolial margin; membrane greyish, vein greyish brown (Figure 1 (a,b)); legs mostly greenish; all femora pale, hind-femur with tiny sparse dark markings; tibiae almost pale, except for greenish base and apex, base of tibial spine dark; tarsi greenish brown. Abdomen: entirely greenish brown (Figure 1 (c)). Surface and vestiture: body with indistinctly punctate, covered with long dark setae and sparse silvery pubescence; head covered with dark long setae and dense silvery hairs; first antennal segment with two dark spines; other segments with short suberect setae; pronotum covered with long dark setae, anterior part with sparse short silvery pubescence; scutellum with only silvery short pubescence; hemelytra with long dark setae, usually on outer margin of corium; cuneus with dark setae; all apical part of femora with dark spines; all tibiae with long and dark spines originated on dark spot. Structure: Head: somewhat prognathous, width more than scutellum width; vertex width equal to 2 times of first antennal segment length; compound eye reaching suture delimiting mandibular and maxillary plates; first antennal segment thicker than others; second segment cylindrical, shorter than combined length of third and fourth segments; apex of labium exceeding hindcoxae (Figure 1 (c)). Thorax: pronotum trapezoid, posterior margin of pronotum gradually angled, longitudinal length less than 1/2 basal pronotal width; scutellum equilateral, flat, height as high as pronotum height; lateral margin of hemelytra slightly rounded; cuneal fracture well developed; membrane with two cells; legs generally slender; first tarsal segment shortest, third segment equal to combined length of first and second tarsal segments (Figure 1 (d)). Abdomen: rounded, reaching to apex of cuneus. Genitalia: left paramere paddle-like shaped, with two sharp processes, one process long, heading downside (Figure 2 (a,b)); right paramere lanceolate with small hypophysis, with long setae (Figure 2 (c)); phallotheca bending with sharp and long apex, ventral margin slightly concave (Figure 2 (d)); endosoma S-shaped without membrane, twisted at apical part, forming blunt apex, spicule curved and thin, secondary gonopore invisible (Figure 2 (e,f)).

FEMALE: Body oval, length 2.12–2.17. COLOURATION: as in male, except for somewhat paler colouration and paler and semitransparent membrane. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in male. STRUCTURE: slightly bigger than male. GENITALIA: not examined.

Measurements (in mm)

Male (n = 3)/Female (n = 4) Body length, clypeus-apex of membrane: 1.91–1.95/2.12–2.17; head length, excluding collar: 0.20–0.21/0.23–0.25; head width, including compound eyes: 0.56–0.58/0.57–0.59; vertex width: 0.30–0.31/0.33–0.34; 1 st antennal segment length: 0.14–0.15/0.14–0.15; 2 nd antennal segment length: 0.55–0.58/0.53–0.55; 3 rd antennal segment length: 0.37–0.39/0.37–0.38; 4 th antennal segment length: 0.23–0.24/0.20– 0.21; total antennal length: 1.29–1.36/1.24–1.29; mesal pronotal length: 0.33–0.35/0.29– 0.30; basal pronotal maximal width (straight): 0.77–0.79/0.79–0.81; anterior scutellum width: 0.49–0.50/0.52–0.54; mesal scutellum length: 0.29–0.30/0.36–0.38; commissure length: 0.45–0.46/0.47–0.48; outer embolial margin length: 1.05–1.07/1.03–1.04; outer cuneal margin length: 0.33–0.34/0.33–0.34; maximal width across hemelytron: 0.46– 0.48/0.45–0.46; hind leg (femur: tibia: tarsus): 0.70–0.71: 1.09–1.12: 0.35–0.36/0.73–0.75: 1.09–1.11: 0.38–0.39.

Type material

Holotype: [CNU] 1 male, Gojeong-ri, Songsan-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (37°15 ʹ 33”N, 126°44 ʹ 42”E), on Tamarix chinensis, 4 June 2020, J. Kim & M. Roca-Cusachs leg.; Paratypes: [CNU] 4 males and 8 females, same data as in Holotype.

Host

Tamarix chinensis Loureiro (Tamaricaceae) (Figure 3).

Notes

Published as part of Kim, Junggon, Roca-Cusachs, Marcos, Lee, Bong-Woo, Kim, Il-Kwon & Jung, Sunghoon, 2021, First record of the genus Tuponia Reuter (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from the Korean Peninsula, with description of a new species and notes on natural history with Tamarix, pp. 1267-1275 in Journal of Natural History 55 (19 - 20) on pages 1268-1271, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1943555, http://zenodo.org/record/5467100

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CNU
Event date
2020-06-04
Verbatim event date
2020-06-04
Scientific name authorship
Kim et Jung
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Tuponia
Species
koreana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Tuponia koreana Kim, Kim & Jung, 2021