Corallocoris nauruensis ( Herring & Chapman, 1967 )

Luo, Jiu-Yang, Wang, Yan-Hui, Chen, Ping-Ping & Xie, Qiang, 2022, First record of the intertidal dwarf bug family Omaniidae from China, with description of a new species (Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha), Zootaxa 5195 (5), pp. 449-467 : 462

Corallocoris nauruensis ( Herring & Chapman, 1967)

( Figs. 8C–D , 9 )

Omania nauruensis Herring & Chapman 1967: 355 . Holotype: ♂, Nauru Island; USNM. Cobben (1970): 68 (diagnosis), 69 (in key); Schuh (1987): 261 (catalogue, distribution); Cobben (1987): 25 (distribution); Schuh et al. (1987): 260 (catalogue, distribution); Schuh & Polhemus (1980): 5, 6, 7 (figures).

Material examined: NAURU: Central Pacific , Nauru Island, 16.XI.1966, leg. H.C. Chapman, paratypes 2♂♂ 2♀♀ ( RMNH) .

Diagnosis: Body length of male (1.21), female (1.30–1.40). C. nauruensis can be distinguished from other species of Corallocoris by the following characteristics: the pronotum and scutellum have a light pattern ( Fig. 8A ); the median fovea of the pronotal dome continues as a sulcus, which almost completely divides the dome into two lobes ( Fig. 8A ); a large basal and preapical blue-grey band is on the clavus, an irregular blue-grey patch on the base of corium extends narrowly down the lateral margin of the forewing, widening at the middle third and extending inward almost to the commissure, and a grey band is at the apical margin ( Fig. 8A–B ).

Habitat. Corallocoris nauruensis was collected at low tide from pinnacles that were common in the reef, which completely surrounds Nauru Island ( Herring & Chapman 1967).

Distribution: Nauru Island ( Fig. 9A , Table 3 ).

Figures

FIGURE 8.A–B, Habitus of Omania coleoptrata, paratypes, female:A, dorsal view; B, lateral view C–D, habitus of Corallocoris nauruensis, paratypes, male: C, dorsal view; D, lateral view.

FIGURE 9. Distribution maps of species of Omaniidae: A, Distribution of all known species of Omaniidae. B, Detailed distribution records of Corallocoris xishaensis sp. nov. (solid red dots)