ThegenusKanigara Distant (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae) from Malay Peninsula and Thailand, with description of a new species Author Ban, Teruaki text Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2022 2022-01-05 70 22 29 journal article 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0002 2345-7600 7174068 113B00D2-AEF4-4A76-BD94-024EFD16AEF0 Kanigara nebulosa , new species ( Figs. 1 , 2 ) Type Material. Holotype : male ( CBM - ZI 179325), MALAYSIA : Johor , Mersing, Semberong, Taman Negara Endau-Rompin ( Kg. Peta ), light trap , Maruyama, Jimbo & Yamada coll., 13–17 May 2005 . Paratypes : all of them same data as holotype : 6 males , 13 females ( CBM - ZI 179326–179341 ) ; 1 male , 2 females ( TKPM ) , 1 male , 3 females ( UNML ) , 1 male , 2 females ( ZRC ) . Diagnosis. Distinguished from congeners of Kanigara by the following characters: body length 3.9–5.1 mm ; head and pronotum brown; distance between ocelli subequal to eye width; labium surpassing procoxae, not reaching mesocoxae; lateral part of posterior lobe with blurred yellow line; scutellum matte reddish brown; punctures on apical and lateral part of scutellum distinctly larger than in the basal area; apex of corium with irregular pale brown spot; legs yellowish brown; abdominal sternite brown. Description. Colouration. Head brown. Clypeus brown. Antennal segments I to IV uniformly yellowish brown. Labium yellowish brown. Pronotum reddish brown, lateral margin of anterior lobe with 0.1 mm wide indistinct yellow line; lateral area of posterior lobe with blurred yellow line. Venter of mesothorax and metathorax reddish brown; peritreme dull reddish brown; scent gland yellowish brown. Scutellum matte reddish brown. Corium and clavus pale yellowish brown. Membrane hyaline. Supracoxal lobes yellowish brown; coxae and trochanter yellowish brown; femora yellowish brown; pro- and mesotibia yellowish brown, metatibia dark yellowish brown; tarsomere I reddish brown; tarsomeres II and III yellowish brown. Abdominal sternites reddish brown; trichobothria bright brown. Long decumbent setae on abdominal venter silver. Structure. Body 2.5 times as long as wide across hemelytra. Head 1.5 times as wide as its length, without hairs; clypeus projecting anteriorly; vertex weakly convex; distance between ocelli subequal to eye width. Antennal segments covered with setae; proportional length of antennal segments I to IV 1:1.9:1.9:1.8. Labium surpassing procoxae, not reaching mesocoxae ( Fig. 1B ); proportional length of rostral segments I to IV 1:1:0.6:0.4.