New genera and new species of remarkably large-sized or uniquely-shaped mirine plant bugs from Taiwan (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, c / o Nameshi 2 - 33, Nagasaki 852 - 8061, Japan
Author
Yamada, Kazutaka
0000-0002-4210-6693
Institute of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Hyogo / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Yayoigaoka 6 - chome, Sanda-shi, Hyogo 669 - 1546, Japan. yamada. kaz @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4210 - 6693
yamada.kaz@gmail.com
Author
Tsai, Jing-Fu
Department of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, 1 Guancian Rd., Taichung, Taiwan.
text
Zootaxa
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2023-05-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.2.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5278.2.3
1175-5326
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Eurystylus yixuanae
n. sp.
(
Figs. 1A–B
,
2
E−F, 5A−H, 10A−G, 14A−D)
Diagnosis:
Recognized readily by its yellow-green basic coloration; wide, tumid body shape; uniformly pale head that lacks black, velvety macula on frons; and yellowish pronotum with a pair of dark ocellate spots. These unique characters enable this new species to be distinguished from any known congeners.
Description.
Male
: Body ovoid, boxlike, stout; general coloration yellow green, partly pale olive green (
Fig. 1A–B
); dorsum more or less shining, with uniformly distributed, sericeous, reclining setae and sparsely distributed, simple, semierect setae (
Fig. 10B
). Head pale olive green, shining, lacking fuscous, clustered micro-pilosity on frons; eye small; vertex wide. Antenna dark brown, partly tinged with red, generally thick; segment I pale olive brown, except for darkened apex; basal 2/3 of segment II pale reddish brown; extreme bases of segments III and IV pale. Labium pale reddish brown, reaching but not exceeding apex of mesocoxa; apical half of segment IV darkened. Pronotum shining, with a pair of dark, circular spots on disk and smoky brown posterior margin; mesoscutum reddish brown; scutellum yellowish brown, usually widely brownish medially; thoracic pleura yellowish brown; scent efferent system as in
Fig.10C
. Hemelytron dark brown, strongly declivous at cuneal fracture; exocorium (embolium) and basal half of cuneus yellowish brown; membrane pale smoky brown, semitransparent, with dark brown veins. All coxae and legs yellowish brown; apical half of each tarsomere III darkened; pretarsal structure as in
Fig.
10F
. Abdomen uniformly yellowish brown. Male genitalia (
Fig. 5A–C
): Left paramere C-shaped, with inflated hypophysis (
Fig. 5A
); right paramere straight, with small hypophysis (
Fig. 5B
); vesica with four lobal-sclerites as in
Fig. 5C
(terminology of the sclerites sensu Yasunaga
et al.
, 2017).
Female:
Almost similar to male in overall appearance and biometrics; body slightly larger and stouter; scutellum not widely darkened, with three brown stripes (
Fig. 1A
). Female genitalia (
Figs. 5D–H
,
14A–D
): sclerotized rings small, thick-rimmed, situated near lateral margins of genital chamber (
Fig. 5D–F
); posterior wall with small, rounded dorsal structure (
Fig. 5H
); interramal sclerite semi-circularly widened, densely covered with spinules (
Fig. 14B–C
).
Measurements.
See
Table 1
.
Etymology.
Named after Ms. Yi-Xuan Hsieh who kindly provided a specimen as well as some images of live individuals of this new species for this study; a noun in genitive case.
Distribution.
Taiwan
(
Kaohsiung
,
Pingtung
).
Biology.
Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
(♁),
TAIWAN
:
Pingdung
(
Pingtung
) Co.,
Siangjao Bay
,
21°55'42.7''N
,
120°49'40.2''E
, UV lighting,
Y.-C. Lan
&
Y.-H. Peng
,
27 May 2011
(
AMNH
_
PBI 00380763
) (
NMNS
)
.
Paratypes
.
TAIWAN
:
1♁
1♀
, same data as for holotype (
NMNS
)
;
1♀
,
Kaohsiung
,
Mt. Zhongliao-shan
,
22°49'48"N
120°25'57"E
,
30 May 2013
,
Y. X. Hsieh
(
TYCN
)
.