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
37970996-440c-48a3-a5c5-2e604a9cfcdc
1175-5326
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Tuponia hippophaes
(
Fieber, 1861
)
(
Figs. 11–12
,
49–52
)
Oncotylus hippophaes
Fieber, 1861
: 299
.
Tuponia unicolor
:
Hsiao and Meng, 1963
: 447
.
Tuponia
(
Chlorotuponia
)
hippophaes
:
Wagner, 1975
: 448
;
Linnavuori, 2010
: 402
.
Diagnosis.
Recognized by the small sized, total length 1.83 (male), 1.79 (female); general coloration greenish yellow; dorsum with sericeous setae; head almost vertical, conforming to anterior margin of pronotum; vertex slightly convex and posterior margin broad; length of antennal segment II almost equal to width of head; labium fulvous, black apically, reaching meta-coxa; anterior margin of hemelytron convex; legs yellow, meta-femur with inconspicuous spots, tibial spines black without dark bases, meta-tibia with several rows of black spinules; tarsal segment III and claws darkened, claws elongate, slender, smoothly curving, pulvillus absent; abdomen greenish yellow with golden pubescence. Similar in coloration and structure of male genitalia to
T. gobica
and
T. oxiana
, distinguished from them by the long and straight apical spine of endosoma.
Male genitalia (
Figs. 49–52
): Endosoma L-shaped, apical spine long and straight, secondary gonopore well sclerotized with membrane; left paramere boat-shaped, apex of anterior lobe heavily sclerotized; right paramere lanceolate; phallotheca strongly narrowing and attenuate apically, as in
Fig. 52
.
FIGURES 49–61.
Male genitalia of
Tuponia
spp. 49–52.
T. hippophaes
: 49. Endosoma; 50. Left paramere; 51. Right paramere; 52. Phallotheca. 53–57.
T. mongolica
: 53–54. Endosoma; 55. Left paramere; 56. Right paramere; 57. Phallotheca. 58–61.
T. paraseladonicus
: 58. Endosoma; 59. Left paramere; 60. Right paramere; 61. Phallotheca.
Host plants.
Tamaris
sp. (
Tamaricaceae
) (
Hoberlandt, 1956
;
Hsiao and Meng, 1963
;
Drapolyuk, 1982
;
Carapezza, 1997
;
Linnavuori, 2010
),
Anemone vitifolia
(
Hsiao and Meng, 1963
)
,
Myricaria germanica
(
Tamanini, 1964
)
,
Myricaria
sp. (
Tamaricaceae
) (
Drapolyuk, 1982
), and
Reaumuria vermiculata
(
Carapezza,1997
)
.
Distribution.
China
(Shandong),
Switzerland
and
France
(
Fieber, 1861
),
Spain
and
Morocco
(
Wagner, 1951
,
1971
),
Turkey
(
Wagner, 1955a
;
Hoberlandt, 1956
),
Greece
(
Beier and Wagner, 1956
),
Israel
(
Linnavuori, 1961
),
Lebanon
and
Cyprus
(
Wagner, 1962
),
Italy
(
Tamanini, 1964
),
Algeria
(
Eckerlein and Wagner, 1965
), Mallorca (
Ribes, 1965
),
Corsica
(
Pericart, 1965
),
Libya
(
Eckerlein and Wagner, 1969
),
Tunisia
(
Carapezza, 1997
),
Iran
(
Linnavuori, 2010
).
Specimens examined.
CHINA
: Shandong Province:
1 male
,
1 female
, Huimin County (
37°22'N
,
117°33'E
),
6.VIII.1955
, Xiang-Ling
MENG
.