Notes on the genera Peritropisca Carvalho & Lorenzato and Rewafulvius Carvalho (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), with the description of a new species of Peritropisca from Indonesia
Author
Wolski, Andrzej
Author
Gorczyca, Jacek
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Zootaxa
2014
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Rewafulvius brachypterus
Carvalho, 1972
Rewafulvius brachypterus
:
Carvalho 1972
: 53
, Figs. 1–4 (sp. nov.);
Carvalho & Froeschner 1987
: 208
(list); Schuh 1995: 35 (catalog); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog);
Gorczyca 2006
: 66
(catalog)
Euchilofulviella ernsti
:
Gorczyca 1999
: 10
, Figs. 4–5 (sp. nov.), 2006: 30 (catalog); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog)
syn
.
nov
.
Diagnosis
. See generic diagnosis.
Redescription
.
Brachypterous
male
.
COLORATION
(Fig. 5, 9). Dorsal coloration mostly dark brown, with yellowish and dirty yellowish areas.
Head
. Entirely dark brown; antenna dirty yellowish brown (Fig. 5); labium dark brown.
Thorax
.
Pronotum
. Entirely dark brown (Fig. 5).
Mesoscutum and scutellum
. Entirely dark brown, slightly darker than pronotum (Fig. 5).
Thoracic pleura
. Dark brown, scent gland efferent system yellowish, slightly tinged with red.
Hemelytron
. Mostly dark brown, with yellowish areas and dark reddish apex; clavus mostly dark brown, with dirty yellowish, longitudinal tinge along inner margin and claval suture weakly tinged with red; corium dark brown with small, dirty yellowish patches: one basally and other medially, corium also with contrastingly yellowish patch apicolaterally contiguous with apical patch of embolium; embolium dirty yellowish, except for subapical reddish tinge and apical contrastingly yellow patch apically (Fig. 5).
Legs
. Dark brown with yellowish areas (Fig. 5).
Abdomen
. Dark brown (Fig. 9).
Macropterous male.
COLORATION
(Figs. 7, 10). Dorsal surface, head, and thoracic pleura with coloration similar to
brachypterous
male.
Thorax
.
Pronotum
. Dark brown with two indistinct, small, yellowish, medial patches on posterior margin) (Fig. 7).
Legs
. Similar to
brachypterous
male; profemur with basal half dark brown and apical half dark yellowish, tinged with brown; mesofemur mostly dirty yellowish brown with yellowish base; metafemur dark brown except for narrow, yellowish tinge basally and broad, yellowish annulation medially; tarsi yellowish (Fig. 7).
Abdomen
. Dark brownish (Fig. 10).
Brachypterous
female
.
COLORATION
(Fig. 6). Dorsal surface and thoracic pleura coloration as in
brachypterous
male.
Head
. Dark brownish with indistinct yellowish, longitudinal medial stripe along vertex and frons.
Legs
. Coloration as in macropterous male.
Macropterous female
.
COLORATION
. As in macropterous male.
Biology
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
Fiji
.
Remarks
. Examination of the
holotypes
of
Rewafulvius brachypterous
and
Euchilofulviella ernsti
suggests that they belong to the one species. Therefore,
E. ernsti
is treated here as a junior synonym of
R. brachypterous
, and the genus
Euchilofulviella
is synonymized with
Rewafulvius
.
Type
material
.
Holotype
♂: Rewa,
Fiji
, Muir col., 4, 1906 (
USNM
) (Fig. 5).
Additional examined material
.
1
♀ (macropterous):
Fiji
,
Viti
Levu, Sigatoka,
18 XI 1998
Heiss (Fig. 8) (
US
);
1
♀ (
brachypterous
): Vitilevu,
Fiji
; Nandarivatu,
IX-14-38
, 2700'; Under dead bark; E. C. Zimmerman Collector (Fig. 6);
1
♀ (
brachypterous
):
Fiji
:
Viti
Levu, Trail Yayu-Nandrau,
June 27–29, 1958
; Borys Malkin Collector, Bishop Museum;
1
♀ (macropterous): Navai Mili, Nr. Nandarivatu,
IX-15-38
, 2500'; Under dead bark; E. C. Zimmerman Collector;
Viti
Levu,
Fiji
;
1
♀ (macropterous): Belt Road
45–50 mi
. W. Of Buva,
VII–26–38
; Beating shrubs; E. C. Zimmerman Collector;
Viti
Levu,
Fiji
(Fig. 7) (
BPBM
).