Mycetocylapus major Poppius

Wolski, Andrzej, 2010, Revision of the Rhinocylapus - group (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), Zootaxa 2653, pp. 1-36 : 8-9

Mycetocylapus major Poppius

( Figs. 2 F, 5A, B)

Mycetocylapus major Poppius, 1914: 126

Mycetocylapus major: Bergroth 1920: 73 ; Carvalho 1952: 49, 1956: 16, 1957: 32, Schuh 1995: 31; Gorczyca 2006: 53, Fig. 14

Diagnosis. Most similar to M. minor , but can be easily distinguished by a larger body and by having two distinct stripes on the scutellum laterally ( Fig. 2 F).

Redescription. Female. COLORATION ( Fig. 2 F). Dorsal surface yellowish or dull yellowish, tinged with red or brown. Head. Yellowish, slightly darkened at maxillary plate and gula; antennal segment I yellowish, darkened, red to brownish red apically; segment II yellow or dull yellowish, darkened, brownish to dark brownish apically; segments III and IV brownish yellow; rostrum yellowish; labial segment IV slightly darkened. Thorax. Pronotum. Varying from yellowish with two indistinct brownish red stripes each running along lateral margin to pale fuscous slightly tinged with dull yellow, particularly medially. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Ranging from brown to dark brown; scutellum with two, relatively broad, yellow stripes laterally. Hemelytron. Varying from yellowish with relatively broad, reddish patch apically to dark brown with transverse, relatively broad yellow stripe slightly beneath base; cuneus entirely red to brownish red; membrane pale grayish. Legs. Yellowish. STRUCTURE AND VESTITURE (fig. 2F, 5A, B). Head. Rostrum reaching abdomen medially. Thorax. Pronotum. Anterior lobe not distinctly narrowed; posterior lobe smooth. Hemelytron. Shallowly and sparsely punctate.

Male. Unknown.

Measurements. Ψ: body length 3.5, width 1.6; Head. Length 0.44–0,47, width 0.82–0.84, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.17–0.18. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.56–0.62, II 1.175, III + IV 3.5. Labium. Length of segment I 0.55, II 0.57, III + IV 0.96. Pronotum. Length 0.57, width of anterior margin 0.57, length of lateral margin 0.59, width posterior margin 1.16–1.17.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Philippines (Luzon).

Type material. Not examined.

Material examined. 1 Ψ: Los Banos, P.I., Baker ( USNM); 1 Ψ: Philippinen: Luzon, Laguna, Mt. Makiling, 13.–18. 11. 1992, leg. H. Zettel (1) ( NHMW).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Dorsal habitus color photographs of the Rhinocylapus - group: A – B, Proamblia cunealis: A—paralectotype (Ψ), B—lectotype; C – D Proamblia elongata: C—holotype, D— ♂: Sandakan Borneo; E— Mycetocylapus minor (♂: Los Banos, P. I.); F— Mycetocylapus major (Ψ: Los Banos, P. I.); G— Mycetocylapus pacificus (holotype); H – I, Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides: H—lectotype, I— ♂: Formosa; Fuhosho; J— Rhinocylapus acutangulus (holotype); K— Rh. redeii (holotype); L— Rh. scutatus (♂: paratype); M— Rh. simplicicollis (holotype); N— Rh. sumatranus (holotype); O – P, Rh. pallescens: O—Ψ: paratype, P—holotype; Q-R, Rh. vittatus: Q—holotype, R— ♂: Sandakan, Borneo.

FIGURE 14. Male genitalia of Rhinocylapus sumatranus: A, endosoma, B, left paramere, left lateral view; C, left paramere, dorsal view; D, right paramere. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.