New species and new records of Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Vietnam
Author
Guilbert, Eric
text
Zootaxa
2015
3956
4
531
546
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.5
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1175-5326
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Tanytingis magnus
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 5
)
Diagnosis.
This species has a broad tri- to quadriseriate paranota and a sharply widened hemelytra with a broad costal area, ten areolae wide.
FIGURE 5.
Habitus of
Tanytingis magnus
sp. nov.
(male). Scale bar is 1 mm.
Description.
Male:
Body large, length 6.24; width, 4.6. COLORATION: Brown, head, hind tarsi and body beneath darker. Areolae on hemelytra mostly embrowned except central part on costal area near subcostal area where areolae hyaline. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Head slightly pilose dorsally, and third antennal segment pilose. STRUCTURE:
Head:
Small, armed with five spines; occipital spines long, slender, directed forwards and parallel; median spine very short and bulbous; frontal spines long, slender, and divergent; bucculae long and narrow, biseriate anteriorly and triseriate posteriorly, closed in front; first and second antennal segments short, the second shorter than the first; third is longest, and fourth missing, antennal segment measurements, I, 0.32; II, 0.20; III, 1.92; IV missing; rostral sulcus wide and wider on metasternum, open behind; laminae narrow; rostrum almost reaching meso-metasternal suture.
Thorax:
Pronotum wide, short, a little gibbose, tricarinate; median carina distinct but not raised, ridge- like, continuing in front on collar; lateral carinae only distinct in the anterior half of pronotum, ridge-like, absent on posterior process; collar wide, triseriate, not raised; paranota wide, tri to four areolae wide anteriorly, produced in front as to frame head until middle of eyes; posterior process short, not sharply ended but smoothly bilobed. Hemelytra wide, sharply widened at base; costal area wide, sinuate, ten areolae wide at widest part, areolae polygonal and large; subcostal area narrow, sinuate, sloping downwards, biseriate, areolae small, uniseriate posteriorly areolae as large as on costal area; discoidal area longer than half the length of hemelytra, five areolae wide at widest part; sutural area narrow, triseriate posteriorly.
Female:
Body length 6.12, body width 5. COLORATION: As in males. SURFACE: As in males. STRUCTURE: As in males.
Etymology.
The name “
magnus
” refers to the size of this species, larger than the other known species of the genus.
Material examined.
Holotype
:
1M, Lam dong, Bi Doup massif, Dalat Hon Giao,
1567 m
,
12°11,262’N
108°42,851’E
,
13-VI-2008
, light trap, rain forest, Bourgoin rec., (
MNHN
);
Paratype
:
1F, Fyan,
1200 m
,
11.VII– 9.VIII.1961
, N.R. Spencer coll. (
BPBM
);
Discussion.
This new species is close to
T. latipennis
Pericart
, but differs by the much broader paranota and larger hemelytra.