Gollneria quadrituberculatum ( Poppius, 1912 )

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 : 168-169

9.1. Gollneria quadrituberculatum ( Poppius, 1912)

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Megacoelum quadrituberculatum Poppius, 1912: 38 (as new species); Carvalho 1959: 162 (catalog). Adelphocoris callosus Lindberg, 1958: 88 –90 (as new species) (the synonymy by Linnavuori 1975: 24; lapsus in synonymy in Schuh 1995: 687, corrected in Kerzhner & Schuh 2001: 291). Megacoelum quadrituberculatum: Linnavuori 1975: 24 –25 (diagnosis). Megacoelum quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975: 25 (as new subspecies) (treated as junior synonym of G. quadrituberculatum by Schuh 2002–2013). Gollneria quadrituberculatum Carvalho 1983: 383 (new combination, diagnosis); Schuh 1995: 772 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Material examined. Type specimens: Holotype Ƌ by monotypy (of Megacoelum quadrituberculatum Poppius, 1912 ): KENYA (as “British Ost-Afrika”): Kibwezi, xii.1907, Scheffler leg. (FC n° 27) ( ZMHU). Holotype ♀ (?) by monotypy (of Megacoelum quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975 ): SOUTH SUDAN: Eastern Equatoria: Kapoeta, 26–27.iii.1963, leg. Linnavuori R. (FC n° 5299) ( AMNH).

Additional material: 1Ƌ: CAMEROON: North of Goum, 40 km south of Lac Chad, 11.viii.1963, J. Péricart leg. ( MNHN) [with Linnavuori’s manuscript identification label, probably the specimen from Cameroon cited by Linnavuori 1975: 24].

Diagnosis. Body yellowish with red brown patches, stripes and spots; head yellowish with red brown stripes on frons, eyes reddish; first antennal segment yellow, second antennal segment slightly orange in apical third, yellowish basally, third and fourth segments reddish-brown (segments darker in the subspecies G. q. quadrituberculatum ); pronotum with anterior collar yellowish, disk yellowish, with a pair of red brown patches behind the callosities; mesoscutum covered; scutellum yellowish with a pair of sub-median red drop-like spots; legs yellowish tinged with red; tibial spines dark red-brown; hemelytra smooth, with reduced, sparse, and shallow punctation, clavus and corium yellowish brown (dark brown in G. q. quadrituberculatum ), tip of cuneus reddish, membrane brownish.

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 35. Habitus of ACMc members: 28. Gollneria quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975, female holotype from South Sudan (AMNH). 29. Megacoelum formosanum Poppius, 1915, male lectotype from Taiwan (MZHF). 30. Megacoelum infusum Herrich-Schaeffer, 1837, a specimen from France (MNHN). 31. Megacoelum salsolae Linnavuori, 1986, male holotype from Saudi Arabia (AMNH). 32. Megacoelum zollikoferiae (Lindberg, 1953), male paratype from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (MNHN). 33. “ Megacoelum ” esmedorae Ballard, 1927, female holotype from Coimbatore, India, a species remaining to reclassify, probably in a genus still to describe (NHM). 34. Neomegacoelum vitreum (Kerzhner, 1988), a male from Japan (USNM). 35. Neopeplus trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003, female paratype from Australia (SAM). Scales = 1 mm.