Hyoidea lindbergi Hoberlandt 1963
Creators: name: Knyshov, Alexander
name: Konstantinov, Fedor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Hyoidea
Hyoidea lindbergi

description: Hyoidea lindbergi Hoberlandt, 1963   
(Figs 8–9, 19, 28–29, 30, 37, 46, 55, 66–67)  
 Hyoidea lindbergi Hoberlandt, 1963: 267 (original description)   
 Hyoidea lindbergi: WAGNER (1974: 141) (redescription); SCHUH (1995: 123) (catalogue); CARAPEZZA (1997: 75) (record); KERZHNER & JOSIFOV (1999: 249) (catalogue); BAENA & GÜNTHER (2001: 89) (figure of pygophore).   
 Type locality. Morocco, Atlas Mts., Reraia Valley, near Asni.   
 Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: J, MOROCCO: Atlas Mai, Reraia, 29 May 1926 – 15 Jun 1926, Lindberg (AMNH_PBI 00337199) (NMPC). PARATYPES: MOROCCO: Atlas Mai, Reraia, 29 May 1926 – 15 Jun 1926, Lindberg, 1 J (AMNH_PBI 00337200), 2 ♀♀ (AMNH_PBI 00337201, AMNH_PBI 00337202) (NMPC).   
 Additional material examined. MOROCCO: Atlas Mai, Reraia, 29 May 1926 – 15 Jun 1926, Lindberg, 1 ♀ (AMNH_PBI 00337203) (NHMM), 2 ♀♀ (AMNH_PBI 00340300, AMNH_PBI 00340284), 1 J (AMNH_PBI 00340282) (ZMUH). Atlas Mts, Ijoukak, 30.98333°N 8.15°W, 1209 m, 20 May 1973, Eckerlein, Ephedra fragilis (Ephedraceae), 1 J (AMNH_PBI 00311351), 5 ♀♀ (AMNH_PBI 00311354–AMNH_PBI 00311356,AMNH_PBI 00311359, AMNH_PBI 00311273) (ZISP). Hoher Atlas, Tahanaote, 31.35°N 7.95°W, 10 May 1970, Eckerlein, Ephedra fragilis (Ephedraceae), 4 JJ (AMNH_PBI 00311347–AMNH_PBI 00311350), 4 ♀♀ (AMNH_PBI 00311357, AMNH_PBI 00311358, AMNH_PBI 00311271, AMNH_PBI 00311272) (ZISP).   
  Redescription. Male:  Middle-sized, 4.3–4.7 mm. COLOURATION (Fig. 8): Dirty yellowish. Head: Clypeus pale brown with small black longitudinal spot at base and two black lateral stripes extending from base to middle of clypeus; mandibular plate entirely pale, maxillary plate darkened at apex; mandibular and maxillary plates entirely pale brown; frons with large radiating black not confluent stripes at middle and several small black spots on each lateral side; vertex with two large black not confluent spots; frons and vertex with dark brown minute spots; antenna entirely dark brown to black, or segment II proximally pale brown, distally dark brown; labium brown, apex of segment IV dark brown to black. Thorax: Calli almost entirely covered with dense and largely confluent black spots; disc with dense minute dark spots; scutellum pale brown to brown with more or less expressed pale middle stripe; thoracic pleurites pale, with darkened propleural suture. Hemelytron: Clavus, corium and cuneus with diffuse and sometimes indistinct brown minute spots; membrane pale brown with brown veins. Legs: Pale brown to brown with reddish tinge, femora with a series of minute, partly confluent dark brown spots running along posterior margin at base and apically extending to anterior margin. Abdomen: Pale brown. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Smooth, disc and base of clavus with dense and very fine darkened punctation, scutellum typically with transverse wrinkles; vestiture composed of intermixed simple setae and silvery scales, simple setae on dorsum black. STRUCTURE: Head: Vertex 1.8–2.4 × as wide as eye; antennal segment I 0.4 × as long as width of head; antennal segment II 1.5–1.6 × as long as width of head and 1.2–1.3 × as long as width of pronotum. Thorax: Pronotum 1.6–1.8 × as wide as long and 1.2–1.3 × as wide as head. GENITALIA: Genital capsule with large tooth on left side of genital opening (Fig. 30); sensory lobe of left paramere short, flattened and serrate apically, caudal process slender and apically serrate (Fig. 46); right paramere as in Fig. 37; left spicule of aedeagus 0.5 × as long as right one, apically rounded; both branches of right spicule long and thin, without apical serration (Fig. 55).   
  Female:  Small to middle-sized, 4.7–5.0 mm. COLOURATION (Fig. 9), SURFACE AND VESTITURE: As in male. STRUCTURE: Almost of the same length as male or slightly larger, but noticeably wider, with larger interocular distance, vertex 2.9–3.3 × as wide as eye; antennal segment I 0.4 × as long as width of head; antennal segment II 1.2–1.4 × as long as width of head and 1.0–1.1 × as long as width of pronotum; pronotum 1.6–1.9 × as wide as long and 1.2–1.4 × as wide as head; abdomen larger and usually partly extending beyond apex of membrane; membrane at least reaching base of VIII tergite, rarely cover abdomen wholly. GENITALIA: First gonapophysis as in Fig. 67; second gonapophysis as in Fig. 66.   
 Differential diagnosis. Distinguished by the following combination of characters: dark minute spots well expressed on head, disc and hemelytron; two black spots on vertex not confluent (Figs 8–9); vestiture on dorsum composed of black simple setae and silvery scales; genital capsule with large tooth on left side of genital opening (Fig. 30); sensory lobe of left paramere short, flattened and serrate apically, caudal process slender and apically serrate (Fig. 46); left spicule of aedeagus 0.5 × as long as right one, apically rounded; both branches of right spicule long and thin, without apical serration (Fig. 55). Most similar to H. hermione in having pale brown dorsum with dark brown minute spots (compare Figs 2–3 and 8–9), and to H. horvathi in the middle-sized body, and dirty yellowish ground colour, but differs in the larger body size from the former and in the shape of pronotum, as well as in surface and vestiture of head and pronotum from the latter (see also relevant section in H. horvathi). Male specimens of all species also clearly differ in the shape of spicules of aedeagus (compare Figs 50, 53, and 55).   
 Host associations. Ephedra fragilis Desf. (HOBERLANDT 1963).   
 Distribution. Northwestern Africa, Morocco (Atlas Mountains) (HOBERLANDT 1963) and Tunisia (Siliana) (CARAPEZZA 1997) (Fig. 19).
description: Published as part of Knyshov, Alexander & Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2013, A taxonomic revision of the genus Hyoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae), pp. 1-32 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740129