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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1175-5326
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Phytocoris longipennis
Flor, 1861
(
Figs. 1
D, 3E–F, 4A, 5, 6C, 7, 9, 11, 12)
Phytocoris longipennis
Flor, 1861
: 593
, 601 (
sp. nov.
);
Schuh, 1995
: 890
(cat.);
Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999
: 157
(cat.);
Yasunaga, 2001
: 255
(diag.);
Zheng
et al.
, 2004
: 495
(diag.);
Wheeler
et al.
2006
: 1000
(N.Am. record); Schuh,
2002– 2014
: (cat.).
Diagnosis.
Recognized by its moderate size; brown, somewhat mottled dorsum; longer and more slender appendages than other congeners; antennal segment I longer than mesal length of head and pronotal length; segment III longer than basal width of pronotum; ratio of hind tibia: pronotum over 3.5; male genitalia as in
Figs. 7
,
9
, Female genitalia as in
Fig. 12
. For more diagnostic character, description and figures, see below papers (
Wagner & Weber, 1964
,
Kerzhner, 1988a
,
Zheng
et al.
, 2004
,
Wheeler
et al.
, 2006
,
Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015
).
Distribution.
Europe,
Korea, North
America, Far-East
Russia
.
Host plants.
Associated with various deciduous broadleaves;
Acer
spp. (
Aceraceae
),
Alnus
spp.,
Betula
spp.,
Corylus
spp. (
Betulaceae
),
Fagus
spp.,
Quercus
spp. (
Fagaceae
),
Fraxinus
spp. (
Oleaceae
),
Crataegus
spp.,
Malus
spp.,
Prunus
spp.,
Sorbus
spp. (
Rosaceae
),
Platanus
spp. (
Platanaceae
),
Populus
spp.,
Salix
spp., (
Salicaceae
),
Tilia
spp. (
Tiliaceae
) (
Wheeler
et al.
, 2006
,
Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015
).
Remarks.
This species, as a rule, can be recognized by the concolorously pale or brown-colored pronotum. On the other hand, in Korean populations, some specimens have a generally fuscous pronotum (
Figs. 3
E–F), and diverse color variation on the dorsum (
Figs. 3
E–F, 4A).
FIGURE 3. Dorsal and ventral habitus of Korean
Phytocoris
species
(3–4:
P. intricatus
; 5–6:
P. goryeonus
; 7–8:
P. longipennis
).
Material
examined.
South Korea
:
Gangwon
–do:
4♀
,
Mt. Jumbong
,
Jindong
–ri,
Girin
–myun,
Inje
–gun,
from light trap
,
15.vii.2015
,
M. S. Oh
;
3♂
, ditto,
11.vii.2016
,
M. S. Oh
,
S. H. Lee
,
J. Y. Choi
,
H. J. Ahn
;
5♂
,
Osaek
–ri,
Seo
–myeon,
Yangyang
–gun,
from light trap
,
29.vi.2016
,
M. S. Oh
,
S. H. Lee.
FIGURE 4. Dorsal and ventral habitus of Korean
Phytocoris
species
(9:
P. longipennis
; 10–11:
P. minakatai
; 12–13:
P. ohataensis
; 14:
P. pallidicollis
; 15–16:
P. shabliovskii
).