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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Bilia burma
Yasunaga & Yamada
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 1−6
,
8−11
,
25−26
,
32
)
Type
material.
Holotype
Ƌ,
Myanmar
:
Yangon
:
Pyay Road
,
National Museum Garden
,
16°47'17.20" N
96°08'33.66" E
,
180 m
, with a coccid on leaf of
Ziziphus mauritiana
Lam.
,
17 Oct 2015
,
T. Yasunaga
et al.
(
AMNH
_PBI 00380431) (
TKPM
)
.
Paratypes
:
1 Ƌ
1 ♀
, same data as for
holotype
(
AMNH
_PBI 00380432−00380433) (
TYCN
)
;
12 ♀♀
, same data, without
USI
labels (
AMNH
,
TKPM
,
TYCN
)
.
Diagnosis.
Recognized by its small size; shiny, coffee-brown dorsum with paler lateral margins; enlarged compound eyes in males; comparatively wide pronotum with callus interrupted at midline; J-shaped paramere, medially with a slender, apically hooked dorsal process (flagellum). Very similar in the external morphology to
B. castanea
; distinguished by above-mentioned diagnostic characters (in
castanea
, the body is larger and almost entirely pale yellowish brown, and the hooked process on the paramere more elongate). Fifth instar nymph (
Fig. 6
): Recognized by its tortoise-shaped, rounded body, with narrowly lamellate lateral margin; shiny chocolate-brown basic coloration; well-polished, sub-glabrous dorsum; creamy yellow antennae and legs; and yellow lateral margins of pronotum and wing-pads.
FIGURES 1−7.
Bilia burma
, habitat, habitus images and a tingid co-occurring in same niche.
1,
Adult female (arrowed) of
Bilia burma
on
Ziziphus mauritiana
Lam.
2,
Bilia burma
, female adult.
3,
Ditto, male.
4,
Ditto, male (left) and female adults (center), with a coccid (right).
5,
Ditto, male adult.
6,
Ditto, fifth instar nymph.
7,
Monosteira
sp. (
Tingidae
). All images taken on Oct 17, 2015.
FIGURES 8−13.
Bilia burma
(8−11) and
B. castanea
(12−13), head and pronotum in dorsal view (8−10, 12−13) and whole body in left lateral view (11).
8,
Holotype male (AMNH_PBI 00380431).
9,
Paratype male (00380432).
10−11, 13,
Female.
12,
Male.
Description.
Male:
Body generally coffee-brown, rounded, tortoise-shaped; dorsal surface shining, with uniformly distributed, simple, sericeous setae. Head shiny dark brown, with sparsely distributed, silky, erect setae; compound eye relatively developed; ocellus rather large, with diameter a little greater than thickness of antennal segment I. Antennae yellowish brown, generally short; segment II slightly clavate; segment III and IV tinged with red or brown. Labium yellow; first visible segment I darkened. Pronotum shining, finely punctate, with a pale reddish-brown, lamellate lateral margin rather rounded at humeri; callus somewhat concave (depressed?) medially; pleura reddish dark brown; scent efferent system fuscous; scutellum shiny fuscous, narrowly and transversely rugose, slightly arched. Hemelytron weakly roughened, shallowly punctate; anterior 2/3 of exocorium reddish or yellowish brown; membrane pale grayish brown. All coxae shiny chestnut brown; all legs yellowish brown. Abdomen uniformly shiny coffee-brown. Genitalia (
Figs. 25
,
32
): Paramere large, J-shaped, pointed apicad, with a median process (flagellum) hooked apically.
Female:
As in male, but body larger and broader; compound eye smaller; clypeus usually pale reddish brown; antennae more slender and shorter; and lateral carinae of pronotum wider. Genitalia (
Fig. 26
): Copulatory tube wholly membranous, winding.
Measurements.
ƋƋ /
♀♀
: Total body length 1.37−1.60 / 1.40−1.72; length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 0.85−1.00 / 0.89−1.03; width of head across compound eyes 0.44−0.46 / 0.39−0.45; width of vertex 0.18−0.19 / 0.21−0.23; lengths of antennal segments I −IV 0.07−0.08, 0.29−0.30, 0.20−0.23, 0.18−0.22 / 0.06−0.07, 0.21−0.24, 0.16−0.21, 0.20−0.22; mesal length of pronotum 0.29−0.30 / 0.30−0.33; basal width of pronotum 0.77−0.83 / 0.81−0.87; maximum width across hemelytron 0.86−0.90 / 0.93−0.99; and length of hind femur, tibia and tarsus 0.41−0.45, 0.54−0.59, 0.14−0.15/ 0.39−0.43, 0.52−0.57, 0.13−0.15.
Etymology.
Named for its occurrence in
Burma
(
Myanmar
)
; a noun in apposition.
Remarks.
The present new species was found to co-exist with an unidentified coccid and a tingid,
Monosteira
sp. (
Tingidae
:
Tinginae
) on leaves of
Ziziphus mauritiana
Lam. (Rhamnaceae)
(
Figs. 1, 4, 7
). We assume that
Bilia burma
preys on the coccid, whereas any ecological relationship between the anthocorid and tingid remains unclear.