Phimodera flori Fieber, 1863

Yildirim, Erol, Yazici, Gülten & Karakurt, Nihal, 2014, Contribution to the knowledge of the Scutelleridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) fauna of Turkey, Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (5), pp. 544-551 : 549-550

Phimodera flori Fieber, 1863

Redescription: Body dark brown, elliptical, slightly convex; head subquadrate, less than half the breadth of the pronotum; the clypeus hardly surpassing mandibular plates; eyes prominent; antenna brown, length 1.5 mm (the first segment 0.25 mm, the second 0.25 mm, the third 0.25 mm, the fourth 0.30 mm, the fifth 0.45 mm). The first, second, and third segments of equal length, fourth segment 2/3 as long as the fifth; pronotum with a transverse furrow anterior part that is transversely rugulose; scutellum covering the whole of the abdomen and almost the whole of the hemelytra, with 2 longitudinal lines, the middle one extending along very dark, the other 2 light color, extending from the anterior border; each with a short, oblique ridge near its other side ( Figure 1A ); coxa pale brown, femora black, other segments black-brown; pygophore with dorsal margin very broad, covered with fine setae ( Figure 1B ), ventral rim bearing numerous short stout setae, paramere small, stem drawn out into a blunt apex, a square projection lying below apex forming a shallow hook, 13 to 18 setae found along apical half of stem ( Figure 1C ), a number of very minute setae found on undersurface of apex, theca large and cylindrical, median penal lobes ( Figure 1D ) stout cylindrical structures, apically broadly rounded, basally fused together in a U around apex of vesica; length of females 6 mm, males 5 mm.

Material examined: Erzurum: Aşkale, Çayköy , 1720 m, 21.VI.2011, ♂, Hatuncuk , 1869 m, 5.VII.2012, ♀, ♂, Çat , 1914 m, 21.VI.2011, ♀, 2 ♂♂, Tuzla , 1926 m, 21.VI.2011, ♀, Yaylasuyu , 2331 m, 26.VI.2011, ♂ ( Figure 2 ).

New for the Turkish fauna.

Distribution in Palearctic region: EUROPE: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Russia (Central European Territory and South European Territory); ASIA: Kazakhstan (Asian part), Georgia, Mongolia, Russia East (Siberia, West Siberia) ( Kirichenko, 1910; Stichel, 1960; Stys, 1963; Kulik, 1965; Wagner, 1966; Vinokurov and Kanyukova, 1995; Davidová-Vilímová and Král, 2003; Göllner-Scheiding, 2006).

Figures

Figure 1. Phimodera flori Fieber, 1863; A- dorsal view, B- pygophore (dorsal view), C- paramere (lateral view), D- aedeagus (d.m.: dorsal margin, p.: proctiger, v.b.: ventral border, pa: paramere, t.h.: theca, me.p.: median penal, ve.: vesica).

Figure 2. Map distribution in Turkey of Phimodera flori Fieber, 1863 (courtesy of Google Earth).