Rhinocylapus vittatus Hsiao
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Rhinocylapus
Rhinocylapus vittatus

description: Rhinocylapus vittatus Hsiao
(Figs. 2 Q–R, 4G, 15, 16A–F)
Rhinocylapus vittatus Hsiao 1944: 381
Rhinocylapidius vittatus: Carvalho 1955b: 221, 1957: 23, 1981: 463, Fig. 3–6; Schuh 1995: 35, 1038; Gorczyca 2006: 73
Diagnosis. Recognized by having the following combination of characters: overall coloration of dorsum pale; head, pronotum, and hemelytron with contrastingly yellow, longitudinal bands (Fig. 2 Q–R); clypeus entirely dark; labrum without spines; anterior lobe of pronotum flattened and sparsely punctate, with row of punctures laterally, each bearing single seta, longer than those present on remainder of anterior lobe (Fig. 16 C); scent gland evaporatory areas contrastingly pale yellow; claw toothed subapically; endosoma strongly membranous, with single sclerite whose proximal portion capturing sclerotized part of ductus seminis inside endosoma dorsally (Fig. 15 B). Rh. vittatus is most closely related to Rh. pallescens in sharing a pale body. It differs, however, by body coloration, pronotum shape, the claw toothed subapically, and by the male genitalia.
Redescription. Female. COLORATION (Fig. 2 Q–R). Dorsum brownish with regular, relatively broad, longitudinal, yellow stripes. Head. Varying from yellow with dark, longitudinal stripes dorsally and laterally to entirely dark brown; clypeus entirely dark brown to blackish; mandibular plates brownish, yellow apically; buccula yellow, dark medially; gula yellow with darker areas; antenna yellow brown; antennal segment I yellowish basally, then darker, reddish or yellowish with reddish, longitudinal stripes, sometimes segment is entirely brown; segment II ranging from yellowish brown to brown; segment III and IV brownish; rostrum yellow with brownish areas. Thorax. Pronotum. Yellow with four dark, brown, sometimes almost black, longitudinal stripes medially and laterally. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Yellow with dark, broad, triangular patch terminated subapically, sometimes scutellum almost entirely dark, yellow apically. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron yellow with broad, brown, sometimes black, longitudinal stripes, sometimes proepimeron entirely dark, brown; mesepimeron and metepisternum fuscous, almost black, sometimes paler dorsally; scent gland evaporatory areas pale yellow. Hemelytron. Brown with yellow, rather narrow stripes on corium and clavus; embolium yellow, sometimes brownish; cuneus varying from yellowish red to almost entirely reddish or brownish. Legs. Yellowish; coxa pale yellow, femur mottled with dark, small patches, slightly red apically; tibia yellow, sometimes tinged with red apically; tarsus yellow. Abdomen. Varying from yellow with darker areas to entirely brown. STRUCTURE AND VESTITURE (Fig. 2 Q–R, 16A–F). Head. Matte, covered with pale, reclining, moderately dense setae; frons rugose medially; gula covered also with several very long, protruding setae; segment III and IV covered with moderately dense, relatively long, semidecumbent setae; rostrum long, slightly reaching beyond abdomen apically. Thorax. Pronotum. Pronotal collar without setae; anterior lobe flattened, sparsely and finely covered with punctation, pale setae, and with row of thick setae laterally, longer than those present on remainder of anterior lobe; posterior lobe covered with short, fine, pale setae. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Scutellum flattened, slightly rugose, sparsely covered with pale setae. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron covered with fine and sparse punctation anteriorly. Hemelytron. Covered with short, fine, dense setae; yellow bands on hemelytron slightly swollen. Legs. Forecoxa more shining than other segments; femora and tibiae covered with relatively short, semidecumbent setae; claw toothed subapically.
Male. Similar to female but distinctly smaller; inner surface of segment II covered with dense, almost protruding, minute setae curved apically.
Male genitalia (Fig. 15). Endosoma strongly membranous, with single sclerite whose proximal portion captures sclerotized part of ductus seminis inside aedeagus dorsally
Measurements. Ψ/ɗ: body length 6.2–6.9/4.0, width 2–2.45/1.2. Head. Length 1.2–1.4/0.9, width 1.1– 1.2/0.8, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.2–0.3/0.2. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.95–1.1/0.8, II 2.25–2.3/ 1.4, III 1.95–2.0/1.4, IV 1.8–2.1/1.6. Labium. Length of segment I 2.0/1.3, II 1.1/0.7, III 1.0/0.7, IV (Ψ, immeasurable in male specimens) 1.5; Pronotum. Length 1.2–1.35/0.8, width of anterior margin 0.65–0.9/0.5, length of lateral margin 1.3/0.8, width of posterior margin 1.6–1.8/1.1.
Biology. Unknown.
Distribution. Malaysia (Borneo, Malay Peninsula), Philippines (Palawan).
Type material. Holotype Ψ: Sandakan, Borneo, Baker; Type No. 56724, U.S. N.M [red label]; Holotype Rhinocylapus vittatus T. Y. Hsiao [red label]; paratypes: 4Ψ: Sandakan, Borneo, Baker; Paratype No. 56724, USNM [red label]; 3Ψ: Island of Basilan; Paratype No. 56724, USNM [red label] (USNM).
Additional material examined. 1ɗ: Sandakan, Borneo, Baker (USNM); 3 Ψ: Malay, Penin: Pahang, F. M. S., Kuala Icku, 500’, Dec. 7, 1926; 1 ɗ: Malay, Pwnin: Pahang, F. M. S., Kuala Jahasy, 300’, Nov. 27, 1926; 1 Ψ: Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Jahar, 300, Nov. 21, 1921 (BMNH); 1 ɗ and nymph: Java, occ. 1000 m., G. Boenda, salak, 6. IV. 1931, Luf...?, Polyphoracae (RMNH); 1 Ψ: Sarawak: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park; 17–30 ix. 1977, RGS Mulu exped., B. M. 1877 - 543; Alluvial for D. Hollis; 1 ɗ: Malay Penin: Pahang, F. M. S. Muala Jakari?, 300’, Nov. 27 1921; Exp. P. M. S. Museum, B. M. 1955 - 354; 1 Ψ: Malay Penin: Pahang, F. M. S. Muala Jakari?, 500’, Dec. 7 II 1921; Exp. F. M. S. Museum, B. M. 1955 - 354; 2 Ψ: Philippine Is: Palawan, 1000'; On bracket fungus, Irawan forest; 22. Jan. 1988, J. H. Martin coll., B. M. 1988– 2 (US).
description: Published as part of Wolski, Andrzej, 2010, Revision of the Rhinocylapus - group (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2653 on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.198881