Tinginotopsis oryzae ( Matsumura, 1910 )

Kim, Junggon, Chérot, Frédéric, Phan, Quoc Toan & Jung, Sunghoon, 2025, Two new species of the tribe Mirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) from Vietnam, with additional data to Vietnamese Mirinae catalogue, Zootaxa 5604 (4), pp. 555-564 : 562

5. Tinginotopsis oryzae ( Matsumura, 1910) . New record for Vietnam.

Specimen examined. 1♂, Tam Dao National Park , Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam, 27.viii.2010, J. Constant & P. Limbourg leg. (FC n° 11517) ( ISNB) .

Distribution. Vietnam, Taiwan.

Host. Matsumura (1910) mentioned that this species was primarily found on rice plants, and rarely collected on sugarcane plants.

Remark. The Vietnamese specimen FC n° 11517 fits very well with the holotype of T. dromedarius Poppius, 1915 (a junior synonym of T. oryzae ) preserved in SDEI (https://twinsecttype.nmns.edu.tw/specimen/?id =NMNS-SDEI-00211). T. oryzae itself seems very close to T. camelus Poppius, 1915 as redescribed by Carvalho (1987) and as understood by Chérot et al. (2017). Both nominal species should be analyzed more in detail to assess their validity.