Hypseloecus schuhianus Yasunaga, Yamada & Artchawakom, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Yamada, Kazutaka
name: Artchawakom, Taksin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Hypseloecus
Hypseloecus schuhianus

description: Hypseloecus schuhianus sp. nov.
(Figs.5–7, 8 C–D, 11)
Diagnosis. Recognized by its generally fuscous and partly dark reddish brown body; antennal color pattern similar to phuvasae; darkened pleura, including anterior half of ostiolar peritreme; contrastingly whitish procoxa; generally darkened femora except for pale apex of profemur; and two identical processes of endosoma. This new species is considered to be the closest relative of H. phuvasae, from which it can be easily distinguished by the characters in the key and Table 1.
Description. Male. COLORATION AND VESTITURE: Body generally fuscous, rounded; dorsal surface less shining, with reddish parts on mesoscutum, scutellum and hemelytron. Head rather shining, chestnut brown, often with a pair of pale spots on frons near inner margins of eyes; ventral portion yellowish white. Antennal segments I and II darkened as in Table I; segment III and IV dark brown, with whitish extreme base of the former. Labium dark brown, partly reddish. Lateral margin of mesonotum and wider portion of scutellum sometimes tinged with red; pleura and coxae dark brown, with anterior half of ostiolar peritreme often darkened. Hemelytron less shining, or mat; clavus, anterior part of corium and apical part of cuneus more or less reddish brown; membrane dark smoky brown, with pale veins and irregular-shaped fascia at middle. Coxae as in Table 1; procoxa contrastingly whitish. All femora usually darkened; tibiae with rather clear, dark reddish brown annulations. Abdomen almost uniformly fuscous. STRUCTURE: Labium long; remaining structures as in generic description (see Schuh & Menard, 2011). Genitalia (Fig. 11): Right paramere oval. Endosoma nearly J-shaped, with two processes. Female. Similar in general coloration and structure to male.
Measurements. ♂/♀: Total body length 2.2−2.5/ 2.2−3.0; length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 1.71−1.90/ 1.90−2.30; width of head across eyes 0.85−0.96/ 0.87−0.99; head height 0.58−0.60/ 0.60−0.65; width of vertex 0.37−0.44/ 0.48−0.50; lengths of antennal segments I −IV 0.21−0.23, 0.81−0.86, 0.36−0.40, 0.36−0.47/ 0.18−0.24, 0.74−0.86, 0.37−0.46, 0.33−0.45; basal width of pronotum 1.06−1.16/ 1.22−1.34; maximum width across hemelytron 1.33−1.53/ 1.46−1.70; and length of metatibia 1.32−1.41/ 1.35−1.56.
Etymology. Named after Dr. Randall T. Schuh, in honor of his global contributions to the Miridae; an adjective.
Biology. Unknown; all specimens were collected at light.
Holotype: ♂, THAILAND: Nakhon Ratchasima: SERS, 14˚30'27”N, 101˚55'39”E, 410 m alt., light trap, light trap, 26 Feb 2009, T. Yasunaga (AMNH _PBI 00380249) (DOA).
Paratypes. THAILAND: Nakhon Nayok: 1♀, Sarika, N14°18'39" E101°18'00", at light, 5 Mar 2009, T. Yasunaga (00380257) (TYCN); 1♀, Sarika, N14°18'07" E101°18'09", at light, 15 Dec 2011, T. Yasunaga (00380258) (TYCN). Nakhon Ratchasima: 4♂ 1♀, same data as for holotype (00380250–00380254) (AMNH, TYCN); 1♀, same locality, light trap, 12−14 Jun 2009, T. Yasunaga, K. Yamada (00380255) (TYCN); 1♀, same locality, light trap, 29−31 May 2012, T. Yasunaga (00380256) (TYCN). Phranakhon-Sri-Ayutthaya: 1♀, Huntra, RMUTSB Campus, 14˚22'N, 100˚36'E, 11 Feb 2009, T. Yasunaga (00380259) (TYCN).
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, Yamada, Kazutaka & Artchawakom, Taksin, 2015, First Indochinese records of the plant bug genus Hypseloecus Reuter (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini), with descriptions of eight new species from Thailand, pp. 75-93 in Zootaxa 3925 (1) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/287966