Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905

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 : 167-168

7.3. Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905

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Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905b: 3 (as new species); Carvalho 1959: 78 (catalog); Schuh 1995: 748 (catalog); Cassis & Gross 1995: 167 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Creontiades vitticollis Poppius, 1915a: 19 (as new species) (n. syn.); Carvalho 1959: 78 (catalog); Schuh 1995: 748 (catalog); Cassis & Gross 1995: 167 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Material examined. Type specimens: holotype ♀ of C. vittipennis Reuter, 1905 (status of specimen according to Cassis & Gross, 1995: 167): AUSTRALIA: “ Australia Borealis” (no locality given), Thorey leg. ( NHRS). Holotype ♀ by monotypy of C. vitticollis Poppius, 1915 : AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Sydney, 04.x.1900, Biró leg., type 10049 ( MZHF) (fourth segment of right antenna missing).

Diagnosis. Body covered with fine pubescence. Labium slightly exceeding posterior coxae, first segment much thicker than other segments. Labrum extending to slightly over 1/2 length of first labial segment. Legs with fore and mid tibiae only slightly longer than their respective femora, hind tibia longer than femora by about 1/4 length. Hemelytra exceeding abdomen by about 1/4 length. Generally stramineous pale yellow; distal areas of antennal segments 2-4 broadly lightly infuscate; broad median posterior area of pronotum, broad median elongate area of scutellum, also thoracic pleura, commissural margins of clavus fuscous; most of membrane lightly fuscous; inner 2/3 area of hemelytra very lightly irregular and inconspicuously fuscous; femora yellow and lightly infuscate; tibia yellow with red patches, tibial spines light brown. In holotype the proximal half of femora slightly paler than the distal half.

Discussion. On the basis of external anatomy, we suggest the new subjective synonymy Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905b (valid name) = Creontiades vitticollis Poppius, 1915 (new junior subjective synonym).

By their habitus, the analysed specimens conform partially to our diagnosis of the genus Creontiades but are relatively pilose for this genus.

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 22. Habitus of ACMc members: 15. Chimsunchartella schwartzi Chérot & Pauwels, 2000, male holotype from Australia (MNHN). 16. Creontiades coloripes Hsiao & Meng, 1963, a male from Japan (USNM). 17. Creontiades debilis Va n Duzee, 1915, a male from North Bimini Island, Bahamas (AMNH). 18. Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911, a non-type female from New Caledonia (MNHN). 19. Creontiades rubrinervis (Stål, 1862), a male from Argentina (coll. Carpintero). 20. Creontiades sumatrensis Poppius, 1915, male syntype from Indonesia (MZHF). 21. Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905, female holotype of C. vitticollis Poppius, 1915 (new junior synonym) from Australia (MZHF). 22. Galapagomiris longirostris Carvalho in Carvalho & Gagné, 1968, a male from Galapagos archipelago (ISNB). Scales = 1 mm.