A new species of Decomia Poppius from Laos and Thailand, with an annotated checklist and keys to genera and species of tribe Decomiini from Indochina (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Author
Oh, Minsuk
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
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Zootaxa
2016
4189
2
301
310
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.6
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1175-5326
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Decomia
Poppius, 1915
(7 spp.)
Decomia anthophila
Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015
(
Figs 1
A, 4J, 5)—Laos* (Bolikhamsai), Thailand (Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Ratchasima).
Note:
This decomiine bug was recently described from central Thailand, comparing with
D. indochinensis
Schuh
as the closest sister taxon (
Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015
). However,
D. anthophila
Yasunaga and Duwal
could be more easily confused with
D. malayensis
Schuh
, from which it can be distinguished by the darkened apical 1/6–1/5 of the light brown antennal segment II; in the latter species, recorded from Malay Peninsula and possible occurrence in Indochina, the apical half of antennal segment is infuscate (
Schuh, 1984
).
Decomia chiangdaoensis
Schuh, 1984
(
Figs 1
B, 3, 4H, 5)—North, northeastern and central
Thailand
;
Nepal
.
Note:
This species is in most cases collected together with
D. indochinensis
, using UV light traps or sweeping inflorescences of broadleaf angiosperms.
Decomia indochinensis
Schuh, 1984
(
Figs 1
C–D, 3,
4I
, 5)—
Cambodia
,
Laos
* (
Xiang Khoang
), North and central
Thailand, Vietnam
,
Philippines
(
Visayas
) and Peninsular
Malaysia
(
Perak
)
.
Decomia ishikawai
Yasunaga, Duwal & Lee
,
n. sp.
(
Figs 3
,
4
A–C, 5)—Laos (Xiang Khoang); Thailand (Chiang Mai).
Decomia nigrissima
Yasunaga, 2010
(
Figs
1
E, 4D–E, 5)—
Thailand
(
Nakhon Ratchasima
).
Note
:
The
male is for the first time documented here, and is basically similar in overall appearance to the female described by
Yasunaga
(2010).
The
male genitalia are rather modified, with the left paramere narrow, not distinctly sprayedout (
Fig. 4
D) and endosoma significantly slender (
Fig. 4
E); total body length 2.00; width of head across eyes 0.64; lengths of antennal segments I–IV 0.11, 0.49, 0.21, 0.21; basal width of pronotum 0.86; maximum width across hemelytron 1.01; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 0.75, 1.03, 0.37.
This
species was described only on a female
holotype
;
recent field investigation at the
type
locality produced two more materials:
Nakhon Ratchasima
,
Wang Nam Khieo
,
Sakaerat Environmental Research Station
,
N14.507530
,
E101.927640
,
UV light trap
,
12–14 Dec 2015
,
T. Yasunaga
,
1 male
,
1 female
(
TYCN
).
Decomia schuhi
Yasunaga, 2010
(
Figs 1
F, 4F, 5)—Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima).
Decomia taksini
Yasunaga, 2010
(
Figs 1
G, 4G, 5)—Thailand (Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Ratchasima).
Decomioides
Schuh, 1984
(3 spp.)
Decomioides kazutakai
Yasunaga, 2010
(
Fig. 2
C)—Thailand (Nakhon Nayok & Nakhon Ratchasima).
Note:
All three congeners listed here are known to be associated with
Macaranga
spp. (
Euphorbiaceae
).
Decomioides schneirlai
Schuh, 1984
(
Fig. 2
A)—
Thailand
(
Nakhon Ratchasima
)
, China (Hong Kong), Japan (Ryukyus), Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan.
Decomioides verecundus
Yasunaga, 2010
(
Fig. 2
B)—Thailand (Nakhon Nayok & Nakhon Ratchasima).
Malaysiamiris
Schuh, 1984
(2 spp.)
Malaysiamiris nigrescens
Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015
(
Fig. 2
D)—
Thailand
(
Nakhon Ratchasima
).
Malaysiamiris rufobadius
Yasunaga, 2010
(
Fig. 2
E)
—
Thailand
(
Nakhon Ratchasima
)
.
Rubrocuneocoris
Schuh, 1984
(2 spp.)
Rubrocuneocoris anandros
Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015
(
Fig. 2
F)—Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima).
Rubrocuneocoris nigriceps
Duwal, Yasunaga & Lee, 2010
(
Figs. 2
G; 4K–M)—
Laos
* (Xiang Khoang: Kham District),
Nepal
(Kaski, Kathmandu Valley).
Note:
Although a recent work (
Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015
) documented
R. anandros
from central
Thailand
, the present congener collected in
Laos
undoubtedly corresponds to
R. nigriceps
originally described from warm temperate zone in
Nepal
, on the basis of a close examination on the male genitalic structure (
Fig. 4
K–M).
Duwal
et al.
(2010)
suggested its breeding host as
Castanopsis
sp. (
Fagaceae
), but the plant association in
Laos
remains unknown.