Atractotomus parvulus Reuter 1878
Creators: name: Konstantinov, Fedor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Atractotomus
Atractotomus parvulus

description: 5.2. Atractotomus parvulus Reuter, 1878  
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Atractotomus parvulus Reuter, 1878: 95.  
Atractotomus brevicornis Reuter, 1899: 140 (synonymized by Aukema 1998: 153).  
Atractotomus (Heterocapillus) mirificus Woodroffe, 1971: 265 (synonymized by Stonedahl 1990: 43).  
 Atractotomus schmiedeknechti Reuter, 1899: 141 syn. nov.   
Remarks.  
 Atractotomus schmiedeknechti and A. brevicornis were originally described by Reuter (1899) from females collected in northwestern Algeria. He noted similarity of both species with A. parvulus and distinguished A. schmiedeknechti by the moderately fusiform antennomere II and strongly depressed cuneal fracture. Atractotomus brevicornis was subsequently synonymized with A. parvulus (Stonedahl 1990; Aukema 1998). Wagner (1973a) provided description of a male of A. schmiedeknechti based on the single male from Morocco and transferred this species to the genus Heterocapillus. No new data on this species have been published since 1973 and its taxonomic status has remained questionable. I examined the male specimen of A. schmiedeknechti described by Wagner but failed to locate its vesica. Still, based on the measurements (Table 1), vestiture, shape of the antennomeret II of both sexes I consider A. schmiedeknechti Reuter, 1899 to be conspecific with Atractotomus parvulus Reuter: 1878, the only Atractotomus species known from North Africa, and having relatively long apical blade of vesica which resembles the drawing provided by Wagner (1973a).   
Material examined.  
 Atractotomus parvulus: Holotype: FRANCE: Lorraine: Vosges Co.: Remiremont, 48.02°N 6.58°E, ♀ (AMNH_PBI 00345055) (MNHN). - Other Specimens: CROATIA: Split, Dalmatia, 43.5°N 16.43333°E, 18 Jul 1943, Novak, Pinus halepensis Mill. (Pinaceae), 2♂ (AMNH_PBI 00336935, AMNH_PBI 00337040), 3♀ (AMNH_PBI 00336931, AMNH_PBI 00336933, AMNH_PBI 00337043) (ZMUH). FRANCE: Ile-de-France: Essonne Co.: Umg. Paris, Saclas, 48.3667°N 2.1167°E, 88 m, 16 Jul 1960, J. Pericart, Pinus sp. (Pinaceae), 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00337038) (ZMUH). GERMANY: Bavaria: Aschaffenburg, 49.96666°N 9.15°E, 17 Jul 1935, K. Singer, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00337039) (ZMUH); 23 Jul 1935, K. Singer, 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00337046) (ZMUH). Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen): Lüneburg, Dieksbeck, 53.2525°N 10.41444°E, 27 Jun 1948, Rabeler, 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00337044) (ZMUH). Neu-Darchau, Hannover Distr., 53.227°N 10.884°E, 24 Jul 1937, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00337042) (ZMUH); 29 Jul 1937, 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00337047) (ZMUH). Rheinland-Pfalz: Wöllstein, Höllberg, 49.81444°N 7.96083°E, 18 Jul 1938, E. Wagner, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00337041), 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00337045) (ZMUH). Atractotomus schmiedeknechti: MOROCCO: Ketama, 34.86°N 4.61°W, Jul 1972, A. Pardo, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00336932) (ZMUH).
description: Published as part of Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2023, Plant bugs with swollen antennae: a morphology-based phylogenetic analysis of Heterocapillus Wagner, 1960 and related genera (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 845-879 in Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 81 on page 845, DOI: 10.3897/asp.81.e104396