Fulvidius punctatus Poppius

Wolski, Andrzej, Gorczyca, Jacek, Chérot, Frédéric & Gawlak, Magdalena, 2016, Cylapofulvidius Chérot & Gorczyca, 2000 — a synonym of Fulvidius Poppius, 1909 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), Zootaxa 4184 (2), pp. 347-357 : 352-353

Fulvidius punctatus Poppius

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Fulvidius punctatus: Poppius 1909: 20 , 44, 47 Fig. 6 (n. sp.); Distant 1910: 276 –277, Fig. 150 (redescription); Bergroth 1920: 73 (list); Carvalho 1957: 14 (catalog), 1980: 643 (diagnosis); Schuh 1995: 25 (catalog); Gorczyca, 2006: 32 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following set of characters: relatively large (4.65); proepimeron with yellowish line along entire length (as on Fig. 7 ); posterior lobe of pronotum with three longitudinal, yellow swellings ( Fig. 2 ); scutellum uniformly black ( Fig. 2 ); corium with longitudinal, yellow swellings ( Fig. 2 ).

Most similar to F. lineolatus in sharing the similar coloration of the proepimeron, pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytron ( Figs. 1–2 ). This species can, however, be distinguished by the larger size.

Redescription. Female. COLORATION ( Fig. 2 ). Dorsal surface dark brown with blackish and yellow areas. Head. Dark brown to almost black; vertex with two pale patches, contiguous with posterior margin; antennal segment I yellowish; segment II dark brown, paler on basal half; segments III and IV missing in the examined specimen; rostrum brown. Thorax. Pronotum. Fuscous, almost black anteriorly; posterior lobe slightly paler with three, longitudinal, yellow swellings: two near lateral margins and one in the middle; humeral angles paler than remainder of pronotum, yellow. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Entirely black. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron black, with pale, whitish stripe along ventral margin; remaining pleura blackish. Hemelytron. Dark brown with yellow stripes and patches; clavus with thin yellow stripe along whole length of claval suture, commissure with broad, yellow stripe along its length; corium with three yellow stripes basally reaching half of clavus and with transverse, yellow stripe apically, bordering membrane; membrane brownish. Legs. Procoxa pale; profemur dark brown, dark yellowish apically; protibia dark yellowish basally, yellowish apically (remaining missing in the examined specimen). Abdomen. Uniformly dark brown. STRUCTURE, TEXTURE, AND VESTITURE ( Fig. 2 ). Dorsal surface covered with rather short, fine setae. Head. Vertex with indistinct, shallow punctures; antennal segment II covered with long, semierect setae. Thorax. Pronotum. Lateral margins slightly sinuate medially; anterior lobe near head more densely and deeply punctate than remainder of pronotum; calli distinct, less punctate than remainder of pronotum. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron with distinct, impunctate rib medially, whitish area on proepimeron impunctate.

Measurements. ♀: Body length 4.65, width 2.0; Head. Length 0.75, width 0.86, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.25; antennal segments I 0.39, II 0.98, (III and IV missing); labial segment I 0.59 (remaining segments obscured by glue and immeasurable in the examined specimen). Pronotum. Length 0.93, anterior margin 0.75, lateral margins 0.97, posterior margin 1.64.

Male. Unknown.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Myanmar.

Remarks. To confirm the validity of F. lineolatus and F. punctatus , additional specimens from Myanmar would be useful to compare male and female genitalia in details.

Poppius (1909: 44) gives no explicit information about the country where the type specimen was collected, providing only a locality (“Carin Chebá”), a date and a collector (L. Fea). Reuter (1910: 154), in his catalog, cites the genus Fulvidius as originating from “ Ind.” (apparently for “Indische Regionen”). Distant (1910: 277) is the first to mention the Myanmar (as “Burma”), specifying “Karenni” (now Kayah State). Some other insects were collected in this locality by L. Fea, including Cerambycidae studied by Lin et al., (2009). According to these authors (op. cit.: 159), Carin Chebá lies “east of modern Toungoo [19°09’N 96°24’E]”.

Type material. Holotype ♀: Myanmar: Carin Chebá , 900–1100 m., xii.1888, Fea leg. ( Fig. 2 ) ( MCSN).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Dorsal (1 – 6) and lateral (7 – 8) views of the species of Fulvidius: 1, 7. F. lineolatus (♂); 2. F. punctatus (holotype); 3 – 4. C. thailandicus (3: ♀, 4: ♂); 5, 8. F. webbi (♀: paratype); 6. F. zetteli (holotype).