Review of the plant bug genus Prolygus and related mirine taxa from eastern Asia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA, c / o Nameshi
Author
Schwartz, Michael D.
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Author
Chérot, Frédéric
Département de l’Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole, Service Public de Wallonie, Gembloux, BE- 5030, Belgium;
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2018
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2018-09-07
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2018-0030
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Miyamotolygus bui
(Lu &
Zheng, 2004
)
comb. nov.
Neolygus bui
Lu &
Zheng,
2004
in
ZHENG et al. (2004)
:387
, 739 (original description).
Neolygus bui
:
YASUNAGA et al. (2012)
: 45
(diagnosis).
Distribution.
India
(Darjeeling) (
YASUNAGA et al. 2012
),
Nepal
(
800–2,100 m
alt.) (
YASUNAGA et al. 2012
), P. R.
China
(
Shaanxi
,
Sichuan
,
Yunnan
) (
YASUNAGA et al. 2012
,
ZHENG et al. 2004
),
Taiwan
(Kagi,
Nantou
) (
ZHENG et al. 2004
).
Comments.
Detailed diagnostic characters and color habitus images were provided by
YASUNAGA et al. (2012)
. The male genitalia of this species at first sight resemble those of
Neolygus
, but the following characters admit placing it in our new genus: Spotted hemelytron, noticeably bicoloured metafemur, dark apex of cuneus; partly reddish head; reddish or chocolate brown apical part of metafemur; more or less darkened abdominal sternites; and endosoma with distinct primary and secondary lobal-sclerites but lacking proximal cup-like sclerite.
Miyamotolygus bui
is known to be associated with inflorescences of
Lantana
sp. (
Verbenaceae
) and
Mallotus
sp. (
Euphorbiaceae
).