Campylomma breviceps, Usinger, 1946

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 88-89

82. Campylomma breviceps , new species ( fig. 24 , a).

Broadly oval, uniformly pale above with pale, subappressed pubescence.

Head relatively short, three fifths as long as broad across eyes, 15: 25; the eyes half as wide as interocular space in the male, 6.5: 12, 5.5: 12 in the female; rostrum reaching apices of middle coxae, the segments subequal in length. Antennae about as long as distance from tip of tylus to apex of commissure of clavus, the second segment slightly shorter than width of head across eyes; proportion of segments 7: 23: 14: 11.

Pronotum as long as head on median line and over twice as broad as long, 34: 15; callosities very feebly elevated, disks of scutellum, clavus, corium and cuneus all moderately shining and clothed with subappressed pubescence similar to that of head and pronotum, the latter with an erect bristle on either side antero-laterally.

Color almost entirely pale, testaceous, the head ochraceous, the eyes light brown, the antennae pale with apex of last segment slightly infuscated, rostrum black at apex, front and middle femora each with a black spot at inner ventral subapices, hind femora with a series of spots along hind margin, one of these very faint at middle of basal half, two very conspicuous and equally spaced near and beyond the middle, three smaller subapical spots laterally. Tibiae with black spines but without black spots. Membrane scarcely clouded, hyaline.

Size: male, length 2.7 mm., width (hemelytra) 1.1 mm.; female, length 2.3 mm., width (hemelytra) 1 mm.

Holotype male, allotype female, and three paratypes, 2 miles south of Piti , April 30, on Hibiscus tiliaceus, Usinger ; one specimen, Talofofo, April 11, Bryan.

"Related to adamsoni, tahitica , and pallida , but distinguished by the combination of characters: short head and pronotum, short rostrum, and spots on hind femora.

Figures

FIGURE 24.-Campylomma species, hind leg showing size and arrangement of spots and bristles on femur: a, breviceps; b, pallida; c, brimneicollis.