Platycranus concii Tamanini 1987
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Description
Platycranus concii Tamanini, 1987
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Platycranus concii Tamanini, 1987: 475 [n.sp.]; Schuh, 1995: 182 [cat.]
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the pale coloration, relatively long first antennal segment, 0.4–0.5 × as long as width of head, strongly tapering right paramere (Figs. 4–6 in Tamanini (1987). Apparently not separable from P. metriorrhynchus (see below).
Host associations. Genista salzmannii de Candolle (Tamanini 1987)
Distribution. Rifugio Passo Del Bocco, Borzonasca, Genova prov., Italy (Tamanini 1987)
Discussion. The species is known exclusively from the type series and unfortunately all our attempts to get the specimens of Platycranus concii were unsuccessful. We refrain from repeating the highly detailed and perfectly illustrated original description here.
Tamanini suggested that P. c o n c i i is most similar to P. metriorrhynchus in the relative length of the first antennal segment. He also stated that P. c o n c i i differs from P. metriorrhynchus in the smaller body size of a male and the shape of the right paramere. We carefully observed the original description (Tamanini 1987) and conclude that P. c o n c i i might be a junior synonym of P. metriorrhynchus Reuter, 1883. No distinctions were found in the color-pattern, vestiture, sizes, measurements, and the shape of parameres between P. concii and pale forms of P. metriorrhynchus. However, as we were unable to examine the type material of P. concii, no synonymy is proposed at this time.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Miridae
- Genus
- Platycranus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Tamanini
- Species
- concii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platycranus concii Tamanini, 1987 sec. Knyshov & Konstantinov, 2013
References
- Tamanini, L. (1987) Platycranus (Genistocapsus) concii n. sp. di Liguria, da Genista salzmannii DC. (Heteroptera Miridae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 86, 475 - 479.
- Schuh, R. T. (1995) Plant Bugs of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae): Systematic Catalog, Distributions, Host List, and Bibliography. The New York Entomological Society, New York, xii + 1329 pp.