Jornandes championi Distant

Schaffner, JC & Schwartz, MD, 2008, Revision Of The Mexican Genera Ficinus Distant And Jornandes Distant With The Description Of 21 New Species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae: Orthotylini), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2008 (309), pp. 1-87 : 35-36

Jornandes championi Distant Figures 1F, 2, 10A

Jornandes championi Distant, 1884: 301 , pl. 29, fig. 9 (orig. desc.); Atkinson, 1890: 48 (catalog); Carvalho, 1958: 80 (catalog); Carvalho and Dolling, 1976: 794 (disc. of type); Carvalho, 1981: 4 (note); Schuh, 1995: 127 (catalog).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by distinctive coloration with head pale brown with dark fuscous area on vertex, maxillary plate and clypeus dark fuscous, pronotum pale brown with large, dark fuscous spot on disc extending from between calli onto pronotal disc but not reaching the margins, hemelytron generally dark fuscous with paler area, antenna primarily dark fuscous, legs pale yellowish brown (fig. 2); labium reaching apex of procoxa; length of antennal segment I less than vertex width, antennal segment II equal to width of head across eyes and less than pronotal width; metepisternum dorsal to evaporative area of scent gland with microtrichia.

REDESCRIPTION: Female (lectotype): CO- LORATION: Head shining, pale brown with dark fuscous triangular area on vertex; clypeus dark fuscous; maxillary plate fuscous; basal 3/4 of antennal segment I fuscous with apex pale brown; base and apex of segment II dark fuscous, remainder pale fuscous to brown; segments III and IV dark fuscous to almost black; labial segments I and IV dark fuscous, II and III fuscous to brown. Pronotum shining, pale brown with fuscous line between calli that connects posteriorly with large dark fuscous spot on disc, spot not reaching margins of disc, posterior margin of pronotum pale whitish; ventral sides of pronotum shining dark fuscous. Mesoscutum not visible; scutellum black. Hemelytron generally dark fuscous to black with base and apex of clavus paler; base of corium and area adjacent to basal half of embolium, area anterior to cuneal suture paler in color; cuneus pale in color along cuneal suture, remainder fuscous with outer half slightly paler than inner half; membrane dark fuscous. Basal 2/3 of coxa dark fuscous with apical 1/3 pale brown; femora pale brown with dark fuscous marking on outer margin, remainder pale brown. Underside of entire body shining fuscous to black. VESTITURE: Head with sparsely distributed setae slightly longer than diameter of antennal segment II, with semierect setae longer than diameter of segment, those of III and IV semierect, about as long as diameter of respective segments. Pronotal vestiture sparse. Setae of hemelytron very sparse and short, semierect; tibiae with some spinelike setae longer than the diameter of tibia.

MEASUREMENTS: Female (lectotype): Length, 2.86; width, 1.48. Head length, 0.28; width, 0.82; vertex width, 0.40. Length of antennal segment I, 0.16; II, 0.82; III, 0.64; IV, 0.32. Pronotal length, 0.64; width across base, 1.24. Cuneal length, 0.44; width at base, 0.50.

DISCUSSION: The lectotype of J. championi was made available for study by the Natural History Museum, London. The large dark fuscous spot on the pronotum distinguishes this species from others placed in Jornandes . The type species of Jornandes is known from the female lectotype only. We have been unable to associate any male specimen examined during the course of this study with the lectotype. Lacking male genitalic characters for the type species we have relied on external features to assign species to Jornandes . All the included species have the distinctive minute sculpturing on the corium and clavus, relatively short labium, and declivous head as found in J. championi .

HOST PLANT: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Known from the type locality in Guatemala, the only non-Mexican record for the genus (fig. 10A).

SPECIMEN EXAMINED: GUATEMALA: ‘‘ La Mercedes [14.7 ° N 91.75 ° W, 914 m], 3000 ft., Champion.’’ Lectotype, 1♀ ( AMNH _ PBI 00085377 ) ( BMNH).