Saturday 7 September 2013

Grypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysi (Wagner, 1968)

You may be surprised that this species - overtaking Synchiropus splendidus as our most-recently-formally-described featured creature, is actually British.

It's also quite conspicuous:

Grypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysi, Kingley Vale, West Sussex, UK
Photographed near Kingley Vale on the South Downs Way in West Sussex, UK in June 2012, using... Olympus E-420, Zuiko 40-150 mm digital lens and three KOOD magnifiers.
This delightful insect is

Grypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysi
(Wagner, 1968)

And if we're going to be completely honest, it was originally described by Fabricius in 1775. Wagner gets credit because he noted that some of the Calocoris sexguttatus around Europe were not quite like the others, in multiple ways but, for our purposes, the most notable is the orangish (rather than greenish) tint to the two rearmost light patches. As Fabricius' description had been based on the other form, Wagner has this species attributed to him.

As far as I'm aware, Kerzhner & Josifov moved both species into Grypocoris (a genus create 100 years before this species was identified) and the subgenus (Lophyromiris) (described by Wagner ten years before he identified this species) in 1999, but, seeing as they didn't  create any names or deposit the type specimen for either species, the only credit they receive in the name of the species is the bracketing of Wagner's own credit.

Anyhow, brief discussion over, and into the taxonomy:


 - Mirini
- Mirinae  
- Miridae     
- Miroidea       
- Cimicomorpha 
- Heteroptera          
See also Pephricus, Anoplocnemis curvipes and Ranatra
- Hemiptera                
- Condylognatha             
- Paraneoptera                    
- Eumetabola                          
- Neoptera                                    
- Manopterygota                               
- Pterygota                                             
- Dicondylia                                             
- Insecta                                                      
- Hexapoda                                                     
- Arthropoda                                                       
- Ecdysozoa                                                              
- Protostomia                                                                 
- Nephrozoa                                                                      
- Bilateralia                                                                            
- Eumetazoa                                                                              
- Animalia                                                                                     
- Eukaryota                                                                                       



And, unless I'm very much mistaken, that's all, folks!

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