Morobea Carvalho 1987
Creators: name: WALL, MICHAEL A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Morobea

description: Morobea Carvalho   
 Morobea Carvalho, 1987: 181.   
 TYPE SPECIES: Morobea longipes Carvalho, 1987 (original designation).   
DIAGNOSIS: Recognized among other Orthotylini by the following combination of characters: elongate parallel-sided body (fig. 1a, b, d); projecting clypeus (fig. 2c); strongly carinate posterior margin of head projecting over anterior margin of pronotum (fig. 2a, c); disc of pronotum coarsely rugulose (fig. 2a); posterior margin of pronotum broadly emarginate; metathoracic legs relatively long. Males with second antennal segment with species specific arrangement of short setae at base (fig. 3); genital capsule enormous (fig. 4a, 5a), subequal to one-half abdominal length; opening of genital capsule disproportionately large, clearly exposing complex aedeagus; aedeagus with remarkably convoluted and heavily sclerotized phallotheca (figs. 4d, 5e); ductus seminis with thickened heavily sclerotized ring proximal to secondary gonopore.  
 REDESCRIPTION: Male: General Aspect: Macropterous, elongate, parallel-sided, total length 5.88–6.57; length from apex to clypeus to cuneal fracture 4.42–4.75; width across humeral angles of pronotum 0.83–0.96. Coloration and Vestiture (figs. 1a, d): Body yellowish brown with red and green maculations; antennae and legs yellowish brown with red maculation on apices of metafemora; membrane of forewing moderately suffused with brown; veins red to undifferentiated. Dorsum with sparse fine, short, hyaline setae; mesepisternum and metepisternum with field of dense microchaetae; legs and antennae with fine, distally orientated short, red, setae. Structure: Head (fig. 2a–c) moderately projecting in front of eyes; posterior margin convex; posterior margin strongly carinate, projecting over anterior margin of pronotum; frons flat posteriorly becoming steeply declivent anteriorly; clypeus distinctly projecting in front of frons; gena and maxillary plates extending anteroventrally; buccal cavity obovate, short; eyes occupying about one-half of total head height in lateral view, posterolateral margin slightly separated from margin of pronotum; antennae inserted midway between ventral and dorsal margins of eye. Antennae elongate, gracile; segment I subequal to length of pronotum, vasiform; segment II cylindrical, elongate with species specific arrangement of short setae at base (fig. 3), three times longer than segment I; segment III and IV gracile, often coiled in dry specimens. Labium reaching just beyond posterior margin of metacoxae. Pronotum elongate trapeziform, slightly longer than broad, coarsely punctate posteriorly; pronotal collar thin, slightly overlapped dorsally by weakly carinate margin of disc; lateral margins slightly emarginate; posterior margin distinctly sinuate with medial emargination; disc weakly convex, vaguely separated into anterior and posterior lobes by shallow sulcus; calli weakly raised, undifferentiated. Mesoscutum weakly exposed. Scutellum triangular, slightly convex. Hemelytra elongate, parallel-sided to posterior margin of cuneus; cuneus two to three times longer than broad. Metathoracic spiracle large with evaporative areas (fig. 2e); ostiole lenticular, placed anteriorly on metepisternum; peritreme swollen anteriorly and posteriorly (fig. 2f); evaporative area extending to posterior margin of metepisternum, deflexed posteriorly. Legs extremely elongate; claws moderately curved with apically convergent parempodia (fig. 2d). Genitalia (figs. 4–5): Genital capsule large; genital opening disproportionately large; ventral margin of aperture with dorsal and ventral projections. Left paramere elongate, bent near base with a sinuous apical process. Right paramere relatively short, robust, bent at midlength. Phallotheca complex, highly dissected, projecting well outside of genital capsule. Aedeagus relatively simple; ductus seminis with heavily sclerotized ring basal to secondary gonopore; secondary gonopore weakly defined.   
FEMALE: Ovipositor approximately onehalf length of abdomen; subgenital plate narrowly triangular with acute distal margin, roughly one-third length of ovipositor.
description: Published as part of WALL, MICHAEL A., 2007, A New Genus and New Species of Austro-Papuan Orthotylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae), pp. 1-20 in American Museum Novitates 3558 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3558[1:ANGANS]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5387430