Kosmiomiris carvalhoi Kim & Damken & Ahmad Sah & Jung 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kim, Junggon
name: Damken, Claas
name: Ahmad Sah, Hanyrol H.
name: Jung, Sunghoon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Kosmiomiris
Kosmiomiris carvalhoi

description: Kosmiomiris carvalhoi Kim & Jung sp. nov.
(Figures 1A, 1C, 1E, 2)
Diagnosis. Recognized by its scutellum with distinctly deep punctures; outer part of corium and cuneus with sparse setae, basal part of embolium with sparse setae; hypophysis of left paramere short, its apex slightly projected and curved apically, sensory lobe not broadly developed; hypophysis of right paramere thin and sharp at apex; medial sclerite long and thin; sclerotized rings oval; interramal lobe relatively broad.
Description. Male: Body elongated oval, length 5.58–5.65. Coloration. Generally dark brown with sanguineous patterns. Head: primarily dark brown, frons with dark circular marking, clypeus reddish brown to brown; antennae dark brown except for pale 1/4—1/3 basal part of third segment; labium entirely brown. Thorax: pronotum entirely dark brown; pronotal collar somewhat paler; scutellum mostly dark brown, lateral margins narrowly pale; hemelytra mostly hyaline with sanguineous patterns; clavus mostly or partly sanguineous, except for dark anterior part; middle and posterior part of corium sanguineous patterns (Figs. 1A, 1E); cuneus dark brown, except for hyaline anterior part; legs generally reddish brown; fore-femur mostly brown, mid and hind-femur sanguineous; fore and mid tibiae brown, hind-tibia mostly reddish brown, apical part pale brown; fore and mid-tarsus brown, hind-tarsus pale brown. Abdomen: mostly pale, genital segment dark brown.
Surface and Vestiture. Body glossy, covered with sparse pubescence; pronotum covered with dense pubescence, with densely deep punctures; scutellum with densely deep punctures; hemelytra glossy; outer part of corium with sparse dark setae.
Structure. Head: somewhat prognathous laterally, width longer than anterior width of pronotum; vertex with longitudinal sulcus, width longer than width of compound eye; ventral margin of compound eye not close to ventral suture of maxillary plate; antennae longer than length of body; first antennal segment cylindrical, slightly thicker than other segments, as long as width of head, longer than longitudinal length of pronotum; proportion of first to fourth antennal segments 1.3: 2.5: 1.9: 1.5; labrum short, as long as 1/4 first labial segment; labium reaching to fifth abdominal segment; proportion of first to fourth labial segments 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.2. Thorax: pronotum hexagonal, strongly convex laterally, mesal longitudinal length longer than 1/2 basal width, posterior margin concave; pronotal collar rounded; calli weakly swollen; scutellum tumid laterally, anterior width longer than 1/2 basal pronotal width; lateral margin of hemelytra almost straight; cuneus elongated shaped, cuneal fracture weakly developed; legs slen- der and long; first tarsal segment shortest. Abdomen: elongated, reaching to apex of cuneus.
Genitalia. Left paramere scythe-shaped with long setae, hypophysis short, its apex slightly curved, sharp apically, sensory lobe not broadly developed dorsally and laterally (Figs. 2 A–C); right paramere as long as left paramere, rod-shaped, hypophysis thin and sharp (Fig. 2D); endosoma membranous with two sclerite, ms sharp and thin, ls relatively thick, its basal part large developed, as long as ms (Figs. 2 E–F).
Female: Body elongated oval, length 7.40. Coloration. As in male except for longer pale basal part of third antennal segment. Surface and Vestiture. As in male. Structure. As in male. Genitalia. sr oval (Fig 2G); irl not surpassing irs, relatively broadly developed, without any spinules (Fig. 2H); valvula with tooth like structure apically (Fig. 2I).
Measurements (in mm). Male (n=2)/Female (n=1) Body length, clypeus–apex of membrane: 5.58–5.65/7.40; head length, excluding collar: 0.51–0.52/0.81; head width, including compound eyes: 1.32–1.37/1.40; vertex width: 0.51–0.57/0.66; 1 st antennal segment length: 1.25–1.29/1.56; 2 nd antennal segment length: 2.51–2.68/2.70; 3 rd antennal segment length: 1.84–1.92/1.94; 4 th antennal segment length: 1.46–1.58/1.39; total antennal length: 7.06– 7.47/7.59; 1 st labial segment length: 1.07–1.09/0.94; 2 nd labial segment length: 1.05–1.07/1.22; 3 rd labial segment length: 1.11–1.15/1.07; 4 th labial segment length: 1.20–1.24/1.38; total labial length: 4.43–4.55/4.61; mesal pronotal length: 1.00–1.24/1.67; basal pronotal maximal width (straight): 2.01–2.10/2.44; anterior scutellumal width: 1.17–1.35/1.42; mesal scutellumal length: 1.10–1.20/1.16; commissure length: 1.01–1.03/1.12; outer embolial mar- gin length (straight): 2.96–2.98/3.46; outer cuneal margin length (straight): 0.75–0.83/0.92; maximal width across hemelytron: 1.13–1.15/1.19; hind-leg (femur: tibia: tarsus): 2.64–2.91:3.85–4.10:0.71–0.83/3.16:4.25:0.79.
Specimen examined. [UBDM] Holotype: 1♂, Temburong National Park (4°32´42˝N 115°9´17˝E), lowland mixed Dipterocarp forest, Brunei Darussalam, 1–17.ii.2015, by Malaeise trap, C. Damken leg. (ID code: be- lalong.02005); [CNU] Paratype: 1♀, Temburong National Park (4°32´42˝N 115°9´17˝E), lowland mixed Diptero- carp forest, Brunei Darussalam, 5–17.ii.2013, by Malaise trap, C. Damken leg (ID code: belalong.01778).
Host: Etlingera coccinea (Zingiberaceae).
Biology: Adults and nymphs of this new species have been observed in Brunei Darussalam in lowland mixed Dipterocarp forest, during the day feeding on small near-ground flowering inflorescence of Etlingera coccinea (Zingiberaceae) (Figs. 4 A–D).
Etymology: Named after J. C. M. Carvalho as a recognition for his taxonomical study on the Miridae, especially Hyalopeplini; a noun in genitive case.
Distribution: Brunei Darussalam.
description: Published as part of Kim, Junggon, Damken, Claas, Ahmad Sah, Hanyrol H. & Jung, Sunghoon, 2019, Notes on the genus Kosmiomiris Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Miridae: Hyalopeplini) with description of a new species, pp. 377-384 in Zootaxa 4657 (2) on pages 378-382, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/3772283