Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) shadeganica, Linnavuori, 2010

Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2010, Studies on the Miridae (Phylinae, addenda to Deraeocorinae and Orthotylinae) of Khuzestan and the adjacent provinces of Iran (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 369-414 : 402-403

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5326810

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scientific name

Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) shadeganica
status

sp. nov.

Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) shadeganica View in CoL sp. nov.

( Fig. 22B–G View Fig ).

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, IRAN: KHUZESTAN: Shadegan , 20.–21.iv.2007 . PARATYPE: J, Shadegan, 20.–21.iv.2007. The types will be deposited at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales (Cardiff, United Kingdom).

Description. Length 2.75–3.0 mm (J).

Colouration. Pale yellowish green. Eyes pale greyish brown. Antennae yellowish, antennomeres 3 and 4 slightly darker. Hemelytra pale greenish, membranes with veins dark brownish. Under surface yellowish. Femora pale yellowish, tibiae and tarsi whitish, tibial spines black arising from minute black spots.

Structure. Body gracile, about 3.5× as long as basal width of pronotum. Head 0.81–0.83× as broad as basal width of pronotum. Ocular index 1.25–1.39. Length ratios of antennomeres 11: 50: 36: 15, antennomere 1 0.28× as long as width of head, antennomere 2 1.18–1.28× as long as diatone and 0.96–1.1× as long as basal width of pronotum. Rostrum extending to hind coxae. Pronotum 2.3–2.35× as broad as long in middle. Hind tibia 1.7× as long as basal width of pronotum. Length ratios of hind tarsomeres 6: 11: 12. Claw as in Fig. 22B View Fig . Male genitalia as in Fig. 22C–G View Fig ; pygophore conical, without tubercles; theca with subapical tooth; vesica gracile with one short and slender apical process.

Differential diagnosis. Resembling other species of the subgenus Chlorotuponia Wagner, 1964 such as T. prasina , but easily distinguished by the male genitalia.

Habitat. On Tamarix .

Etymology. Named after the type locality.

Distribution. So far known only from the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Tuponia

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