Tuponia hippophaes ( Fieber, 1861 )

Li, Xiao-Ming & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2016, The genus Tuponia Reuter, 1875 of China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Exaeretini) with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4114 (2), pp. 101-122 : 112-114

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 .

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.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 12. Adult habitus views of Tuponia spp. 1. T. albescens (male); 2. T. albescens (female); 3. T. arcufera (male); 4. T. arcufera (female); 5. T. chinensis (male); 6. T. chinensis (female); 7. T. elegans (male); 8. T. elegans (female); 9. T. gracilipedis sp. nov. (male, holotype); 10. T. gracilipedis sp. nov. (female, paratype); 11. T. hippophaes (male); 12. T. hippophaes (female). Scale bar = 1.0 mm.

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.