Adelphocorisella adelphocoroides Yasunaga &amp; Shishido &amp; Yamada 2016, new species
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Shishido, Takayuki
name: Yamada, Kazutaka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Adelphocorisella
Adelphocorisella adelphocoroides

description: <i>Adelphocorisella adelphocoroides</i>, new species (Figs. 1 D−F, 2A, 3) <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype:</b> male, THAILAND: Nakhon Ratchasima, Wang Nam Khieo, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station (SERS), N14°30'27" E101°55'39", 410 m alt., UV light trap, coll. T. Yasunaga, TB. Shishido, 25 December 2012 (AMNH _ PBI 00380437) (DOA). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Distinguished readily from known congeners by its coffee brown dorsum with very sparsely distributed, reclining, sericeous setae; moderately oblique head; shiny fuscous antennal segment I; long labium reaching abdominal sternum VII; somewhat shiny pronotum; and shape of parameres and endosoma. <b>Description.</b> <i>Holotype Male</i>: Body elongate oval; dorsal surface generally coffee brown, weakly shining, with uniformly distributed, pale brown, semierect simple setae and very sparsely distributed, reclining sericeous setae (Fig. 1D). Head whitish brown (Fig. 1E), but chestnut brown ventrally (Fig. 2A), oblique, a little porrect; vertex rather wide, about 1.5 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view, with a faint, narrow, longitudinal, mesal sulcus; frons shallowly and obliquely striolate. Antenna longer than body; segment I shiny fuscous, somewhat clavate; segments II−IV completely yellow, linear (Fig. 2A). Labium shiny dark brown, long, thick, reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternum VII (Fig. 2A). Pronotum somewhat shining, widely pale brown, narrowly darkened posteriorly, with yellowish white collar and posterior margin (Fig. 1D, F); pleura widely darkened and pruinosed, with creamy yellow ostiolar peritreme; mesoscutum yellowish brown, matte; scutellum dark brown, matte, with irregular, yellow basal striae; shallowly and roughly rugose (Fig. 1D). Hemelytron matte; corium and anterior part of clavus mottled with brown; apical half of cuneus yellowish brown; membrane smoky brown. Coxa generally dark brown, silverily pruinosed, except for metacoxa grayish brown (Figs 1F, 2A); leg pale brown; all femora and tibiae with small, brown or reddish brown spots; apical half of metafemur darkened; tibial spines fuscous. Abdomen pale brown; ventral median part irregularly darkened; ventral lateral part mottled with reddish spots (Fig. 2A). <i>Male genitalia</i> (Fig. 3): Left paramere with rather developed hypophysis; right paramere slender, tapered apicad. Apex of phallotheca simple, rounded. Endosoma composed of wide membranous area, with well developed spiculum and sclerite 'b', and relatively broad sclerite 'a'. <i>Female</i>: Unknown. <b>Measurements.</b> Male: Total body length 6.0; width of head across eyes 1.10; width of vertex 0.44; lengths of antennal segments I−IV 0.86, 2.84, 2.23, 1.10; length of labium 3.71; basal width of pronotum 1.84; maximum width across hemelytron 2.16; and length of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 2.70, 4.26, 0.64. <b>Etymology.</b> From the mirine generic name, <i>Adelphocoris</i> Reuter, with which the new species can be confused. <b>Biology.</b> Unknown; only a single male was collected using UV light trap.
description: Published as part of <i>Yasunaga, Tomohide, Shishido, Takayuki &amp; Yamada, Kazutaka, 2016, Two new species of the mirine plant bug genus Adelphocorisella (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini) from central Thailand, pp. 250-256 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64</i> on page 255, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4504366