Waterfall-inhabiting Naucoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern India and Sri Lanka: Pogonocaudina Sites and Zettel, n. gen., and a review of Diaphorocoris with descriptions of two new species
Author
Sites, Robert W.
Author
Zettel, Herbert
text
Zootaxa
2011
2760
1
17
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.203245
8484b438-d520-4985-bccf-f914612a5798
1175-5326
203245
Diaphorocoris dubreuili
Montandon
Fig. 12
Diaphorocoris dubreuili
Montandon, 1908
: 300
.
Diagnosis.
Size alone will distinguish
D. dubreuili
from its three known congeners. This species (
9.36 mm
: male) is the largest of the described species of
Diaphorocoris
. The ventral surface is generally a medium brown color. The lateral margin of the embolium has a row of short, brown, peg-like spines, and the brown coloration anterior to the distal mesal incursion of the yellowish-white marginal coloration extends close to the lateral margin (
Fig. 12
), similar to the embolar condition of
D. arunachalami
. The metaxyphus is longer than wide.
Discussion.
Montandon (1908)
reported that the
type
specimen would remain in his collection and named this species after the collector, J. Dubreuil. The
type
locality is Trichonopoly in Tamil Nadu state. No information concerning its biology or ecology has been published. We have observed specimens on the vertical rock faces of small waterfalls and seeps in Kerala and Tamil Nadu states.
Material examined.
INDIA
: Kerala St.,
N 0 8
o 44.283
, E 77
o 0 7.208
, elev
463 m
,
15 March 2010
, roadside seep & pools above, M. Arunachalam, S. Sundar, M. Muralidharan, C. Selvakumar (
1 male
); Tamil Nadu St., Arasi Parai, stream above Suruli Falls, Vaigai watershed,
N 0 9
o 38.878
, E 77
o 19.326
, elev
1299 m
,
13 March 2010
, rocky stream with gravel & veg, M. Arunachalam (
1 female
).