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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13.4.
Orientomiris maculicollis
(Poppius, 1915)
n. comb
.
(
Figure 42
)
Creontiades maculicollis
Poppius, 1915a
: 21
–22 (as new species);
Carvalho 1959
: 75
(catalog);
Schuh 1995
: 745
(catalog),
2002–2013
(online catalog).
Material examined.
Type
specimen:
Holotype
♀ by monotypy:
INDIA
: DARJEELING (no locality given):
04- 06.i.1886
,
Harmand
leg.,
type
10053 (
MZHF
) [the specimen bears Poppius’ original handwritten identification label with the mention “
Creontiades maculicollis
n. sp.
” It is mounted with a damaged, delicate to handle thin pin].
Diagnosis.
Body reddish-brown to dark brown. Head yellowish brown with red stripes. Eyes black. Antennae yellowish brown, first segment with small red spots and an apical red ring, second segment yellow with three dark red rings, first basal, second at 1/3 length and third, the darkest, apical, third segment reddish-brown with a basal yellow ring, fourth segment missing. Sulcus of vertex deep. Pronotal collar yellow. Pronotum yellowish green to brown with two black stripes on its anterior angles and two sub-median black patches along its posterior margin separated from callosities by a pair of brown stripes. Legs yellow, tibial spines red. Scutellum yellowish green to brown with a medial stripe and two lateral patches dark brown. Hemelytra light brown, translucent, exocorium apically dark red, cuneus dark red to black medially, its apex yellow. Hemelytral punctation very reduced, but very dense.
Discussion.
The
type
of
O
. maculicollis
conforms to our diagnosis of
Orientomiris
on the basis of its external anatomy; hence we suggest the new combination. The
holotype
, originally from MNHN (
Poppius 1915a
), is now preserved in MZHF.