Amapacylapus Carvalho & Fontes, 1968

Wolski, Andrzej, 2017, Taxonomic review of the plant bug genera Amapacylapus and Cylapus with descriptions of two new species and a key to the genera of Cylapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 (2), pp. 399-455 : 409

Key to species of Amapacylapus Carvalho & Fontes, 1968

1. Corium with regular yellow pattern ( Figs 1–5, 23–26 ); membrane fuscous with two distinct yellow patches: one larger, bordering or situated close to apical part of major cell and other contiguous with apex of cuneus ( Figs 1–5, 23–26 ). ...................................... 2

– Corium entirely dark castaneous or black; membrane uniformly fuscous ( CARVALHO 1986). ............................................................................................................................ 4

2. Yellow pattern on hemelytron fully developed, with two patches on inner, apical angle of endocorium (p6 and p7) ( Figs 24 , arrows). ................ A. englemani Carvalho, 1991

– Endocorium with only one yellow patch on inner, apical angle of endocorium (p6) ( Figs 23, 25, 26 , arrows). ........................................................................................................ 3

3. Pronotum dark brown with narrow yellow stripe along posterior margin ( Fig. 5). ......... ......................................................................................................... A. unicolor sp. nov.

– Pronotum dark brown with large yellow patches laterally and medially ( Figs 1, 2). ...... ................................................................... A. amapariensis ( Carvalho & Fontes, 1968)

4. Hemelytron entirely black. .......................................... A. rondoniensis Carvalho, 1986

– Hemelytron dark castaneous with costal fracture yellow. ................................................ ......................................................................................... A. nigricapitis Carvalho, 1986

Figures

Figs 23–26. Hemelytron of the species of Amapacylapus Carvalho & Fontes, 1968. 23 – A. amapariensis Carvalho & Fontes, 1968; 24 – A. englemani Carvalho, 1991; 25 – A. labeculosus Bergroth, 1922; 26 – A. unicolor sp. nov. Abbreviations: p1–p7 = yellowish patches; pc = posterior carina; per = peritreme.