Review of the phyline plant bug tribe Auricillocorini from Asia, with descriptions of a new genus and nine new species from Japan, Nepal and Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
text
Zootaxa
2012
3530
1
24
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214852
a8c0634c-5ac1-492c-9e4f-186169aaafbf
1175-5326
214852
Cleotomiris yamadakazi
new species
(
Figs. 3
,
4
,
5
B–C, 6, 8, 9)
Diagnosis.
Recognized by the largest size among congeners (so far as known), blackish brown basic coloration, dense vestiture on dorsum, terete antenna with the claviform segments II–IV, a median ear-like protuberance of the ostiolar peritreme, a clear whitish fascia across clavus and corium, elongate right paramere, long, curved apical spine of the endosoma, and toughened female bursa copulatrix; by these diagnostic characters this new species can be easily distinguished from other congeners.
Description.
Body large, rather elongate; basic coloration blackish brown; dorsal surface weakly shining, with uniformly distributed, silky, semierect setae and sparsely distributed, long, upright setae. Head pruinosed; basal margin of vertex narrowly carinate. Antenna dull brown, terete; segments II–IV claviform, thickened apically. Labium shiny mahogany brown, slightly exceeding apex of mesocoxa. Pronotum shallowly and irregularly punctate or rugose; collar about as thick as base of antennal segment II; pleura widely shagreened, or roughened by dense, minute sutures; ostiolar peritreme with a median, ear-like protuberance; posterior part of evaporative area ivory white. Hemelytron less shining, anteriorly with a clear, white fascia across clavus and corium; apical part of clavus and median part of corium more or less pruinosed; membrane smoky brown, with pale, translucent anterior corner. Coxae and legs dull brown, except for apical 1/2-1/3 of meso- and metacoxae pale brown; tibial spines relatively prominent. Abdomen entirely chocolate brown, widely pruinosed.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 4
, 6): Genital segment with a ventral spine (
Fig. 4
). Parameres large; left paramere with widened sensory lobe; right paramere elongate. Phallotheca nearly straight, tapered toward apex, terminated in a hook. Apical spine of endosoma very long, curved; secondary gonopore comparatively small.
Female genitalia
(
Fig. 9
): Bursa copulatrix generally toughened, similar in overall appearance to those of
Wygomiris
; sclerotized ring enlarged, ovoid.
Measurements
. 3/Ƥ: Total body length 3.7–4.0/ 3.7–3.9; length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 2.60–2.67/ 2.70–2.75; head width across eyes 0.79–0.84/ 0.72–0.75; vertex width 0.24–0.27/ 0.30–0.32; lengths of antennal segment I–IV 0.29–0.30, 1.05–1.08, 0.47–0.53, 0.40–0.44/ 0.29–0.30, 1.04–1.20, 0.48–0.60, 0.42–0.44; labial length 1.35–1.40/ 1.44–1.50; mesal pronotal length 0.82–0.87/ 0.75–0.79; basal pronotal width 1.06–1.17/ 1.06–1.09; width across hemelytron 1.11–1.20/ 1.24–1.28; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.20–1.23, 1.74–1.80, 0.32–0.34/ 1.24–1.29, 1.65–1.80, 0.30–0.35.
Etymology.
Named after Kazutaka Yamada who constantly supports the collection of mirids.
Distribution.
Thailand
(Nakhon Nayok & Nakhon Ratchasima Provinces).
Biology.
Collection records suggest this new species has multivoltine life cycles. One male adult was captured from inflorescences of
Mallotus
sp. (
Euphorbiaceae
).
Holotype
:
3,
THAILAND
:
Nakhon Ratchasima Prov.:
SERS
, 14˚30'27”N, 101˚55'39”E,
410 m
alt., light trap,
12-14 Jun 2009
, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (
AMNH
_PBI 00379531) (
SUT
).
Paratypes
.
THAILAND
:
Nakhon Nayok Prov.: 13, Sarika (lodge garden),
14°18'07"N
,
101°18'09"E
, at light,
21–23 Mar 2010
, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (00379588) (
TYCN
). Nakhon Ratchasima Prov.: 1316Ƥ, same data as for
holotype
(00379532–00379533, 00379561–00379569) (
AMNH
,
TYCN
); 1Ƥ, same locality, light trap,
19–21 Aug 2008
, T. Yasunaga & B. Shishido (00379570) (
TYCN
); 13, same locality, light trap,
16 Sep 2008
, T. Yasunaga (00379572) (
TYCN
); 231Ƥ, same locality, light trap,
24 Jan 2009
, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (00379573–00379574) (
TYCN
); 133Ƥ, same locality, light trap,
27–28 Oct 2008
, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (00379575–00379577) (
TYCN
); 8Ƥ, same locality, light trap,
25–27 Feb 2009
, T. Yasunaga (00379578–00379582) (
TYCN
); 135Ƥ, same locality, light trap,
29 May–2 Jun 2012
, T. Yasunaga (00379583–00379587) (
TYCN
); 13,
SERS
, near dam, 14˚29'49”N, 101˚54'57”E,
500 m
alt., on flowers of
Mallotus
sp.,
20 Aug 2008
, T. Yasunaga (00379571) (
TYCN
).