Plagiognathus amurensis Reuter, 1883

SCHUH, RANDALL T., 2001, Revision Of New World Plagiognathus Fieber, With Comments On The Palearctic Fauna And The Description Of A New Genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (266), pp. 1-267 : 246

Plagiognathus amurensis Reuter Figure 39

Plagiognathus amurensis Reuter, 1883: 454 , 513 (n. sp.).

The first modern authors to study this species were Josifov and Kerzhner (1972) as part of their work on the Heteroptera of Korea. They illustrated the genitalia, as did Li and Zheng (1991) in their work on Plagiognathus spp. from China. Although illustrations from both publications clearly indicate that the authors were working with a Plagiognathus sp. , neither is comparable with the figures I have provided for the North American fauna. Thus, I include an illustration of the vesica (fig. 39), based on material from Russia, Primorsky Krai, Khaganskii District, Andreevka.

HOST: Artemisia vulgaris (Asteraceae) (Kerzhner, 1988).

Figures

Fig. 39. Male genitalia of Palearctic Plagiognathus spp.