Eur. J. Entomol. 115: 467-492, 2018 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2018.048

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

Minsuk OH1,2, Tomohide YASUNAGA3, Ram Keshari DUWAL4, Seunghwan LEE1,2,*
1 Laboratory of Insect Biosystematics, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea; e-mail: seung@snu.ac.kr
2 Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea; e-mail: ary364@snu.ac.kr
3 Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA; e-mail: yasunagat.amnh@gmail.com
4 Visiting Scientists, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A, 0C6, Canada; e-mail: ramkeshariduwal@gmail.com

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 & Chérot, 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.

Keywords: Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae, Mirini, checklist, key, new species, new record, Korean Peninsula

Received: November 16, 2017; Revised: June 6, 2018; Accepted: June 6, 2018; Published online: August 30, 2018  Show citation

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Minsuk, O., YASUNAGA, T., DUWAL, R.K., & LEE, S. (2018). Annotated checklist of the plant bug tribe Mirini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) recorded on the Korean Peninsula, with descriptions of three new species. EJE, 115, Article 467-492. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2018.048
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