Plagiognathus marivanensis Linnavuori, 2010

Çerçi, Barış, 2022, A new species of Plagiognathus (Heteroptera: Miridae) associated with the locally endemic Phlomis leucophracta (Lamiales: Lamiaceae) from Karaman, Turkey, European Journal of Taxonomy 806, pp. 148-160 : 156

Plagiognathus marivanensis Linnavuori, 2010

Figs 4B , 5 ; Table 1

Plagiognathus marivanensis Linnavuori, 2010: 389–391 , figs 10, 27b [type locality: West Azerbaijan, Sardasht, Iran].

Material examined

TURKEY • 1 ♂; Karaman, Bucakkışla ; 20 May 2020; Ö. Koçak leg.; BCIT .

Remarks

This species was originally described from Iran and later discovered in Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Mersin in Turkey ( Linnavuori 2010; Matocq et al. 2014; Carapezza & Kment 2018). It is characterized by whitish yellow coloration, pale yellow vestiture, immaculate tibiae and lack of black dot below membranal cells ( Fig. 4B ) ( Linnavuori 2010). This species is recorded from Karaman for the first time in this paper.

Figures

Fig. 4. Plagiognathus spp. A. P. ozgurkocaki sp. nov., ♂, paratype (LEMT). B. P. marivanensis Linnavuori, 2010, ♂ (BCIT), Karaman. C. P. bipunctatus albicans (Reuter, 1901), ♂ (BCIT), Karaman. D. P. bipunctatus bipunctatus, ♂ (BCIT), İzmir. Scale bar = 1 mm.

Fig. 5. Distribution of Plagiognathus spp. Star: P. ozgurkocaki sp. nov.; circle: P. marivanensis Linnavuori, 2010; square: P. bipunctatus albicans (Reuter, 1901). Grey color indicates previous literature records, red color indicates new records presented in this paper.