Khumbumiris, Yasunaga & Duwal, 2016

Yasunaga, Tomohide & Duwal, Ram Keshari, 2016, Three noteworthy mirine plant bugs inhabiting subalpine zones of the Nepalese Himalayas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (1 - 2), pp. 33-49 : 34-37

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2016.1245799
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:54E31614-3262-4BF8-8BBB-F81893AF41D2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4779691
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/86008784-FFBC-0B16-6969-A3548296FBD4
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Khumbumiris
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Khumbumiris gen. nov.

Type species

Khumbumiris schwartzi Yasunaga & Duwal , sp. nov.

Diagnosis

Distinguished from other genera of the Mirinae by the following unique sets of characters: elongate, slender, medium-sized body (with total length 4.7, Figure 1 View Figure 1 (e)); oily shiny, impunctate dorsum with sparsely distributed, silky, short setae; generally long, linear antenna ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (e)); labium with short, broadened segment I ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (h)); trapezoidal pronotum somewhat constricted at calli, with W-shaped canal near posterior margin ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (g)), with lateral margin wholly carinate ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (h)); broad collar; narrow, parallel-sided hemelytron; elongate cuneus; cylindrical femora; short tarsomere II, much shorter than respective tarsomere I or III ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (k)); and form of male genitalia (thick, short parameres, and endosoma with a spiculum, spinulate lobal sclerite, and slender seminal duct that is somewhat expanded near secondary gonopore, as in Figure 3 View Figure 3 ).

Description

Male. Macropterous. Body elongate, slender, parallel-sided, reminiscent of orthotyline by external appearance ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (e)); basic coloration shiny dark brownish; dorsal surface oily shiny, polished, impunctate, with very sparsely distributed, silky, short setae.

Head. Almost glabrous, rather oblique, a little produced anteriad; eyes small (in dorsal view, an eye much narrower than vertex, Figure 2 View Figure 2 (g)); vertex with a shallow, longitudinal, mesal sulcation that is not surpassing level of posterior margin of eye.

Antenna. Long, almost linear, a little shorter than total body length; segment II slightly clavate toward apex, about as long as head and pronotum combined in dorsal view ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (g)); segment III a little shorter than II; segment IV subequal in length to basal width of pronotum.

Labium. Generally short and broad, reaching but not exceeding apex of mesocoxa; segment I short, thickened, about twice as broad as remaining segments ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (h)). Thorax. Pronotum shining, impunctate, trapezoidal, somewhat constricted at calli, wholly carinate laterally ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (h)), with W-shaped canal along posterior margin ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (g)); collar broad, about as thick as antennal segment I, generally flat, demarcated by shallow, transverse sutures ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (g)); mesoscutum arched, widely exposed ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (h)); scutellum somewhat swollen anteriad ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (g)); scent efferent system relatively narrow and triangular ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (j)).

Hemelytron. Oily shiny, generally slender, impunctate, not deflexed at cuneal fracture; embolial margin straight; cuneus elongate, about three times as long as wide; membrane vein extending to apical half of membrane, with angular apical inner corner.

Legs. Slender, long; femur cylindrical, not significantly flattened; tibia with densely distributed, dark, stiff, semi-erect setae; tibial spines pale brown, weak, only sparsely distributed; each tarsomere I as long as III, shorter than II and III combined; tarsomere II shortest, about half as long as I or III (cf. Figure 2 View Figure 2 (k)); pretarsus with V-shaped, fleshy, apically divergent parempodia between claws, lacking distinct pulvillus ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (i)).

Abdomen. Narrow, much shorter than wings.

Male genitalia ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 ). Parameres short, with short sensory setae; left paramere broad, C-shaped, with flattened and apically hooked hypophysis ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 (b)); right paramere with rather long, weakly curved and apically tapered hypophysis ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 (c)). Endosoma with a distinct, straight, apically notched spiculum and with an elongate, spinulate lobal-sclerite ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 (d)); secondary gonopore thick-rimmed, situated medially ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 (e)); seminal duct generally narrow, somewhat expanded near secondary gonopore ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 (d)).