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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9.
Gollneria
Carvalho, 1983
(
Figure 28
)
Gollneria
Carvalho, 1983
: 383
(as new genus) [type-species by original designation:
Megacoelum quadrituberculatum
Poppius, 1912b
].
Gollneria
:
Schuh 1995
: 772
(catalog); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog).
Diagnosis.
Body sub-oblong, total length 4.5, slightly convex laterally, uniformly stramineous yellow with red brown patches; labium reaching posterior coxae, first antennal segment short and club-like; pronotum dorsally pilose, lacking a pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners, the callosities consist of two pairs of tubercles; scutellum swollen, pilose; hemelytra slightly reflective, stramineous (
Fig. 28
), smooth with reduced sparse and shallow punctation and two
types
of pilosity: one recumbent and white, the second erect and black. Tibia with dark red brown spines. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite; phallus devoid of comb and true spiculum; phallic support and denticle fields present.
Included species.
G. quadrituberculatum
(
Poppius, 1912
)
*.
Distribution.
Cabo Verde
Island
,
Cameroon
,
Kenya
(Kibwezi, type-locality of type-species),
Somalia
,
Sudan
.
Host plants.
Fabaceae (
Lindberg 1959
).