A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species
Author
Chérot, F.
Author
Malipatil, M. B.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4126
2
151
206
journal article
38799
10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.1
03d7f464-cb2f-45a4-aed3-102a29cb38fc
1175-5326
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16.
Poppiomegacoelum
Chérot & Malipatil
new genus
(
Figures 55
,
62–64
,
65–67
)
Type-species:
Poppiomegacoelum gearyi
Malipatil & Chérot
sp. nov.
(present designation).
Description.
Body 6.5–7, sub-oblong, slightly convex, almost uniformly orange brown, with yellow areas (
Fig. 55
). Head gradually sloping anteriorly, in lateral view the tylus is distinctly curved and joined to frons without a notch. Sulcus of vertex distinct, relatively deep. Vertex not carinate. Eyes wide, particularly in males. First antennal segment slightly club-like and curved. Labium reaching mid coxae. Pronotum dorsally pilose, with a shining collar and a pair of stiff, semi- erect white setae on anterior corners. Scutellum relatively flat, slightly tumid and shagreened. Pilosity of metatibia semi-erect, short. Tibial spines light brown. Dorsal pilosity relatively long, recumbent to semi-erect, white, particularly dense on scutellum and hemelytra. Hemelytra slightly reflective, opaque, almost smooth, their punctation shallow and relatively wide. Veins raised. Primary apophysis of right paramere with two pointed lobes. Phallus devoid of comb or true spiculum but provided with a wide, elongate phallic support. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite, hairs or pilose plate. Parieto-vaginal rings thin, devoid of anterior projections, dorso-labiate and ventral labiate plates wide, margins reinforced. Dorsal wall bearing a pair of sclerites.
Included species.
P. g e ar y i
n. sp*.
Distribution.
Australia
.
Host plants.
Unknown.
Discussion.
By the habitus, the genera
Poppiocapsidea
and
Poppiomegacoelum
are relatively similar. They differ mainly by the pronotal pilosity (almost absent in
Poppiocapsidea
,
but present in
Poppiomegacoelum
)
and the male genitalia (secondary gonopore incomplete in
Poppiocapsidea
, but complete in
Poppiomegacoelum
; gonoporal pilose plate present in
Poppiocapsidea
,
but absent in
Poppiomegacoelum
; phallic support and additional sclerites absent in
Poppiocapsidea
, but present in
Poppiomegacoelum
).