Fulvius borgesi, Frédéric, Chérot, Jordi, Ribes & Jacek, Gorczyca, 2006

Frédéric, Chérot, Jordi, Ribes & Jacek, Gorczyca, 2006, A new Fulvius species from Azores Islands (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), Zootaxa 1153, pp. 63-68 : 64-66

Fulvius borgesi n. sp.

Holotype (ɗ): AÇORES, Terceira, site S3B, Porto Judeu, São Sebastião (42 m.), UTM 490966­4278171, 01­08.x.2003, P.A.V. Borges (Arruda Furtado collection, Universidade dos Açores, Azores Island). Paratypes: 5ɗɗ, 1Ψ: AÇORES, Terceira, Porto Judeu, São Sebastião (42 m.), UTM 490966 ­ 4278171, 01­08.x.2003, P.A.V. B o rg e s (Arruda Furtado collection, Universidade dos Açores, Azores Island; Silesian University, Bankowa, Poland; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain, Museu de Zoologia, Barcelona, Spain and Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium); 1Ψ: AÇORES, Terceira, São Sebastião, Porto­Novo, 01­08.x.2003 (Coll. J. Ribes). All in banana plantation at low altitude («em pomares»; Borges pers. com.).

Description

Male (paratype): total length: 3.36; total width: 1.16; head length (dorsal view): 0.55; head width across eyes: 0.55; vertex width: 0.22; length of antennal segments: I: 0.57; II: 1.17; III: 0.57; IV: 0.63; length of pronotum: 0.46; posterior width of pronotum: 1.10; length of (left) cuneus: 0.55; width of (left) cuneus: 0.35.

Female (paratype): total length: 3.26 (membrane damaged); total width: 1.33; head length (dorsal view): 1.02; head width across eyes: 0.53; vertex width: 0.26; length of antennal segments: I: 0.43; II: 0.96; III: ­ (damaged); IV: ­ (damaged); length of pronotum: 0.46; posterior width of pronotum: 1.14; length of (left) cuneus: 0.54; width of (left) cuneus: 0.31.

General body color black with whitish areas. Head black, eyes dark brown, their inner margin red brown. First antennal segment brown, second antennal segment black with a brown ring at base, distally clear yellow, third and fourth segments black to dark brown. Rostrum yellow brown, reaching middle of abdomen. Pronotum and scutellum black, with short, narrow, suberect white pilosity, the scutellum with a medial carina. Mesoscutum uncovered, with lateral fossae. Hemelytra black to dark brown, with short, narrow, suberect, white pilosity. Median parts of exocoria and coria, basal part of cunei, and apical part of clavii yellow to whitish. Membrane dark brown. Procoxae red brown. Meso­ and metacoxae dark brown basally, yellow apically. Femora brown. Tibiae basally brown, distally yellow, with numerous spinulae. Tarsi yellow.

Genital structures. Left paramere stout, curved; base and body (Ba and Cp, Figs 1–2 ) wide; primary apophysis (Ap1) pointed; ventral surface with a large secondary lobe (La2) bearing numerous setae. Right paramere ( Fig. 3 ) very small, apex of primary apophysis blunted. Endophallus ( Figs 5–6 ) complex, with a sclerotized field on the lobe surface ( Fig. 5 , S1) and two sclerites (S2 and S3, Fig. 5 ), one pointed, above the secondary gonopore and apex of ductus seminis (G2 and Ds respectively) and the second triangular, more posterior. Theca ( Fig. 5 , Th. and Fig 6 ) very large. Seminal depository large, lacking glandular circumference, its connection to median part of vagina wide. Parieto­vaginal rings ( Fig. 7 , Ap) relatively small, narrow, obviously separated, their anterior margins convex, their posterior margins concave, their outer margins acute, devoid of any prolongation, and their inner margins (ImAp) convex. No medial sclerites. Dorso­labiate plate (DLP) large, anterior and posterior margins slightly thickened. Ventro­labiate plate absent. Dorsal wall very slightly sclerotized. Vaginal projection sensu Rosenzweig (1997) and MiRs sensu Chérot (2002) absent. Vermiform gland indistinct. Lateral oviducts large, not conflating in a common dorsal sac, partially hiding in dorsal view the parieto­vaginal rings. Posterior wall membranous.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Fulvius borgesi n. sp. Female genital structures: left parieto­vaginal ring in dorsal view (Ap: parieto­vaginal ring, DLP: dorso­labiate plate, SS: seminal sac), scale = 0.05 mm.

FIGURES 1 – 6. Fulvius borgesi n. sp. Male genital structures. 1 – 2, left paramere, respectively in ventral and latero­dorsal views (Ap 1: primary apophysis, Ba: base, Cp: body, La 2: lobe of ventral surface), scales = 0.1 mm.; 3, right paramere in ventral view, scale = 0.05 mm.; 4, pygophore in dorsal view, scale = 0.1 mm.; 5, endophallus in latero­dorsal view (Ds: ductus seminis, G 2: secondary gonopore, S 1: sclerotized area, S 2: sclerites 2, S 3: sclerites 3, Th: theca), scale = 0.1 mm.; 6, theca in latero­ventral view, scale = 0.05 mm.