A new species of Decomia Poppius from Laos and Thailand, with an annotated checklist and keys to genera and species of tribe Decomiini from Indochina (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Author
Oh, Minsuk
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
text
Zootaxa
2016
4189
2
301
310
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.6
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1175-5326
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Genus
Decomia
Poppius
Discussion.
This is the most speciose genus group among the tribe Decomiini, composed of approximately 40 valid species. It is, except for a few members, easily recognized by the broadly hyaline forewing, apices of the corium across embolium and cuneus often each with a dark or reddish mark (
Fig. 1
), tumid metafemur, semicircularly enlarged pulvilli, and J-shaped endosoma (
Schuh, 1984
), in addition to the anteriorly extending posterior wall of bursa copulatrix (
Fig. 5
).
Each species usually exhibits the distinctive color pattern (reddish, brownish or fuscous, as in
Fig. 1
), but it seems that the color pattern is not significantly correlated to the morphological characters of the genitalia. We are currently less certain that the interspecific color variation is simply a result of parallelism. For instance,
D. nigrissima
, in spite of being nearly identical with fuscous members, such as
D. cephalotes
Poppius
and
P. torreviasi
Schuh, by external characters alone, has the remarkably shortened, tiny endosoma which is structurally most similar to that of
D. perparvula
Schuh
and
D. schuhi
Yasunaga
; both of the latter two have pale or reddish general coloration (cf.
Fig. 1
E vs. F). The present examination suggests that the female bursa copulatrix is similarly small in the species with a dwarf endosoma, as evidenced by
D. schuhi
and
D. nigrissima
(
Fig. 5
). However, the female genitalic structures in
Decomia
are currently known only for seven species shown in this work; therefore, further efforts are required, to acquire morphological information for much greater numbers of congeners.
Nothing is known about the ecology and breeding hosts of
Decomia
members.
We have collected specimens either using UV light traps
or sweeping flowers of broadleaf trees; in
central Thailand
, sweeping the racemose inflorescences of the following plants have produced more than a few
Decomia
specimens in particular:
Elaeocarpus grandiflorus
Sm. (Elaeocarpaceae)
(
D. anthophila
,
D. indochinensis
and
D. taksini
,
Fig. 1
A, C, G),
Shorea obtusa
Wall (Dipterocarpaceae)
(
D. indochinensis
,
Fig. 1
D),
Mangifera indica
L. (mango,
Anacardiaceae
) (
D. chiangdaoensis
and
D. indochinensis
) and
Terminalia
spp. (
Combretaceae
) (
D. taksini
and
D. panayensis
Yasunaga in Visayas
,
Philippines
as well). The adults of these bugs apparently prefer pollen and floral honey dew; however, no immature forms are yet to be confirmed from those plants that attract the adults (see also Yasunaga, 2010,
Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015
).