Solomonius laminaphallicus Published 2007, sp. nov.
Creators: name: WALL, MICHAEL A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Solomonius

description: <i>Solomonius laminaphallicus</i> sp. nov. (Figs., 29C, 30J-L, 33D, 36D, 37) <i>Holotype.</i> Male. <b>SOLOMON ISLANDS: Choiseul Island</b>, [no specific locality or collector]. Deposited in the American Museum of Natural History. <i>Diagnosis.</i> Testaceous to pale olivaceous with dark markings. Labium reaching sixth abdominal sternite (fifth visible). Profemora with ventral and dorsal series of tubercles. Ventral rim of pygophore with broadly bilobed process. Medial penile plates medially carinate and swollen apically and 2X longer than broad. Eighth gonocoxae of female with posterior margin extremely sinuate. <i>Description.</i> Body 2.2X longer than broad (Fig. 29C). Head longer than broad; juga equal to tylus. Pronotum with anterior margin concave; anterolateral angle produced laterally as small tubercle; anterolateral margins subentire (some vague crenulations anteriorly), explanate; lateral angles produced into acute angle; posterior margin straight. Scutellum with lateral margins changing angle but not becoming parallel. Bucculae with anteroventral angle acute, produced anteriorly. Labium reaching sixth abdominal sternite (fifth visible); ratios of labial segments 1:1.6:2:1.1. Peritreme 1/2 as long as distance from ostiole of metathoracic scent gland to lateral margin of metapleuron. Episternal ridge located 4/5 of distance between ostiole of metathoracic scent gland and lateral margin of metapleuron. Third through sixth abdominal sternites (second through fifth visible) sulcate. Profemora with ventral row of small stout tubercles; dorsal surface unarmed. Mesofemora with row of small ventral tubercles. Metafemora with row of small ventral tubercles. <i>Color.</i> Ground color testaceous to pale olivaceous with black to metallic markings and punctations. Antennal segments I–II dorsolaterally testaceous; segment III straminous; segments IV–V not observed. Pronotum marked with four dark triangular maculations on the posterior margin. Scutellar bulge with dark maculations on posterolateral portion; anterolateral excavations black; median longitudinal ridge straminous with lateral dark maculations. Forewing with mottling of ground color and darker maculations; membrane testaceous. Labium straminous to testaceous, apical portion of labial segment IV castaneous. Legs of ground color; tubercles or profemora castaneous. Tibiae with postmedial dark band; tarsi distally and ventrally dark. Venter of abdomen with lateral markings forming a wide continuous castaneous band; medial area with wide longitudinal castaneous band, labial sulcus of ground color. <i>Male.</i> Pygophore slightly constricted dorsolaterally around bases of dorsolateral lobes (Fig. 30J–L). Ventral rim with median broadly bilobed process (Fig. 30J). Anterior flange of dorsolateral lobes auriculate, posterior margin acute with concavity oriented ectad (Fig. 30K–L); posterior lobes absent; posteroventral lobes acute, rounded, directed laterally (Fig. 30J–L). Medial penile plates little more than 2X longer than broad; basal half or medial area extremely carinate (Fig. 33D). <i>Female.</i> Laterotergites of eighth segment with small pair of lobes. Posterior margin of gonocoxa of eighth segment extremely sinuate. Gonocoxa of ninth segment narrow; posterior margin acutely emarginate. Laterotergites of ninth segment elongate, triangular apically (Fig. 36D). Secondary thickening of vaginal intima short, 1.5–2X longer than broad, broadly bilobed distally, pore to ductus recepticali opening between lobes. <i>Measurements.</i> Males (n=2): body length 17.2 SD 0.3 (17.0–17.5), anterior pronotal width 3.7 SD &lt;0.1 (3.7– 3.7), humeral width 8.5 SD &lt;0.1 (8.5–8.6), scutellar length 6.2 SD 0.2 (6.0–6.4), medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 1.0 SD n/a (1.0–1.0), medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 3 SD &lt;0.1 (3.0–3.1). Female (n=1): body length 17.6, anterior pronotal width 4, humeral width 8.8, scutellar length 6.7, medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 1.5, medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 2.6. Appendages in Table 5. <i>Etymology.</i> Combination of the Latin words <i>lamina</i> (“blade”),and <i>phallicus</i> (of or belonging to the symbol of human male reproduction carried during the festival of Bacchus); reflecting the bladelike carina on the aedeagus of this species. <i>Paratypes.</i> <b>SOLOMON ISLANDS: Choiseul Island</b>, [no specific locality or collector] - 1 &amp;male; (AMNH); Wagina, [7° 26' S, 157° 46’ E], 26 August 1964, coll. M. McQuillan - 1 &amp;male; (BMNH). <i>Distribution.</i> Choiseul and associated islands (Fig. 37).
description: Published as part of <i>WALL, MICHAEL A., 2007, A revision of the Solomonius-group of the stinkbug tribe Halyini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae), pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 1539 (1)</i> on pages 68-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5088720