Annotated checklist of the plant bug tribe Mirini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) recorded on the Korean Peninsula, with descriptions of three new species

Minsuk OH,Tomohide YASUNAGA,Seunghwan LEE,Ram Keshari DUWAL

doi:10.14411/eje.2018.048

Abstract

An annotated checklist of the tribe Mirini (Miridae: Mirinae) recorded on the Korean peninsula is presented. A total of 113 species, including newly described and newly recorded species are recognized. Three new species, Apolygus hwasoonanus Oh, Yasunaga & Lee, sp. n., A. seonheulensis Oh, Yasunaga & Lee, sp. n. and Stenotus penniseticola Oh, Yasunaga & Lee, sp. n., are described. Eight species, Apolygus adustus (Jakovlev, 1876), Charagochilus (Charagochilus) longicornis Reuter, 1885, C. (C.) pallidicollis Zheng, 1990, Pinalitopsis rhodopotnia Yasunaga, Schwartz & ChĂŠrot, 2002, Philostephanus tibialis (Lu & Zheng, 1998), Rhabdomiris striatellus (Fabricius, 1794), Yamatolygus insulanus Yasunaga, 1992 and Y. pilosus Yasunaga, 1992 are reported for the first time from the Korean peninsula. Korean specimens previously identified as Eurystylus luteus Hsaio, 1941 are correctly recognized as E. sauteri Poppius, 1915. Three new synonyms are proposed: Apolygus atriclavus Kim & Jung, 2016 syn. n. of A. xanthomelas Yasunaga & Yasunaga, 2000, A. josifovi Kim & Jung, 2016 syn. n. of A. subpulchellus (Kerzhner, 1988) and Capsus koreanus Kim & Jung, 2015 syn. n. of C. wagneri Remane, 1950. Dorsal habitus photographs of the newly described or recorded species are presented along with figures of the genitalia of the new species. Keys to Korean genera and to species of Apolygus and Stenotus are provided. Zoogeography of the East Asian Mirini fauna is also discussed.

Highlights

Mirinae is the most diverse subfamily within the family Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and includes more than 4,000 species (Cassis & Schuh, 2012)
Most of the specimens examined are deposited in the Insect Collection of Seoul National University (SNUM), Seoul, South Korea. Additional specimens of those examined are housed in the following institutions: Hungarian Museum of Natural History (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary; Korean National Arboretum (KNIC), Pocheon, South Korea; National Institute of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), Wanju, South Korea; National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), Incheon, South Korea
104 species of Mirini were recorded from the Korean peninsula

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Introduction

Mirinae is the most diverse subfamily within the family Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and includes more than 4,000 species (Cassis & Schuh, 2012). Numerous new species of plant bugs from the Korean peninsula have been recognized and described. M. Josifov and I.M. Kerzhner made substantial contributions to the taxonomy of Korean Miridae from 1970 to 1995. Josifov & Kerzhner (1972) describe and report 57 species of Miridae from the Korean peninsula (including 33 spp. of Mirini). Josifov (1992) later reports 102 species of Miridae from North Korea (including 26 spp. of Mirini). In 1999, Kerzhner & Josifov (1999) published their collective work in a catalogue, in which 46 new species from the Korean peninsula are described (Josifov, 1992). The Korean researchers C.E. Lee and Y.J. Kwon describe the Korean Heteroptera in a catalogue (Lee, 1971; Lee et al, 1994; Lee & Kwon, 1991; Kwon et al, 2001)

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