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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7.2.
Creontiades sumatrensis
Poppius, 1915
(
Figure 20
)
Creontiades sumatrensis
Poppius, 1915a
: 20
–21 (as new species);
Carvalho 1959
: 78
(catalog);
Schuh 1995
: 747
(catalog); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog).
Material examined.
Type
specimens:
Syntypes
: 5Ƌ♀:
INDONESIA
: SUMATRA: Panscherang-Pisang,
x.1890
-
iii.1891
,
Modigliani E.
leg (
MZHF
).
Diagnosis.
Head yellowish-green to brown, eyes reddish-brown. Antennal segments yellow, first and second segments tinged with red basally. Frons shagreen, with a deep and elongate median depression near the vertex and an elongated sulcus. Vertex devoid of posterior carina. Apical collar of pronotum, callosities and disk yellow tinged with red, the posterior margin of pronotum with a wide dark red stripe medially. Femora yellow to reddish, tibia and tarsus yellow, tibial spines light brown. Mesoscutum covered. Scutellum yellow, dark red on the sides and apically. Hemelytra light yellow, inner margins of clavus and endocorium and border between endocorium and membrane red. Cuneus yellow with red spots. Membrane light brown, veins red. Hemelytral punctation very reduced, sparse and shallow, pilosity short, recumbent.
Discussion.
By their habitus, the
types
of
C. sumatrensis
perfectly conform to our diagnosis of the genus
Creontiades
.
Therefore, we can confirm the generic placement of this poorly known species.
Poppius (1915a: 21)
explicitly cited five specimens of both sexes in his description, from Genoa and Helsinki museums. According to the Article 73.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), they constitute collectively the name-bearing
type
. They are currently all preserved in MZHF. When the first author visited the MZHF in
September 2007
to examine the
types
, of the five
type
specimens, three bore
type
labels (with the numbers 10050 to 10052), a fourth was devoid of
type
label but was mentioned in the MZHF entomological Department file of
types
and the fifth was devoid of
type
label and was not cited in the file.