Gorczyciana sulawesica Wolski & Taszakowski 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
name: Taszakowski, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Gorczyciana
Gorczyciana sulawesica

description: Gorczyciana sulawesica sp. nov.
Diagnosis. See the generic diagnosis.
Description. Female. Ground dorsal color pale creamy-yellow with numerous reddish and brownish patches and stripes of different size (Figs 2A, B). Head. Creamy-yellow with reddish and brownish patches and stripes (Figs 2A, B); vertex with three pairs of distinct, red, small patches: one pair situated on medial portion of vertex margin, one contiguous with inner margin of each eye and one pair bordering posterior margin of frons, longitudinal sulcus of vertex with reddish patches laterally forming two distinct circular patterns, medial longitudinal depression yellow, weakly darker than remainder of head (Fig. 2A); frons with two longitudinal dark red patches laterally bordering inner margin of eye, frons also with distinct creamy-yellow stripes bordering vertex, surface between vertex and frons also with similar creamy-yellow stripes, medially, frons also with red and dark yellow patches situated at obtuse angle to frons midline, sulcus on frons and surface bordering clypeus pale yellowish red (Fig. 2A); clypeus pale, creamy-yellow tinged with red dorsally, clypeal apex red; mandibular and maxillary plates with relatively large, brownish patches (Figs 2B); buccula red, with anterior small yellow tinge (Figs 2B); antennomere I creamy-yellow, with two red annulations; one basally and other close to base, apical three fourths with numerous reddish irregular fused patches (Figs 2A, B); antennomere II dark red with pale creamy-yellow stripe along inner surface (Figs 2A); labial segment I fuscous weakly tinged with yellow (Figs 2B); segment II dark yellow; segments III and IV fuscous. Thorax. Pronotum. Mostly creamy-yellow with numerous, more or less developed red spots and patches and pale fuscous tinge (Figs 2A, B); collar dark brown with broad color pattern medially composed of two creamy-yellow patches, each situated laterally, and one red situated medially (Figs 2A); lateral margin with small red spots along entire length (Figs 2A); calli densely sprinkled with small red spots (Figs 2A, B); posterior lobe broadly tinged with pale fuscous (Figs 2A); posterior margin with a few irregular, small pale yellow red spots along entire length (Figs 2A). Mesoscutum and scutellum. Ground coloration dark yellow with large black, reddish, and creamy-yellow areas (Figs 2A); medial part of mesoscutum and medio-basal part of scutellum with large black patch; mesoscutum sprinkled with brown and red sub-laterally and with two, relatively large patches, each situated laterally (Figs 2A); scutellum sprinkled with red and brown and with large creamy-yellow patch apically (Figs 2A). Thoracic pleura. Mostly yellow; dorsal portion of mesepimeron with red areas. Hemelytron. Ground coloration creamy-yellow with numerous red small spots and fuscous areas (Figs 2A); apical two thirds of clavus and three fourths of endocorium fuscous (Figs 2A); medial portion of exocorium and embolium pale fuscous (Figs 2A); claval and corial veins with small red spots along entire length (Figs 2A); embolium with irregular red spots along entire length (Figs 2A); cuneus pale fuscous, margins with red spots along entire length, numerous group of smaller red spots present on inner angle (Figs 2A); membrane pale fuscous, veins with fuscous spot along entire length (Figs 2A). Legs. Yellow brown, with red areas (Figs 2A, B); coxae yellow; fore coxa tinged with red basally (Figs 2B); fore femur yellow basally, remainder of fore femur fuscous tinged with yellow and red, apical portion yellow sprinkled with red (Figs 2A, B); middle femur yellow basally, remainder of middle femur red brown with numerous yellow patches, apex red (Figs 2A, B); hind femur yellow with basal half broadly tinged with red and brown, apex with two annulations: one composed of irregular brown patches subapically and other red apically (Figs 2A, B); tibiae yellow with numerous brownish and reddish irregular patches (Figs 2A, B).
Measurements. Female (n = 1). Body. Length: 4.7, width 2.1. Head. Length: 0.76, width: 0.84, interocular distance 0.4. Antenna. Length of antennomere I: 0.78, II: 1.80 (III and IV missing). Labium. Segments: I: 0.77. II: 0.82, III + IV: 1.34. Pronotum. Length: 0.85, length of lateral margin: 0.82, width of posterior margin: 1.56.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the type locality.
Biology. Unknown, collected on light trap.
Distribution. Indonesia (Sulawesi).
Type material: Holotype ♀: Indonesia: SULAWESI, Ridge betw. Lake Metana and Lake Mahalona. Kg. Salura: 2 km SE Nightjar Camp. 600 m. 14.x.1993. Slightly distributed rain forest on ultrabasic soil 2º33’S, 121º28’E. At light. J.P. & M.J. Duffels. (Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - ZMUC).
description: Published as part of Wolski, Andrzej & Taszakowski, Artur, 2023, Gorczyciana sulawesica-a remarkable new plant bug genus and species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from Indonesia, pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 5297 (2) on pages 263-266, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7993227