Revision of Australian Ectomocoris with the description of nine new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
Author
Malipatil, M. B.
Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. & La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.
Author
Liu, Yingqi
0000-0003-0881-9670
Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. & yingqiliu 0720 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0881 - 9670
Author
Cai, Wanzhi
0000-0002-8620-0446
Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. & caiwz @ cau. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8620 - 0446
caiwz@cau.edu.cn
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-04-11
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4
451
504
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5263.4.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5263.4.1
1175-5326
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Ectomocoris luteolus
Malipatil & Liu
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 21
,
22
)
FIGURE 21.
Ectomocoris luteolus
Malipatil & Liu
,
sp. nov.
, holotype, brachypterous male. A, B, habitus; C, posterior part of abdomen. A, dorsal view; B, C, ventral view. Blue arrow indicates extragenital process.
FIGURE 22.
Ectomocoris luteolus
Malipatil & Liu
,
sp. nov.
, paratype, macropterous male. A–C, habitus; D, abdomen. A, dorsal view; B, D, ventral view; C, lateral view. Blue arrow indicates extragenital process.
Type specimens.
[
brachypterous unless indicated otherwise].
Holotype
male,
Australia
,
Queensland
,
Lake Broadwater
via
Dalby
, site 3,
22-25.ii.1986
,
G. Monteith
&
G. Thompson
(
QM
)
.
Paratypes
:
QUEENSLAND
.
1 female
, same data as holotype except site 7 (
QM
); 1 macropterous male, same data as
holotype
except site 6, at
MV
light,
22.ii.1986
(
QM
); 1 macropterous male,
Lake Broadwater
via Dalby,
19.ii.1985
,
G. I. Thompson
(
QM
)
.
Description.
As in
E. fuscatus
sp. nov.
above, except:
Brachypterous male
(
Fig. 21
)
and female
Colouration:
Black, with yellow as follows: connexiva both dorsally and ventrally with about one third anterior area of segments III–VII, dorsally yellow not extending to entire width of connexiva, and brachypterous hemelytra with large median area including most of clavus yellow (but surrounded by fuscous narrow lateral and broad anterior and broader posterior area, latter area not distinctly fuscous in female).
Structure:
Brachypterous hemelytra extending to about half length on second (female) to about one third length on third (male) abdominal tergite (
Fig. 21A
).
Macropterous male
(
Fig. 22
)
Colouration
(
Fig. 22
): Black, with yellow as follows: connexiva as in brachypterous but present on segments II–VII, and corium and clavus (excluding narrow basal area, and irregular apical and posterior marginal areas of corium and all of membrane fuscous).
Other details as in brachypterous form except ocelli and ocellar tubercle area slightly more prominent, collar process of anterior lobe of pronotum more prominent, and hemelytra well exceeding abdomen, almost entirely covering connexiva (
Fig. 22A
).
All other structural details as in
E. fuscatus
sp. nov.
Measurements:
[of
holotype
male brachypterous, followed by
paratype
male macropterous]. Body length 9.67, 11.54; maximum width of abdomen 2.96, 3.12; length of head 1.78, 1.82; length of anteocular region 0.79, 0.87; length of postocular region 0.30, 0.34; width of head across eyes 1.21, 1.21; width of interocellar space 0.20, 0.19; length of eye in dorsal view 0.60, 0.57; width of eye in dorsal view 0.38, 0.34; lengths of antennal segments I–IV 0.95, 0.95 / 1.71, 1.82 / 1.48, 1.63 / 1.55, 1.71; length of visible labial segments I–III 0.57, 0.57 / 1.06, 0.95 / 0.57, 0.64; length of pronotum 2.47, 2.66; length of anterior pronotal lobe 1.93, 1.82; length of posterior pronotal lobe 0.50, 0.79; length of scutellum 0.91, 1.14; maximum width of scutellum 0.76, 1.25; length of hemelytra 2.35, 7.48; length of fore tibia 1.90, 1.95; length of fossula spongiosa on fore tibia 1.33, 1.35.
Distribution.
Australia
(
Queensland
).
Etymology.
The species epithet is the Latin adjective
luteolus
(meaning ‘yellowish’; formed from
luteus
+Γ the diminutive suffix -
olus
), in allusion to the colour of the apical portion of the clavus.
Notes.
This species is very close to
E. fuscatus
sp. nov.
, but readily distinguished by the colouration of the clavus in both macropterous and brachypterous forms. In this species, apical almost 3/4 of the clavus is yellow like most of the corium (
Figs. 21A
,
22A
) whereas in
E. fuscatus
sp. nov.
, the entire clavus is fuscous in contrast to most of the corium yellow (
Figs. 11A&D
,
12A
).