Apolygopsis eoa ( Poppius, 1915 ) Yasunaga & Schwartz & Chérot, 2018

Yasunaga, Tomohide, Schwartz, Michael D. & Chérot, Frédéric, 2018, Review of the plant bug genus Prolygus and related mirine taxa from eastern Asia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 58 (2), pp. 357-388 : 374

Apolygopsis eoa ( Poppius, 1915) comb. nov.

( Fig. 72 )

Lygus eous Poppius 1915: 27 (original description).

Apolygus eous: LU & ZHENG (1998b) : 186 (new combination); KERZHNER & JOSIFOV (1999): 63 (catalog); ZHENG et al. (2004): 146 (diagnosis).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♁, TAIWAN: Fuhosho , Formosa [currently Nantou City], 7 Sep, H. Sauter (without USIs, image examined, DEIC, Fig. 72 ).

Distribution. Taiwan (Nantou) ( POPPIUS 1915).

Comments. Although LU & ZHENG (1998b) placed this Taiwanese species in Apolygus , images of the holotype suggest it is more evidently related to some representatives of Apolygopsis , particularly A. nigritula (Linnavuori, 1963) in overall appearance. Comparing with A. nigritula ( Fig. 85 ), the holotype of A. eoa ( Fig. 72 ) differs only in being smaller in size and has the base of antennal segment II pale. Accordingly, Lygus eous is transferred from Apolygus to Apolygopsis . The significantly small size and reddish brown tibial spines of this mirid also confirm its placement in Apolygopsis . Measurements of the male was given by ZHENG et al. (2004): Body length 3.71, maximum width 1.75; width of head across eyes 0.91; vertex width 0.27; lengths of antennal segment I 0.51, II 1.32, III 0.80; pronotum length 0.86; and pronotal width 1.49.

Figures

Figs 66–72. Asian species of Prolygus and related genera, type specimens. 66 – Lygus bakeri Poppius, 1915 [now in Anthophilolygus], paralectotypes; 67 – Lygus tainanensis Poppius, 1915 [synonym of A. bakeri]; 68 – Lygus nigriclavus Poppius, 1915 [now in Prolygus]; 69 – Lygus kirkaldyi Poppius, 1915 [synonym of Poppiolygus bengalicus]; 70 – Lygus bengalicus Reuter, 1885 [now in Poppiolygus], lectotype (herein designated) and paralectotype; 71 – Lygus niger Poppius, 1915 [now in Apolygopsis]; 72 – Lygus eous Poppius, 1915 [now in Apolygopsis]. Scale bars ca. 1 mm (based on original description of each taxon, except for Fig. 70 recently re-measured by courtesy of Prof. Enghoff of ZMUC).

Figs 83–93. Habitus images of Asian species of the Lygus complex. 83–84 – Apolygopsis nigra sp. nov. (Poppius, 1915): 83 – ♁ (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand), 84 – ♀ (Kathmandu, Nepal). 85 – Apolygopsis nigritula (Linnavuori, 1961), ♀ (Nagasaki, Japan). 86 – Apolygopsis furvocarinata Yasunaga, Schwartz & Chérot, 2002, adults aggregated on Fraxinus griffitii (Iriomote Island, Japan). 87–89 – Miyamotolygus rufilorum (Lu & Zheng, 1998) (Kathmandu, Nepal): 87–88 – ♁, 89 – ♀. 90–93 – Poppiolygus bengalicus (Reuter, 1885): 90 –♀ (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand), 91 – ♀ (Ayeyawady, Myanmar), 92 – ♁ (Kaski, Nepal), 93 – final instar nymph (Kasuki).