Eupachypeltis Poppius 1915
Creators: name: Namyatova, Anna A.
name: Cassis, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Eupachypeltis

description: EUPACHYPELTIS POPPIUS   
Figures 6, 15I–L, 19A, B, 22  
 Eupachypeltis Poppius, 1915: 79 (gen. nov.; type species: Eupachypeltis pilosus Poppius, 1915 by monotypy); Carvalho, 1952: 59 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 39 (key); Carvalho, 1957: 133 (cat.); Schuh, 1995: 510 (cat.); Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999: 14 (cat.); Lin, 2000a: 119 (disc., key to spp.); Hu and Zheng, 2001: 415 (key to gen., key to spp.); Schuh, 2002 –2013 (cat.).   
 Diagnosis: The main diagnostic characters of Eupachypeltis are: presence of punctures on clavus and R + M (as in fig. 11C, D in Namyatova et al., in press); presence of three tubercles on frons (as in Fig. 10B, M); head almost flat dorsally in lateral view; antennal fossa tuberculate (as in Fig. 10L); distance between antennal fossae longer than antennal fossa diameter; ASI swollen medially (as in fig. 9D in Namyatova et al., in press); ASII subequal to head and pronotum combined, filiform; labium slightly surpassing posterior margin of pronotum; LSI–II only twice as long as wide; metepimeron distinctly enlarged, subtriangular, twice as long as wide (as in Fig. 13E); costal margins straight, corium not broadened posteriorly; membrane cell forming right angle (fig. 13B in Namyatova et al., in press); distance from cell to apex of membrane subequal to half of cell length; outgrowths on phallobase supporting ductus seminis very short; ductus seminis shorter than phallotheca length, without coils (Fig. 15I); DLP without sclerotized bands (Fig. 19A).   
 Description: Male: Body length 5.5–8 mm. COLORA- TION (Fig. 6). Body mainly whitish yellow to pale brown with pale brown to brown or reddish markings or areas; corium, embolium, cuneus and membrane semitransparent, corium often with pale brown to brown marking posteriorly. TEXTURE. Dorsum smooth; vertex without tubercles or flattened areas; pronotum and scutellum mostly impunctate, without tubercles or wrinkles, only pair of punctures between mesoscutum and scutellum, striations on lateral margin of scutellum, and rows on punctures on clavus and on R + M present (as in fig. 12C, D in Namyatova et al., in press); punctures on depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent; semicircular depression between scutellum and mesoscutum present (as in Fig. 11A). VESTITURE. Body mostly clothed with suberect pale setae, often as long as or shorter than hind tibia width, setae on legs and abdomen sometimes twice as long as tibia width, not very dense; setae on thoracic pleura short and adpressed; spinules on femora absent; rows of spinules on tibia present (as in fig. 18D in Namyatova et al., in press). STRUC- TURE AND MEASUREMENTS. Head. Distance between eye and pronotum subequal to or slightly shorter than eye diameter; occipital region delimited with very shallow depression or almost not delimited; longitudinal depression on vertex indistinct; eyes not stylate, in line with contour of head, c. 0.2–0.25× as wide as head; distance between antennal fossa as long as or slightly longer than antennal fossa diameter; frons swollen, with three longitudinal ridges (as in Fig. 10M), without longitudinal depression; anterior view of head c. 1.3– 1.5× as wide as high; eye almost twice as long as distance from eye to apex of clypeus; antennal fossa round (as in fig. 3A in Namyatova et al., in press), its diameter subequal to third part of eye height, tuberculate (as in Fig. 10L, M), its inferior margin placed slightly above inferior margin of eye; base of clypeus placed near inferior margin of antennal fossa, delimited with depression; in lateral view head mostly flat or slightly convex dorsally; gula c. 1.5× as long as buccula length, straight or slightly convex. Labium. Reaching or slightly surpassing anterior margin of mesosternum; LSI– II twice as long as wide, almost subequal in length; LSIII c. 1.5× as long as wide, slightly shorter than LSII, LSIV c. 3–4× as long as wide, c. 2–2.5× as long as LSIII. Antenna. Reaching base of cuneus; ASI c. 0.7–0.8× as long as head width, widened medially (as in fig. 8D in Namyatova et al., in press); ASII c. 2.5–3× as long as ASI, subequal to or slightly longer than head and pronotum combined length; ASIII c. 0.6× as long as ASII, ASIV subequal to half of ASIII; ASII–IV filiform. Thorax. Collar distinct, fused with calli posteriorly, almost flat; calli more or less separated from each other (as in fig. 5B in Namyatova et al., in press), rounded, depression delimited calli posteriorly distinct between calli; humeral angles of pronotum rounded, not dilated; posterior margin of pronotum straight or slightly sinuate; scutellum almost flat, acute apically, without outgrowth, ridge or medial depression; metepimeron enlarged twice as high as long, angulate, subtriangular (as in Fig. 13C); metasternum extending to abdominal segment II in triangular outgrowth (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press). Hemelytron. Costal margins of hemelytron subparallel; claval commissure almost twice as long as scutellum, straight; R + M distinct, reaching posterior margin of corium; medial fracture inclined towards midline; corium without swelling posteriorly; cuneus c. 1.5× as long as wide, slightly shorter than pronotum, its medial margin almost straight; membrane cell distinctly surpassing apex of scutellum, forming right angle, as long as or slightly longer than pronotum; auxiliary vein absent; distance from cell to apex of membrane slightly shorter than cell length. Legs. Forecoxae contiguous (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press); femora only indistinctly swollen apically, straight; foretibia shorter than head and pronotum combined; swellings on tibiae absent; segment I of hind tarsus subequal to segment II and slightly shorter than segment III; apical half of claw curved; basal tooth on claw three times as long as wide, almost straight (as in Fig. 13J). Genitalia (Fig. 15I–L). Genital capsule slightly longer than wide, with swelling on left-hand side; ventral wall of genital capsule not shortened anteriorly, left paramere c. 3× as long as right paramere, almost straight; sclerite around primary gonopore suboval, with short outgrowths, supporting ductus seminis; ductus seminis not sclerotized basally or apically, distinctly shorter than phallotheca length, without coils, attached to phallobase medially; sclerotized part of phallotheca broad, occupying entire dorsal part, rounded apically, without outgrowths or ridge; endosoma without spicules.   
 Female: Body length 5.8–8 mm. Similar to male, but generally darker. Texture and vestiture as in male (Fig. 6). Structure as in male, but females generally larger. Genitalia (Fig. 19A, B). DLP without sclerotized bands and without striations or sclerites, lateral oviducts and spermathecal gland placed posteriorly, lateral oviducts proximal to each other; posterior wall of bursa copulatrix with small tubercles, without sclerites or outgrowths; base of second valvula distinctly swollen; ventral wall membranous.   
 Distribution: Known from China (Hainan), Taiwan, Indonesia (Kalimantan), Philippine Islands (Luzon) (Fig. 22).   
 Host plants: Unknown.
description: Published as part of Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2016, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world, pp. 36-136 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1) on pages 94-96, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12311, http://zenodo.org/record/5356719