Revision of the genus Pseudomictis Hsiao and transfer of Pseudomictis quadrispinus to the genus Pternistria Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Mictini)
Author
Zhu, Weibing
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2005
2005-12-22
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1103
51
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journal article
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Pseudomictis obtusipinus
Xiong
Pseudomictis obtusipinus
Xiong, 1987: 88–90
.
REDESCRIPTION: Measurements:
Male
: Head length in dorsal view 2.0mm; width across eyes
3.8mm
; interocular space
1.8mm
; interocellar space
0.8mm
; length of antennal segments: I: II: III: IV= 4.7:4.0: 3.5:
5.8mm
,. Pronotum: Length
6.1mm
; width across frontal angles
2.6mm
; width across lateral angles
7.7mm
. Scutellum length 3.0mm; width
2.9mm
. Maximum width of abdomen
6.5mm
. Body length
26 mm
.
Female
: Head length in dorsal view
1.5 mm
; width across eyes 3.0 mm; interocular space
1.5 mm
; interocellar space
0.8 mm
; length of antennal segments: I: II: III: IV=4.5: 3.8: 3.0:
4.9 mm
. Pronotum: Length 6.0 mm; width across frontal angles
2.8 mm
; width across lateral angles
8.2 mm
. Scutellum length 3.0 mm; width
3.5 mm
. Maximum width of abdomen
10.5 mm
. Body length 26.0 mm.
Male
: Dorsal coloration: Head, pronotum, clavus, and corium puce; eyes rufous, ocelli red; antennal segments I to III black and IV orange, basal joint puce; scutellum black; hemelytral membrane brown; abdomen above redsegments III to V with black spot on sides, segments VI and VII almost black; Femora and tibiae black, tarsi yellow. Ventral coloration: Almost all black, rostrum orange, posterior margins of abdominal sternum V orange. Structure: Pronotum rough, anterolateral border with small tubercles, lateral angles rounded, a little raised; connexivum segments III to V incrassated and looked like two layers, lateral angels acanthoid; abdominal sternum III with a frustoconic tubercle on each side, apex of tubercle glossy, sternum III posteriorly strongly produced in middle, lateral margins of protrusion sinuate, apex of protrusion cystiform; sternum IV also produced posteriorly in middle with protrusion of sternum III, only reaching posterior 1/3 of sternum V; apices of protrusions of sterna III and IV obviously elevated, as in Fig. 7 and
Fig. 12
. Posterior femora inflated and recurved, with a row of denticulations beneath, a bigger one near apex; Posterior tibiae slightly ampliated, with a small spine near apex, as in
Pseudomictis brevicornis
.
FIGURE 4
:
Pseudomictis obtusipinus
Xiong
FIGURE 5
:
Pseudomictis brevicornis
Hsiao
: posterior leg ♀ abdominal venter ♂
Female
: Dorsal coloration: Like male, corium rufous. Ventral coloration: almost black, posterior margins of abdominal sterna IV to VI rufous and glossy. Structure: Abdomen laterally expanded, connexivum not incrassate, abdominal sternum III slightly posteriorly produced in middle. Posterior tibiae slightly ampliated, as in
Fig. 4
.
Type specimens examined
:
Holotype
:
1♂
,
China
(
Mt. Diaoluo
,
Hainan
),
900m
,
1980. IV.1
,
Xiong Jiang
leg.
;
Allotype
:
1♀
,
China
(
Mt. Diaoluo
,
Hainan
),
900m
,
1980. IV.1
,
Xiong Jiang
leg.
;
Paratypes
:
3♂
2♀
,
China
(
Mt. Diaoluo
,
Hainan
),
900m
,
1980. IV.1
,
Xiong Jiang
leg.
;
2♂
1♀
,
China
(
Jianfengling
,
Hainan
),
800m
,
1980. IV.13
,
Xiong Jiang
leg.. (
All
types kept in
ISAS
)
.
Other specimens examined
:
1♂
3♀
,
China
(
Mt. Diaoluo
,
Hainan
),
1980. IV.2
,
Zhou
leg.
;
2♂
,
China
(
Jianfengling
,
Hainan
),
1984.V.13
;
2♂
,
China
(
Mt. Limu
,
Hainan
),
1980.V.27.
Distribution
:
China
(
Hainan
)