Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) prasina ( Fieber, 1864 )

Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2016, New synonymies in the plant bug family Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Northern China, Zootaxa 4205 (5), pp. 496-500 : 499

Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) prasina ( Fieber, 1864) ( Figure 9 )

Agalliastes prasinus Fieber, 1864: 228 .

Tuponia gracilipedis Li & Liu, 2016: 112 . New synonymy.

Tuponia gracilipedis was described from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region . According to the original description, this species differs from congeners by the distinctive vesica with a membranous apex and undifferentiated secondary gonopore. The authors stated in the diagnosis that T. gracilipedis is similar to T. prasina , but the latter species differs in having entirely sclerotized vesica. However the authors did not studied any material attributed to T. prasina and apparently misinterpreted the figures 65–66 published by Drapolyuk (1982). Tuponia prasina is one of the most common and widely distributed species of the subgenus Chlorotuponia spanning from Central and Southern Europe to Mongolia and Northwestern China including Xinjiang Uygur Prov. ( Konstantinov & Vinokurov, 2011). It can be easily distinguished from all other species of the genus Tuponia by the simple, apically membranous vesica and fits the Li & Liu’s concept of T. gracilipedis in all other respects including the shape of the phallotheca and parameres, sizes and color pattern.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 11. Vesica: 1 — Anonychiella brevicornis (Reuter, 1879) (AMNH _ PBI 00337486); 2 — Glaucopterum putshkovi Kerzhner, 1984 (AMNH _ PBI 00159143); 3 – 4 — Psallus amoenus Josifov, 1983 (AMNH _ PBI 00240707); 5 – 6 — Solenoxyphus salsolae Konstantinov, 2008 (AMNH _ PBI 00141377); 7 – 8 — Tuponia kiritshenkoi Drapolyuk, 1982 (AMNH _ PBI 00249728); 9 — Tuponia prasina (Fieber, 1864) (AMNH _ PBI 00337899); 10 – 11 — Tuponia jaxartensis Drapolyuk, 1980 (AMNH _ PBI 00340905).