Scoloposcelis parallela (Motschulsky, 1863)

Yamada, Kazutaka, 2014, A new minute pirate bug of the genus Scoloposcelis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from West Malaysia, Zootaxa 3847 (2), pp. 292-296 : 295-296

Scoloposcelis parallela (Motschulsky, 1863)

( Figs. 5–8 )

See Péricart (1996) for synonymic list and references.

Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES: 1♀, Penascosa, Palawan Is., 15‒16. vii. 1977, M. Sato leg. (NSMT); 1♀, Sabang, N. of Mt. St. Paul, Palawan Is., 11‒13. vii. 1977, M. Sato leg. (NSMT); 1♀, Gasy, ca 200m, nr. Maitum, South Cotabato, Mindanao Is., 10. viii. 1985, Y. Nishikawa leg. (NSMT). TAIWAN: 2♂ (one in Figs. 5‒7 ), Koshun, Kuraru, 25. vii. 1941, A. Kira leg. (NIAES); 1♂ ( Fig. 8 ) 2♀, Antsun, 14. viii. 1941, H. Hasegawa leg. (NIAES); 1♂, Fenshueiling, 26. iii. 2004, T. Tsuru leg. (TKPM). The specimens in NIAES are attached with Isamu Hiura’s identification label.

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following combination of characters: antennae ( Fig. 5 ) generally fuscous, segment II as long as head width across eyes; posterior pronotal width ( Figs. 5, 7 ) about 1.5 times as wide as anterior width; hemelytra ( Fig. 5 ) generally dark brown, but basal half of endocorium and enbolium paler brown; pro- and metafemur spinose ventrally, but mesofemur without ventral spines; profemur with only four large ventral spines; uradenia ( Fig. 8 ) with a row of 45 macrotrichia anterior to the orifice.

Distribution. India ( Muraleedharan & Ananthakrishnan, 1978), Sri Lanka ( Distant, 1906), Indonesia ( Poppius, 1909), Philippines ( Poppius, 1909), China ( Bu & Zheng, 2001), Taiwan ( Poppius, 1914), Japan ( Yasunaga, 2001), Papua New Guinea ( Cassis & Gross, 1995), Australia ( Cassis & Gross, 1995), Micronesia (Caroline Is., Mariana Is. for Herring, 1967; Guam for Usinger, 1946),

Figures

FIGURES 1 ‒ 8. Scoloposcelis seidaii sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (1 ‒ 4) and S. parallela (Motschulsky, 1863), ♂ (5 ‒ 8). 1, 5, habitus, dorsal view; 2, 6, ditto, lateral view; 3, 7, head and pronotum, dorsal view; 4, 8, uradenia, ventral view. Scales: 1.0 mm for 1, 2, 5, 6; 0.5 mm for 3, 7; 0.2 mm for 4, 8.