Scutomiris setosus, Forero, 2008

Forero, D., 2008, Revision And Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Hadronema Group (Miridae: Orthotylinae: Orthotylini), With Descriptions Of New Genera And New Species, And Comments On The Neotropical Genus Tupimiris, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2008 (312), pp. 1-172 : 148-149

Scutomiris setosus , sp. nov. Figures 3, 41, 43, 45, 46

DIAGNOSIS: See generic diagnosis.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Total length 3.09– 3.45. COLORATION: Black with brown areas (fig. 3). HEAD: Shiny black; clypeus dull; mandibular and maxillary plates apically dark brown; labrum brown; labium pale brown, segments III–IV dark brown; antennae dark brown. THORAX: Collar and pronotum black; mesoscutum and scutellum black; proepisternum, proepimeron, and mesepisternum black, ventral portion of mesepisternum pale; meso- and metapleuron black, mesothoracic spiracle black; evaporatory area and peritreme dark brown; venter black. Hemelytra: Clavus brown; corium and cuneus light brown, weakly translucent, area posterior to costal fracture translucent, posterior margin of corium and cuneus brown; membrane and veins pale brown. Legs: Coxae brown, apically pale; trochanters pale brown; femora and tibiae orange brown, tibiae weakly darker; tarsi dark brown. AB- DOMEN: Dark brown, area around spiracles pale brown, posterior margin of sternites weakly pale. GENITALIA: Genital capsule black; proctiger dark brown, basally pale; parameres brown.

Female: Similar to male in structure and coloration, barely larger, more ovoid, total length 3.04–3.44. COLORATION (fig. 3): HEAD: Usually area in front of transverse

carina on vertex brown or paler. THORAX: Hemelytra: Corium weakly darker medially on lateral margin; cuneus darker on lateral margin.

DISTRIBUTION: Scutomiris setosus is known only from three localities in southern Baja California Sur, Mexico (fig. 41).

HOSTS: See generic description.

ETYMOLOGY: The name is taken from the Latin ‘‘seta’’, meaning hair, in reference to the hairy appearance of the body.

DISCUSSION: Scutomiris setosus is known only from a few specimens. Future fieldwork is needed to find larger series of specimens and determine host plants.

HOLOTYPE MALE: MEXICO: Baja California Sur: 2 km S of La Ribera , [23.56529 ° N 109.58333 ° W], 09 Nov 1982, C.E. Griswold , Holotype Scutomiris setosus , n. sp. det. D. Forero (red label), 13 ( AMNH _ PBI 00079827 ) ( UCB) .

PARATYPES: MEXICO: Baja California Sur: 2 km S of La Ribera, 23.56529 ° N 109.58333 ° W, 09 Nov 1982, C.E. Griswold, 33 ( AMNH _PBI 00079825, AMNH _PBI 00079826, AMNH _PBI 00079855), 8♀ ( AMNH _ PBI 00079828– AMNH _PBI 00079835) ( UCB). 30 km E of Santiago, Rancho las Barracas, 23.46639 ° N 109.42154 ° W, 06 Nov 1982 – 08 Nov 1982, collector unknown, 2♀ ( AMNH _ PBI 00079887, AMNH _PBI 00079888) ( UCB). 4.5 mi W on ramal a los Naranjos, 23.27118 ° N 109.82748 ° W, 13 Sep 1988, E.G. Riley, 33 ( AMNH _PBI 00105893– AMNH _PBI 00105895), 12♀ ( AMNH _PBI 00105896– AMNH _PBI 00105907) ( TAMU).