Hallodapus albofasciatus Motschulsky 1863
Creators: name: Duwal, Ram Keshari
name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Tomokuni, Masaaki
name: Nakatani, Yukinobu
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Hallodapus
Hallodapus albofasciatus

description: Hallodapus albofasciatus (Motschulsky, 1863)
(Figs. 1 G–H, 5A, 10ĀH)
Leptomerocoris albofasciatus Motschulsky, 1863: 86 (n. sp.)
Hallodapus albofasciatus: Schuh, 1974: 94 (syn.); 1995: 223 (cat.); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 290 (cat.); Yasunaga, 2001: 152 (diag.); Yasunaga et al., 2013a: 599 (diag.); 2013b: 442 (list); Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015: 195 (list)
Diagnosis. Recognized by its dark brown shiny dorsum, with a clear white anterior transverse fascia behind apex of scutellum; more or less quadrate white macula at posterior corium; pale antennae, basal half of the segment I dark with reddish extreme apex; and form of male genital structures (Figs. 5 A, 10ĀH). For detailed description see Motschulsky, (1963: 86), Schuh (1974: 94) and Schuh (1984: 120; figs. 368, 371̄387).
Measurements. (♂ / ♀) (n= 1/2). Body length 2.36/ 2.59̄2.60; length from apex of tylus to cuneal fracture 1.92/ 1.98̄2.02; width of head across eyes 0.49/ 0.45̄0.46; width of vertex 0.24/ 0.24̄0.26; lengths of antennal segments ĪIV 0.30, 0.90, 0.86, 0.42/ 0.30̄0.32, 0.98̄1.00, 0.84̄0.86, 0.46̄0.48; length of labium 1.19/ 1.20̄1.22; mesal length of pronotum 0.32/ 0.31̄0.32; basal width of pronotum 0.70/ 0.71̄0.72; width across hemelytron 0.86/ 0.89̄0.90; length of metafemora, tibiae and tarsus 0.99, 1.41, 0.38/ 0.99̄1.02, 1.42̄1.46, 0.38̄0.39.
Distribution. Vietnam (North), Nepal * (Bhaktapur) widely distributed to Afrotropical to Oriental regions. (Schuh, 1984; Yasunaga et al., 2013a).
Specimens examined. MALAYSIA: Selangor: 1♂, Gombat, Setapak, Ula Gombak, on light trap, 6– 16.v.2016, T. Yoshida (ELKU). MYANMAR: Yangon: 1♂, Insein Township, 16.8786, 96.1022, on light trap, 10.iii.2015, T. Yasunaga (TYCN). NEPAL: Bhaktapur: 1♂, Dadhikot, 12.viii.2006, R.K. Duwal (NMTU). THAILAND: Nakhon Nayok: 2♂, Sarika, 14.310833, 101.300, on light trap, 20.xii.2010 & 15.xii.2011, T. Yasunaga (TYCN); Nakhon Ratchasima: 2♂, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station (SERS), 14.508935, 101.954052, 410 m, on light trap, 12–14.vi.2009, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (TYCN); 1♀ [macropterous], same locality, light trap, 31.v.2012, T. Yasunaga (00379667). Suphan Buri: 1♀ [brachypterous], Sri Prachan (on ground of a vegetable garden), 14.688417, 100.140500, 10 m, 25.x.2008, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (TYCN). VIETNAM: Ninh Binh Province: 1♂, Gia Vien District, Cuc Phuong, 170 m, on light trap, 10.vii.1997, M. Tomokuni (NSMT). Son La Province: 2♀, Deo Pha Din, 1,000 m, on light trap, 24.vi.1997, M. Tomokuni (NSMT).
description: Published as part of Duwal, Ram Keshari, Yasunaga, Tomohide, Tomokuni, Masaaki, Nakatani, Yukinobu & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2017, Further records on the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) in Asia, with proposition of two new species and a new synonymy, pp. 401-424 in Zootaxa 4258 (5) on pages 414-415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/570399