Guisardus Distant, 1904

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, Zootaxa 4378 (3), pp. 301-322 : 302-303

Guisardus Distant, 1904

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Guisardus Distant, 1904c: 436 (as new genus) (type species by monotypy: Guisardus pellucidus Distant, 1904c from Tenasserim, Myanmar). Guisardus: Carvalho & Gross 1979: 444 – 451 (redescription, key, new species); Schuh 1995: 676 (catalogue); Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 203 (catalogue); Zheng et al. 2005:45 – 47 (redescription, in fauna); Schuh 2002 – 2013 (online catalogue); Chérot et al. 2017: 83 –84 (species from Papua New Guinea).

Diagnosis. Elongate, middle-sized (total length between 5.3 and 7.3 mm), dorsally glabrous bugs, with a wide head, about three time wider than long in dorsal view. Eyes prominent, substylate, obviously separated from pronotal collar. First antennal segment incrassate sub-basally and apically, narrowed between both extremities.

Pronotal collar long, obviously longer than second antennal segment maximal width. Pronotal callosities wide, medially almost contiguous, reaching pronotal lateral margins. Humeral angles globose, laterally rounded, not produced. Pronotal disk deeply striate transversally. Mesoscutum uncovered. Lateral sides of scutellum crenelated. Clavus opaque, dark, sometimes black. A line of deep and wide points present along clavo-corial but not along embolio-corial suture (or the punctation reduced). Cuneus and corium including embolium transparent or at least translucent.

Distribution. Fiji, India (one species), Indonesia (Java), Malaysia, Myanmar, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vietnam.

One species in India.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Guisardus pellucidus Distant, 1904c. 1. Habitus in dorsal view. 2. Endophallus. 3. Left paramere. 4. Right paramere (Indian specimen cited in the text).