Review of Europiella Reuter (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini) from Korea, with a description of a new genus
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Author
Jung, Sunghoon
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
text
Zootaxa
2014
3795
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383
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journal article
45796
10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.9
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Europiella miyamotoi
(Kerzhner, 1988)
Figures: 1E–F, 2C–D, 3E, 5C–G
Plagiognathus miyamotoi
Kerzhner 1988b
: 64
(n. sp.)
Europiella miyamotoi
: Schuh et al., 1995: 391
(n. comb.); Schuh, 1995: 316 (cat.);
Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999
: 346 (cat.);
Yasunaga, 2001b
: 164 (diag., fig.).
Diagnosis
. Generally recognized by large body; usually pale yellow coloration; pale entire antennae and legs; antennal segment II nearly equal to width of pronotum; short labium reaching apex of mesocoxa; scattered spots ventrally on distal half of metafemora (
Fig. 3
E), and dorsally at subapical region with few minute spots; length of metafemora nearly equal to length of pronotum.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 5
C–F).
Endosoma
: Shape S–like, with two broad and sub–equal apical processes; from the basal curving area, a chitinised slender leafy structure arising as in figure 5C.
Phallotheca
: As in figure 5E.
Left paramere
: Body large, structure as in figure
5F.
Right paramere
: As in figure 5D.
Female genitalia
(
Fig. 3
G). Bursa copulatrix with semi sclerotized plates, and sclerotized rings asymmetrical, elongated oval.
Measurements.
(1♀). Body length 4.53; head width across eyes 0.87; vertex width 0.45; lengths of antennal segments I–IV: 0.33, 1.38, 0.95, 0.69; total length of labium 1.45; mesal pronotal length 0.74; basal pronotal width 1.33; width across hemelytron 1.82; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus: 1.86, 2.52, 0.62.
Specimens examined
.
South Korea
:
Gyeongsangbuk–do
: 1♀, Uiseong-gun,
24.v.2000
, on
Boehmeria nivea
(L.) Gaudich (
Urticaceae
), S.H. Lee.
Japan
: Hokkaido:
1♂
, Etanbetsu, Asahikawa C.,
18.vii.1998
, T. and M. Yasunaga, det. by T. Yasunaga, 2008; 1♀ and 5th instar, same data as above,
4.vii.1998
, on
Aster glehni
Fr. Schm., T. Yasunaga
; 1♀, Aoyama, T. Tobetsu,
2.viii.1997
, R. Endoh, det. by T. Yasunaga, 2008.
Distribution
.
Japan
,
Korea
*,
Russia
.
Host
.
Artemisia gigantea
Kitamura (
Kerzhner, 1988b
)
;
Aster glehni
Fr. Schm. (Asteraceae)
.
Remarks
. Only one specimen was observed and was confirmed after comparing it with reference specimens (Japanese specimens from Yasunaga). The label data showed it was collected on
Boehmeria nivea
(L.) Gaudich (Utricaceae), but the breeding host is unknown in
Korea
.