Cletomorpha saphisa, Brailovsky, Harry, 2007

Brailovsky, Harry, 2007, A revision of the tribe Gonocerini from Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae), Zootaxa 1530, pp. 1-18 : 5-7

Cletomorpha saphisa n. sp.

( Figs. 6 , 26)

Description. Holotype female. Head length 0.80; width across eyes 1.12; interocular space 0.64; interocellar space 0.28; preocular distance 0.48; antennal segment length I, 0.84, II, 1.28, III, 1.24, IV 0.78; pronotum length 1.20; width across humeral angles 2.44; scutellar length 0.80; width 0.92; maximum width of abdomen 2.56; total body length 5.70. Overall coloration yellowish, punctures dark orange, surface tinged with pink marks; head, pronotum, scutellum with whitish medial longitudinal stripe; antennal segments I to III pale yellowish orange, IV pale brown; hemelytral membrane translucent, veins and basal angle pale yellowish brown; apex of rostral segment IV, prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, and irregular spot on abdominal sterna V and VI black; coxae and trochanter yellow with pink discoidal marks; femora yellow suffused with pale brown marks, tibiae yellow with three incomplete pale brown rings, tarsi pale yellowish orange. Structure.— Head.— Subquadrate, obliquely bent; antenniferous tubercles widely separate, outer border armed with medium-sized single acute spine; antennal segment I uniformly stout, wider, granulate, segments II and III slender, cylindrical, IV fusiform; rostrum reaching middle third of metasternum. Thorax.— Pronotum.— Humeral angle each tapering to medium-sized acute spine directed outward ( Fig. 6 ). Legs, abdomen, genital plates as in Cletomorpha mackayensis Distant.

Male. Unknown.

Types. Holotype female, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Tooloom Scrub via Urbenville, 8-I-1977, B. K. Cantrell (DPI). Paratype. AUSTRALIA: 1 female, Queensland, Bunya Mts., 19–21-XI-1967, J. and M. Sedlacek (BPBM).

Comments. This new species is distinguished from C. mackayensis Distant by a combination of characters: total body length shorter than 6.00 mm, head, pronotum, and scutellum with whitish median longitudinal stripe, each humeral angle tapering into a medium-sized acute spine ( Fig. 6 ), connexival segment V yellow, and corium lacking a transverse whitish callose band. In C. mackayensis the total body length is greater than 8.00 mm, head, pronotum, and scutellum lack a whitish longitudinal stripe, each humeral angle tapers into a remarkably large acute spine ( Fig. 5 ), connexival segment V is pale brown with yellow and pink marks, and the corium has distinct transverse and wide whitish callose band.

Etymology. The species epithet is derived from the Greek adjective, saphis, meaning distinct, referring to the distinctly delimited colour pattern on head, pronotum, and scutellum.

Figures

FIGURE 5 – 9. Pronotum. 5 – 6. Cletomorpha spp. 5. Cletomorpha mackayensis Distant. 6. Cletomorpha saphisa n. sp. FIGURE 7 – 9. Cletus spp. 7. Cletus minutus Blöte. 8. Cletus saucius Stål. 9. Cletus similis Blöte.