A new species of the genus Ectagela Schmidt from Iran (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae)
Author
Hosseini, Reza
Author
Shamsi, Mohsen
text
Zootaxa
2014
3802
3
389
394
journal article
45661
10.11646/zootaxa.3802.3.8
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1175-5326
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Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 1–6
)
Type
.
Iran
, Kerman province, Negar (
29°51'37" N
,
56°47'59" E
,
2091 m
), male
holotype
,
2 male
,
2 female
paratypes
,
15.VI.2013
, collected by M. Shamsi.
FIGURE 1.
Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
Description.
Length
2.75 mm
. Body elongate ovate. Pale yellowish green. Eye brownish red. Antenna yellow. Calli relatively large, weakly elevated. Pronotum with two yellowish orange marks. Scutellum with two yellowish orange marks posterolaterally. Each clavus with one yellowish orange mark medially. Corium with five scattered yellowish orange marks. Small cell of hemelytral membrane with a dark spot near inner margin of cuneus. Labium does not reach hind coxae. Head, upper surface of pronotum and hemelytra covered with pale long yellowish semierected setae. Tip of clavus dark. Legs pale yellow. Spines on tibia pale brown. Proportion of antennal segments 15:55:33:28 (♂), 15:55:35:30 (♀). Diatone: 0.56 (♂), 0.57 (♀). Synthlipsis: 0.26–0.28 (♂, ♀). Width of eye: 0.13 (♂,♀). Ocular index: 2 (♂,♀). Pronotum 2.6 times as broad basally as long in middle. First antennal segment 0.32 times as long as diatone. Second antennal segment 1.2 times as long as diatone. Diatone 0.65–0.69 times as broad as basal width of pronotum.
FIGURE 2.
Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
Left paramere, (A, B): different views, (C): hypophysis.
FIGURE 3.
Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
Endosoma.
FIGURE 4.
Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
Apical process of vesica and secondary gonopore.
FIGURE 5.
Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
Subapical process.
FIGURE 6.
Ectagela kermanensis
sp. nov.
(A): endosoma, (B): apical process of vesica and secondary gonopore, (C): subapical process.
FIGURE 7.
Endosoma in (A):
Ectagela aspera
, (B):
Ectagela guttata
, (C):
E. subfasciata
(after Linnavuori 1984, 1993).
The male genitalia: Right paramere very small. Left paramere (
Fig. 2
) with thin and curved hypophysis, sensory lobe with tooth-like process. Theca robust. Endosoma (
Fig. 3
) rather short and straight, apical process small and curved (
Fig. 4
), subapical process broad, leaning backwards, more or less triangular and marginally coarsely dentate (
Fig. 5
)
Habitat.
On cultivated
Elaeagnus angustifolia
around an alfalfa field.
Etymology.
Named after the Kerman province (South of
Iran
).
Differential diagnosis.
The new species is similar to
E. guttata
with some distinctions. No orange mark was observed on the head (in
E. guttata
with two spots on the head), pronotum only with two spots (in
E. guttata
with a transverse row of four spots), rostrum never reaching hind coxae (in
E. guttata
rostrum extending to hind coxae), clavus with one yellowish orange mark in the middle (in
E. guttata
with two marks), antennal segments longer than in
E. guttata
.
Male genitalia as in
E. guttata
,
but vesica with small and curved apical process (in
E. guttata
and
E. aspera
apical process claw like and longer (
Fig. 7
A–B)), vesical subapical process broad, leaning backwards, more or less triangular and marginally coarsely dentate (not as in
E. guttata
,
E. aspera
or
E. subfasciata
Wagner
(
Fig. 7
A–C).