Sulawesifulvius indicus, Yeshwanth, H. M. & Frederic, Cherot, 2015

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Frederic, Cherot, 2015, A new species of the genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Cherot, & Stys, 2004 (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae) from India, ZooKeys 475, pp. 89-95 : 90-93

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Sulawesifulvius indicus sp. n. Figs 1-4, 5-7, 8-9

Type material.

Holotype ♂: India: Karnataka: Hessarghatta, near Bangalore (approx. 13°09'N, 77°29'E; altitude: 960 m), 20.vi.2011, at light, H.M. Yeshwanth leg. (UASB). Paratype ♀: India: Karnataka, Hessaraghatta, near Bangalore, 2.v.2010, at light, H.M. Yeshwanth leg. (UASB).

Diagnosis.

Small species, length 2.70, width 1.50 (versus length 3.40 and width 1.80 in Sulawesifulvius schuhi ), dorsally yellowish brown, slightly tinged with dark red, with simple parameres (Figs 2-3), devoid of sharp processes (versus parameres with sharp processes in Sulawesifulvius schuhi ), and pygophore with a straight right side and a posterior margin not deeply curved (Fig. 1).

Description.

Body of male pale yellow with pale red and brown markings; body length 2.70, width 1.50 (Fig. 9).

Head pale yellow, longer than width, clypeus prominent; vertex and frons with two pairs of tubercles; head length in dorsal view 0.40, intraocular width 0.27; first segment of antenna tubular, pale yellow, tinged with red and brown markings; second segment yellow with a brown band medially, covered with short, pale setae; third segment pale yellow, apex dark brown, with bright white setae; fourth segment dark brown, with bright white setae; length of antennal segments: 0.15: 0.30: 0.40: 0.15; rostrum brown, shiny, length of rostral segments: 0.22: 0.25: 0.22: 0.25.

Pronotum pale yellow with red and brown markings, anterior margin of pronotum concave, with two brown spots; calli raised, large, tuberculate; lateral margins with brown spots on posterior region; anterolateral angle with scalelike setae; posterior margin arcuate. Length of pronotum 0.39, width of pronotum 1.18, length along lateral margin 0.50.

Legs (Figs 5-7) coxae, trochanters and femora pale yellow, their apices with red patches; femora swollen; metafemur greatly enlarged with a transverse reddish band and three trichobothria; metatibia with scalelike and long setae and longitudinal rows of short spines on each side and thick spines on apical region; tarsus two segmented; metatarsus with short, thick spines; parempodia setiform; claw with subapical tooth.

Mesoscutum exposed, yellowish brown, with brown patches and tinged with red on sides.

Scutellum pale yellow, with a longitudinal pale stripe medially; apex with red markings.

Hemelytra pale yellow, with short shining scalelike setae; corium with brown pattern reaching cuneal incisure, outer margin of embolium with brown patches; cuneus broadly triangular, with brown patches reaching apex of membrane; membrane whitish, tinged with brown.

Ventral surface pale yellow, with red bands.

Pygophore basally broad and narrow toward apex (Fig. 1).

Parameres simple, left paramere flat, strongly curved, with a basal sensory lobe, apex rounded, beaklike (Fig. 2); right paramere simple, slightly larger than left paramere, C-shaped with an apex gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 3).

Phallus prominent (Fig. 4); ductus seminis not sclerotized, flexible with terminal circular sclerotized opening; theca membranous, covering endosoma, apex of endosoma globular, with numerous small sclerotized, interconnected processes or rounded structures.

Body of female very similar to that of male in shape, size, color, and vestiture (Fig. 8).

Etymology.

The name of the species refers to India, the country where it was collected (adjective derived from the geographical name).

Habitat.

The habitat surrounding street lamps consisted of trees dominated by tamarind ( Tamarindus indica Linné) ( Caesalpiniaceae ), few trees of neem ( Azadirachta indica A. Juss) ( Meliaceae ), Acacia sp., and bushes dominated by lantana ( Lantana camera Linné) ( Verbenaceae ).