Taxonomic review of Phytocoris Fallén (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini) in Korea, with one new species
Author
Oh, Minsuk
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
text
Zootaxa
2017
4232
2
197
215
journal article
36531
10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.4
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Phytocoris pallidicollis
Kerzhner, 1977
(
Figs 4
F, 5, 6F, 8, 10, 11)
Phytocoris pallidicollis
Kerzhner, 1977
: 10
(
sp. nov.
);
Schuh, 1995
: 897
(cat.);
Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999
: 158
(cat.);
Yasunaga, 2001
: 256
(diag.); Schuh,
2002–2014
: (cat.);
Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015
: 22
(diag., disc.).
Diagnosis.
Recognized by its moderate size; entirely pale dorsum, with a small area of dark spots; propleuron pale, with a thin, brownish, horizontal stripe (
Fig. 6
F); left paramere with an obliquely protruding structure, right paramere widened horizontally; lobal sclerite elongate (
Fig. 11
). In
Korea
, this species can be confused with
P. shabliovskii
and
P. longipennis
, but is easily distinguished by the key (couplet 2) below; Male genitalia as in
Figs. 8
and
10
; female genitalia not examined. For more description and diagnostic characters, see
Kerzhner (1977)
and
Yasunaga & Schwartz (2015)
.
Distribution.
Europe,
Japan
,
Korea
, Far-East
Russia
.
Host plants.
Alnus
spp. (
Betulaceae
),
Juglans
spp. (
Juglandaceae
),
Salix
spp. (
Salicaceae
),
Tilia
spp. and
Tilia japonica
(Miq.) Simonk (Tiliaceae)
(
Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015
).
Remarks.
Yasunaga & Schwartz (2015)
recorded this species from
Korea
based on their field notes. In this paper, we add detailed collection data below.
Material
examined.
South Korea
,
Gangwon
–do:
1♂
,
Mt. Hambaeksan
,
Gohan
–eup,
Jeongseon
–gun,
27.viii.2013
,
Y. Lee.
FIGURE 12. Female genital structure of Korean
Phytocoris
species
(
P. goryeonus
,
P. intricatus
,
P. longipennis
). A, Bursa copulatrix (Before dissect posterior wall). B, Bursa copulatrix. B’, Sclerotized ring (from another specimen). C, Posterior wall.