Ceratocapsidea alayoi ( Hernandez & Henry) Henry, Thomas J., 2015

Henry, Thomas J., 2015, Revision of the Ceratocapsine Renodaeus group: Marinonicoris, Pilophoropsis, Renodaeus, and Zanchisme, with descriptions of four new genera (Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae), ZooKeys 490, pp. 1-156 : 10

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Ceratocapsidea alayoi ( Hernandez & Henry) comb. n. Figs 24, 148-151

Ceratocapsus alayoi Hernández & Henry, 1999: 207 (orig. descrip.); Hernández and Henry 2010: 105 (diag., habitus, genitalia).

Diagnosis.

Ceratocapsidea alayoi (Fig. 24) is distinguished by the brownishyellow pronotum, red-tinged vertex, and apically hammer-shaped left paramere (Fig. 148), with a bifid process at the middle, and the right paramere (Fig. 151) with two long, recurving arms and a large crenulate inner process.

Description.

Holotype male (after Hernández and Henry 1999; abdomen and wings detached): Length about 3.30 mm. Head: Length 0.52 mm, width across eyes 0.82 mm, interocular width 0.22 mm. Labium: Length (measurement not given). Antenna: Segment I, length 0.30 mm; II, 1.05 mm; III, 0.45; IV, missing. Pronotum: Length 0.73 mm; basal width 1.06 mm.

Coloration: General coloration brownish yellow with dark brown areas on posterior margin of pronotum and hemelytron. Head: Castaneous. Antenna: Segment I yellow, II and III pale brown, IV missing. Labium: Segments I and II red, III and IV missing. Pronotum: Shiny, brown anteriorly and darker brown to lateral angles; calli obsolete. Scutellum: Yellow, finely punctate. Hemelytron: Basal half of corium yellow, clavus and remainder of corium brown, claval commissure brown, cuneus dark brown, membrane dark translucent gray or brown. Ventral surface: Mesosternum reddish brown, abdominal segments reddish brown mesally, brown laterally. Ostiolar evaporative area: Pale or white. Legs: Yellow, procoxae reddish brown.

Structure, texture, and vestiture: Head: Smooth, impunctate; clypeus weakly produced; eyes prominent, occupying entire lateral height of head. Labium: Extending to hind coxa. Scutellum: Finely punctate. Hemelytron: Punctate, lateral margins subparallel. Body covered with erect brown setae, intermixed with white sericeous or scale-like setae, especially on scutellum and hemelytron.

Male genitalia: Left paramere (Fig. 148) slender with two stout, acute processes at middle and a hammer-shaped process at apex. Right paramere (Fig. 151) stout with two long, inward-curving arms and a large crenulate inner process. Phallotheca (Fig. 149): Elongate, gradually tapering to a slender point apically.

Female: Length 2.85 mm, width not measured. Head: Length 0.60 mm, width across eyes 0.75 mm, interocular width 0.30 mm. Antenna: Segment I, length 0.30 mm, yellow, with a red basal dash; remaining segments missing. Pronotum: Length 0.60 mm, basal width 0.60 mm.

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Described and known only from Cuba.

Type material examined.

Holotype ♂: CUBA: Guantánamo: Tortugilla, vii 1975, L. B. Zayas (IES); paratype ♀, same data as for holotype (IES).

Discussion.

The above information is based in part on Hernández and Henry’s (1999) diagnosis and description. After preparation of the original description, the holotype was returned to IES in Cuba, where it is presently inaccessible for study. Based on the original description, Figures of male genitalia provided by Hernández and Henry (1999, 2010), and study of two paratypes in the USNM collection, Ceratocapsidea alayoi clearly belongs in Ceratocapsidea .