Hyalopeplinus Carvalho in Carvalho & Gross 1979

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, Zootaxa 4378 (3), pp. 301-322 : 306

Hyalopeplinus Carvalho in Carvalho & Gross 1979

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Hyalopeplinus Carvalho in Carvalho & Gross 1979: 451 – 463 (as new genus; key, new species) (Type species by original designation: Callicratides antennalis Distant, 1920 from Central New Caledonia). Hyalopeplinus: Schuh 1995: 676 – 677 (catalogue); Zheng et al. 2005: 47 – 48 (redescription, in fauna); Schuh 2002 – 2013 (online catalogue); Chérot et al. 2017: 85 (species from Papua New Guinea).

Diagnosis. Elongate-oval, relatively thick, middle-sized (total length between 4.7 and 6.2 mm), dorsally glabrous bugs, with a relatively wide head, about two time wider than long in dorsal view. Eyes prominent but never substylate, slightly removed from pronotal collar anterior margin or almost contiguous with it. First antennal segment thick, incrassate sub-basally but never narrowed between both extremities, frequently shorter than head width across eyes. Pronotal collar long, slightly longer than first antennal segment maximal width. Pronotal callosities wide, medially almost contiguous, reaching pronotal lateral margins. Humeral angles never globose, laterally pointed but not produced. Pronotal disk transversely deeply striate exclusively on dark areas (facies or spots). Mesoscutum uncovered. Scutellum deeply striate transversally exclusively on dark medial facie. Lateral sides of scutellum never crenelated. A line of deep and wide points present along clavo-corial but not along embolio-corial suture (or the punctation reduced). Clavus, endocorium and membrane transparent, embolium and cuneus opaque or translucent.

Distribution. Australia (North Queensland), China (Guangdong), Fiji, Indonesia (Sumatra), Laos, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Papua New Guinea, Philippines Islands, Raratonga Islands, Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.

One species in India.

Figures

FIGURES 5–8. Hyalopeplinus malayensis Carvalho in Carvalho & Gross, 1979. 5. Habitus in dorsal view. 6. Endophallus. 7. Left paramere.8. Right paramere (specimen from Bengalor cited in the text).