Rewafulvius brachypterus Carvalho 1972
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
name: Gorczyca, Jacek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Rewafulvius
Rewafulvius brachypterus

description: Rewafulvius brachypterus Carvalho, 1972
Rewafulvius brachypterus: Carvalho 1972: 53, Figs. 1–4 (sp. nov.); Carvalho & Froeschner 1987: 208 (list); Schuh 1995: 35 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog); Gorczyca 2006: 66 (catalog)
Euchilofulviella ernsti: Gorczyca 1999: 10, Figs. 4–5 (sp. nov.), 2006: 30 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog) syn. nov.
Diagnosis. See generic diagnosis.
Redescription. Brachypterous male. COLORATION (Fig. 5, 9). Dorsal coloration mostly dark brown, with yellowish and dirty yellowish areas. Head. Entirely dark brown; antenna dirty yellowish brown (Fig. 5); labium dark brown. Thorax. Pronotum. Entirely dark brown (Fig. 5). Mesoscutum and scutellum. Entirely dark brown, slightly darker than pronotum (Fig. 5). Thoracic pleura. Dark brown, scent gland efferent system yellowish, slightly tinged with red. Hemelytron. Mostly dark brown, with yellowish areas and dark reddish apex; clavus mostly dark brown, with dirty yellowish, longitudinal tinge along inner margin and claval suture weakly tinged with red; corium dark brown with small, dirty yellowish patches: one basally and other medially, corium also with contrastingly yellowish patch apicolaterally contiguous with apical patch of embolium; embolium dirty yellowish, except for subapical reddish tinge and apical contrastingly yellow patch apically (Fig. 5). Legs. Dark brown with yellowish areas (Fig. 5). Abdomen. Dark brown (Fig. 9).
Macropterous male. COLORATION (Figs. 7, 10). Dorsal surface, head, and thoracic pleura with coloration similar to brachypterous male. Thorax. Pronotum. Dark brown with two indistinct, small, yellowish, medial patches on posterior margin) (Fig. 7). Legs. Similar to brachypterous male; profemur with basal half dark brown and apical half dark yellowish, tinged with brown; mesofemur mostly dirty yellowish brown with yellowish base; metafemur dark brown except for narrow, yellowish tinge basally and broad, yellowish annulation medially; tarsi yellowish (Fig. 7). Abdomen. Dark brownish (Fig. 10).
Brachypterous female. COLORATION (Fig. 6). Dorsal surface and thoracic pleura coloration as in brachypterous male. Head. Dark brownish with indistinct yellowish, longitudinal medial stripe along vertex and frons. Legs. Coloration as in macropterous male.
Macropterous female. COLORATION. As in macropterous male.
Biology. Unknown.
Distribution. Fiji.
Remarks. Examination of the holotypes of Rewafulvius brachypterous and Euchilofulviella ernsti suggests that they belong to the one species. Therefore, E. ernsti is treated here as a junior synonym of R. brachypterous, and the genus Euchilofulviella is synonymized with Rewafulvius.
Type material. Holotype ♂: Rewa, Fiji, Muir col., 4, 1906 (USNM) (Fig. 5).
Additional examined material. 1 ♀ (macropterous): Fiji, Viti Levu, Sigatoka, 18 XI 1998 Heiss (Fig. 8) (US); 1 ♀ (brachypterous): Vitilevu, Fiji; Nandarivatu, IX-14-38, 2700'; Under dead bark; E. C. Zimmerman Collector (Fig. 6); 1 ♀ (brachypterous): Fiji: Viti Levu, Trail Yayu-Nandrau, June 27–29, 1958; Borys Malkin Collector, Bishop Museum; 1 ♀ (macropterous): Navai Mili, Nr. Nandarivatu, IX-15-38, 2500'; Under dead bark; E. C. Zimmerman Collector; Viti Levu, Fiji; 1 ♀ (macropterous): Belt Road 45–50 mi. W. Of Buva, VII–26–38; Beating shrubs; E. C. Zimmerman Collector; Viti Levu, Fiji (Fig. 7) (BPBM).
description: Published as part of Wolski, Andrzej & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2014, Notes on the genera Peritropisca Carvalho & Lorenzato and Rewafulvius Carvalho (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), with the description of a new species of Peritropisca from Indonesia, pp. 155-166 in Zootaxa 3753 (2) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/228110