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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14.
Pleurochilophorus
Reuter, 1905
(
Figure 51
)
Pleurochilophorus
Reuter, 1905a
: 3
–4 (as new genus) [type-species by monotypy:
Pleurochilophorus quadripunctatus
Reuter, 1905
].
Pleurochilophorus
:
Odhiambo 1958
: 107
–108 (new species, key);
Carvalho 1959
: 323
–324 (catalog; classified in the tribe Hyalopeplini);
Linnavuori 1974a
: 8
-9 (diagnosis, key), b: 26 (diagnosis, key);
Schuh, 1995
: 921
–922 (catalog);
Schwartz & Chérot 2005
: 14
(discussion, partial diagnosis); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog).
Diagnosis.
Body sub-oblong, total length 6–8.5, slightly convex, relatively uniform stramineous to green, frequently with orange or red stripes or spots (
Fig. 51
). Frons protruding, forming a distinct notch above vertical tylus. Labium short, not reaching posterior coxae or reaching just beyond posterior coxae. Pronotum dorsally almost glabrous. Lateral margin of pronotum vaguely carinate. Pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners absent. Tibia with dark spines. Scutellum almost flat. Hemelytra almost glabrous, dull, opaque or translucent, with two
types
of punctures, one very reduced but dense, narrow and shallow, the second, shallow but wider. Phallus devoid of true (apical or subapical) spiculum, comb or phallic support, secondary gonopore complete, with a small associated sclerite, devoid of pilose plate or hairs. Parieto-vaginal rings reduced, devoid of anterior projection; dorso-labiate plate developed. Posterior wall devoid of median process, dorsal process and interramal lobes present.
Included species.
Pleurochilophorus bipunctatus
Poppius, 1912
,
P. d or i k ha
Linnavuori, 1974*,
P. marginicollis
Linnavuori, 1974
*,
P. pyrrha
Linnavuori, 1974
*,
P. quadripunctatus
Reuter, 1905
*,
P. rubrinervis
Linnavuori, 1975
*,
P. sexlineatus
(Delattre, 1949)
*,
P. subhyalinus
Poppius, 1912
.
Distribution.
Afrotropical genus, known from
Cameroon
,
Ethiopia
,
Eritrea
,
Ivory Coast
,
Kenya
,
Nigeria
,
South Africa
and
Sudan
(Equatoria).
Host plants.
Asteraceae, Capparidaceae, Fabaceae, Malpighiaceae, Malvaceae, Pedeliaceae (
Odhiambo 1958
;
Linnavuori 1975
; Schuh
2002-2013
;
Schwartz & Chérot 2005
).