Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B., 2016, A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 4126 (2), pp. 151-206 : 166-167

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Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911
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7.1. Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911 View in CoL

( Figures 18 View FIGURES 15 – 22 , 23–24 View FIGURES 23 – 24 )

Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911: 1 View in CoL –2 (as new species); Cheesman 1927: 157 (list; citation from Society Islands); Van Duzee 1937: 115 (note on distribution); Carvalho 1959: 75 (catalog); Schuh 1995: 745 (catalog), 200 2–2013 (online catalog).

Material examined. Type specimen: holotype ♀ by monotypy: NEW CALEDONIA: PROVINCE SUD: Nouméa ( MNHN) [the specimen bears the Poppius’ original handwritten identification label with the mention “ Creontiades insularis n. sp. ” and a second label with the mention “ type Reuter Poppius Collection Fleutiaux”].

Additional material. 2♀♀: NEW CALEDONIA: PROVINCE SUD: Nouméa ( MNHN). 1♀: NEW CALEDONIA: PROVINCE SUD: Nouméa, 1902, Dr Joly leg. ( MZHF).

Diagnosis. Head yellowish brown to orange tinged with red, eyes reddish-brown. Antennal segments yellow, apically slightly darker. Frons shagreened, with a small sulcus. Vertex devoid of posterior carina. Pronotal collar yellow, callosities and disk orange brown, reddish-brown apically. Femora yellow spotted with red, tibia and tarsi yellow, tibial spines light brown, claws black. Mesoscutum covered. Scutellum yellow to dark brown. Hemelytra light yellow, clavus with orange tinge. Cuneus yellow. Membrane whitish, veins yellowish, reddish apically. Hemelytral punctation very reduced, sparse, narrow and shallow, the pilosity short, recumbent, white. Parietovaginal rings ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 23 – 24 ) large, with large anterior, medial projection (Ap). Dorso labiate plate wide, with laterally reinforced margins. Posterior wall ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 23 – 24 ) classical, the A structures or interramal sclerites fused ( AS), elongate, the E-structures or interramal lobes membranous, tiny, dorsal process undivided, median process reduced.

Discussion. The female external morphology and genitalia of C. insularis —the latter described for the first time—perfectly conform to our generic diagnosis of Creontiades , hence we now confirm the generic placement of this species.

The two additional females preserved in the MNHN seem to have come from the same collection as the holotype, however they were not cited by Poppius (1911), hence have been excluded from the type-series.

NEW

University of Newcastle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Creontiades

Loc

Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B. 2016
2016
Loc

Creontiades insularis

Schuh 1995: 745
Carvalho 1959: 75
Van 1937: 115
Cheesman 1927: 157
Poppius 1911: 1
1911
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