Dashymenia remus (Distant)

Wolski, Andrzej & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2012, Plant bugs of the tribe Bothriomirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from the Oriental Region: descriptions of eight new species and keys to Oriental genera and species of Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, Dashymenia Poppius, and Dashymeniella Poppius, Zootaxa 3412, pp. 1-41 : 26

Dashymenia remus (Distant)

( Figures 64–65 )

Capsus remus Distant 1904a: 468 [sp. nov.]

Dashymenia remus: Poppius 1911: 360 [new combination]; Carvalho 1957: 27 [catalog]; Schuh 1995: 24 [catalog]; Gorczyca 2006: 12 [catalog]

Dasymenia remus: Bergroth 1920: 70 [unnecessary emendation]

Diagnosis. Dashymenia remus can be recognized by the following set of characters: body suboval; head including antenna dark brown; dorsum blackish with contrastingly orange patches on scutellum and corium apically.

Most similar to D. tenmalai in sharing an orange tinge on the scutellum and apically on the corium. D. remus can, however, be distinguished by the more ovoid body, the dark brown coloration of the head, and the blackish dorsal surface.

Redescription. Female. COLORATION. Dorsal surface blackish with orange areas on scutellum and hemelytron. Head. Dark brown; antennal segment I brown; segment II dark brown, paler, brown basally; segments III and IV pale brown; labium chestnut. Thorax. Pronotum. Entirely blackish. Scutellum. Blackish, with large, broad patch apically. Hemelytron. Blackish with distinct, relatively large orange, patch on corium apically; membrane dark gray. Thoracic pleura. Chestnut. Legs. Orange brown; coxae and femora orange; tibiae and tarsi brown. Abdomen. Chestnut. STRUCTURE AND VESTITURE ( Fig. 64 ). Body suboval; dorsum covered with dense setae and protruding setae. Head. Covered with pale, dense, protruding setae; antennal segment I almost cylindrical, weakly narrowed basally, covered with sparse, short setae; segment II weakly thickened toward apex, mixed with dense, dark, short setae and a few long, protruding bristlelike setae; segments III and IV thin, covered with long protruding, bristlelike setae. Thorax. Pronotum. Pronotal calli narrow, indistinct. Scutellum. Arched, inpunctate apically.

Male. Unknown.

Measurements. Holotype Ƥ: body length 5.0, width 2.52. Head. Length 0.50, width 1.48, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.34. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.70, II 1.50, III 1.0, IV 0.60. Labium obscured by glue and immeasurable. Pronotum. Length 1.26, width of anterior margin 0.90, length of lateral margin 1,0, width of posterior margin 2.12.

Distribution ( Fig. 65 ). Myanmar (Kayin State).

Type material. Holotype Ƥ: Carin Cheba, 900–1100 m., L. Fea, V. XII – 88; Distant Coll. 1911-383; Type. H. T. [round label with red]; remus Dist. [old, handwritten label] ( BMNH).

Figures

FIGURE 64. Dashymenia remus, holotype, dorsal habitus.

FIGURE 65. Distribution map of Dashymenia.