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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1175-5326
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3.
Adelphocorisella
Miyamoto & Yasunaga, 1993
(
Figures 4–6
,
9–11
)
Adelphocorisella
Miyamoto & Yasunaga, 1993
: 47
(as new genus) [type-species by original designation:
Adelphocorisella lespedezae
Miyamoto & Yasunaga, 1993
].
Adelphocorisella
:
Schuh 1995
: 695
(catalog);
Kerzhner & Josifov 1999
: 59
(catalog);
Malipatil & Chérot 2002
: 103
(discussion); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog); Aukema Rieger & Rabitsch 2013: 185 (catalog).
Diagnosis.
Body sub-oblong, total length: 4.5–6.2, slightly convex laterally, uniformly dark brown to black; eyes wide, posterior margin contiguous with pronotal collar; labium usually exceeding posterior coxae; first antennal segment elongate, bearing some stiff, suberect setae; pronotum with sparse, dark brown to black, dense, silvery setae; scutellum slightly swollen but not ampule-like; metafemora
Phytocoris
-like, elongate, distally tapered, tibial spines light; hemelytra dull, punctation very reduced, pilosity similar to that on pronotum, veins raised above surface; secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite or long hairs; phallus devoid of comb, with at least a true spiculum and frequently some other sclerites, including a phallic support; parieto-vaginal rings large, devoid of anterior projection or other additional sclerite; dorso-labiate plate distinct; dorsal process of posterior wall and median process reduced or absent.
Included species.
A. australis
Malipatil & Chérot, 2002
*,
A. brunnescens
(Poppius, 1915)
n. comb
*,
A. insulana
Miyamoto & Yasunaga, 1993
,
A. lespedezae
Miyamoto & Yasunaga, 1993
*,
A. relatum
(Distant, 1904)
(new combination)*,
A. rubricornis
n. sp.
*
Distribution.
Australia
,
Japan
,
Korea
,
Papua New Guinea
, several Pacific Islands,
Sri Lanka
.
Host plants.
Fabaceae.
A. brunnescens
was also collected by fogging on Meliaceae, Rubiaceae and Sapindaceae (Chérot
et al
. in prep.).