Cyrtocapsus suturalis Henry

Henry, Thomas J., 2022, Revision of the New World Plant Bug Genus Cyrtocapsus (Heteroptera: Miridae Bryocorinae: Eccritotarsini), with New and Revised Synonymies, Lectotype Designations, and Descriptions of 12 New Species, Zootaxa 5154 (1), pp. 1-48 : 44-45

Cyrtocapsus suturalis Henry , new species

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( Figs. 56, 57 )

Diagnosis. Cyrtocapsus suturalis ( Figs. 56, 57 ) is recognized by the overall brownish-orange dorsum, with the black calli and collar, the fuscous costal vein and claval suture, the fuscous thorax and abdomen, and the long labium that the extends to the bases of the middle coxae or slightly beyond.

This species appears most similar to C. nordestinus ( Figs. 42, 43 ) in having an overall pale brown dorsum, with a basally fuscous costal vein and entirely fuscous claval suture. It differs from C. suturalis in a pale brown collar and calli (rather than black) and a pale brown undersurface (rather than fuscous to black).

Description. Holotype male ( Figs. 56, 57 ): Length to apex of membrane 3.80 mm, length to base of cuneus 2.48 mm, widest width across hemelytra 1.54 mm. Head: Width 0.86 mm, interocular width 0.45 mm. Labium: Length 0.99 mm. Antenna: Segment I length 0.45 mm; II, 0.69 mm; III, 0.51 mm; IV, missing. Pronotum: Median length 0.88 mm, basal width 1.26 mm.

Coloration: Head brownish orange dorsally, sides of clypeus fuscous, undersurface pale yellowish white; eyes dark reddish brown. Labium pale yellowish white. Antenna uniformly pale yellowish white. Pronotum brown, more brownish orange through middle of disc, collar and calli black. Scutellum brownish orange, margined in black. Hemelytron brownish orange, with costal vein, claval suture, and narrow inner margin of clavus fuscous; cuneus slightly darker brown along inner margin; membrane clear, veins brown, inside of areole smoky brown. Undersurface of thorax, including ostiolar auricle black; abdomen dark brown, with margins of segments fuscous. Legs uniformly pale yellowish white.

Texture and vestiture: Head weakly shiny, rugose, and transversely striate on frons, with silvery sericeous, especially along inner margins of eyes, median line, and transversely across striations. Pronotum weakly shiny, disc evenly punctate, punctures finer on calli and collar, with silvery sericeous setae (setae on calli and collar rubbed and contaminated with a white residue). Hemelytron dull, impunctate, with scattered patches of short, slender, silvery, sericeous setae.

Male gentialia: Unique specimen not dissected.

Female: Unknown.

Etymology. The specific epithet “suturalis” is given to denote the distinctive fuscous claval suture of this species.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from Honduras.

Type material. Holotype ♂: HONDURAS: Coyolea , 16 Feb. 1977, G.V. Manley ( TAMU).

Figures

FIGURES 49–57. Habitus images of Cyrtocapsus spp. 49–51, C. rostratus. 49, male dorsal aspect. 50, female lectotype, dorsal aspect. 51, female lectotype, lateral aspect. 52–54, C. schaffneri. 52, male, dorsal aspect. 53, female, dorsal aspect. 54, C. female, lateral aspect. 55, C. spatulatus, holotype male, dorsal aspect. 56, 57. C. suturalis. 56, male, dorsal aspect. 57, male, lateral aspect.

FIGURES 40–48. Habitus images of Cyrtocapsus spp. 40, 41, C. metafemoratus. 40, male, dorsal aspect. 41, holotype female, dorsal aspect. 42, 43, C. nordestinus. 42, male, dorsal aspect. 43, male, lateral aspect. 44, 45, C. pallipes. 44, male, dorsal aspect. 45, female, dorsal aspect. 46, 47, C. paraensis, holotype female (of C. bolivianus). 46, dorsal aspect. 47, lateral aspect. 48, C. paraguaiensis, holotype female, dorsal aspect.