First records of two flower bug genera from Myanmar (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae: Anthocorinae: Oriini), with description of a new species of Bilia
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Yamada, Kazutaka
Author
Soe, Zayar
Author
Naing, Shine Shane
text
Zootaxa
2016
4158
4
544
556
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4158.4.6
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1175-5326
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Wollastoniella rotunda
Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 1993
(
Figs. 14−17
,
20−21
,
28
,
34
)
Wollastoniella rotunda
Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 1993
: 227
(n. sp.);
Yamada
et al.
(2010a
: 206
) (diag., desc. of female genitalia). Several additional works are available on its ecology.
Type
material examined.
Thailand
:
1 Ƌ,
Chiang Mai
:
Mae Rim
(Mae Raem),
Muang Kaew
,
9 Feb 1988
,
Y. Hirose
(
holotype
,
USNM
)
;
1 ♂
,
Tak
,
Thoen
,
Bang Mae Wa
, eggplant,
17º33' N
99º13' E
,
28.i.1992
,
F.D. Benett
&
R.M. Baranowsky
(
AMNH
_PBI 00380434) (
paratype
,
TYCN
)
;
3 ♂♂
3 ♀♀
, same data (
paratypes
,
TYCN
)
;
1 ♀
,
Chiang Mai
,
Mae Taeng
,
Khi Lek
, eggplant,
19º04'N
,
98º54'E
,
16.ii.1988
,
Y. Hirose
, (00380435) (
paratype
,
TYCN
)
;
2 ♂♂
2 ♀♀
,
Mae Raem
,
Muang Kaew
, eggplant,
9.ii.1988
,
Y. Hirose
(
paratypes
,
TYCN
)
.
Diagnosis.
Recognized by its almost totally fuscous, small, circular body; shiny dorsal surface with rather sparsely distributed, silky, semi-erect setae; fuscous head with apically reddish clypeus; antennae almost wholly creamy yellow with segments III and IV usually reddish; coarsely and rather densely punctate pronotum with narrowly lamellate lateral margins; rounded, narrowly lamellate hemelytral exocorium; paramere distinctly twisted, with cone bearing a thin dorsal projection at middle and a dorsal reflexed flap at base of slender, apically recurved flagellum (
Figs. 28
,
34
); and female copulatory tube short (
Fig. 34
). See Yamada
et al.
(2010) for further diagnostic characters. Fifth instar nymph (
Fig. 17
): recognized by its rounded, tortoise-shaped body; shiny chestnut-brown basic coloration (except for pale reddish or yellowish brown vertex, frons and lateral margins of wing pads); sparse, simple vestiture on dorsum; and almost totally yellow antennae and legs.
Remarks.
This species has been regarded as a potential candidate for biological control against tiny economically important arthropods, such as
Thrips palmi
Karny, 1925 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and
Tetranychus kanzawai
Kishida, 1927 (Acari: Tetranychidae) (
Uefune
et al.
2010
,
Nagai
et al.
2013
). In
Myanmar
, both the adults and late immature forms were observed to co-exist with a typhlocybine leafhopper (Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) and a tingid,
Haedus
sp. (
Tingidae
:
Tinginae
), on
Urena lobata
L. (Malvaceae) (
Figs. 14, 18−19
), where the leaves were heavily damaged by aggregations of the leafhopper and tingid (
Fig. 14
);
Wollastoniella rotunda
is assumed to prey on both or one of them.
Additional material examined.
Cambodia
:
1 Ƌ,
Siem Reap
,
PTTC
[Provincial Teacher Training College]
Campus
,
3 km
S of Angkor Wat
,
13º22'50" N
103º51'50" E
, sweeping weeds,
4.iv.2014
,
T. Yasunaga
(
TYCN
)
.
Myanmar
:
3 ƋƋ
4 ♀♀
,
Ayeyawady
,
Myaungmya
,
DOA
Agriculture Research Station
,
16°35'45.30" N
94°54'54.50" E
, on
Malvaceae
leaf,
28.ix.2015
,
T. Yasunaga
(
TYCN
)
.
Thailand
:
1 Ƌ
2 ♀♀
,
Prachin Buri
,
Ban Pong Ka Por
, with
Thrips
palmi
on eggplant,
22.vi.1994
,
Y. Hirose
(
TYCN
)
;
1 ♂
,
Nakhon Ratchasima
,
Sakaerat Environmental Research Station
, 14°29'24.4"–30'37.5" N 101°54'37.8"–55'49.7" E,
372–601 m
alt.,
26–30.x.2008
,
K. Yamada
(
TKPM
)
;
14 ♂♂
25 ♀♀
,
Saraburi
,
Kaengkoi
,
Champakpaew
,
Kyusei Nature Farming Center
,
14°32'75.8" N
,
101°04'71.5" E
,
60 m
alt.,
22.i.2009
,
K. Yamada
(
TKPM
)
;
1 ♀
,
Nakhon Nayok
,
Sarika
,
14°18'37.8" N
101°17'58.6" E
,
37 m
alt., on
Macaranga
with typhlocybine leafhoppers,
6.iii.2009
,
T. Yasunaga
(
TYCN
)
;
1 ♂
,
Suphan Buri
,
Sri Prachan
,
14°41'18.3" N
100°08'25.8" E
,
10 m
alt.,
21.x.2008
,
K. Yamada
(
TKPM
)
.