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
text
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 prasina
(
Fieber, 1864
)
Agalliastes prasinus
Fieber, 1864
: 228
.
Tuponia prasina
:
Wagner, 1955a
: 264
;
Drapolyuk, 1982
: 165
;
Linnavuori, 2010
: 402
;
Konstantinov and Vinokurov, 2011
: 40
.
Diagnosis.
Recognized by the small sized, body length 1.8–2.0; head yellowish; pronotum greenish ochraceous, scutellum green with yellow base, lateral margin and inner apical angle of clavus whitish, cuneus green, lateral margin broadly whitish; dorsum covered with sericeous setae; labium extending past meta-coxa; tibial spines with black bases.
Male genitalia (
Figs.
60–66
in
Drapolyuk, 1982
): Endosoma relatively thin, band-like, apex truncate and simple, without membrane, secondary gonopore invisible.
Host plants.
Tamarix
sp. (
Josifov, 1974
;
Linnavuori, 2010
;
Wagner, 1975
).
Distribution.
China
(Xinjiang) (
Konstantinov and Vinokurov, 2011
),
Russia
(
Fieber, 1864
), Transsylvania (
Reuter, 1878
),
Rumania
(
Reuter, 1894
;
Linnavuori, 1961
),
Mongolia
(
Drapolyuk, 1982
),
Iran
(
Linnavuori, 2010
).
Remarks.
This species was first reported for
China
from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (
Konstantinov and Vinokurov, 2011
). We could not examine specimens of this species, and the diagnosis based on original description.