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Macrolophus glaucescens Fieber 1858

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7 / 9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia. f. konstantinov @ spbu. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7013 - 5686 & Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia.
  • 2. All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Shosse Podbelskogo 3, St. Petersburg-Pushkin, 196608, RUSSIA. neimorovets @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7096 - 5447

Description

Macrolophus glaucescens Fieber, 1858

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Macrolophus glaucescens Fieber, 1858: 341.

Material examined. CRIMEA: Shelkovichnoe, 1♀ 23 VIII 1958, Putshkov.

Diagnosis. Total body length 2.7–3.3; vertex of male 1.8–2.3 X as wide as eye, female 2.4–2.8 X (Putshkov 1978); antennal segment I dark brown; head behind eye with large macula subequal to eye height; scutellum uniformly greenish yellow.

Distribution. This species is known from southern and central Europe, extending east till southern Crimea (Putshkov 1978) and western Turkey (Lodos et al. 2003). Macrolophus glaucescens is currently unknown from the Caucasus but may be found in the area with more sampling effort.

Host. In southern Crimea, this species was sampled from Salvia glutinosa L. (Lamiaceae), Echinops ritro L., and E. armatus Steven (Asteraceae). In southern Europe it is known from Echinops viscosus Rchb. (Putshkov 1978).

Notes

Published as part of Konstantinov, Fedor V. & Neimorovets, Vladimir V., 2021, Bryocorinae Baerensprung, 1860 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) of European Russia and the Caucasus: synopsis and key to species, pp. 301-338 in Zootaxa 4920 (3) on pages 322-323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4477993

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1958-08-23
Family
Miridae
Genus
Macrolophus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fieber
Species
glaucescens
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1958-08-23
Taxonomic concept label
Macrolophus glaucescens Fieber, 1858 sec. Konstantinov & Neimorovets, 2021

References

  • Fieber, F. X. (1858) Criterien zur generischen Theilung der Phytocoriden (Capsini auct.). Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift, 2, 289 - 327 + 329 - 347 + 388, 1 pl.
  • Putshkov, V. G. (1978) Species of the genus Macrolophus Fieber, 1858 (Heteroptera, Miridae) of the Soviet Union fauna. Doklady Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR, Series B, 1978 (9), 854 - 857. [in Russian]
  • Lodos, N., Onder, F., Pehlivan, E., Atalay, R., Erkin, E., Karsavuran, Y., Tezcan, S. & Aksoy, S. (2003) Faunistic studies on Miridae (Heteroptera) of Western Black sea, Central Anatolia and Mediterranean regions of Turkey. Meta Basmevi, Bornova, Yzmir, 85 pp.