Xenophyes adelphus Burckhardt, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Bochud, Estée
name: Damgaard, Jakob
name: Gibbs, George W.
name: Hartung, Viktor
name: Larivière, Marie-Claude
name: Wyniger, Denise
name: Zürcher, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Peloridiidae
Xenophyes
Xenophyes adelphus

description: Xenophyes adelphus Burckhardt, sp. nov.
(Figs. 6, 7, 21, 27, 34, 41, 48, 55, 62, 63, 74, 80)
Material examined. Holotype 3, New Zealand: SL, Longwood Range, Bald Hill, 700 m, 46°11’50’’S / 167°50’00’’E, 26.i.1999, cloud forest, Nothofagus menziesii, sifting ground moss and lichens (M.-C. Larivière & A. Larochelle) (dry mounted, NZAC).
Paratypes, New Zealand: South Island: 1 Ƥ, 1 nymph, SL, Longwood Range, Bald Hill, 800 m, 10.ii.1992, rain forest (D. Burckhardt) #43 (dry and slide mounted, MHNG); 1 3, same but Bald Hill, lower site, 15.x.2008 (G. W. Gibbs), JD#2309 (dry, ZMUC); 2 3, 1 Ƥ, FD, West Side of Lake Hauroko, 12.xi.1966, moss from wet bank (F. D. Alack) (dry mounted, MONZ, NZAC).
Description. Adult. Coloration. Ochreous to brown; clavus dark brown, remigium lighter.
Structure. Body, in dorsal view, oblong-oval. Head with strongly curved fore margin; anterior rim indistinctly delimited from membrane; areolae, in longitudinal body axis, relatively long; eyes moderately recessive; hind margin of eye and postero-lateral margin of head forming an obtuse angle. Pronotum with distinct median longitudinal ridge, smooth posteriorly, at most finely punctate postero-laterally. Paranota relatively large, about as wide anteriorly as posteriorly, with widely curved margins; smooth postero-ventrally. Tegmen with vein M reduced basally, basal radial cell without additional veins in apical half of vein M+CuA. Male and female terminalia as in Figs. 27, 34, 41, 48, 55, 62, 63. Male anal tube narrowly oval, in dorsal view, widest in basal third, irregularly narrowing to apex, with slightly sinuous margins. Pygophore with comparatively long and narrow median posterior tooth; postero-lateral edges distinctly angular. Parameres short, rounded apically. Aedeagus, in anterior view, with broad, irregularly rounded head, narrowed subapically, and almost subquadrate antero-proximal lobes; posterior outline of neck, in profile, with distinct angle; spines on neck indistinct, a few at most. Female tergite 9 with ventral margin strongly indented in apical third. Ventral teeth of valvulae 1 moderately large.
Measurements and ratios in Tables 1 and 2.
of measured specimens; BL = body length measured from anterior head margin to posterior point of tegmina; HW = head
width; HL = median head length; MR = length of median rim separating areolae of head; PW = prononotal width; PL = median
pronotal length; TL = tegminal length; TW = combined maximum tegminal width.
N BL HW HL MR PW PL TL TW
adelphus 2 3, 2Ƥ 2.35–2.63 0.98–1.23 0.33–0.38 0.18–0.23 1.23–1.45 0.38–0.40 1.63–1.80 1.38–1.55 specimens; HLW = HL/HW; HMR = HL/MR; HLPL = HL/PL; PWHW = PW/HW; PLW = PL/PW; TLW = TL/TW; HL =
median head length; HW = head width; MR = length of median rim separating areolae of head; PL = median pronotal length;
PW = prononotal width; TL = tegminal length; TW = combined maximum tegminal width.
N HLW HMR HLPL PWHW PLW TLW
adelphus 2 3, 2 Ƥ 0.27–0.35 1.63–1.86 0.87-0.94 1.00–1.46 0.26–0.31 1.16–1.18 0.32±0.04 1.72±0.10 0.89±0.03. 1.30±0.21 0.28±0.02 1.17±0.01
cascus 21 3, 23Ƥ 0.31–0.37 1.45–2.00 0.79-1.06 1.33–1.60 0.23–0.28 1.00–1.28 0.33±0.01 1.73±0.15 0.89±0.06 1.47±0.06 0.26±0.01 1.09±0.05
goniomus 20 3, 18 Ƥ 0.28–0.35 1.44–2.17 0.74-1.07 1.29–1.52 0.22–0.32 1.08–1.30 0.31±0.02 1.86±0.20 0.82±0.07 1.43±0.06 0.27±0.02 1.16±0.04
kinlochensis 23 3, 19 Ƥ 0.29–0.34 1.78–2.83 0.79-1.07 1.34–1.49 0.21–0.29 1.08–1.27 0.32±0.01 2.17±0.21 0.87±0.06 1.41±0.04 0.26±0.02 1.17±0.04
metoponcus 6 3, 6 Ƥ 0.36–0.40 1.33–1.60 0.93-1.14 1.44–1.54 0.24–0.27 1.00–1.05 0.38±0.01 1.47±0.06 1.00±0.06 1.49±0.03 0.26±0.01 1.03±0.02
rhachilophus 21 3, 15 Ƥ 0.27–0.35 1.56–2.75 0.71-1.00 1.27–1.43 0.24–0.28 1.05–1.32 0.30±0.02 1.90±0.23 0.82±0.06 1.39±0.03 0.26±0.01 1.16±0.05 Fifth instar (Fig. 74). Anterior head margin weakly convex or almost straight. Posterior lobes of abdominal segment 9 stout, blunt apically; ventrite 9 covered with microscopical spinules in addition to setae; rear margin of male genital capsule, in ventral view, ending laterally and medially at about the same level (Fig. 80). Measurements and ratios in Table 3.
Etymology. From Greek αδελφός = brother, referring to the great morphological similarity to other Xenophyes species.
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PW T9L T9W BL/BW HW/AL T9L/T9W adelphus 1.18 0.38 0.48 1.62 4.38 0.79 cascus 1.15–1.33 0.28–0.38 0.48–0.55 1.56–1.69 3.67–4.88 0.50–0.79 goniomus 1.55–1.73 0.48 0.53–0.58 1.56–1.57 4.27–4.30 0.83–0.90 kinlochensis 1.50–1.68 0.38–0.48 0.53–0.58 1.52–1.63 4.30–4.36 0.71–0.83 metoponcus 1.28–1.33 0.35–0.43 0.38–0.50 1.55–1.56 4.38–4.50 0.70–1.13 rhachilophus 1.43–1.45 0.40–0.43 0.50–0.53 1.47–1.53 4.44–4.56 0.76–1.85
description: Published as part of Burckhardt, Daniel, Bochud, Estée, Damgaard, Jakob, Gibbs, George W., Hartung, Viktor, Larivière, Marie-Claude, Wyniger, Denise & Zürcher, Isabelle, 2011, A review of the moss bug genus Xenophyes (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae) from New Zealand: systematics and biogeography, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 2923 on pages 7-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200936