Ceratocapsidea cubana (Bergroth) Henry, Thomas J., 2015

Henry, Thomas J., 2015, Revision of the Ceratocapsine Renodaeus group: Marinonicoris, Pilophoropsis, Renodaeus, and Zanchisme, with descriptions of four new genera (Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae), ZooKeys 490, pp. 1-156 : 19

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Ceratocapsidea cubana (Bergroth) comb. n. Figs 33, 171-174

Ceratocapsus punctulatus Reuter, 1876: 87. Preoccupied by Trichia punctulata Reuter, 1876; neotype designated by Hernández and Henry 1999: 209.

Ceratocapsus cubanus Bergroth, 1910: 68 (n. name); Carvalho 1958: 45 (cat.); Schuh 1995: 91 (cat.); Hernández and Henry 1999 (descrip.); Hernández and Henry 2010: 106 (diag., color habitus). New name for preoccupied junior secondary homonym Ceratocapsus punctulatus Reuter, 1876.

Diagnosis.

This species (Fig. 33) is distinguished by the overall dark brown dorsum with only the clavus and basal half of the corium paler yellowish brown, the yellowishbrown antennal segments I and II, and male genitalia, particularly the right paramere (Figs 173, 174) with three lateral arms visible from the caudal aspect, two of which are short and marginally serrate and one long, with the apex slender, apically acute, and bent 90E.

Description.

Lectotype male: Length 3.32 mm, width 1.18 mm. Head: Width 0.80 mm, interocular width 0.24 mm. Labium: Embedded in glue. Antenna: Segment I, length 0.27 mm; II, 0.80 mm; III, 0.45 mm; IV, 0.43 mm. Pronotum: Length 0.69 mm, basal width 1.14 mm.

Coloration: Overall coloration dark brown, with paler areas on hemelytra. Head: Dark brown. Antenna: Pale yellowish brown, segment III and IV reddish. Pronotum: Dark brown. Scutellum: Dark brown basally, pale yellowish brown on apical third. Hemelyron: Clavus and basal half of corium pale yellowish brown, cuneus and apical half of corium dark brown, cuneus weakly red tinged; membrane smoky brown on distal half, paler basally. Ventral surface: Thoracic area brown to dark brown, abdomen dark brown. Ostiolar evaporative area: Pale or white. Legs: Overall yellowish brown to brown, hind femur and tibia dark brown.

Structure, texture, and vestiture: Head: Granulate. Pronotum: Shiny, evenly and finely punctate, except finely granulate around calli. Labium: Extending to about hind coxae. Scutellum: Finely punctate. Hemelytra: Shiny, finely and evenly punctate. Head and pronotum with short, recument, simple setae. Scutellum and hemelytra with numerous, short, recumbent, simple setae and slender, white scale-like setae, intermixed with long, erect, simple setae.

Male genitalia: Left paramere (Fig. 171): Slender, with beak-like apex somewhat blunt at tip, and middle processes prostrate against paramere body, forming a shallow C-shaped structure. Right paramere (Figs 173, 174) with three arms visible from caudal aspect, the two shorts arms marginally crenulate, the longer arm bent at a right angle distally. Phallotheca (Fig. 172): Relatively stout, with a peg-like apex.

Female (paralectotype): Length to apex of membrane 2.80 mm, length to base of cuneus 2.00 mm, width 1.08 mm. Head: Width 0.69 mm, interocular width 0.77 mm. Labium: Embedded in glue. Antenna: Segment I, length 0.27 mm; II, 0.75 mm; III, 0.37; IV, missing. Pronotum: Length 0. 62 mm, basal width 1.01 mm.

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Described and known only from Cuba.

Discussion.

Hernández and Henry (1999) indicated that they had "searched the Helsinki collection for specimens of Ceratocapsus punctulatus without success, even though the type of Trichia punctulatus is present there (pers. comm., the late Antti Jansson)". As a consequence, they designated a neotype from "Pinares de Viñales, Cuba", which is deposited in the Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Ciudad Habana, Cuba (IES).

Since their work ( Hernández and Henry 1999), I have visited the Helsinki and Stockholm (2006) museums. I was surprised to find that Stockholm has many of Reuter’s syntypes sent by Reuter to Stål (Bert Viklund, pers. comm.). Although Helsinki does not have original material of Ceratocapsus punctulatus , a male and female syntype were found in Stockholm that clearly are part of the original series Reuter had before him when describing this species (Reuter did not indicate a number of specimens). These specimens, which agree with Hernández and Henry’s (1999) interpretation of the species, now should become the name-bearing types, according to Article 75.8 of the ICZN (2000), which states that "if, after the designation of a neotype, the name-bearing types of the nominal species-group taxon that were presumed lost are found still to exist, on publication of that discovery the rediscovered material again becomes the name-bearing type and the neotype is set aside". Hernández and Henry (2010) followed their 1999 paper, deferring correction of the neotype/lectotype designation to the present work.

Type designation.

The following male is designated as the lectotype of Ceratocapsus punctulatus : Lectotype ♂: label 1, “Cuba”; 2, “Stål”; 3, red label “Typus”; 4, (white, folded, handwritten label) " Ceratocapsus punctulatus Reut. typ."; 5 (printed red label here added) "Lectotype ♂ Ceratocapsus punctulatus Reuter, desig. by T. J. Henry (SMNH)." The second specimen, a ♀, with the same label data as for the lectotype, is labeled as a paralectotype (SMNH).