New fossil rhopalids (Heteroptera: Coreoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China
Author
Yao, Yunzhi
Author
Cai, Wanzhi
Author
Ren, Dong
Author
Shih, Chungkun
text
Zootaxa
2006
1384
41
58
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175076
e7401681-2883-43bc-a922-497842c67a97
1175-5326
175076
Genus
Grandicaputus
Yao, Cai & Ren
, gen. nov.
Type
species:
Grandicaputus bipunctatus
Yao, Cai & Ren
,
sp. nov.
Diagnosis:
Body moderately sized, elongate, general body plan resembling lygaeids’, dorsal surface densely punctate. Head large, wider than long, slightly shorter than pronotum, apex surpassing first antennal segment, clypeus distinctly surpassing mandibular plates; antenna 4-segmented, longer than half of body, first segment short and thick, second and third segments slender, second longest, fourth fusiform, shorter than third; eyes moderately large, round and prominent, interocular space distinctly wider than eye diameter. Pronotum trapezoidal, slightly transverse, without collar; femora distinctly thicker than tibiae, fore and mid legs subequal in length, hind leg longer than mid leg, tibia longer than femur, with densely setae, tarsus 3-segmented, subequal in thickness, first tarsomere feebly shorter than second, third longest; hemelytron macropterous, long and narrow, apical margin rounded, reaching tip of abdomen, with distinct embolium, corium slightly elongated on costal margin; with claval commissure; membrane with nearly 20 longitudinal veins distally.
FIGURE 13.
Quatlocellus insolentis
gen. & sp. nov. Paratype, Ψ, CNU-HE-NN2006017. Scale bar = 1 mm.
FIGURE 14.
Quatlocellus insolentis
gen. & sp. nov. Paratype, CNU-HE-NN2006125-126. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Distribution.
China
.
Etymology:
The name is a combination of the Latin
grandis
(“large”) and
caput
(“head”’), referreing to the remarkably large head.
Remarks:
This new genus can be placed next to
Miracorizus
Yao, Cai & Ren, 2006
, as both are similar in the following characters: dorsum densely punctate; antenna long and slender, the first segment shortest, not extending beyond head apex, fourth segment fusiform; tibia longer than femur, with dense setae; hemelytron macropterous, with thick embolium. But
Grandicaputus
gen. nov.
can be easily distinguished from
Miracorizus
by its head wider than its length (vs. width and length subequal), clypeus distinctly surpassing mandibular plates (vs. mandibular plates not surpassing clypeus), pronotum without collar (vs. with distinct collar), and with claval commissure (vs. without claval commissure).
FIGURES 15–18.
Quatlocellus insolentis
gen. & sp. nov. 15. Holotype, Ψ, CNU-HE-NN2006010. 16. paratype, ♂, CNU-HE-NN2006127. 17-18. paratype, CNU-HE-NN2006125-126. 17. part; 18. counterpart. Scale bar = 1 mm.
The new genus is also similar to
Longiclavula
Yao, Cai & Ren,
2006
in antenna long and slender, same ratio of antennal segments; hemelytron macropterous, with thick embolium, membrane with nearly 20 longitudinal veins. But the new genus can be distinguished from the latter by dorsum densely punctate (vs. dorsal surface smooth), pronotum without collar (vs. with distinctly collar), with claval commissure (vs. without claval commissure).