First Indochinese records of the plant bug genus Hypseloecus Reuter (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini), with descriptions of eight new species from Thailand
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Yamada, Kazutaka
Author
Artchawakom, Taksin
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Zootaxa
2015
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75
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.5
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Hypseloecus castaneus
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 2
B–C, 3, 5–7)
Diagnosis.
Distinguished from other congeners by its brown to castaneous body often tinged with red; broad head, with reddish striae on frons (
Fig. 5
); and color pattern of coxae (
Fig. 6
,
Table 1
).
Description.
Male.
COLORATION AND VESTITURE: Body generally pale brown, often partly tinged with orange-red or maroon; dorsal surface brown to castaneous, with densely distributed, reclining scalelike setae. Head pale brown, rather shining, with red striae on frons; clypeus with sanguineous stripes laterally. Antenna uniformly pale or yellowish brown; segment I sometimes tinged with red. Labium shiny pale brown. Pronotum usually chestnut brown; pleura as in
Fig. 6
; ostiolar peritreme yellowish white. Hemelytron brown or chestnut brown; membrane grayish brown, with pale veins and irregular, pale, semitransparent portion at middle. Coxae as in
Table 1
. Leg whitish or yellowish brown; each femur mottled with red-orange maculae; all tibiae with obscure, reddish brown annulations. Abdomen pale to reddish brown. STRUCTURE: As in generic description (see
Schuh & Menard, 2011
).
Genitalia
(
Fig. 3
): Endosoma J-shaped, with a median process.
Female.
Similar coloration and structure to male.
Measurements.
♂/♀: Total body length 2.2−2.4/ 2.3−3.1; length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 1.74−2.00/ 1.90−2.30; width of head across eyes 0.91−1.05/ 0.94−1.08; head height 0.60−0.64/ 0.62−0.64; width of vertex 0.49−0.51/ 0.51−0.60; lengths of antennal segments I −IV 0.19−0.24, 0.73−0.90, 0.36−0.39, 0.38−0.50/ 0.20−0.24, 0.72−0.96, 0.39−0.44, 0.42−0.54; basal width of pronotum 1.08−1.19/ 1.08−1.31; maximum width across hemelytron 1.21−1.44/ 1.33−1.59; and length of metatibia 1.20−1.42/ 1.20−1.56.
Etymology.
From Latin,
castaneus
(= chestnut or castaneous brown), referring to the general coloration of this new species.
Biology.
Confirmed host is
Scurrula
species growing from
Homonoia riparia
Lour.
Holotype
:
♂,
THAILAND
:
Nakhon Nayok
: Sarika near Sarika Waterfall, 14˚18'32”N 101˚15'20”E ~ 14˚18'09”N 101˚15'38”E, on
Scurrula
sp.,
22 Mar 2010
, T. Yasunaga, K. Yamada (
AMNH
_PBI 00380215) (
DOA
).
Paratypes
.
THAILAND
:
Nakhon Nayok:
17♂
6♀, same data as for
holotype
, except for date
31 May 2012
(
AMNH
_PBI 00380216–00380225) (
AMNH
,
TYCN
);
14♂
23♀, same data without
USI
label (
TYCN
).
Nakhon Ratchasima:
1♀,
SERS
, 14˚30'27”N, 101˚55'39”E,
410 m
alt., light trap,
16 Sep 2008
, T. Yasunaga (00380226) (
TYCN
); 1♀, same locality,, light trap,
28 Oct 2008
, T. Yasunaga, K. Yamada (00380227) (
TYCN
); 1♀, same locality, light trap,
29−31 May 2012
, T. Yasunaga (00380228) (
TYCN
);
1♂
3♀, light trap,
21 Mar 2014
, T. Yasunaga, K. Yamada (
AMNH
_PBI 00380229–00380231) (
TYCN
).
Chaiyaphum:
2♀, Chulabhom Dam, 16˚32−33'N, 101˚38−39'E,
760−780 m
,
16−18 Apr 2013
, T. Yasunaga, A. Wolski (00380232) (
TYCN
).
TABLE 1.
A list of convenient diagnostic characters to aid identification of Thai
Hypseloecus
species.
Coloration of antenna Ostiolar Coloration of lateral sides of coxae Labial apex
segmet I segment II peritreme procoxa mesocoxa metacoxa