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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5.
Cheilocapsidea
Poppius, 1915
(
Figures 8
,
12–14
)
Cheilocapsidea
Poppius, 1915a
: 13
(comme n. gen.) [type-species by original designation:
Megacoelum insignis
Distant, 1909a
].
Creontiades
:
Carvalho 1952
: 87
(catalog of genera, synonymy and new combination), 1959: 73, 75 (catalog);
Schuh 1995
: 743
, 745 (catalog);
Carvalhopantilius
Yasunaga, 1995
: 452
–453 (as new genus, the synonymy by
Yasunaga & Kerzhner 1998
);
Cheilocapsidea
:
Yasunaga & Kerzhner 1998
: 88
(resurection);
Kerzhner & Josifov 1999
: 83
(catalog); Schuh
2002–2013
(online catalog); Zheng
et al
. 2004: 235–236, 700 (diagnosis, Chinese species, key);
Yasunaga 2011
: 370
(diagnosis).
Diagnosis.
Body elongate, total length 8–11, laterally straight, with translucent, red brown or white to stramineous reflective hemelytra; vertex not carinate, longitudinally sulcate, sulcus short; frons slightly protruding above the vertical tylus, scarcely separated by a tiny notch; eyes separate from pronotal collar; labium exceeding mesocoxae; first antennal segment stout, slightly club-like and longer than head, straight, remaining segments slightly thinner; pronotum lacking stiff setae on anterior corner, lateral margins slightly carinate, disk shagreened, shallowly and sparsely punctate, pilosity light, sparse, erect; scutellum almost flat, with sparse, erect pilosity; legs elongate, tibial spines brown; hemelytral punctation double, one very reduced but dense, narrow and shallow, the second, shallow but larger, hemelytral pilosity simple, suberect, veins raised; primary apophysis of left paramere lacking accessory lobes; secondary gonopore with associated U-shaped sclerite, lacking long hairs; phallic true spiculum elongate and apically pointed; phallic support absent; parieto-vaginal rings large, contiguous, lacking anterior projection; dorso-labiate plate reduced; dorsal process and median process of posterior wall absent, interramal lobes developed.
Included species.
C. insignis
(
Distant, 1909
)
*,
C. pura
(
Yasunaga, 1995
)
,
C. rufescens
(
Yasunaga, 1995
)
*.
Distribution.
China
,
India
,
Laos
,
Taiwan
.
Host plants.
No data available.