Plagiognathus raphani Wagner, 1963: 78

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 : 249

Plagiognathus raphani Wagner, 1963: 78 (n. sp.).

I have examined four specimens from Cyprus that are apparently P. raphani , based on the idenfication of Eckerlein. The vesica, as illustrated in figure 39, is similar to that of tamaninii Carapezza , as is the left paramere, which has a small bump at the base of the shaft. The right paramere, however, lacks the large ‘‘hump’’ shown in the figures of Carapezza (1998) for tamaninii . The figures provided by Wagner (1963) are not oriented in such a way as to to be easily compared with those of Carapezza or me, but they nonetheless conform reasonably well to the specimens I am treating as raphani .

HOST: Raphanus sp. (Brassicaceae) (Wagner, 1975).