Inoma kalbarri, Cassis & Symonds, 2008

Cassis, Gerasimos & Symonds, Celia, 2008, Systematics, biogeography and host associations of the lace bug genus Inoma (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (2), pp. 433-484 : 452-460

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5341505
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387BA-DC26-FF8E-BF81-FB4E6BE4FCFD
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Inoma kalbarri
status	sp. nov.

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Inoma kalbarri sp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Kalbarri National Park,Z-Bend Road, 27.64166°S 114.4569°E, 450 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, ex. Dicrastylis fulva Harv. ( Lamiaceae ; det. WA Herbarium PERTH 05120500) ( AMNH _PBI 00013655) ( AM).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Kalbarri National Park,Z-Bend Road, 27.64166°S 114.4569°E, 450 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis,ex. Dicrastylis fulva Harv. ( Lamiaceae , det.WA Herbarium PERTH 05120500), 2 JJ ( AMNH _PBI 00013129, AMNH _PBI 00013130), 6 ♀♀ ( AMNH _PBI 00013124- AMNH _PBI 00013128, AMNH _PBI 00013654) ( AM); 56.6 km W of Yalgoo, 28.42397°S 116.1233°E, 600 m, 27 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, ex. Dicrastylis fulva forma fulva Harv. ( Lamiaceae ,det.WA Herbarium PERTH 05120632), 1J ( AMNH _PBI 00013181) ( AM); Moorine Rock, 11.7 km N of Great Eastern Hwy on Noongar Road, 31.22843°S 118.979°E, 345 m, 04 Dec 1997, Schuh, Cassis, Brailovsky, Asquith, ex. Pityrodia teckiana (F. Muell.) E. Pritz. ( Lamiaceae , det. WA Herbarium, PERTH 05056004), 6 JJ ( AMNH _PBI 00179499- AMNH _PBI 00179504), 7 ♀♀ ( AMNH _PBI 00179746- AMNH _PBI 00179752) ( AMNH).

Diagnosis. Inoma kalbarri sp. nov. is recognised by the following combination of characters: medium size ( Fig. 1 View Fig ); head and pronotum dark, with hemelytra more light brown with smaller dark brown patches ( Fig. 1 View Fig ); body covered with elongate, curly, silvery woolly setae ( Figs. 1 View Fig , 7 View Fig ); elongate, semi-erect, hair-like setae on abdominal venter ( Fig. 7f View Fig ); pronotum and hemelytra with elongate major setiferous tubercles, terminal seta as long as tuberculate base ( Figs. 1 View Fig , 7 View Fig d-e); cephalic spines elongate, occipital spines arcuate laterally ( Fig. 7a View Fig ); paranota upturned ( Figs. 1 View Fig , 7d View Fig ); paranotal and costal area uniseriate ( Figs. 1 View Fig , 7 View Fig d-e); hemelytra with large areolae in costal and sutural areas and smaller areolae in subcostal and discoidal areas ( Figs. 1 View Fig , 7 View Fig d-e).

Description of adult. Moderate size, macropterous (males 2.38-2.56, females 2.58-2.77) and brachypterous (only one female examined) morphs ( Fig. 1 View Fig ).

COLOURATION. Head: black; spines stramineous; bucculae, basal half medium brown, distal half paler orange-brown. Labium: dark brown. Antennae: mostly light brown; AIV dark brown, almost black. Pronotum: dark brown to black anterior half to humeral angle, posterior 1/2 mostly stramineous, orange-brown around median carina; collum, paranota and carinae stramineous. Thoracic pleura: dark brown with paler margins. Thoracic sterna: sternal carinae cream. Legs: mostly orange-brown; basal third to two-thirds of femora darker red-brown; tarsi dark brown to black. Hemelytra: mostly orange-brown with stramineous and dark-brown patches. Abdomen: venter uniformly dark brown, almost black.

VESTITURE. Woolly setae present on head, dorsum and thoracic pleura, moderately dense distribution, setae elongate, silvery, curly and fine ( Fig. 7 View Fig a-e). Major setiferous tubercles on pronotum and hemelytra elongate, terminal seta as long as or longer than tuberculate base ( Fig. 7 View Fig a-e). Head: minor setiferous tubercles present, covering entire cephalic spines ( Fig. 7a View Fig ). Antennae: minor setiferous tubercles present on AIII, terminal seta elongate with tapered apex. Pronotum: major setiferous tubercles in two opposing rows on posterior half of paranota, and in a single straight row on anterior half of paranota and entire carinae ( Fig. 7d View Fig ); terminal setae elongate on tubercles on anterior half of pronotum. Thoracic pleura and sterna: woolly setae as on dorsum; posteroventral margin of proepimeron without setiferous tubercles; sternal carinae with single row of hair-like setae. Legs: femora and tibiae with elongate bristle-like setae ( Fig. 7b View Fig ). Hemelytra: major setiferous tubercles in two opposing rows along costal margin, terminating before forewing apex ( Fig. 7e View Fig ). Abdomen: venter with moderately dense distribution of elongate, silvery, semi-erect, hair-like setae ( Fig. 7f View Fig ).

STRUCTURE. Head ( Fig. 7 View Fig a-c): cephalic spines moderately elongate ( Fig. 7a View Fig ); frontal spines converging slightly or parallel ( Fig. 7a View Fig ); medial spine straight ( Fig. 7a View Fig ); occipital spines weakly curved laterally ( Fig. 7a View Fig ). Labium: elongate, extending to abdomen. Pronotum: disc slightly tumid; collum slightly enlarged, paranota uniseriate, narrow, upturned; carinae areolae small ( Fig. 7d View Fig ). Hemelytra: Macropters ( Fig. 1 View Fig , 7e View Fig ): costal area mostly uniseriate, biseriate distally where hypocostal vein bends near junction of R+M and cubitus veins (see Fig. 7e View Fig ), areolae large; subcostal and discoidal areas with smaller areolae; sutural area with large areolae; hypocosta narrow. Brachypter: reduced sutural and costal areas; acutely rounded posteriorly; convex lateral margin; sutural area with small areolae; all other characters as above. Male genitalia: parameres with rounded sensory lobe, sensory lobe with elongate setae, inner margin of parameres with short setae, dorsal surface of parameres with a few minute setae on sensory lobe, near paramere base; distal U-shaped endosomal sclerite with shallow and rounded cleft, short basal branches, and a sinuate distal margin; without paired basal endosomal sclerites; medial portion of phallotheca divided dorsally ( Fig. 10g View Fig ). Female genitalia: subgenital plate large, subtriangular ( Fig. 7f View Fig ).

MEASUREMENTS. Ranges of 3 JJ and 6 ♀♀ given in Table 1.

Differential diagnosis. Inoma kalbarri sp. nov. is similar to I. fuscata sp. nov., and can be differentiated from it by the following characters: 1) shorter body length; 2) lighter hemelytra; 3) finer, slightly curlier, and longer woolly setae, more densely distributed; 4) shorter cephalic spines; 5) longer hair-like setae on abdominal venter; 6) uniseriate paranotal and costal areas; 7) incomplete margin of setiferous tubercles on the hemelytra (ending before forewing apex); 8) more rounded hemelytra; and, 9) hemelytral sutural area broader. Inoma kalbarri sp. nov. is similar to I. silveirae sp. nov. in having a flatter body (lateral view), and uniseriate upturned paranotal and costal areas. Inoma kalbarri sp. nov. is also distinguished from I. silveirae sp. nov. by the broader hemelytra, as well as being significantly larger and also darker, especially on the pronotum.

Etymology. This species is named after the type locality. Noun in apposition.

Biology. Inoma kalbarri sp. nov. is known from the two labiate species, Dicrastylis fulva (Lamiaceae) ( Fig. 12e View Fig ) and Pityrodia teckiana (Lamiaceae) .

Distribution. Inoma kalbarri sp. nov. is known from three localities in southwest Western Australia, one on the coast in the Kalbarri National Park, a second further inland near Yalgoo, and the third even further inland and further south at Moorine Rock ( Fig. 13b).