Further records on the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) in Asia, with proposition of two new species and a new synonymy
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Tomokuni, Masaaki
Author
Nakatani, Yukinobu
Author
Hirowatari, Toshiya
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Zootaxa
2017
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5
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4258.5.1
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Acrorrhinium
Noualhier, 1895
Acrorrhinium
Noualhier, 1895
: 175
(n. gen.);
Schuh, 1984
(diag.); 1995: 213 (cat.);
Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999
: 286
(cat.);
Yasunaga, 2001
: 152
(diag.);
Yasunaga
et al
., 2013b
: 430
(diag.);
Schuh & Menard, 2013
: 6
(tribal placement). Type species by monotypy:
Acrorrhinium conspersus
Noualhier, 1895
.
Distinguished from other hallodapine genera by the following characters: elongated body about
3–7 mm
in length; remarkably long appendages; nearly parallel hemelytron laterally; pale to deep brown coloration, with either mottled or contrasting maculae on hemelytron; protuberant eyes far from anterior margin of pronotum; strongly convex frons, with spiniform protuberance anteriorly; and form of endosoma. For detailed description see
Schuh (1984: 103)
.
Among thirty-one described species of genus
Acrorrhinium
from the Old World tropics and sub-tropics, seventeen species are known to occur in Asiatic tropics and sub-tropics (
Duwal
et al
., 2014
;
Schuh, 1984
;
2002
–
2013
;
Yasunaga
et al
., 2013b
;
Yasunaga & Duwal
et al
., 2015
). A single temperate zone inhabitant,
Acrorrhinium inexpectatum
is known from
East Asia
, including
Japan
.
As
mentioned by
Yasunaga
et al
. (2013b)
, members of this unique genus inhabit tree trunks or branches (
Fig. 1
A), so they often have a cryptic, mottled color pattern similar to their habitat (
Fig. 1
B–F).