A new species of the plant bug genus Rubrocuneocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Vietnam
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Author
Schwartz, Michael D.
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-07
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journal article
26070
10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.10
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Rubrocuneocoris albescens
Yasunaga
Figures 1
A–D, 3, 4
Rubrocuneocoris albescens
Yasunaga, 2001a: 117
(n. sp.);
Yasunaga 2001b: 179
(diag., host, color habitus images, Fig. 133ab);
Schuh
2002
–2014 (cat. on web);
Aukema 2018
(cat. on web).
Diagnosis.
Recognized by its light creamy yellow coloration; almost uniformly darkened antennal segment I; apical part of each femur speckled with sanguineous maculae; and stout endosoma sigmoid and twisted with serrated apical margins. Total body length
3.3 mm
, maximum width across hemelytron
0.97–1.05 mm
. Habitus images and brief diagnoses of both sexes were provided by
Yasunaga (2001b)
.
Description.
MALE GENITALIA
(
Fig. 4
A–D): Endosoma (
Fig. 4D
): Stout, strongly sigmoid and twisted at middle, with serrated apical margin. Phallotheca (
Fig 4A
): Comparatively elongate, tapered towards apex, not strongly curved nor bent. Parameres: Left (
Fig. 4B
): Typical phyline form. Right (
Fig. 4C
): Small, with rather wide sensory lobe. FEMALE
GENITALIA
(
Fig. 4
E–I): Genital chamber roundly margined; sclerotized rings U-shaped; posterior wall simple, with interramal sclerite V-shaped.
Measurements
. (n=
1♂
/
2♀
). Total body length 3.31/ 3.30–3.31; head width 0.68/ 0.62–0.69; vertex width 0.27/ 0.32; lengths of antennal segments I-IV 0.
26, 1.10
, 0.45, 0.32/ 0.23–0.24, 0.93–0.96, 0.42–0.47, 0.32–0.35; labial length 1.20/ 1.19–1.20; basal width of pronotum 0.98/ 1.02–1.05; maximum width across hemelytron 1.32–1.23– 1.35; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.05, 1.65, 0.38/ 1.05–1.10, 1.65–1.68, 0.38–0.41.
Remarks
. As suggested by
Yasunaga (2001a)
,
Rubrocuneocoris albescens
is most closely related to
R. quercicola
known from the Korean Peninsula and Russian Primorsky Territory, based on the present examination of the male genitalia. However,
R. albescens
has the different color pattern (generally creamy yellow dorsum, uniformly dark antennal segment I and reddish apical part of each femur) and medially twisted endosoma that is not coiled, in addition to being associated with
Pterostyrax corymbosus
Siebold & Zucc (Styracaceae)
, whereas
R. quercicola
was reported from
Quercus dentata
Thunb. (Fagaceae)
(Kerzhner 1988).
Type material.
Holotype
,
♀
.
JAPAN
:
Shikoku
,
Kochi Pref.
,
Monobe Village
[= current Kami City, Monobe Township],
Nishikuma Valley
,
33°48'N
134°00'E
,
1,000 m
alt.,
UV
light trap,
8 Jul 2000
,
M. Takai
(
TYCN
)
.
Additional specimens examined.
1♂
1♀
, same locality and collector as for
holotype
, sweep-netting
on
Pterostyrax corymbosus
,
28 Jul 2001
(
TYCN
)
.