The genus Tuponia Reuter, 1875 of China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Exaeretini) with descriptions of three new species
Author
Li, Xiao-Ming
Author
Liu, Guo-Qing
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Zootaxa
2016
4114
2
101
122
journal article
39025
10.11646/zootaxa.4114.2.1
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1175-5326
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Tuponia arcufera
Reuter, 1879
(
Figs. 3–4
,
28–32
)
Tuponia arcufera
Reuter, 1879
: 38
;
Wagner, 1955a
: 263
;
Drapolyuk, 1980
: 59
;
Kerzhner, 1997
: 247
;
Qi and Nonnaizab, 1997
: 9
.
Tuponia ordosica
Lü and Cui, 2011
: 220
.
n. syn
.
FIGURES 21–23.
Scanning electron micrographs of scent-gland evaporative area of
Tuponia
spp. nov. 21.
T. gracilipedis
; 22.
T. virentis
; 23.
T. zhenyuanensis
.
Diagnosis.
Recognized by the medium sized, total length 3.26–3.30 (male), 3.08–3.36 (female); general coloration light yellowish green, dorsal and ventral side of thorax sometimes green in males and yellow in females; dorsum with recumbent, dark, simple setae and sericeous setae; labium reaching posterior margin of meta-coxa; hemelytron nearly parallel-sided; legs yellow, pro-coxa with a row of erect yellow setae, all tibial spines dark without black bases; abdomen yellowish brown with golden pubescence. General appearance and structure of endosoma similar to
T. ayasensis
and
T. subaltera
, but differing from the former by meta-tibia with several rows of black spinules, and from the latter by two almost equilong apical spines of endosoma.
Male genitalia (
Figs. 28–32
): Endosoma S-shaped, with two long and sclerotized apical spines, and one apical spine surrounded with membrane, secondary gonopore situated on the membrane; left paramere stout, boat-shaped; right paramere lanceolate; phallotheca slightly bending and attenuate apically with a tongue-like projection and a small keel.
FIGURES 24–36.
Male genitalia of
Tuponia
spp. 24–27.
T. albescens
: 24. Endosoma; 25. Left paramere; 26. Right paramere; 27. Phallotheca. 28–32.
T. arcufera
: 28–29. Endosoma; 30. Left paramere; 31. Right paramere; 32. Phallotheca. 33–36.
T. brevicula
:
33. Endosoma; 34. Left paramere; 35. Right paramere; 36. Phallotheca.
Host plants.
Tamarix
sp. (
Tamaricaceae
) (
Drapolyuk, 1980
).
Distribution.
Western Palearctic, ranging from Southern
France
to Northwestern
China
(
Drapolyuk, 1980
;
Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999
).
China
(Xinjiang, Ningxia, Nei
Monggol
(Qi and Nonnaizab, 1997))
,
Russia
(
Reuter, 1879
),
Turkey
(
Hoberlandt, 1956
),
France
(
Wagner, 1955b
),
Iran
(
Linnavuori, 2010
).
Specimens examined.
CHINA
: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region:
3 males
,
5 females
, Fuhai County (
46°23'N
,
87°30'E
),
28.VII.1975
.
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region:
4 males
,
6 females
, Yinchuan (
38°29'N
,
106°11'E
),
4.VIII.1992
;
5 males
,
9 females
, Jingyuan (
35°31'N
,
106°20'E
),
27.VII.1992
.
Remarks.
Lü and Cui (2011)
described their new species
T. ordosica
from Nei Mongol. According to the characteristics of the general coloration, shape, and the structures of male genitalia, we find
T. arcufera
and
T. ordosica
are conspecific,
T. ordosica
is a synonym of
T. arcufera
.