Castanopsides falkovitshi Kerzhner, 1979

Oh, Min Suk & Lee, Seunghwan, 2017, New record of Castanopsidesfalkovitshi Kerzhner from Korea (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini), Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 12982-12982 : 12982

Castanopsides falkovitshi Kerzhner, 1979

Lygocoris (Arbolygus) falkovitshi Kerzhner 1979: 28 (sp. nov.); Schuh 1995: 796 (cat.).

Arbolygus falkovitshi Zheng et al. 2004: 186 (diag.).

Castanopsides falkovitshi Yasunaga 1998: 114 (diag., disc, comb. n.); Kerzhner and Josifov 1999: 81 (cat.); Yasunaga et al. 2001: 226 (diag.); Yasunaga and Duwal 2008: 405 (cat.) Schuh 2014: (cat.).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. H. Jung; individualCount: 11; sex: 6 males, 5 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Castanopsidesfalkovitshi; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: Gangwon-do; locality: Inje-gun, Girin-myeon, Hyeon-ri ; Identification: identifiedBy: Minsuk Oh; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: eventDate: 2011-06-26; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: SNU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. H. Jung; individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Castanopsidesfalkovitshi; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: Gangwon-do; locality: Inje-gun, Girin-myeon, Jindong-ri, Mt. Jumbong ; Identification: identifiedBy: Minsuk Oh; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 2011-05-24; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: SNU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. H. Lee; individualCount: 3; sex: 2 males, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Castanopsidesfalkovitshi; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: Gangwon-do; locality: Inje-gun, Nam-myeon, Namjeon-ri, 38°00'52"N, 128°08'05"E ; Identification: identifiedBy: Minsuk Oh; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 2016-06-08; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: SNU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Diagnosis

Recognized by its moderate size; dorsum dark brown to fuscous (in males), and paler (in females) and rather glabrous, covered with sericeous setae (Fig. 1 A, B); pronotum immaculate and glabrous, pale line transverse vertically along medial part of pronotum; cuneus pale, apex darkened; basal half of metafemur pale, distal half dark brown to fuscous; male genitalia as in Fig. 2 A, B and Fig. 3 C, D; spiculum distinctly long and slender (Fig. 2 B); sensory lobe of left paramere rather tumid; sclerotized ring small and ovate, semicircular (Fig. 4 A, B). For detailed diagnostic character, figures and description, see Yasunaga (1998).

Measurements (♂/♀)

Total body length 5.32-5.80/ 5.78-6.26; head width across eyes 0.99-1.03/ 1.03-1.06; vertex width 0.39-0.42/ 0.46-0.49; lengths of antennal segment I–IV 0.58-0.62, 1.66-1.88, 0.74-0.79, 0.39-0.41/ 0.60-0.64, 1.75-1.94, 0.68-0.88, 0.39-0.41; labial length 1.73-1.86/ 1.84-1.91; mesal pronotal length including collar 1.15-1.22/ 1.17-1.25; basal pronotal width 1.96-2.07/ 2.09-2.14; width across hemelytron 2.29-2.44/ 2.30-2.59; cuneal length 1.04-1.20/ 1.09-1.20; cuneal width 0.60-0.68/ 0.62-0.71; lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.82-2.04, 2.67-2.90, 0.56-0.59/ 2.02-2.29, 2.81-3.04, 0.59-0.66.

Distribution

China (Fujian, Hebei, Sichuan) ( Zheng et al. 2004), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), Far East Russia (S. Primorskij Prov.) ( Yasunaga 1998), Korea (Central, New record).

Notes

This species is host specific to Juglans spp. and Pterocarya rhoifolia Siebold & Zucc. ( Juglandaceae ) ( Yasunaga 1998). Yasunaga (1998) assumed Japanese C. falkovitshi invaded from Primorskij, Russia, via the Korean peninsula. Our record supports this hypothesis.