Cleotomiris yamadakazi Yasunaga, 2012, new species
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Cleotomiris
Cleotomiris yamadakazi

description: Cleotomiris yamadakazi new species
(Figs. 3, 4, 5 B–C, 6, 8, 9)
Diagnosis. Recognized by the largest size among congeners (so far as known), blackish brown basic coloration, dense vestiture on dorsum, terete antenna with the claviform segments II–IV, a median ear-like protuberance of the ostiolar peritreme, a clear whitish fascia across clavus and corium, elongate right paramere, long, curved apical spine of the endosoma, and toughened female bursa copulatrix; by these diagnostic characters this new species can be easily distinguished from other congeners.
Description. Body large, rather elongate; basic coloration blackish brown; dorsal surface weakly shining, with uniformly distributed, silky, semierect setae and sparsely distributed, long, upright setae. Head pruinosed; basal margin of vertex narrowly carinate. Antenna dull brown, terete; segments II–IV claviform, thickened apically. Labium shiny mahogany brown, slightly exceeding apex of mesocoxa. Pronotum shallowly and irregularly punctate or rugose; collar about as thick as base of antennal segment II; pleura widely shagreened, or roughened by dense, minute sutures; ostiolar peritreme with a median, ear-like protuberance; posterior part of evaporative area ivory white. Hemelytron less shining, anteriorly with a clear, white fascia across clavus and corium; apical part of clavus and median part of corium more or less pruinosed; membrane smoky brown, with pale, translucent anterior corner. Coxae and legs dull brown, except for apical 1/2-1/3 of meso- and metacoxae pale brown; tibial spines relatively prominent. Abdomen entirely chocolate brown, widely pruinosed. Male genitalia (Figs. 4, 6): Genital segment with a ventral spine (Fig. 4). Parameres large; left paramere with widened sensory lobe; right paramere elongate. Phallotheca nearly straight, tapered toward apex, terminated in a hook. Apical spine of endosoma very long, curved; secondary gonopore comparatively small. Female genitalia (Fig. 9): Bursa copulatrix generally toughened, similar in overall appearance to those of Wygomiris; sclerotized ring enlarged, ovoid.
Measurements. 3/Ƥ: Total body length 3.7–4.0/ 3.7–3.9; length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 2.60–2.67/ 2.70–2.75; head width across eyes 0.79–0.84/ 0.72–0.75; vertex width 0.24–0.27/ 0.30–0.32; lengths of antennal segment I–IV 0.29–0.30, 1.05–1.08, 0.47–0.53, 0.40–0.44/ 0.29–0.30, 1.04–1.20, 0.48–0.60, 0.42–0.44; labial length 1.35–1.40/ 1.44–1.50; mesal pronotal length 0.82–0.87/ 0.75–0.79; basal pronotal width 1.06–1.17/ 1.06–1.09; width across hemelytron 1.11–1.20/ 1.24–1.28; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.20–1.23, 1.74–1.80, 0.32–0.34/ 1.24–1.29, 1.65–1.80, 0.30–0.35.
Etymology. Named after Kazutaka Yamada who constantly supports the collection of mirids.
Distribution. Thailand (Nakhon Nayok & Nakhon Ratchasima Provinces).
Biology. Collection records suggest this new species has multivoltine life cycles. One male adult was captured from inflorescences of Mallotus sp. (Euphorbiaceae).
Holotype: 3, THAILAND: Nakhon Ratchasima Prov.: SERS, 14˚30'27”N, 101˚55'39”E, 410 m alt., light trap, 12-14 Jun 2009, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (AMNH _PBI 00379531) (SUT).
Paratypes. THAILAND: Nakhon Nayok Prov.: 13, Sarika (lodge garden), 14°18'07"N, 101°18'09"E, at light, 21–23 Mar 2010, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (00379588) (TYCN). Nakhon Ratchasima Prov.: 1316Ƥ, same data as for holotype (00379532–00379533, 00379561–00379569) (AMNH, TYCN); 1Ƥ, same locality, light trap, 19–21 Aug 2008, T. Yasunaga & B. Shishido (00379570) (TYCN); 13, same locality, light trap, 16 Sep 2008, T. Yasunaga (00379572) (TYCN); 231Ƥ, same locality, light trap, 24 Jan 2009, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (00379573–00379574) (TYCN); 133Ƥ, same locality, light trap, 27–28 Oct 2008, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada (00379575–00379577) (TYCN); 8Ƥ, same locality, light trap, 25–27 Feb 2009, T. Yasunaga (00379578–00379582) (TYCN); 135Ƥ, same locality, light trap, 29 May–2 Jun 2012, T. Yasunaga (00379583–00379587) (TYCN); 13, SERS, near dam, 14˚29'49”N, 101˚54'57”E, 500 m alt., on flowers of Mallotus sp., 20 Aug 2008, T. Yasunaga (00379571) (TYCN).
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2012, Review of the phyline plant bug tribe Auricillocorini from Asia, with descriptions of a new genus and nine new species from Japan, Nepal and Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 3530 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214852