Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020

Taszakowski, Artur, Kim, Junggon, Damken, Claas, Wahab, Rodzay A., Herczek, Aleksander & Jung, Sunghoon, 2020, Two new genera and species of the Gigantometopini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae) from Borneo with remarks on the distribution of the tribe, ZooKeys 941, pp. 71-89 : 71

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scientific name	Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek
status	sp. nov.

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Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek sp. nov. Figures 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2 , 3 View Figure 3 , 4 View Figure 4 , 5 View Figure 5

Diagnosis.

See generic diagnosis.

Description.

Male. Body shiny, yellow-brownish, covered by semi-erect pale-brown seta (Fig. 1A-C View Figure 1 ). Head: yellow-whitish, 1.5 times as high as wide, compound eyes reddish yellow, vertex orange, convex, 1.3 times as wide as eye width in dorsal view. Frons whitish, with two small dark brown spots ventrally extending into large Y-shaped brown macula; gena whitish yellow (Figs 1C View Figure 1 , 2A, B View Figure 2 ). Antenna yellowish. Labium shiny, yellowish, segment IV with brown apex (Fig. 1B View Figure 1 ). Thorax: pronotum yellow, semi-transparent laterally; exposed part of mesoscutum yellow, scutellum yellowish brown, with apex white and lateral angles narrowly whitish, 0.7 as long as wide. Pleura yellowish brown, with red stripe from propleuron to episternum (Fig. 1B, C View Figure 1 ). Ostiolar peritreme ivory, evaporative area yellow (Fig. 1B, C View Figure 1 ). Claval commissure 0.6 times as long as scutellum. Hemelytron: in various shades of yellow, median part with two whitish spots. Cuneus 0.9 times as long as wide, yellowish, with white spot in basal inner corner. Membrane pale grey, semi-transparent, with two cells. Legs: coxae pale, almost white, femora yellow-white (Fig. 1B, C View Figure 1 ), with brown spots, tibiae yellow with dark brown spots, tarsi yellow (Fig. 1B, C View Figure 1 ). Abdomen: bicoloured, dark brown, except for pale yellow genital segment (Fig. 1B, C View Figure 1 ). Genitalia: as described above. Measurements: given in the Table 1 View Table 1 .

Etymology.

From Latin adjective luteus , yellow.

Biology.

Unknown.

Material examined.

Holotype (♂): 'Borneo, Sabah / Danum Valley / 70km W Lahad Datu / M.J. & J.P. Duffels // East Ridge Trail / 150m / 2.XII.1989 // sample Sab. 53 / understorey rainforest, / at light’. The holotype is deposited in RBINS.