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
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215
journal article
36531
10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.4
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Genus
Phytocoris
Fallén, 1814
Phytocoris
Fallén, 1814
: 10
(gen. nov.). Type species:
Cimex populi
L., subsequent designation by
Westwood, 1840
;
Schuh, 1995
: 863
(cat.);
Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999
: 136
(cat.);
Yasunaga, 2001
: 255
(diag.);
Zheng
et al.
, 2004
: 462
(diag., key to Chinese spp.); Schuh,
2002–2014
: (cat.);
Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015
: 22
(diag., key to Japanese spp.).
Diagnosis.
Phytocoris
in
East Asia
can be recognized by the following characters:
Body
slender, moderate to large size; head oblique, broadened laterally (
Figs. 2
A, B); dorsum matte, partly glabrous in some species, usually mottled with pale and dark spots; covered with sericeous pubescence and one or two
type
of simple, erect or semierect setae (
Figs. 2
C, D); antennae and legs long and slender; labium reaching or extending beyond metacoxa; metafemur long and more or less flattened; parempodia fleshy, apically divergent (
Fig. 2
E); male endosoma membranous, parameres asymmetrical; distal part of sensory lobe and basal hypophysis of left paramere serrated; right paramere elongate, serrate along lateral margin; endosoma with a spinous sclerite (LBS) and thick-rimmed secondary gonopore; sclerotized ring elongate ovoid; interramal lobe (IRL) of posterior wall covered with minute spine, semicircular. For more diagnostic characters, see
Stonedahl (1988)
and
Yasunaga & Schwartz (2015)
.