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
3
383
393
journal article
45796
10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.9
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Europiellomorpha
Duwal
n. gen.
Type
species:
Europiella lividellus
(
Kerzhner, 1979
)
.
Diagnosis
. Generally distinguished by small, and oval body, entirely pale antennal segments and legs; ventrally furnished with few large distinct black spots on metafemora, arranged on anterior and posterior margin; long labium reaching apex of metacoxa.
Description
.
Male
. Body small, oval. COLORATION (
Fig. 1
G): Generally greenish; head, pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum green, tinged with yellow; hemelytron pale. Venter greenish. Antennae pale brown, segment I and base of segment II tinged with green. Labium pale, segment I tinged with green, and apex of segment IV brown. All legs pale; metafemora ventrally with one large dark spot on anterior margin and three large dark spots on posterior margin (
Fig. 3
F); and tarsal segment III dark. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsum furnished with appressed, flat serious setae, semierect simple dark setae and soft pale setae. STRUCTURE: Head projecting anteriorly, convex; labium reaching apex of metacoxae. GENITALIA (
Fig. 6
A–D):
Endosoma
: Shape S–like, partly twisted medially, unequal apical processes bind with membrane saw-like projections present at edge of one process (serrated edge) (
Fig. 6
A).
Phallotheca
: Simple, attenuated towards apex, with blunt end (
Fig. 6
D).
Left paramere
: Simple, anterior process elongated, somewhat curved, and posterior process short and thumb like (
Fig. 6
C).
Right paramere
: Simple, leafy with narrow apex (
Fig. 6
B).
Female
. Similar in color and texture as males. Genitalia (
Fig. 6
E): Bursa copulatrix trapezoidal and centrally with semi–sclerotized plates, sclerotized rings asymmetrical, somewhat triangular and lateral margins curved.
Etymology
. Named after the phyline genus
Europiella
Reuter
, to which this new genus is superficially similar.
Discussion
. The tiny representative species of
Europiellomorpha
inhabits various species of
Artemisia
(Asteraceae)
. The external morphology is closely related with those of
Europiella
; however, the saw-like serrated edge of the endosoma is regarded as an autapomorphic character for the new genus.