Tuponia albescens Zheng and Li, 1992

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 : 106

Tuponia albescens Zheng and Li, 1992

( Figs. 1–2 , 24–27 )

Tuponia albescens Zheng and Li, 1992: 11 .

Diagnosis. Recognized by the small sized, total length 2.42–2.46 (male), 2.20–2.24 (female); yellowish green dorsum with recumbent, sparse, brown simple setae and sericeous setae; antennae II slightly shorter than pronotum width; clypeus invisible in dorsal view; labium reaching meta-coxa; legs yellow or yellowish green, meso-femur with few obscure brown spots, pro- and meso-tibial spines black without dark bases, meta-tibial spines black with black bases; abdomen light green or pale color with thick pale pubescence. Most similar in general appearance and coloration to T. hippophaes , and not easily separable from it with certainty except by structure of male genitalia.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 24–27 ): Pygophore small relative to total size of abdomen and slightly recurved; endosoma more or less L-shaped, apex Y-shaped, secondary gonopore situated near apex, with finely dentate elongate sclerite at the side of secondary gonopore; left paramere boat-shaped; right paramere lanceolate; phallotheca attenuated apically with two tongue-shaped projections, as in fig. 27.

Host plants. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Xinjiang, Nei Mongol, Gansu).

Specimens examined. CHINA: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: 1 Male, Shanshan County (42°17'N, 90°36'E), 30. VI.1975 (holotype); 4 males, 7 females, same data as above (paratypes). Nei Mongol Autonomous Region: 4 males, 3 females, Ejinaqi (41°41'N, 100°05'E), 31.VII.1984, Guo-Qing LIU. Gansu Province: 6 males, 5 females, Dunhuang (40°22'N, 94°08'E), 17. VI.1993.

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 24 – 36. Male genitalia of Tuponia spp. 24 – 27. T. albescens: 24. Endosoma; 25. Left paramere; 26. Right paramere; 27. Phallotheca. 28 – 32. T. arcufera: 28 – 29. Endosoma; 30. Left paramere; 31. Right paramere; 32. Phallotheca. 33 – 36. T. brevicula: 33. Endosoma; 34. Left paramere; 35. Right paramere; 36. Phallotheca.