Taxonomic review for the Asian taxa of plant bug tribe Hallodapini, with emphasis on stridulatory mechanism (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)
Author
Yasunaga, Tomohide
Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA;
Author
Tamada, Yui
Nagasaki West High School, Biology Club, Takenokubo 12 -
Author
Hinami, Haruka
Nagasaki West High School, Biology Club, Takenokubo 12 -
Author
Miyazaki, Ayana
Nagasaki West High School, Biology Club, Takenokubo 12 -
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Visiting Researcher, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Environmental Health, K. W. Neatby: Bldg # 20, 960 Carling Avenue, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa Ontario, Canada K
Author
Nagashima, Tetsuya
Nagasaki West High School, Biology Club, Takenokubo 12 -
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2019
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2019-02-26
59
1
71
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2019-0007
journal article
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10.2478/aemnp-2019-0007
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Hallodapus susurratus
Yasunaga & Duwal
sp. nov.
(
Figs 36–39
,
125–130
,
181–185
)
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
: ♁,
THAILAND
:
CHIANG
MAI:
Chom Thong
, 18˚25′N, 98˚40′E,
24–27 Apr 1991
,
J. Horák
(
NMPC
) (
AMNH
_
PBI 00380644
)
.
PARATYPES
:
THAILAND
:
CHIANG
MAI:
Same locality as for
holotype
,
23–27 Apr 1991
, S. Bílý (
NMPC
).
Differential diagnosis.
Recognized by its small size (<
2.5 mm
) comparable with
H. centrimaculatus
; widely darkened dorsum; notched inner margin of anterior white macula on corium (
Fig. 36
); rather granulate, rounded MFP (
Fig. 127
); enlarged, stout left paramere (
Fig. 183
); presence of distinct spine and dorsal knob on pygophore (
Figs 130
,
181
); slender phallotheca (
Fig. 184
); and rather sigmoid endosoma (
Fig. 185
). This new species is most similar to or conspecific with a New Guinean species identified by
SCHUH (1984)
as
H.
‘near’
pseudosimilis
(
Schuh, 1974
)
originally described from
South Africa
(
SCHUH 1974
,
Fig. 28
); however,
H. pseudosimilis
is obviously larger in size (total length
3.2 mm
and maximum width across hemelytra
1.04 mm
), and the color pattern (e.g. broadly pale corium and pale basal 1/3 of metafemur) significantly differs from that exhibited by
H. susurratus
(cf.
SCHUH 1974
).
Description.
Male
(
holotype
). Macropterous; body generally coffee brown, small-sized (<
2.5 mm
), nearly parallelsided (
Fig. 36
); dorsal surface matte, with sparsely distributed, woolly, reclining setae and dark, simple, erect setae. Head weakly shining. Antenna creamy white, partly tinged with red; segment I with pale brown basal half and reddish extreme apex. Labium reddish brown, long, exceeding apex of metacoxa, reaching apical margin of abdominal sternum VII; segment III and base of IV pale brown. Pronotum weakly shining, almost trapezoidal (
Fig. 125
); pleura shiny dark reddish brown; scent efferent system yellowish brown, with ostiolar peritreme not produced (
Fig. 128
). Hemelytron with two pairs of white maculae as in
Fig. 36
(anterior pair of maculae larger, separated from each other and notched inward); FWS as in
Fig. 126
; membrane pale smoky brown, with slightly darkened veins. All coxae and trochanters yellowish brown, except for basal part of each coxa more or less obscure; all femora reddish or chocolate brown, with pale extreme apices; MFP rather granulate, with each plectrum rounded (
Fig. 127
); tibiae creamy white; parempodia setiform, long (
Fig. 129
). Abdomen wholly reddish dark brown, shining. Male genitalia (
Figs 180–185
): Pygophore with a distinct pygophoral spine and a dorsal knob-like protuberance (
Figs 130
,
181
); left paramere enlarged, stout (
Fig. 183
); right paramere tiny (
Fig. 182
); phallotheca slender (
Fig. 184
); endosoma slender, sigmoid, tapered apically, without noticeable process or branch (
Fig. 185
).
Measurements.
Male (
holotype
, mm): Total length of body 2.32–2.45; head width including eyes 0.45–0.47; vertex width 0.18–0.19; lengths of antennal segments I– IV 0.24–0.25, 0.75–0.76, 0.54–0.57,?; total labial length 1.05–1.17; basal width of pronotum 0.69–0.74; maximum width across hemelytron 0.72–0.75; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 0.90, 1.36–1.37,?.
Female
.
Unknown.
Etymology.
From Latin,
susurratus
[= muttering, whispering], referring to the small size and rather granulate metafemoral plectrum of this new species; adjective.
Biology.
Unknown; two available specimens were collected at montane zone of northern
Thailand
.
Distribution.
Thailand
(this paper).