Jessopocoris Carvalho, 1981

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Jessopocoris Carvalho, 1981

Fig. 6A–C

Jessopocoris Carvalho, 1981b: 480 .

Jessopocoris – Mu & Liu 2012: 47 (redescr., figs 1–16).

Type species

Jessopocoris scutellatus Carvalho, 1981 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis

The genus may be distinguished by the following characters: antennal segment I bottle-shaped, with a distinctly narrowed basal part, somewhat longer than vertex width; head, pronotum and scutellum with dense coarse punctures; pronotum with collar flat and not delimited posteriorly, calli notably expanded, with posterior depression, disc strongly raised, covering mesonotum, basal half of scutellum and bases of hemelytra; disc of pronotum with narrow, impunctate, whitish carina along midline; legs long and thin, with all femora somewhat swollen apically; hemelytra slightly constricted on basal fourth, with costal margin sinuate, concave on basal half and nearly straight apically ( Fig. 6A–B ).

Remarks

Carvalho (1981b) described a single female from Ranikhet, northern India , as a new species and new monotypic genus Jessopocoris scutellatus . He noted that the new genus differs from all other genera by the shape of pronotum, strongly expanded posteriorly and covering a substantial part of scutellum. Subsequently, Mu & Liu (2012) described two more species of the genus from Guangxi and Yunnan provinces of China. According to the original description, both Chinese species of Jessopocoris have a boat-shaped, non-modified genital capsule, a large, L-shaped left paramere located in an entirely closed paramere socket and apparently absent right paramere. The only Indian species of the genus, J. scutellatus , is still known only from the female holotype.

Jessopocoris is superficially similar to Ernestinus spp. due to the body proportions, raised and punctate pronotal disc and uniformly brown to dark brown coloration on the clavus, transverse spot on the medioapical part of corium, apex of cuneus and cells contrasting with the whitish-yellow remaining part of hemelytron and legs. However, it clearly differs from that genus in all other characters mentioned in the diagnosis.

Figures

Fig. 6. Dorsal view and label data of type specimens. A–C. Jessopocoris scutellatus Carvalho, 1981, ♀, holotype, AMNH_PBI 00340984, BMNH(E) 1633131, NHM. D–F. Lopidolon pallescens Poppius, 1911, ♀, holotype, FMNH, currently retained at AMNH. G–J. Loidolon sordidus Poppius, 1911, ♀, holotype, HNHM.