Urostylis hubeiensis Ren 1997
Creators: name: Zhou, Yanyan
name: Rédei, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Urostylididae
Urostylis
Urostylis hubeiensis

description: Urostylis hubeiensis Ren, 1997 (Figs. 1–12)
Urostylis hubeiensis Ren, 1997: 58, 64. Holotype: ♂, China: Hubei, Shennongjia; NKUM.
Urostylis koreana Kim & Jung, 2018 in Kim et al. (2018: 446, 455). Holotype: ♂, South Korea: Sejong, Geumnam-myeon, Donam-ri; CNU. New subjective synonym.
Urostylis hubeiensis: Rider (2006: 113) (catalogue, distribution).
Diagnosis. Externally similar (Figs. 1–2, 4–5) and apparently phylogenetically closely related to U. yangi Maa, 1947, sharing the combination of a pale and mostly concolorously punctured dorsum decorated with large, coarse, scattered black punctures in area enclosed by medial furrow and cubitus (relatively sparse between R+M and Cu, denser between R+M and medial furrow) of fore wing; scape being provided with a black longitudinal fascia on its lateral surface; genital capsule of male being provided with a pair of short and blunt dorsolateral and a single dorsally or dorsoventrally directed, apically excised ventromedian projection with its tip approximately reaching level of dorsolateral projections in lateral view (Figs. 7–9); and ventrite VII of the female not being produced posteriad below ovipositor, leaving valvifers VIII fully exposed (Figs. 10–11). The differences of the two species are summarized in Table 1. The genitalia of U. yangi were figured by Maa (1947: 131, figs. 32–35), Hsiao & Ching (1977: 196, figs. 981–982), and Ren (1988: 45: fig. 14); the male holotype and female allotype (both deposited in IZAS) together with about 60 additional non-types of both sexes from Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Fujian Provinces of China (deposited in NKUM and IZAS) have been examined.
Urostylis hubeiensis Ren, 1997 Urostylis yangi Maa, 1947
1 corium with a series of rather regularly arranged, series along claval furrow composed of concolorous punctures,
closely placed, medium-sized black punctures forming not appearing as a contrasting, conspicuous line (Hsiao &
a straight line along claval furrow (Figs. 1, 4) Ching 1977: 196, fig. 980)
2 posteromedian process of genital capsule directed posteromedian process of genital capsule directed obliquely
nearly dorsad (Fig. 7), its lateral outlines subparallel or posterodorsad, enclosing an angle of about 45° with
slightly concave at two sides in posterior view (Fig. 8) longitudinal axis of body (Maa 1947: 131, fig. 34), its lateral
outlines distinctly convex at two sides therefore broadened at
its middle in posterior view (Maa 1947: 131, fig. 33; Ren 1988:
45, fig. 14)
3 posterior outline of genital capsule below posterolateral posterior outline of genital capsule below posterolateral
process broadly convex, enclosing a narrow, U-shaped process distinctly, broadly emarginate, enclosing a broad, V-
interspace with anterior margin of posteromedian shaped interspace with anterior margin of posteromedian
projection in lateral view (Fig. 7) projection in lateral view (Maa 1947: 131, fig. 34)
4 laterotergites IX relatively long, distinctly surpassing laterotergites IX short, posteromedian portions completely
posterior extremities of valvifers VIII both in ventral concealed by posterior portions of valvifers VIII in ventral,
(Fig. 10) but particularly in posteroventral (Fig. 11) narrowly exposed posteriad of valvifers VIII in posteroventral
view; posteromesal portion of laterotergite IX view; laterotergite IX more or less transversely truncate,
surpassing posterolateral portion of same sclerite posteromesal portion not conspicuously surpassing
posteriorly posterolateral portion of same sclerite posteriorly (Maa 1947:
131, fig. 35)
Distribution. So far the species has been known only from Gansu, Shaanxi and Hubei Provinces of China, but it is rare in collections; now the Korean Peninsula is added to its range (Fig. 12). It is likely distributed all over the warm temperate deciduous-broadleaf forest zone of Central and Eastern China, but juding from the fact that it has not been reported from the thoroughly explored Russian Far East (Kerzhner 1966, Kanyukova 1988), it probably does not extend farther to the north into the mixed and boreal zones, its occurrence in Manchuria is therefore unlikely.
Type material examined. Urostylis hubeiensis Ren, 1997. Holotype: ♂, “<Hubei> [ch, pr] <Shennongjia> [ch, hw] \ 900–1000m [hw] \ <Chinese Academy of Sciences> [ch, pr]”, “1981. V. 27 [hw] \ <collector: Han Yin-Heng> [ch, pr]” “ Urostylis [hw] \ hubeiensis [hw] \ Ren, sp. nov. [hw] \ <holotype identified 19> [ch, pr] 96 [hw]”; pinned, left eye and anterolateral portion of pronotum at left side damaged by museum beetles but otherwise intact (Figs. 1–3, 7–9). Allotype: ♀, “<Hubei> [ch, pr] <Shennongjia Song> [ch, hw] \ <Luo> [ch, hw] 920m [hw] \ <Chinese Academy of Sciences> [ch, pr]”, “1981. VIII. 29 [hw] \ <collector: Han Yin-Heng> [ch, pr]” “ Urostylis [hw] \ hubeiensis [hw] \ Ren, sp. nov [hw] \ <allotype> [ch, pr] 1996. VII. [hw]”; pinned, distiflagellum of left antenna lacking (Figs. 4–6, 10–11). Paratype?: ♂, “<Hubei> [ch, pr] <Shennongjia Song> [ch, hw] \ <Luo> [ch, hw] 900m [hw] \ <Chinese Academy of Sciences> [ch, pr]”, “1981. VI. 18 [hw] \ <light> [ch, hw] \ <collector: Han Yin-Heng> [ch, pr]” “ PARATYPE [yellow, pr]”, “ ♂ ” [yellow, hw]; pinned, both flagella, left mid leg, tarsal segments II–III of right mid leg, tibia and tarsus of left hind leg lacking (NKUM).
Additional specimens examined. KOREA. Gyeonggi-do: Uiwang-si, Mt. Bara, 22.vi.2015, leg. J.Y. Choi (2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ NIBR, identified as U. trullata by S.H. Lee), Pocheon-si, Yeongbuk-myeon, Myeongsangsan, 38°4'23"N 127°19'31"E, 12.vi.2008, leg. J.D. Yeo, M. J. Jeon & H. G. Kim (3 ♀♀ NIBR); Seoul: Gwanak-gu, Bongcheon-dong, 16.vi.2015, leg. H.J. Lee (1 ♂ 4 ♀♀ NIBR, identified as U. trullata by S.H. Lee), Gwanak-gu, Sinlim-dong, Mt. Gwanak, 21.vi.2015, leg. J.H. Ko (3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ NIBR, identified as U. trullata by S.H. Lee); Gangwon-do: Yanggu-gun, Bangsan-myeon, 23.vii.2008, leg. Y.H. Cho (1 ♂ NIBR); Gyeongsangbuk-do: Gomi Okseong, Dukchon-ri, 14.viii.2009, leg. D.S. Kim (1 ♂ NIBR, identified as U. annulicornis by D.S. Kim); Gyeongsangnam-do: Hadong-gun, Jingyomyeon, Goryong-ri, Mt. Geumo, 25.vii.2014, leg. H.J. Kim (2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ NIBR, identified as U. annulicornis by J.S. Park), Geoje-si, Dongbu-myeon, Gucheon-ri, Mt. Noja, 24.vi.2014, leg. J.S. Park (2 ♂♂ 1 ♀ NIBR, identified as U. annulicornis by J.S. Park), Geoje-si, Yeoncho-myeon, Yeonsa-ri, Mt. Daegeum, 21.vi.2012, leg. H.J. Kim (1 ♂ NIBR, identified as U. annulicornis by J.S. Park), Geoje-si, Geoje-myeon, Seosang-ri, Mt. Gyeryong, 25.vi.2014, leg. J.S. Park (1 ♂ NIBR, identified as U. lateralis by J.S. Park), Tongyeong-si, Tongyeong, 4.vi.2015, leg. Y.R. Lee (2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ NIBR, identified as U. trullata by S.H. Lee).— CHINA. Gansu: Kang County, Tuosha, 6.x. [19]81, leg. [illegible] Cao (1 ♂ NKUM); Shaanxi: Shang County [currently Shangzhou Distr.], 29.vi.1981 (1 ♂ NKUM); Hubei: Shennongjia, Songbai, 22.vi.1977, leg. H.G. Zou (1 ♀ NKUM), same locality, 8.ix.1985, at light (1 ♂ 1 ♀ NKUM).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Yanyan & Rédei, Dávid, 2018, A new synonymy in East Asian Urostylididae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 145-150 in Zootaxa 4504 (1) on pages 145-146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/2606138