Tuponia (Tuponia) mongolica Drapolyuk, 1980

Min Suk, Oh, Kim, WonGun, Park, Jihwan & Lee, Seunghwan, 2023, Additional record of Tuponia Reuter (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae) from Korea, with a new synonym and discussion on distribution, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 104644-104644 : 104644

Tuponia (Tuponia) mongolica Drapolyuk, 1980

Tuponia Tuponia Tuponia mongolica Tuponia mongolica Drapolyuk, 1980 - Drapolyuk 1980: 63.

Tuponia Tuponia Tuponia mongolica Tuponia tamaricicola Hsiao and Meng, 1963 - Hsiao and Meng 1963: 447, 449. (junior primary homonym of Tuponia tamaricicola Lindberg, 1939)

Tuponia Tuponia Tuponia mongolica Tuponia hsiaoi Zheng and Li, 1992 - Zheng and Li 1992: 10.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: WonGun Kim ; individualCount: 7; sex: 2♂, 5♀; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tuponia (Tuponia) mongolica Drapolyuk , 1980; Location : country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Incheon-si ; locality: Sorae Wetlands Ecology Park , Nonhyeon-dong , Namdong-gu ; Identification : identifiedBy: MinSuk Oh ; Event : eventDate: 19.viii.2022; habitat: on Tamarix chinensis; Record Level: institutionCode: SNU Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: WonGun Kim ; individualCount: 1; sex: 1♀; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tuponia (Tuponia) mongolica Drapolyuk , 1980; Location : country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Incheon-si ; locality: Sorae Wetlands Ecology Park , Nonhyeon-dong , Namdong-gu ; Identification : identifiedBy: MinSuk Oh ; Event : eventDate: 19.viii.2022; habitat: on Tamarix chinensis; Record Level: institutionCode: NIBR

Diagnosis

Recognised by elongate oval body, 2.8-3.5 mm; basic colouration pale yellowish-green, weakly shining (Fig. 1 D-F, Fig. 3 A-D); dorsum covered with pale sericeous setae and dark brown setae; labium reaches metacoxa; hemelytra pale yellowish-green, partly tinged with pale orange; posterior half of clavus and posterior 1/3 of corium densely covered with brown setae; tibial spine blackish-brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 5 A-D): Endosoma S-shaped, with two elongated, pointed-end sclerites and laterally serrate, membranous lobe; secondary gonopore developed between two sclerites; left paramere laterally wide; hypophysis twisted, apically hooked, sensory lobe with small pointed-end protuberance laterally. Female genitalia (Fig. 6 D-G): Sclerotised ring ovoid, thin-rimmed; interramal sclerites slender and elongated. For detailed diagnostic characters and figures, see Drapolyuk (1980), Zheng and Li (1992) and Li and Liu (2016).

Measurements

Male (n = 2). Total body length 2.75-3.03; head width across eyes 0.76-0.79; vertex width 0.34-0.35; lengths of antennal segment I-IV 0.22, 0.90-0.99, 0.81, 0.36; labial length 1.15-1.16; mesal pronotal length including collar 0.54-0.55; basal pronotal width 0.99-1.07; width across hemelytron 1.09-1.16; cuneal length 0.47-0.54; cuneal width 0.28-0.29; lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.02-1.09, 1.59-1.62, 0.50. Female (n = 5). Total body length 2.83-3.14; head width across eyes 0.75-0.80; vertex width 0.34-0.38; lengths of antennal segment I-IV 0.21-0.24, 0.97-1.00, 0.72-0.88, 0.33-0.38; labial length 1.08-1.23; mesal pronotal length including collar 0.50-0.55; basal pronotal width 1.07-1.14; width across hemelytron 1.23-1.29; cuneal length 0.53-0.57; cuneal width 0.29-0.32; lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.04-1.16, 1.61-1.67, 0.50-0.56.

Distribution

Korea (Incheon), China (inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei, Ningxia), Mongolia ( Drapolyuk 1980, Li and Liu 2016).

Biology

Known host plants are Tamarix sp. and Tamarix chinensis ( Tamaricaceae ) ( Drapolyuk 1980).

Notes

This species can be confused with T. jaxartensis Drapolyuk and T. zhenyuanensis Li & Liu, from which it is easily distinguished by endosoma with laterally serrate and elongated apical sclerites, phallotheca with a fin-like protrusion at the inner margin and a structural difference of parameres.

Figures

Figure 3. Dorsal habitus of Korean Tuponia mongolica. A, B Male; C, D Female. Scale bar: 2.0 mm.

Figure 5. Male genital structure of Korean Tuponia mongolica. A endosoma; B phallotheca; C left paramere; D right paramere. Scale bar: 0.2 mm.

Figure 6. Female genital structure of Korean Tuponia species. A-C, T. chinensis; D-G T. mongolica (A, D: bursa copulatrix (before dissected posterior wall); B, E bursa copulatrix (dorsal view); F bursa copulatrix (ventral view); C, G: posterior wall). Scale bar: 0.2 mm.