Platycranus (Genistocapsus) alkestis Linnavuori, 1999

Çerçi, Barış, Koçak, Özgür & Tezcan, Serdar, 2019, Two new species and ten new records of Heteroptera from Turkey, including the first record of the potential alien Campylomma miyamotoi in the Western Palaearctic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59 (1), pp. 295-306 : 302-303

Platycranus (Genistocapsus) alkestis Linnavuori, 1999

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Material examined. TURKEY: ANTALYA: Merkez, 17.v.1986 ,333 4♀♀, on Genista sp., F. Önder leg., B. Çerçi det. (LEMT).

Comment. The genus Platycranus Fieber, 1870 consists of green and broad headed species which are strictly associated with Genista spp. In Turkish fauna, Platycranus is represented by five species: P. erberi Fieber, 1870 , P. putoni Reuter, 1879 , P. remanei Wagner, 1955 , P. genistae Lindberg, 1948 , and P. bicolor (Douglas & Scott, 1868) ( ÖNDER et al. 2006) . While the first two species belong to the subgenus Platycranus s. str., the other three species belong to the subgenus Genistocapsus Wagner, 1956 which is identified by the long labium reaching at least the middle coxae (KNYSHOV & KONSTANTINOV 2013). Platycranus alkestis Lınnavuori, 1999 was originally described from the island of Rhodes and was known only from its type locality up to now. This species can be distinguished from other species of its subgenus by relatively long first antennal segment (0.7× as long as width of head) and brown colored pronotum and scutellum (KNYSHOV & KONSTANTINOV 2013). The specimens we examined have paler coloration with scutellum being pale brown and pronotum being yellowish to green ( Fig. 4D ).

Distribution in Turkey. Antalya (this work).

Figures

Fig. 4. A‒B ‒ Maurodactylus kukuensis V. G. Putshkov, 1978: A ‒ male; B ‒ female. C ‒ Pinalitus viscicola (Puton, 1888), male. D ‒ Platycranus (Genistocapsus) alkestis Linnavuori, 1999, male. Scale bars: 1 mm.