Hyalopeplus spinosus Distant, 1904

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, Zootaxa 4378 (3), pp. 301-322 : 315

Hyalopeplus spinosus Distant, 1904

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Hyalopeplus spinosus Distant, 1904c: 447 – 448 (as new species). Hyalopeplus spinosus: Pathak 1969: 38 (citation from India in PhD); Carvalho & Gross 1979: 494, 495 (redescription, DV); Schuh 1995: 680 (catalogue); Zheng et al. 2005: 53 – 54 (redescription, in fauna); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalogue).

Diagnosis. Large Hyalopeplus (total length about 10.5 mm, maximal width across hemelytra 3.0 mm according to Carvalho & Gross, 1979). Globally yellowish orange with reddish or blackish stripes. Pronotal collar transversally striate. Pronotal callosities wide, punctate, with longitudinal reddish zig-zag shaped stripe. Pronotal disk transversally striate on the swollen (median) part of the disk, slightly punctate laterally and posteriorly. Humeral angles pointed, obviously produced, black. Habitus in dorsal view Fig. 18 .

Material examined. No additional specimen collected for the present work.

Distribution. Species described from Upper Assam, also known from Vietnam (Schuh 2002–2013).

Figures

FIGURES17–20. Habitus indorsal view of type-specimens of four Indian Hyalopeplini preserved to BMNHwith their labels. 17. Hyalopeplus rama (Kirby, 1891). 18. Hyalopeplus spinosus Distant, 1904c. 19. Isabel ravana (Kirby, 1891). 20. Onomaus pompeus Distant, 1904c.