Plant bugs of the tribe Bothriomirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from the Oriental Region: descriptions of eight new species and keys to Oriental genera and species of Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, Dashymenia Poppius, and Dashymeniella Poppius
Author
Wolski, Andrzej
Author
Gorczyca, Jacek
text
Zootaxa
2012
3412
1
41
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214715
4eb4d325-9c9f-423d-b231-99d88173627a
1175-5326
214715
Bothriomiris testaceus
Distant
(
Figures 19
, 48)
Bothriomiris testaceus
Distant, 1904a
: 470
[sp. nov.]
Bothriomiris testaceus:
Bergroth 1910
: 237
, 1920: 70
;
Carvalho 1957
: 27
[catalog], 1981: 2 [diag.,
type
specimen];
Schuh, 1995
: 20
[catalog]; Gorczyca 2006: 11 [catalog]
Diagnosis.
Bothriomiris testaceus
is distinct among other species of
Bothriomiris
by the smaller body (<
5.50 mm
), the reddish dorsum, and the rather narrow and weakly convex, rugose pronotal calli (Fig. 48).
Redescription. Female
.
COLORATION
. Dorsum reddish.
Head
. Reddish; antenna and labium reddish.
Thorax
.
Scutellum
. Reddish, medially somewhat paler than remainder of scutellum.
Hemelytron
. Corium with indistinct, orange tinge apically, contiguous with cuneus; membrane dark gray, paler apically.
Thoracic pleura
. Reddish.
Legs
. Coxae reddish; remaining parts broken.
STRUCTURE AND VESTITURE
(Fig. 48). Body suboval; dorsum covered with dense, pale and dark, erect setae
Head
. Covered with dense, long, setae; antenna thin; segment I nearly cylindrical, weakly narrowed basally, covered with sparse setae; segment II thickened towards apex, covered with setae somewhat denser than vestiture of segment I; segments III and IV thin, covered with long, erect setae.
Thorax
.
Pronotum
. Calli moderately raised, narrow, rugose.
Hemelytron
. Corium inpunctate apically; membrane with major cell triangular.
Thoracic pleura
. Densely and deeply punctate; peritreme flattened and covered with microtrichae.
Measurements.
Holotype
Ƥ: body length 5.12, width 2.48. Head. Length 0.50, width 1.40, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.30. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.72, II 1.36, III 0.60, IV 1.0. Labium. Obscured by glue and immeasurable. Pronotum. Length 1.20, width of anterior margin 1.16, length of lateral margin 0.80, width posterior margin 2.0.
Male
. Unknown.
Distribution.
Myanmar
.
Type
material.
Holotype
Ƥ:
Burma
; Karennee (
BMNH
).