Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides Poppius

Wolski, Andrzej, 2010, Revision of the Rhinocylapus - group (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), Zootaxa 2653, pp. 1-36 : 20-21

Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides Poppius comb. rest.

( Figs. 2 H–I, 3E, 4B, 9C–D, 10)

Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides Poppius 1915: 49

Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides: Bergroth 1920: 73 ; Carvalho 1952: 48, 1957: 23, 1980b: 656; Gaedike 1971: 151; Schuh 1995: 35; Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 9; Kerzhner & Schuh 2001: 269 Rhinocylapus velocipedoides: Gorczyca 2006: 73

Diagnosis. See diagnosis for the genus.

Redescription. Female. COLORATION ( Fig. 2 H). Dorsal surface dark castaneous with blackish areas. Head. Uniformly dark brown, nearly black, except for reddish anterior portion of buccula; antenna dark; antennal segment I uniformly dark brown; segment II dark brown, slightly paler than segment I; segments III and IV dark brown; rostrum brown, except for dull yellowish brown segment IV. Thorax. Pronotum. Dark brown, anterior lobe nearly black; posterior lobe with distinct, yellow T-shaped pattern medially, transverse patch of the pattern bordering calli posteriorly, longitudinal reaching posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Mesoscutum blackish; scutellum black. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron blackish; other pleura black; evaporative areas dull brownish. Hemelytron. Dark brown; claval commissure near apex of scutellum sometimes slightly tinged with yellow. Legs. Coxae dark brown to blackish; femora brown, dark brown basally; tibiae dull yellowish brown, faded with dark brown basally; tarsi dull yellowish. Abdomen. Varying from dark brown to black.

Male ( Fig. 2 I). Similar to female. Antennal segment II paler, yellow basally; yellowish pattern medially on pronotum rather triangular than T-shaped.

Measurements. Ψ/ɗ: body length 7.85–8.0/5.2–5.3, width 3.2–3.25/1.9. Head. Length 1.55/1.15–1.17, width 1.125–1.2/0.9, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.27–0.3/0.2. Antenna. Length of segment I 1.0–1.05/ 1.05, II 2.44–2.5/1.7, III (Ψ, broken in male specimens) 1.87, IV (Ψ, broken in male specimens) 2.1. Labium. All segments immeasurable in specimens examined. Pronotum. Length 1.5/0.98–1.0, width of anterior margin 0.8–0.87/0.62, length of lateral margin 1,5–1.6/1.0, width of posterior margin 2.3–2.4/1.5–1.7.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Taiwan.

Type material. Lectotype Ψ (designated by Carvalho 1980b): Formosa Sauter; Fuhosho. 1909. IV.; Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides n. gen. et sp. [handwritten]; typus; Lectotypus as typus design. Carvalho; coll. Hungarian Nat. Hist. Museum, Budapest; Hung. Nat. Hist. Mus. Budapest coll. Hemiptera ; paralectotypes: 1 Ψ: Formosa Sauter; Fuhosho. 909. VII.; Hung. Nat. Hist. Mus. Budapest coll. Hemiptera ; 1 ɗ: Formosa Sauter; Fuhosho. 909. VII.; Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides Popp. , det. JCM Carvalho 19; coll. Hungarian Nat. Hist. Museum, Budapest; Hung. Nat. Hist. Mus. Budapest coll. Hemiptera ( HMNH).

Additional material examined. 1 ɗ and 1 Ψ: Formosa, Sauter; Fuhosho, 909. VII ( USNM).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Dorsal habitus color photographs of the Rhinocylapus - group: A – B, Proamblia cunealis: A—paralectotype (Ψ), B—lectotype; C – D Proamblia elongata: C—holotype, D— ♂: Sandakan Borneo; E— Mycetocylapus minor (♂: Los Banos, P. I.); F— Mycetocylapus major (Ψ: Los Banos, P. I.); G— Mycetocylapus pacificus (holotype); H – I, Rhinocylapidius velocipedoides: H—lectotype, I— ♂: Formosa; Fuhosho; J— Rhinocylapus acutangulus (holotype); K— Rh. redeii (holotype); L— Rh. scutatus (♂: paratype); M— Rh. simplicicollis (holotype); N— Rh. sumatranus (holotype); O – P, Rh. pallescens: O—Ψ: paratype, P—holotype; Q-R, Rh. vittatus: Q—holotype, R— ♂: Sandakan, Borneo.