Tuponia koreana Kim et Jung 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kim, Junggon
name: Roca-Cusachs, Marcos
name: Lee, Bong-Woo
name: Kim, Il-Kwon
name: Jung, Sunghoon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Tuponia
Tuponia koreana

description: <i>Tuponia koreana</i> Kim et Jung sp. nov. (Figures 1, 2) <i>Diagnosis</i> Recognised by body oval, around 2 mm, pale greenish; head and pronotum almost greenish; labium reaching hind-coxae; scutellum yellowish green; hind-femur with small dark spots; tibial spines with dark bases (Figure 1 (a–c)); third tarsal segment distinctly longer than second segment (Figure 1 (d)); left paramere with prominent and long process, heading downside (Figure 2 (a,b)); right paramere lanceolate, lateral margins moderately rounded, with small hypophysis (Figure 2 (c)); phallotheca with long and sharp apex, its ventral margin slightly concave (Figure 2 (d)); endosoma S-shaped without membrane, twisted subapically, apical part blunt, endosomal spicule curved and thin, secondary gonopore invisible (Figure 2 (e,f)). <i>Description</i> <b>MALE</b>: Body oval, length 1.91–1.95. <i>Colouration</i>: mostly greenish with greyish membrane (Figure 1 (a–c)). <b>Head</b>: entirely green with posterior yellowish part on vertex; antennae mostly greenish brown; being brownish gradually towards apical part of second segment; clypeus paler; labium almost brown, apical part of fourth segment darker. <b>Thorax</b>: pronotum entirely greenish brown; scutellum yellowish brown, or paler than pronotum; hemelytra entirely greenish, sometimes tinged with deeper greenish colouration in embolial margin; membrane greyish, vein greyish brown (Figure 1 (a,b)); legs mostly greenish; all femora pale, hind-femur with tiny sparse dark markings; tibiae almost pale, except for greenish base and apex, base of tibial spine dark; tarsi greenish brown. <b>Abdomen</b>: entirely greenish brown (Figure 1 (c)). <i>Surface and vestiture</i>: body with indistinctly punctate, covered with long dark setae and sparse silvery pubescence; head covered with dark long setae and dense silvery hairs; first antennal segment with two dark spines; other segments with short suberect setae; pronotum covered with long dark setae, anterior part with sparse short silvery pubescence; scutellum with only silvery short pubescence; hemelytra with long dark setae, usually on outer margin of corium; cuneus with dark setae; all apical part of femora with dark spines; all tibiae with long and dark spines originated on dark spot. <i>Structure</i>: <b>Head</b>: somewhat prognathous, width more than scutellum width; vertex width equal to 2 times of first antennal segment length; compound eye reaching suture delimiting mandibular and maxillary plates; first antennal segment thicker than others; second segment cylindrical, shorter than combined length of third and fourth segments; apex of labium exceeding hindcoxae (Figure 1 (c)). <b>Thorax</b>: pronotum trapezoid, posterior margin of pronotum gradually angled, longitudinal length less than 1/2 basal pronotal width; scutellum equilateral, flat, height as high as pronotum height; lateral margin of hemelytra slightly rounded; cuneal fracture well developed; membrane with two cells; legs generally slender; first tarsal segment shortest, third segment equal to combined length of first and second tarsal segments (Figure 1 (d)). <b>Abdomen</b>: rounded, reaching to apex of cuneus. <b>Genitalia</b>: left paramere paddle-like shaped, with two sharp processes, one process long, heading downside (Figure 2 (a,b)); right paramere lanceolate with small hypophysis, with long setae (Figure 2 (c)); phallotheca bending with sharp and long apex, ventral margin slightly concave (Figure 2 (d)); endosoma S-shaped without membrane, twisted at apical part, forming blunt apex, spicule curved and thin, secondary gonopore invisible (Figure 2 (e,f)). <b>FEMALE</b>: Body oval, length 2.12–2.17. COLOURATION: as in male, except for somewhat paler colouration and paler and semitransparent membrane. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in male. STRUCTURE: slightly bigger than male. GENITALIA: not examined. <i>Measurements (in mm)</i> Male (n = 3)/Female (n = 4) Body length, clypeus-apex of membrane: 1.91–1.95/2.12–2.17; head length, excluding collar: 0.20–0.21/0.23–0.25; head width, including compound eyes: 0.56–0.58/0.57–0.59; vertex width: 0.30–0.31/0.33–0.34; 1 st antennal segment length: 0.14–0.15/0.14–0.15; 2 nd antennal segment length: 0.55–0.58/0.53–0.55; 3 rd antennal segment length: 0.37–0.39/0.37–0.38; 4 th antennal segment length: 0.23–0.24/0.20– 0.21; total antennal length: 1.29–1.36/1.24–1.29; mesal pronotal length: 0.33–0.35/0.29– 0.30; basal pronotal maximal width (straight): 0.77–0.79/0.79–0.81; anterior scutellum width: 0.49–0.50/0.52–0.54; mesal scutellum length: 0.29–0.30/0.36–0.38; commissure length: 0.45–0.46/0.47–0.48; outer embolial margin length: 1.05–1.07/1.03–1.04; outer cuneal margin length: 0.33–0.34/0.33–0.34; maximal width across hemelytron: 0.46– 0.48/0.45–0.46; hind leg (femur: tibia: tarsus): 0.70–0.71: 1.09–1.12: 0.35–0.36/0.73–0.75: 1.09–1.11: 0.38–0.39. <i>Type material</i> <b>Holotype</b>: [CNU] 1 male, Gojeong-ri, Songsan-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (37°15 <i>ʹ</i> 33”N, 126°44 <i>ʹ</i> 42”E), on <i>Tamarix chinensis</i>, 4 June 2020, J. Kim &amp; M. Roca-Cusachs leg.; <b>Paratypes</b>: [CNU] 4 males and 8 females, same data as in Holotype. <i>Host</i> <i>Tamarix chinensis</i> Loureiro (Tamaricaceae) (Figure 3).
description: Published as part of <i>Kim, Junggon, Roca-Cusachs, Marcos, Lee, Bong-Woo, Kim, Il-Kwon &amp; Jung, Sunghoon, 2021, First record of the genus Tuponia Reuter (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from the Korean Peninsula, with description of a new species and notes on natural history with Tamarix, pp. 1267-1275 in Journal of Natural History 55 (19 - 20)</i> on pages 1268-1271, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1943555, http://zenodo.org/record/5467100