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
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6.
Chimsunchartella
Chérot & Pauwels, 2000
(
Figure 15
)
Chimsunchartella
Chérot & Pauwels, 2000
: 129
–130 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation:
Chimsunchartella schwartzi
Chérot & Pauwels, 2000
].
Chimsunchartella
:
Chérot & Malipatil 2003
: 149
–153 (description of female, discussion of variability); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog).
Diagnosis.
Body elongate, total length 6, laterally almost straight, relatively uniform stramineous, yellow or yellow brown, frequently with small dark brown to black spots (
Fig. 15
); vertex distinctly sulcate, slightly carinate; labium reaching mesocoxae; first antennal segment slightly club-like, relatively short, straight, with red spots; pronotum dull, with dense recumbent pilosity, less conspicuous in females, and a pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners; dorsal dark spots of pronotal disk frequently callose; scutellum swollen, mesoscutum slightly pilose; hemelytra dull, almost smooth, with two different punctations, one very reduced, narrow and shallow, the other sparse, wider, shallow; pilosity relatively dense, short, simple, recumbent; veins not raised; tibial spines brown, red brown in females. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite; phallus devoid of comb or true spiculum, with an elongate, acute phallic support and several fields of denticles. Parieto-vaginal rings reduced, narrow, devoid of anterior projections; dorso-labiate plate elongated. Dorsal process of posterior wall present but undivided, median process medially narrowed, interramal lobes (E structures) reduced. H structures absent.
Included species.
C. schwartzi
Chérot & Pauwels, 2000
*.
Distribution.
Australia
.
Host plants.
Chenopodiaceae and Myrtaceae (
Chérot & Malipatil 2003
; Schuh
2002–2013
).
Discussion.
C. schwartzi
Chérot & Pauwels, 2000
, as presently defined (
Chérot & Pauwels 2000
;
Chérot & Malipatil 2003
) seems a relatively variable species. The possibility the name “
C. schwartzi
” as applied here, may refer to several closely related species cannot totally be excluded, even if
Namyatova et al. (2013
: 1005) consider that “there is insufficient information to separate additional species and that the polymorphic coloration observed in
C. schwartzi
is typical for a widely distributed mirine plant bug”. Additional study of male and female genitalia of a large number of specimens would be desirable to correctly interpret this variability.