Agnocoris reclairei (Wagner, 1949)

Agnocoris reclairei (Wagner, 1949) View in CoL

Figs 1A View FIGURE 1 ; 2E–H View FIGURE 2 ; 3A–E,K–L View FIGURE 3 ; 4A–D View FIGURE 4 ; 5B,D View FIGURE 5 ; 6A–E View FIGURE 6 .

Lygus Agnocoris reclairei Wagner 1949: 34 , Figs 4–5 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 (original description),

Agnocoris reclairei Schuh 1995: 697 View in CoL (catalogue), Carvalho 1959: 24 (new genus, catalogue), Kerzhner & Jaczewski 1964: 723 (key to species); Wagner & Weber 1964: 219 (key to species); Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 59 (catalogue), Wolski & Skora 2012 (key to species), Lock 2018 (description), Zamani & Hosseini 2020 (description), Vinokurov et al. 2024: 244 (catalogue).

For more references, see Carvalho (1959); Kerzhner & Josifov (1999); Schuh (1995); Wolski & Skora (2012); Zamani & Hosseini (2020); Vinokurov et al. (2024).

Diagnosis. Body length in male 5–5.6, in female 4.8–5.6 ( Fig. 2E–H View FIGURE 2 ); vertex width / eye diameter when viewed dorsally ratio 1.3 in male and 1.4–1.55 in female; antennal segment II / head width ratio 1 in male and 0.83–0.9 in female ( Table 1); in dorsal view, apical process widened subapically, left paramere with apical process 2.2× as long as sensory lobe width, sensory lobe as long as wide in posterior view, spike placed in the middle of apical process apex; in dorsal view, right paramere twice as long as wide, its body ca. 3× as wide as apical process, apical process hooked, forming 100° angle with paramere body ( Fig. 3A–E View FIGURE 3 ); vesica with spicule curved, slightly surpassing secondary gonopore, its width subequal to half of ductus seminis width, posterior sclerite distinctly surpassing secondary gonopore, with spines covered most of its posterior side; secondary gonopore subequal to third part of spicule length; plate-like sclerite above secondary gonopore weakly sclerotized ( Fig. 4A–D View FIGURE 4 ); distance between sclerotized rings on dorsal labiate plate subequal to ring width; sclerotized ring height/length ratio 0.5; sclerite under sclerotized rings with inner angles acute reaching ¾ of sclerotized ring width; posterior wall of bursa copulatrix with interramal lobe partially covered with lateral lobe ( Fig. 5B, D View FIGURE 5 ).

Distribution. The species is known from the central and southern parts of the Western Palearctic and Central Asia. In the south it is known from Turkey, Transcaucasia and Near East ( Iran and Iraq), Kazakhstan and Tadjikistan. ( Kerzhner & Josifov 1999; Linnavuori 1992, 2009; Gorczyca & Wolski 2011; Kment & Banar 2012; Kondorosy 2011; Wolski & Skora 2012; Shamsi et al. 2014; Lock 2018; Zamani & Hosseini 2020; Vinokurov et al. 2024). In this work we record this species for the first time from East and West Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Georgia.

Material examined (see details in the Material examined Data SI2): Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation (Central European Territory, South European Territory), Tajikistan.