Kunungua ukerewensis Odhiambo 1962
Creators: name: Bolshakova, Darya S.
name: Konstantinov, Fedor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Kunungua
Kunungua ukerewensis

description: Kunungua ukerewensis Odhiambo, 1962
Figs 6 G, H, 7 A, B, 8 B, C, 9 B, C, F, 10 F – M
Kunungua ukerewensis Odhiambo, 1962: 269.
Material examined.
Holotype. ♀, Tanzania: Mara, Tanganyika Terr. Ukerewe Island, 2.02 ° S, 32.98 ° E, R. P. Conrads (AMNH_PBI00340366) (NHM).
Other specimens examined.
Dark form: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Nord-Kivu: Massif Ruwenzori, riv. Kakalari, affl. Bombi, 0.32 ° N, 29.78 ° E, 1.680 m, 28 Sep 1956, P. Vanschuytbroeck, VS 738, 1 ♀ (ZISP _ ENT 00008437) (MRAC). Katanga: P. N. U. (Upemba National Park), Kabwoe sur Muye, 8.8 ° S, 26.85 ° E, 1.320 m, 13 May 1948 – 14 May 1948, Miss G. F. de Witte, 1603 a, 1 ♂ (ZISP _ ENT 00014329) (MRAC). Katanga: Upemba National Park (P. N. U.), Gorges de la Pelenge, 7.15 ° S, 27.02 ° E, 1.150 m, 19 Jun 1947, Miss G. F. de Witte, 520 a, 2 ♀ (ZISP _ ENT 00014327, ZISP _ ENT 00008436); 21 Jun 1947, Miss G. F. de Witte, 521 a, 1 ♀ (ZISP _ ENT 00008412) (MRAC). Nord-Kivu: Terr. Rutshuru, 1.18 ° S, 29.45 ° E, Sep 1937, Miss. Prophylactique, 1 ♀ (ZISP _ ENT 00014328) (MRAC). Tanzania: Mara, Victoria Nyanza: Ukerewe, 2.02 ° S, 32.98 ° E, Feb 1938, R. P. Conrads, 469, 2 ♂ (ZISP _ ENT 00008413), 1 ♀ 1 ♂ (ZISP _ ENT 00008414) (MRAC). Light form: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Nord-Kivu: Massif Ruwenzori, riv. Lume, 0.41 ° N, 29.78 ° E, 1.860 m, 12 Dec 1956, P. Vanschuytbroeck, VS 840 d, 1 ♂ (ZISP _ ENT 00008435), 2 ♀ (ZISP _ ENT 00008432, ZISP _ ENT 00014330) (MRAC). Kinshasa: P. N. A. Mont Hoyo, 1.25 ° N, 29.82 ° E, 1.280 m, 07 Jul 1955 – 15 Jul 1955, P. Vanschuytbroeck, 13274-309, 2 ♂ (ZISP _ ENT 00008433, ZISP _ ENT 00008434), 2 ♀ (ZISP _ ENT 00008430, ZISP _ ENT 00008431) (MRAC).
Revised diagnosis.
Recognised by the following combination of characters: antennal segment I dark brown, with pale yellow basis; collar brownish yellow; right paramere falciform, with swollen body, apically tapering (Fig. 10 E, G); left paramere falciform, subapically widened, hook-like in lateral view (Fig. 10 D, F).
The dark form resembles K. gemina sp. nov. in general appearance and colouration, particularly in the shape of the band on corium. However, this species differs from K. ukerewensis in having a needle-shaped apex of the right paramere (Fig. 10 I), a pale yellow, apically darkened antennal segment I and a dark-brown collar (Figs 6 F, 7 E). The light form may be distinguished from all congeners by the same characters and additionally differs in having an almost entirely pale yellow corium and cuneus.
Redescription.
Male. Colouration. Dark form (as in Figs 6 G, 7 A). Head dark brown except for brownish yellow antennal fossa, antennal segment I, except for pale yellow narrowed basal part, segments II – IV brown, clypeus from basis to apex gradually lightening from dark brown to yellowish brown; collar dirty yellow to brownish yellow; calli, pronotal disk, scutellum, clavus and cuneus dark brown; corium pale yellow, with brown, more or less rounded band along its inner margin starting slightly above claval apex; membrane transparent, fuscous basally, gradually lightening apically; coxae pale yellow, with brownish anterolateral margin; basal half of femora usually pale yellow, apical half brownish, sometimes femora uniformly pale yellow; basal half of tibiae usually brownish, apical half pale yellow, sometimes tibiae uniformly pale yellow; tarsal segment I pale yellow, segment II pale yellow basally, gradually darkening apically; segment III brownish; abdomen dark brown.
Light form (as in Figs 6 H, 7 B). Head brown except for brownish yellow antennal fossa and pale yellow clypeus, slightly darkened along margins, antennal segment I pale yellow with brown apex, basal one-third of segment II sandy, apical two-thirds brownish; eyes usually dark brown; calli and scutellum brownish yellow; collar and pronotal disk sandy; clavus brown; corium pale yellow, with sandy, indistinctly bordered band along its inner margin, starting slightly above claval apex; cuneus pale yellow, apically sandy; membrane transparent, pale fuscous basally; coxae pale yellow, with brownish anterolateral margin; femora and tibiae pale yellow; tarsal segment I pale yellow, segment II pale yellow basally, gradually darkening apically; segment III brownish yellow; abdomen brown.
Vestiture. Covered with whitish setae, adpressed on hemelytron, semierect elsewhere, subequal to or slightly longer than width of antennal segment I at middle.
Structure. Total length 3.6–3.9 mm; body 3.6–3.8 times as long as width of pronotum and 3.9–4.2 times as long as pronotal length.
Head 0.3 times as long as wide, 1.7–1.9 times as wide as collar; antennal fossa large, removed from the inner eye margin by distance subequal to its own width, located at the level of inferior eye margin; frons flattened, only slightly convex distally; vertex 1.0–1.1 times as wide as length of antennal segment I; segment I 1.7–2.0 times as long as head, 0.5 times as long as pronotum, 0.4–0.5 times as long as pronotal width; labium relatively short, reaching middle of mesothorax (as in Fig. 7 A, B).
Thorax. Posterior margin of pronotum slightly concave medially (Fig. 6 G, H); pronotum about 1.1 times as wide as long, 1.2 times as wide as head; calli 0.5–0.6 times as wide as basal width of pronotum; pronotal disk, calli, and collar 0.6 times, 0.2 times, and 0.2 times as long as pronotum, respectively; calli and collar together 0.4 times as long as pronotum.
Hemelytron. Semitransparent, long, corium reaching apex of abdomen; cuneus about two-and-a-half times as long as wide at base (as in Figs 6 G, H, 7 A, B).
Legs. Slender, femora gradually thickening apically (Fig. 6 G, H).
Genitalia. Genital capsule. Lateral portions of cuplike sclerite forming inner margins of paramere sockets lobe-shaped, right lobe about twice as large as left one; outgrowth forming outer side of right paramere socket trapeziform, medially depressed, left outer outgrowth small, spike-like (Fig. 9 B, C).
Parameres. Subequal in size; right paramere С-shaped, with swollen, not flattened body, apically tapering (Fig. 10 H, I, L, M); left paramere falciform, subapically widened, tapering at apex, hook-like in lateral view (Fig. 10 F, G, J, K).
Aedeagus. As in Fig. 8 B, C; C - shaped, sclerotised part with dorsal, non-pigmented, trapeziform outgrowth located close to phallobase.
Female. Structure, surface, and vestiture as in male. Colouration as in male, but cuneus pale yellow, with brown outer and inner margins. Total length 3.7–3.8 mm. Head 1.7–1.8 times as wide as collar; antennal segment I 1.6–2.2 times as long as head.
Genitalia. Bursa copulatrix weekly sclerotised, vulvar region and posterior wall devoid of any distinctive sclerotisations; sclerotised rings of dorsal labiate plate very thin and weakly sclerotised, with medially oriented sclerotised outgrowth (Fig. 9 F).
Distribution.
Originally described from Tanganyika region (Tanzania). Currently known from Congo and Tanzania.
Host.
Unknown.
description: Published as part of Bolshakova, Darya S. & Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2024, Revision of the genus Kunungua (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae) with descriptions of three new species and new generic synonymy, pp. 219-239 in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1) on pages 219-239, DOI: 10.3897/dez.71.122735