Trichocephalocapsus immaculatus Schuh, 1984

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361), pp. 1-159 : 147-148

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/361.1

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scientific name

Trichocephalocapsus immaculatus Schuh
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Trichocephalocapsus immaculatus Schuh View in CoL Figure 41 View Figure 41

Trichocephalocapsus immaculatus Schuh, 1984: 244 View in CoL , figs. 785, 787 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by yellow-white transverse fascia, unicolorous cuneus, completely dark tibiae, and more strongly elevat- ed posterior lobe of pronotum.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: We did not reexamine the holotype of this species, but the original description and illustrations from Schuh (1984) and the examination of one paratype indicate that it is distinct from T. albisignatus . Two recently collected female specimens from Papua New Guinea were identified as belonging to this species.

HOLOTYPE: INDONESIA: Irian Jaya: Cyclops Mountains, Ifar , 300 m, June 21, 1959, T.C. Maa. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: INDONESIA: Irian Jaya: Cyclops Mountains, Ifar, 2.6 ° S 140.61 ° E, 300 m, 21 Jun 1959, T.C. Maa,

paratype, 18 (00318866) ( BPBM). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province: Baiteta , 5.017 ° S 145.75 ° E, 03 Jul 1996, O. Missa, 1♀ (00302078) ( ISNB) GoogleMaps ; 24 Jul 1996, O. Missa, 1♀ (00302079) ( ISNB) .

Waterhouseana Carvalho Plate View in CoL 7, Figures 42–43 View Figure 42 View Figure 43 Waterhouseana Carvalho, 1973: 4 View in CoL (n. gen., descr., disc.); Schuh, 1984: 223 (diag.)

TYPE SPECIES: Waterhouseana illustris Carvalho, 1973 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by wide and flat face with gena and gula covered with dense black setae, medially constricted pronotum of hourglass shape in dorsal view, posterior pronotal lobe swollen, convex in lateral view, and completely obscuring mesoscutum in dorsal view, flat pronotal collar, punctate flat hemelytron with a strong medial constriction, lateral posterior margins of hemelytron expanded into a lobelike process anterior and dorsal to cuneal fracture, R+M vein terminating at about midpoint of hemelytron, lateral posterior margin of corium with transparent area, petiolate abdomen with segment 2 longer than wide and paler than remainder of abdomen, dorsal spinelike process on pygophore, and laterally compressed metatibia.

Female: Similar to male but smaller in size, with a wider vertex, anterior margin of eyes continuous with angle of vertex, hemelytra shorter, and antennal segment 2 shorter and more clublike than in male.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: This genus is one of the most bizarre members of the Leucophoropterini and the easiest to identify due to the characteristics of the head and the pronotum. Previously this genus was only known from type species, W. illustris ; however, recent collecting efforts in Papua New Guinea have uncovered a new species, W. delicata , smaller in size than W. illustris and lacking the patch of dark brown setae on the hemelytron posterior to the apex of the clavus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Trichocephalocapsus

Loc

Trichocephalocapsus immaculatus Schuh

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T. 2011
2011
Loc

Trichocephalocapsus immaculatus

Schuh, R. T. 1984: 244
1984
Loc

Waterhouseana

Schuh, R. T. 1984: 223
Carvalho, J. C. M. 1973: 4
1973
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