Further records and descriptions of the plant bug subfamily Phylinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Thailand
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
text
Zootaxa
2015
3981
2
193
219
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.3
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1175-5326
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Rubrocuneocoris anandros
n. sp.
(
Figs. 3
,
7
,
12
)
Diagnosis.
Distinguished from any other
Thai
phylines by its tiny size; pale orange brown basic coloration (
Fig. 7
); shiny dorsum; deep red antennal segment I; a partly interrupted rouge streak on pleura (
Fig. 3
); narrowly rouge spots along posterior margin of corium; rouge apex of cuneus; and sanguineous, reticular pattern on metafemur (
Fig. 7
). By a combination of these characters, this new species also can be separable from any other Asian congeners.
Description.
Female:
Body generally pale orange brown, oval, typical phyline shape; dorsal surface shining, with uniformly distributed, pale, simple setae. Head with some sanguineous spots. Antenna yellowish brown; segment I deep red; basal half of segment II with sanguineous, reticular markings. Labium shiny pale brown; segment I with sanguineous spots basally. Pleura shining, with a rouge, partly interrupted streak from propleuron to ventral half of ostiolar peritreme. Apex of corium with a few, sanguineous spots along cuneal fracture; apex of cuneus sanguineous. Leg pale brown, partly with reddish spots or marks; metafemur speckled with sanguineous spots posteriorly; protibia with a sanguineous stripe. Abdomen pale brown, partly speckled with reddish or whitish patterns. Genitalia as in
Fig. 12
; bursa copulatrix furnished with complicated membranous structure; sclerotized ring small.
Male:
Unknown.
Measurements.
Total body length 2.35; length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 1.54; width of head across eyes 0.63; vertex width 0.27; lengths of antennal segments I −IV 0.15, 0.64, 0.31, 0.25; labial length 0.96; mesal length of pronotum 0.38; basal width of pronotum 0.91; maximum width across hemelytron 1.19; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 0.80, 1.20, 0.29.
Etymology.
From Greek,
anandros
(= single, alone, husbandless), referring to this new, rare species, currently represented only by a single female.
Remarks.
Although this new species is currently known only by a single female, its identity and placement in
Rubrocuneocoris
are evidently warranted, on the basis of the distinctive color pattern and form of the female genitalia.
Holotype
:
♀,
THAILAND
:
Nakhon Ratchasima:
SERS
, 14˚30'27”N, 101˚55'39”E,
410 m
alt., light trap,
12−14 Jun 2009
, T. Yasunaga, K. Yamada (
AMNH
_PBI 00380393) (
DOA
).