Nasocoris platycranoides Montandon, 1890

Kment, Petr & Bryja, Josef, 2007, Description of Nasocoris lautereri sp. nov. from the Balkan peninsula, with a review of the genus Nasocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Zootaxa 1633, pp. 39-61 : 52

Nasocoris platycranoides Montandon, 1890

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Syntypes. Algeria: ‘ Oran (L. Moisson)’ (MGAB, MZHF, NHMW – see Kerzhner & Josifov (1999)). Kerzhner & Matocq (1994) listed also syntypes in collection of MNHN.

Nasocoris platycranoides sp. nov.: Montandon (1890): 179 –180. Description, faunistics ( Algeria).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Puton (1899): 71 . Catalogue, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Reuter (1902): 103 . Differential diagnosis, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Oshanin (1909): 855 . Catalogue, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Oshanin (1912): 77 . Catalogue, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Vidal (1937): 205 . Faunistics ( Morocco).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Lindberg (1939): 18 –19. Key, figure, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Lindberg (1940): 46 –47. Bionomics, host plant, ecology, faunistics ( Morocco).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Lindberg (1951): 26 . List of types in Reuter’s collection.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Stichel (1956): 210 (partim). Diagnosis, key, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Carvalho (1958): 78 . Catalogue.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Stichel (1958): 800 (partim). Distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Wagner (1958): 76 . Bionomics, faunistics ( Morocco).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Sienkiewicz (1964): 22 . Faunistics ( Algeria).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Linnavuori (1968): 201 , 203–204. Redescription, key, bionomics, host plant, faunistics ( Morocco).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Wagner (1968): 299 –301. Key, figures, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Wagner (1974): 402 , 405. Redescription, key, host plant, distribution.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Ribes and Goula (1986): 277 . Catalogue of Wagner’s collection.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Kerzhner and Matocq (1994): 64 . List of types.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Faraci and Rizzotti Vlach (1995): 25 . List, distribution ( Italy: Sardinia – error!).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Schuh (1995): 360 . Catalogue.

Nasocoris platycranoides: Carapezza (1997): 109 . Bionomics, host plant, distribution, faunistics ( Tunisia).

Nasocoris platycranoides: Kerzhner and Josifov (1999): 376 . Catalogue, type depository, distribution ( Spain – marked as first record).

Distribution. Italy (Sicily) ( Carapezza 1997, without an exact locality), Spain ( Kerzhner and Josifov 1999, without an exact locality; confirmed in this paper), Algeria ( Montandon 1890, Sienkiewicz 1964), Morocco ( Vidal 1937, Lindberg 1940, Wagner 1958), Tunisia ( Carapezza 1997). The records from Sardinia ( Servadei 1952, 1967; Stichel 1956, 1958) refer to N. psyche . Wagner (1968) mentioned in the key its occurrence in Sardinia (not Sicily), but he mentioned it from Sicily (but not from Sardinia) in the discussion; thus Wagner’s record from Sicily probably is a mistake.

Host plant. Ephedra cossonii ( Morocco) ( Lindberg 1940), E. fragilis ( Morocco, Tunisia) ( Carapezza 1997, this paper).

Bionomics. Adults were collected in April ( Wagner 1958, this paper), May ( Lindberg 1940, Linnavuori 1968, Carapezza 1997, this paper), June ( Lindberg 1940, Linnavuori 1968, this paper), July ( Carapezza 1997), October (this paper), and November ( Lindberg 1940). Larvae of 5th instar were collected in May (this paper).

Ecology. Collected on the banks of the Reraïa river in the High Atlas Mts. (1250 m a.s.l.) in Morocco, together with Hyoidea horvathi ( Lindberg 1940) .

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 9. 7 – Nasocoris argyrotrichus Reuter, 1879, habitus. Female (Kazakhstan, Dzhambul region, Karasay env.) (3.3 mm); 8 – N. platycranoides Montandon, 1890, habitus. Female (Spian, Pizarra) (4.9 mm); 9 – N. tesquorum Kerzhner, 1970, habitus. Male, paratype (Kazakhstan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Topolevka) (4.6 mm).