Bothriomiris testaceus Distant

Wolski, Andrzej & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2012, Plant bugs of the tribe Bothriomirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from the Oriental Region: descriptions of eight new species and keys to Oriental genera and species of Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, Dashymenia Poppius, and Dashymeniella Poppius, Zootaxa 3412, pp. 1-41 : 16-18

Bothriomiris testaceus Distant

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Bothriomiris testaceus Distant, 1904a: 470 [sp. nov.]

Bothriomiris testaceus: Bergroth 1910: 237, 1920: 70 ; Carvalho 1957: 27 [catalog], 1981: 2 [diag., type specimen]; Schuh, 1995: 20 [catalog]; Gorczyca 2006: 11 [catalog]

Diagnosis. Bothriomiris testaceus is distinct among other species of Bothriomiris by the smaller body (<5.50 mm), the reddish dorsum, and the rather narrow and weakly convex, rugose pronotal calli (Fig. 48).

Redescription. Female. COLORATION. Dorsum reddish. Head. Reddish; antenna and labium reddish. Thorax. Scutellum. Reddish, medially somewhat paler than remainder of scutellum. Hemelytron. Corium with indistinct, orange tinge apically, contiguous with cuneus; membrane dark gray, paler apically. Thoracic pleura. Reddish. Legs. Coxae reddish; remaining parts broken. STRUCTURE AND VESTITURE (Fig. 48). Body suboval; dorsum covered with dense, pale and dark, erect setae Head. Covered with dense, long, setae; antenna thin; segment I nearly cylindrical, weakly narrowed basally, covered with sparse setae; segment II thickened towards apex, covered with setae somewhat denser than vestiture of segment I; segments III and IV thin, covered with long, erect setae. Thorax. Pronotum. Calli moderately raised, narrow, rugose. Hemelytron. Corium inpunctate apically; membrane with major cell triangular. Thoracic pleura. Densely and deeply punctate; peritreme flattened and covered with microtrichae.

Measurements. Holotype Ƥ: body length 5.12, width 2.48. Head. Length 0.50, width 1.40, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.30. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.72, II 1.36, III 0.60, IV 1.0. Labium. Obscured by glue and immeasurable. Pronotum. Length 1.20, width of anterior margin 1.16, length of lateral margin 0.80, width posterior margin 2.0.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Myanmar.

Type material. Holotype Ƥ: Burma; Karennee ( BMNH).

Figures

FIGURE 19. Distribution map of the genus Bothriomiris.