Bryocoris pteridis
Creators: name: Konstantinov, Fedor V.
name: Neimorovets, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Bryocoris
Bryocoris pteridis

description: Bryocoris pteridis (Fallén, 1807)
Figures. 1, 9
Capsus pteridis Fallén, 1807: 105
Material examined. BELARUS: Vitebsk Province, Ambrosovichi, 3♀ 31 VII 1924, Birulya. Korolevo 19 km N of Vitebsk, 2♀ 17 VII 1903, 1♀ 27 VII 1903, Birulya. Lavi, 10 verst S of st. Sirotino, 6♀ 15 VII 1924, Birulya. Sennensky Uyezd, Luskinopol estate, 1♀ 1♂ 14 VI 1907, 2♂ 22 VII 1906, Birulya. RUSSIA: Leningrad Prov.: Terioki [Zelenogorsk], 4♀ 4♂ 13 VII 1899, Novotortsev. Chernaya Lakhta [Lebyazhensky], 3♀ 5♂ 2 VI 1897, 1♀ 21 VII 1897, 1♀ 1♂ 13 VIII 1897, 1♂ 23 VII 1899, 2♀ 26 VII 1899, 7♀ 10 VIII 1899, 1♀ 1♂ 20 VI 1898, 12♂ 5 VII 1900, Bianchi. Serezhino, Yamburg. Uezd, 7♀ 17 VII 1895, 6♀ 28 VII 1895, 5♀ 1♂ 25 VIII 1895, 1♂ 16 VI 1896, 1♀ 24 VI 1896, 1♀ 1♂ 27 VI 1896, Bianchi. Lebyazhye, Petergofsky Uezd, 4♀ 7 VIII 1897, Chekini. Lebyazhye, Petergofsky Uezd, 2♀ 1♂ 25 VI 1898, Novotortsev. Lebyazhye, Petergofsky Uezd, 4♂ 10 VI 1897, 6♀ 11♂ 11 VI 1897, 14♀ 12♂ 20 VI 1898, 3♀ 2 VIII 1898, 1♀ 30 VII 1899, 15♀ 13 VIII 1899, 1♀ 25 VIII 1899, 2♀ 25 VII 1900, 1♂ 2 VII 1900, Bianchi. Duderhof [Krasnoe Selo], 10♀ 4 VIII 1898, Bianchi, 2♂ 6 VII 1939, Lukyanovich. Gorelovo, 1♀ 9 VII 1898, 1♀ 3 VIII 1898, 1♀ 5 VIII 1898, 1♂ 11 VIII 1898, 1♀ 25 VIII 1898, Novotortsev. Lopukhinka, Petergofsky Uezd, 4♀ 26 VII 1894, 18♀ 31 VII 1894, 4♀ 16 VIII 1894, Bianchi. Shlisselburgsky Uezd, Lobanovo dock [Pavlovo], 2♀ 2♂ 15 VII 1908, A. V. Vlasov, 5♀ 22 VII 1920, V. Barovsky. Razdelnaya [Lisy Nos] Railway Station 8♀ 16 VII 1911, A. Kiritshenko. Ligovo Railway Station, 1♀ 7 VII 1898, 1♀ 24 VII 1898, Novotortsev. Olgino, Petergofsky Uezd, 1♀ 2♂ 17 VII 1902, 1♀ 1♂ 4 VIII 1902, Bianchi. Lakhta, 2♂ 7 VII 1918, K. Tail, 3♀ 3♂ 12 VII 1918, T. L. Jaczewski. Zheltsy, Luzhsky uezd, 20♀ 3♂ 21 VII 1899, Mazarakiy. Luzhsky District, Bankovo, 1♀ VII 1931, Kiritshenko. Peterhof, 2♀ 2 X 2005, V. Krivokhatsky. Priozersky District, Sapyornoye, 1♂ VII 1958, I. Kerzhner. St. Petersburg, Moskovskoe shosse, 1♀ 28 VII 1861, A. Moravits. Pskov Prov.: Kharlamova Gora, Gdovsky uezd, 1♀ 11 VII 1898, 2♀ 12 VII 1898, Bikhner. Pskov, 1♀ 10 IX 1933, Chistovsky. Moscow Prov.: Porechye, Mozhaisky Uezd, 1♀ 9 VI 1903, 1♀ 13 VI 1903, Bianchi. Yaroslavl Prov.: Danilovsky District, Zhedenovo, 2♀ 1915, A. Shestakov. Bryansk Prov.: Bryansk, 3♀ 30 VI 1925, V. Stark. Kaluga Prov.: Kaluga, 1♂ 15 IX 1915, Chernishov. Kostroma Prov.: Manturovsky District, Shilovo, 1♀ 14 VII 1981, A. B. Ryvkin. Perm Prov.: Srednyaya Usva, ffi43, 2♀, 2♂ 27 VII, Urakova. UKRAINE: Slavuta, Volynsk Gov., 2♀ 13 VI 1911, 1♀ 20 VI 1911, 2♀ 24 VI 1911, F. Zaytsev. Near Zhitomir, 1♀ 17 VI 1897, Birulya. Sumy Prov., Trostianets, 1♀ 1946, Medvedev. Zakarpatia, Yablunytsia, 1♂ 19 VII 1974, L. Farka.
Diagnosis. Recognized by the following characters: males and females usually brachypterous, rarely macropterous; total body length 3.0–3.7 in macropterous form, 2.3–2.7 in brachypterous form; antennal segment I and basal half of segment II pale yellow (Fig. 1); femora and tibiae pale yellow, rarely fore tibia slightly darkened apically; left paramere with characteristically upturned apical process and large, strongly curved, flattened sensory lobe (Fig. 9).
This species is most similar in body proportions, coloration, and male genitalia structure to B. persimilis Kerzhner, 1988 known from the southern part of the Russian Far East (Amur Prov., Khabarovsk and Primorsky Terr.). Bryocoris persimilis differs from B. pteridis in having always macropterous males and brachypterous females, entirely or largely dark brown antennal segment II, and somewhat darkened apices of all tibiae.
Distribution. This species is widely distributed through almost entire forest zone of the Palaearctic, ranging from Great Britain, France, and Italy in the west to the Russian Far East in the East (Kerzhner & Josifov 1999). Within European Russia, it is spanning from Karelia Rep. Kiritshenko, 1951), Vologda Prov. (Arens 1971), and Komi Rep. (Zinovyeva 2005) in the north to Bryansk Prov. (Konstantinov & Zinovyeva 2017), Voronezh Prov. (Polozhentsev & Korovina 1958), Samara (Duzhaeva 1996) and Bashkiria Prov. (Vinokurov et al. 2015) in the south.
Host. The species is reported from a wide range of phylogenetically distant ferns including Asplenium sp. (Aspleniaceae), Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth, A. distentifolium Tausch ex Opiz (Woodsiaceae), Dryopteris filixmas (L.) Schott, D. dilatata (Hoffm.) A. Gray, D. carthusiana (Vill.) H.P. Fuchs, Polystichum sp. (Dryopteridaceae), Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn (Dennstaedtiaceae), Oreopteris limbosperma (All.) Holub (Thelypteridaceae) (Konstantinov & Knyshov 2015).
description: Published as part of Konstantinov, Fedor V. & Neimorovets, Vladimir V., 2021, Bryocorinae Baerensprung, 1860 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) of European Russia and the Caucasus: synopsis and key to species, pp. 301-338 in Zootaxa 4920 (3) on pages 303-304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4477993