Review of the plant bug genus Prolygus and related mirine taxa from eastern Asia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA, c / o Nameshi
Author
Schwartz, Michael D.
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Author
Chérot, Frédéric
Département de l’Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole, Service Public de Wallonie, Gembloux, BE- 5030, Belgium;
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2018
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2018-09-07
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2018-0030
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Micromimetus rubrotinctus
(
Carvalho, 1956
)
comb. nov.
(
Figs 59
,
117
)
Lygus rubrotinctus
Carvalho, 1956: 91
(original description).
Distribution.
Mariana Islands
(
Saipan
) (
CARVALHO 1956
).
Comments.
We could only access the
allotype
female (KUEC, AMNH_PBI 00380514,
Fig. 59
), which has a generally pale reddish, small, ovoid body (total length
3.05 mm
, maximum width
1.41 mm
). According to illustrations of the male genitalic structures (
CARVALHO 1956
), the endosoma has the primary lobe weakly sclerotized and secondary lobe elongate, sclerotized. Our examination of the thoracic pleura including scent efferent system by a SEM (
Fig. 117
) also suggests an apparent similarity between
M. rubrotinctus
and the following Taiwanese species. The evidence suggest that this taxon probably belongs to
Micromimetus
.
We additionally examined two relevant specimens
―
a male
paratype
of
Lygus kusaiensis
Carvalho, 1956
(
Figs 140–143
) and a male from
Republic of Palau
, with a
paratype
label and another label with the manuscript name ‘
Lygus yapensis
’ handwritten by Carvalho (
Fig. 58
). Using the species key in
CARVALHO (1956
, p. 83) the pale apex of antennal segment II, dark apical cuneal mark, uniformly dark pronotum, mostly dark dorsum, and tibial spines without dark basal spots allows us to determine the latter male as
L. dybasi
Carvalho, 1956
. The male genitalia (
Figs 144–146
) also matches the illustrations in
CARVALHO (1956
, figs 50e–g) for this species. However the collecting information “Babeldaob: Ngarard
17.viii.1939
Teiso Esaki” is not among the
paratypes
listed in the original description of
L. dybasi
.