Pherolepis longipilus Zhang & Liu, 2009, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Liu, Guo-Qing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Pherolepis
Pherolepis longipilus

description: Pherolepis longipilus sp.nov.
(Figs. 6, 7, 37–48)
Type specimens: Holotype: male, CHINA: Tianjin Municipality (39°02'N, 117°12'E), alt. 50m, 1. VII. 1994, Nan Lu leg.. Paratypes: 2 females, same data as holotype; 2 males, 1 female, same data as holotye except for date, 18. V. 1994; 1 male, CHINA: Fengxian County (33°55'N, 106°31'E), Shaanxi Province, alt. 1400m, 27. VII. 1994, Wen-jun Bu leg.; 2 males, 2 females, CHINA: Anyang City (36°6'N, 114°21'E), Henan Province,?. V. 1954.
Diagnosis: Recognized by the distinctively long, dense, erect or suberect, deep brown simple setae covering the dorsal surface of the body (Figs. 6, 7, 39, 40), the shining sericeous setae densely scattered on the proximal 2/3 of hemelytron, the yellow-brown hemelytron, the castaneous head, pronotum and scutellum. Most similar to P. amplus Kulik (Figs. 3, 4) in size and coloration of dorsum, but distinguished by the structure of male genitalia (Figs. 43–47) and the presence of extremely long simple setae (Figs. 37, 39–40).
Description: Male (Fig. 6): Macropterous, oval, medium-sized.
Coloration: General coloration yellowish brown or brown, without distinctive colored markings on dorsum; head, pronotum, exposed part of mesoscutum and scutellum castaneous to almost black; membrane fumose, without spots; eyes dark brown with outer margin reddish; antennal segment I and proximal half of segment II dirty yellow, distal half yellow-brown to castaneous, segment III and IV castaneous to black; clypeus and buccula reddish brown; labium yellowish brown; coxae and trochanter pale-yellow, femora and tibiae pale-brown, tarsal segment III blackish brown; abdomen dark brown.
Surface and Vestiture: Dorsal surface of body covered densely with two types of setae, distinctly long, erect or suberect, simple setae (Figs. 37, 39–40) and decumbent or appressed, flattened, shining sericeous setae.
Structure: Head (Fig. 37): Triangular in frontal view and transverse in dorsal view, weakly convex posteriorly; vertex and frons moderately inclined, densely covered with two types of setae mentioned above, posterior margin of vertex forming a complete, weakly rounded carina; frons and clypeus distinctly protrudent, easily visible in dorsal view; mandibular and maxillary plates, and buccula covered with sparse, recumbent, simple setae; labium elongate, almost reaching posterior margin of hind trochanter; eyes broadly ovoid; antennal segment I short and stout, narrow at base, segment II long, tubular and weakly curved; segment III equal to segment IV in diameter and length, more slender than segment II. Thorax: Pronotum broad, weakly tumidiform, anterior and posterior lobes not demarcated, posterolateral angles rounded, posterior margin slightly concave; mesoscutum broadly exposed, weakly declining; scutellum slightly swollen mesially; hemelytron broad, clavus weakly elevated along the claval commissure; cuneus broadly triangular, moderately declining; veins of membrane indistinct; femora stout and somewhat flattened, tibiae cylindrical and straight, with two rows of black short spicules; tarsal segment I and II subequal in length, segment III about two times length of segment II; claws distinctly curved, slightly broadened basally, pulvilli absent, parempodia lamellate, recurved, and convergent apically. Abdomen: Relatively stout and broad, generally covered with recumbent, pale simple setae.
Male genitalia (Figs. 43–47): Vesica typically L-shaped, with a large, flattened, spinelike projection on shaft, near apex with a fingerlike process, apex of vesica with broad membrane (Fig. 43); left paramere boatshaped, hypophysis elongate, sensory lobe blunt (Figs. 44, 45); right paramere leaflike (Fig. 46); phallotheca elongate, apex weakly curved (Fig. 47).
Female (Fig. 7): Macropterous. Surface and coloration similar to male, the size weakly bigger than male, body broader.
Female genitalia: Structure as figure 48.
Distribution: China (Nei Mongol, Tianjin, Henan).
Host: No data available.
Etymology: Named for the distinctly dense, long, erect or suberect setae on dorsum.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xu & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2009, Revision of the pilophorine plant bug genus Pherolepis Kulik, 1968 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 2281 on pages 12-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191187