First record of the Heterotoma planicornis (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae), an introduced species in the Korean Peninsula, with characterization of its complete mitochondrial genome

By

Oh, Min Suk
Cho, Soojeong
Lee, Seunghwan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-10-14

Original Publication

Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift

Volume

72

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

225--235

Subjects

Distribution , East Asia , Mitogenome , Phylogeny , plant bugs , species introduction

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Berlin Nicolai'sche Verlags-Buchandlung 1881-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.72.152970

 

Abstract

The West Palearctic genus Heterotoma Lepeletier & Serville, 1825, and its included species H. planicornis (Pallas, 1772) (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae) are reported from the Korean Peninsula. Heterotoma planicornis is diagnosed, and its dorsal habitus and the genitalia of both sexes are illustrated. The possible introduction of this European species into the Korean Peninsula is discussed. The complete mitochondrial genome of the species is provided. The circular mitogenome of H. planicornis is 16,179 bp long, comprising 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transfer RNAs, and shows the same gene order as the closely allied species Mecomma ambulans (Fallén, 1807). The A–T content of the total sequence was 71.54%. An analysis using a cytochrome oxidase I (COI) neighbor-joining (NJ) tree revealed that the Korean H. planicornis population formed two distinctive groups, with a 1.8% sequence difference between them.