A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species
Author
Chérot, F.
Author
Malipatil, M. B.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4126
2
151
206
journal article
38799
10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.1
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1175-5326
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18.
Tricholygus
Poppius, 1910
genus reinstated
(
Figure 68
)
Tricholygus
Poppius, 1910b
: 47
–48 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation:
Tricholygus hirsutus
Poppius, 1910
].
Tricholygus
:
Poppius 1912
: 114
–115 (redescription).
Creontiades
:
Carvalho 1952
:87
(new synonymy), 1959: 74 (catalog);
Schuh 1995
: 743
(catalog),
2002–2013
(online catalog).
Diagnosis.
Body 7–9.5 long, elongate, laterally straight, stramineous, yellow or yellow brown, with red brown stripes. Sulcus of vertex narrow and shallow. Vertex non-carinate. Labium reaching posterior coxae. First antennal segment slightly club-like, elongate and straight. Second antennal segment slightly club-like, with long, erect setae. Pronotum distinctly pilose, particularly on margin and collar. Pronotal disc shallowly but relatively widely punctate, rugulose. Scutellum flat, mesoscutum covered. Hemelytra slightly reflective, rugulose, their punctures shallow but relatively wide, pilosity simple, recumbent. Veins raised. Tibial spines and genitalia unknown.
Included species.
T. grandis
Poppius, 1912
,
T. hirsutus
Poppius, 1910
*.
Distribution.
Tanzania
(Kilimanjaro).
Host plants.
No available data.