Poppiusia, CHINA, 1944

Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2016, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1), pp. 36-136 : 118-119

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12311
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543577
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scientific name	Poppiusia
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POPPIUSIA CHINA View in CoL

Figures 7 View Figure 7 , 10B, L, M View Figure 10 , 13C View Figure 13 , 17I–L View Figure 17 , 21I, J View Figure 21 , 24 View Figure 24

Poppiusia China, 1944: 184 View in CoL (gen. nov.; type species: Poppiusia combretorum China, 1944 View in CoL jun. syn. of Poppiusia leroyi (Schouteden, 1943) View in CoL by monotypy); China, 1944: 176 (key); Schouteden, 1945: 116 (disc); Schouteden, 1946: 285 (disc); Carvalho, 1952: 59 (cat.), Carvalho, 1955: 39 (key); Carvalho, 1957: 143 (cat.); Schmitz, 1968: 11 (key to gen.); Schuh, 1995: 522 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 – 2013 (cat.); Namyatova et al., in press (phylogeny).

Diagnosis: Among species with row of punctures on clavus and R + M, Poppiusia differs in following: presence of three small ridges on frons ( Fig. 10M View Figure 10 ); head distinctly swollen in lateral view ( Fig. 10L View Figure 10 ); ASII subequal to head and pronotum combined, filiform; ASIII–IV not clavate; labium slightly surpassing posterior margin of prosternum, its segments I-II only twice as long as wide; pair of punctures on depression delimiting calli absent; calli separated ( Fig. 10B View Figure 10 ); setae on pronotum present; metepimeron c. 3–4× as long as wide, subtriangular ( Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ); membrane cell forming right angle; ductus seminis shorter than phallotheca, without coils; outgrowths supporting ductus seminis long ( Fig. 17I View Figure 17 ).

Redescription: Male: Body length 7–9 mm. COLORA- TION ( Fig. 7 View Figure 7 ). Body mostly orange to pale brown with brown to dark brown or reddish areas, antennae uniformly dark brown; hemelytra often mostly dark with yellow to pale brown areas. TEXTURE. Body smooth; vertex without wrinkles, tubercles or flattened areas; pronotum and scutellum mostly impunctate, without tubercles, only pair of punctures between mesoscutum and scutellum, striations on lateral margin of scutellum, and rows on punctures on clavus and on R + M present (as in fig. 11C, D in Namyatova et al., in press); punctures on depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent (fig. 11D in Namyatova et al., in press); semicircular depression between scutellum and mesoscutum present (as in Fig. 11A View Figure 11 ). VESTITURE. Body clothed with suberect dark or pale setae, setae on tibiae and abdomen longer than those on dorsum and pleura some of them twice as long as hind tibia width; black spinules on femora absent; tibiae regularly setose; spinules on tibiae organized in rows (as in fig. 18D in Namyatova et al., in press). STRUCTURE. Head. Distance between eye and pronotum subequal to eye diameter ( Fig. 10B View Figure 10 ); depression delimiting occipital region distinct ( Fig. 10L View Figure 10 ); longitudinal depression on vertex indistinct; eyes not stylate, in line with contour of head ( Fig. 10B View Figure 10 ), c. 0.3× as wide as head; distance between antennal fossa twice as long as antennal fossa diameter; frons swollen, with three longitudinal ridges ( Fig. 10M View Figure 10 ), without longitudinal depression; anterior view of head c. 1.3–1.4× as wide as high; eye almost twice as long as distance from eye to apex of clypeus; antennal fossa round, its diameter subequal to third part of eye height (as in fig. 3A in Namyatova et al., in press), tuberculate ( Fig. 10L View Figure 10 ), its inferior margins placed slightly above inferior margin of eye; base of clypeus placed on the same level with inferior margin of antennal fossa, delimited with depression; in lateral view head distinctly swollen dorsally ( Fig. 10L View Figure 10 ); gula c. 1.5× as long as buccula length, straight. Labium. Reaching or slightly surpassing anterior margin of mesosternum; LSI and II twice as long as wide, almost subequal in length or LSII slightly longer than LSI; LSIII c. 1.5× as long as wide, slightly shorter than LSII; LSIV c. 2.5× as long as wide, twice as long as LSIII. Antenna. Reaching apex of cuneus; ASI only slightly shorter than head width, widened medially (fig. 9D in Namyatova et al., in press); ASII c. 3× as long as ASI, subequal to length of head and pronotum combined; ASIII c. 0.6–0.7× as long as ASII; ASIV slightly longer than half of ASIII length; ASII–IV filiform. Thorax. Collar distinct, fused with calli posteriorly, slightly swollen; calli separated from each other, rounded, not conical; depression delimiting calli posteriorly distinct laterally, but indistinct between calli; humeral angles of pronotum rounded, not dilated; posterior margin of pronotum concave ( Fig. 10B View Figure 10 ); scutellum almost flat, acute apically, without outgrowth; metepimeron enlarged 3× as long as wide, angulate ( Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ); metasternum extending to abdominal segment II in triangular outgrowth (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press). Hemelytron. Costal margins subparallel, hemelytron not tapering; claval commissure almost twice as long as scutellum, straight (as in fig. 11C in Namyatova et al., in press); R + M distinct, reaching posterior margin of corium; medial fracture inclined towards midline; corium without swelling posteriorly; cuneus c. 1.7–2× as long as wide, c. 0.8× as long as pronotum; its medial margin straight; membrane cell distinctly surpassing apex of scutellum, forming almost right angle (as in fig. 13A in Namyatova et al., in press), slightly longer than pronotum; auxiliary vein absent; distance from cell to apex of membrane c. 0.6–0.7× as long as cell length. Legs. Forecoxae contiguous (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press); femora only indistinctly swollen apically, fore- and middle femora straight, hind femur moderately curved; swellings on tibiae absent; foretibia shorter than head and pronotum combined; segment I of hind tarsus subequal to segment II and slightly shorter than segment III; apical third of claw curved; basal tooth on claw three times as long as wide, distinctly concave (as in Fig. 13K View Figure 13 ). Genitalia ( Fig. 17I– L View Figure 17 ). Genital capsule slightly longer than wide, without outgrowths, ventral wall not shortened anteriorly; left paramere r-shaped, c. 1.5× as long as right paramere; sclerite around primary suboval, with long outgrowths, supporting ductus seminis; ductus seminis not sclerotized basally or apically, slightly shorter than phallotheca length, without coils, attached to phallobase medially; sclerotized part of phallotheca broad, occupying entire dorsal part, rounded apically, without outgrowths and ridges; endosoma without spicules.

Female: Body length 9–10 mm. Coloration similar to male, abdomen reddish ( Fig. 7 View Figure 7 ). Surface and vestiture as in male, setae on abdomen dark and suberect of different length, sometimes twice as long as hind tibia width. Structure similar to male, but body generally larger, pronotum wider than in male, and hemelytron slightly widened posteriorly. Genitalia ( Fig. 21I, J View Figure 21 ). DLP with two distinct sclerotized bands, without striations or sclerites, lateral oviducts and spermathecal gland placed posteriorly, not shifted right or left, lateral oviducts distinctly removed from each other, but placed far from lateral margins of DLP; posterior wall of bursa copulatrix with small tubercles, without sclerites; base of second valvula distinctly swollen; ventral wall membranous.

Distribution: Known from Ghana and Democratic Republic of Congo ( Fig. 24 View Figure 24 ).

Host plants: Poppiusia leroyi was recorded from Combretum sp. and Combretorum racemosum (Combretaceae) ( China, 1944; Leston, 1980).