Europiella kiritshenkoi Kulik, 1975

Duwal, Ram Keshari, Jung, Sunghoon & Lee, Seunghwan, 2014, Review of Europiella Reuter (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini) from Korea, with a description of a new genus, Zootaxa 3795 (3), pp. 383-393 : 387-388

Europiella kiritshenkoi Kulik, 1975

Figures: 1C, 3C, 4F–J

Plagiognathus kiritshenkoi: Kulik, 1975: 587 (n. sp.); Kerzhner, 1979: 55 (desc., figs.); 1988a: 855 (key)

Europiella kiritshenkoi: Schuh et al., 1995: 390 (n. comb.); Schuh, 1995: 513 (cat.); Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999: 345 (cat.).

Diagnosis. Generally recognized by its large body; usually greenish coloration; large black spot on antennal segment I, and segment II with basal 1/2 or 1/3 region black; length of segment II nearly equal to length of metafemora; short labium reaching apex of mesocoxae; yellowish metafemora ventrally with spots as in figure 3C. Male genitalia ( Fig. 4 G–J). Endosoma: Shape S–like, completely twisted at mesial region, apical processes curved, the short one apically curved as a hook in figure 4J. Phallotheca: Broad, short and apically narrow as in figure 4G. Left paramere: As in figure 4H. Right paramere: As in figure 4I.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 4 F). Bursa copulatrix with semi–sclerotized plates centrally, and sclerotized rings somewhat oval.

Measurements. (5♂ / 5♀). Body length 4.04–4.67/ 4.43–4.62; head width across eyes 0.84–0.89/ 0.86–0.91; vertex width 0.45–0.50/ 0.42–0.54; lengths of antennal segments I–IV: 0.33–0.36, 1.45–1.65, 1.00–1.17, 0.49–0.59/ 0.31–0.40, 1.46–1.55, 0.98–1.15, 0.57–0.64; total length of labium 1.06–1.26/ 1.21–1.28; mesal pronotal length 0.60–0.66/ 0.55–0.65; basal pronotal width 1.25–1.31/ 1.32–1.43; width across hemelytron 1.55–1.71/ 1.64–1.73; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus: 1.50–1.62, 2.45–2.58, 0.56–0.71/ 2.23–2.53, 0.61–0.68, 0.59–0.66.

Specimens examined. South Korea: Gangwon–do: 7♂, 17♀, Wonju–si, Munmak, 27.v.2009, on Artemisia sp. R.K. Duwal and S. Jung; 49♂, 42♀, same data as above except date, 27.v.2009. Gyeonggi–do: 1♀, Yangpyeong–gun, 11.vi.2009, on light trap, same collectors.

Distribution. China, Korea *, Russia.

Host. Artemisia vulgaris L. ( Asteraceae ) [ Kulik, 1975].

Remarks. A large number of Europiella kiritshenkoi were aggregating on Artemisia sp. along a river and a few were collected in a light trap.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Genital illustrations of Europiella. A – E. E. artemisiae. F – J. E. kiritshenkoi. A, J. Endosoma. B, G. Phallotheca. C, I. Right paramere. D, H. Left paramere. E, F. Bursa copulatrix of female genitalia. Scale bar: male: 0.2 mm; female: 0.1 mm.