Two new species of the mirine plant bug genus Adelphocorisella (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini) from central Thailand
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Shishido, Takayuki
Author
Yamada, Kazutaka
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2016
2016-08-19
64
250
256
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4504366
2345-7600
4504366
048868C8-8F1B-4202-9991-F8FA0E2B5CE4
Adelphocorisella adelphocoroides
,
new species
(
Figs. 1
D−F, 2A, 3)
Type material.
Holotype
:
male,
THAILAND
:
Nakhon Ratchasima
,
Wang Nam Khieo
,
Sakaerat Environmental Research Station
(
SERS
),
N14°30’27”
E101°55’39”
,
410 m
alt.,
UV
light trap, coll.
T
.
Yasunaga, TB
.
Shishido
,
25 December 2012
(
AMNH
_
PBI 00380437
) (
DOA
).
Diagnosis.
Distinguished readily from known congeners by its coffee brown dorsum with very sparsely distributed, reclining, sericeous setae; moderately oblique head; shiny fuscous antennal segment I; long labium reaching abdominal sternum VII; somewhat shiny pronotum; and shape of parameres and endosoma.
Description.
Holotype
Male
: Body elongate oval; dorsal surface generally coffee brown, weakly shining, with uniformly distributed, pale brown, semierect simple setae and very sparsely distributed, reclining sericeous setae (
Fig. 1D
). Head whitish brown (
Fig. 1E
), but chestnut brown ventrally (
Fig. 2A
), oblique, a little porrect; vertex rather wide, about 1.5 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view, with a faint, narrow, longitudinal, mesal sulcus; frons shallowly and obliquely striolate. Antenna longer than body; segment I shiny fuscous, somewhat clavate; segments II−IV completely yellow, linear (
Fig. 2A
). Labium shiny dark brown, long, thick, reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternum VII (
Fig. 2A
). Pronotum somewhat shining, widely pale brown, narrowly darkened posteriorly, with yellowish white collar and posterior margin (
Fig. 1D, F
); pleura widely darkened and pruinosed, with creamy yellow ostiolar peritreme; mesoscutum yellowish brown, matte; scutellum dark brown, matte, with irregular, yellow basal striae; shallowly and roughly rugose (
Fig. 1D
). Hemelytron matte; corium and anterior part of clavus mottled with brown; apical half of cuneus yellowish brown; membrane smoky brown. Coxa generally dark brown, silverily pruinosed, except for metacoxa grayish brown (
Figs 1F
,
2A
); leg pale brown; all femora and tibiae with small, brown or reddish brown spots; apical half of metafemur darkened; tibial spines fuscous. Abdomen pale brown; ventral median part irregularly darkened; ventral lateral part mottled with reddish spots (
Fig. 2A
).
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 3
): Left paramere with rather developed hypophysis; right paramere slender, tapered apicad. Apex of phallotheca simple, rounded. Endosoma composed of wide membranous area, with well developed spiculum and sclerite ‘b’, and relatively broad sclerite ‘a’.
Female
: Unknown.
Measurements.
Male: Total body length 6.0; width of head across eyes 1.10; width of vertex 0.44; lengths of antennal segments I−IV 0.86, 2.84, 2.23, 1.10; length of labium 3.71; basal width of pronotum 1.84; maximum width across hemelytron 2.16; and length of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 2.70, 4.26, 0.64.
Etymology.
From the mirine generic name,
Adelphocoris
Reuter
, with which the new species can be confused.
Biology.
Unknown; only a single male was collected using UV light trap.