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.