Phylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) of Central Asia: current state of knowledge and a prospective for further research

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Phylinae (Heteroptera Miridae) of Central Asia
current state of knowledge and a prospective for
further research

• Fedor Konstantinov
• St. Petersburg State University

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Modern definition of Central Asia
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Transcaspian general-government (Zakaspiyskaya
oblast)
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Turkestan in wide sense
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Central Asia in narrow sense
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Kochak Bay, Mangyshlak, KAZAKHSTAN
Tauchik, Mangyshlak, KAZAKHSTAN
Qyzylqum Sands, Uzbekistan
Garagum Desert, TURKMENISTAN
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Barsa-Kelmes, KAZAKHSTAN
Karakol, KYRGYZSTAN
Lenin Peak, TAJIKISTAN
Altyn-Arashan, KYRGYZSTAN
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Central Asian localities sampled for Phylinae
Based on the collection of the Zoological
Institute, St. Petersburg
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The fauna of Central Asia is characterized by
relatively high degree of endemism, with more
than 30 of endemic and 12 of subendemic species
242 species of Phylinae from three tribes are
currently known from the region
Hallodapini Total 20 species, 3 endemics 2
subendemics
Pilophorini Total 5 species, 2 subendemics
Phylini Total 217 species, 70 endemics 26
subendemics
Pilophorus sinuaticollis Reuter, 1879
Paralaemocoris anabasus Linnavuori, 1984
Solenoxyphus lepidus (Puton, 1874)
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Four Genera of Phylini are restricted to Central
Asia
Lopidodenus, with three species
Voruchia, monotypic
L. albidus, male
V. vittigera,male
Karokris, monotypic
Taeniophorus, monotypic
T. hyalinus, female
K. morulus, male
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Number of species recorded from each country of
Central Asia Number of endemic species are given
in brackets
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Number of species common to the two compared
regions of Central Asia
  KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN
KAZAKHSTAN          
KYRGYZSTAN 45        
TAJIKISTAN 44 28      
TURKMENISTAN 65 19 39    
UZBEKISTAN 73 29 48 70  
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Number of species common to the two compared
regions of Central Asia
  KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN
KAZAKHSTAN          
KYRGYZSTAN 45        
TAJIKISTAN 44 28      
TURKMENISTAN 65 19 39    
UZBEKISTAN 73 29 48 70  
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Number of common species between regions of
Central Asia
  KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN
KAZAKHSTAN          
KYRGYZSTAN 45        
TAJIKISTAN 44 28      
TURKMENISTAN 65 19 39    
UZBEKISTAN 73 29 48 70  
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Simpson coefficient of Similarity values between
the regions of Central Asia
  KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN
KAZAKHSTAN          
KYRGYZSTAN 76        
TAJIKISTAN 59 47      
TURKMENISTAN 56 32 66    
UZBEKISTAN 69 49 65 66  
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Simpson coefficient of Similarity values between
the regions of Central Asia
  KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN
KAZAKHSTAN          
KYRGYZSTAN 76        
TAJIKISTAN 59 47      
TURKMENISTAN 56 32 66    
UZBEKISTAN 69 49 65 66  
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Simpson coefficient of Similarity values between
the regions of Central Asia
  KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN
KAZAKHSTAN          
KYRGYZSTAN 76        
TAJIKISTAN 59 47      
TURKMENISTAN 56 32 66    
UZBEKISTAN 69 49 65 66  
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Number of species common between regions of
Central Asia and adjacent countries
  TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN
IRAN 37 28 28 12 24
MONGOLIA 16 24 48 16 17
Northwestern CHINA 11 18 22 15 17
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Simpson coefficient of Similarity values between
the regions of Central Asia and adjacent countries
  TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN
IRAN 39 29 29 20 32
MONGOLIA 19 28 57 20 23
Northwestern CHINA 28 45 55 38 43
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Prospectives for further research
1. Ten new species of Phylinae need to be
described
2. Further reversionary work is needed to create
a clear diagnoses and workable keys for poorly
known genera
3. Geocoding of each locality will make our
knowledge of distributional patterns much more
precise
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Frequency of Central Asian Phylinae species per
family of host plant
Chenopodiaceae
Host unknown
Other families
Tamaricaceae
Asteraceae
Fabaceae
Polygonaceae
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Solenoxyphus kerzhneri sp. n.
Solenoxyphus salsolae sp.n.
Distribution Southwestern Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan Host plant Salsola gemmascens
Distribution Mongolia Host plant Salsola
passerina
S. gemmascens and S. passerina form the section
Malpigipila Botschantsev, 1970 Monophyly of the
section was recently confirmed by phylogenetic
analysis based on ribosomal sequences (Pyankov et
al, 2001)
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Distribution of S. kerzhneri ( ), S. salsolae (
) and their hosts
Salsola gemmascens
Salsola passerina
Distribution of hosts is taken from Plants of
Central Asia by VI Grubov (2000) and Flora of
China by Zhu Gelin et al (2003).
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Acknowledgements I am thankful to everyone for
attention. Special thanks to Prof. I.M.
Kerzhner for his permanent and invaluable help.
I wish to thank Randall T. Schuh, Michael
Schwartz, Christiane Weirauch and all colleagues
from the PBI research team for valuable
discussion. The work was supported by NSF
Planetary Biodiversity Inventory award
DEB-0316495