Himalisundacoris schwartzi Yasunaga, 2024, new species
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Himalisundacoris
Himalisundacoris schwartzi

description: Himalisundacoris schwartzi, new species
(Figs. 11 G−J, 15D−H, 29)
Type material. Holotype: male, INDONESIA: North Sumatra: Brastagi, North of Toba Lake, 3.18°N, 98.50°E, 1,400 m, at FL light, T. Yasunaga, 7 December 1989 (ZRC) (AMNH _ PBI 00378785). Paratype: INDONESIA: 1 female, same data as for holotype, except for date 5 December 1989 (TYCN).
Diagnosis. This new species is recognised by the following characters: Pale orange-brown basic colouration; entirely pale creamy brown scutellum; darkened female clavus and posterior corium; and pale reddish-brown abdomen, in addition to the characters provided in the above key.
Description. Body oval, slightly elongate; basic colouration pale orange-brown (Fig. 11G); in female, clavus and apical part of corium darkened (Fig. 11I). Head pale orange-brown; vertex smooth, with faintly delimitated basal transverse carina (Fig. 29B); lorum, jugum, and buccula reddish brown; apical half of clypeus fuscous. Antenna dark brown; antennomere I pale brown, with darkened base and apex; antennomere II with pale subbasal annulation; base of antennomere III yellowish brown. Labium pale reddish brown, reaching middle part of metacoxa; apical part of segment IV dark reddish brown. Pronotum uniformly pale, almost glabrous (Fig. 29A); calli with a pair of reddish spots in female; pleura shiny pale reddish-brown; metathoracic scent efferent system pale brown, with small, semi-circular peritreme (Fig. 29D); scutellum pale creamy brown. Hemelytron pale orange-brown, with sparsely distributed, pale, simple, semi-erect setae; clavus and apical half of corium darkened in female; basal half and apex of cuneus sanguineous; membrane pale greyish brown, semi-transparent, with brown veins. All coxae and legs pale brown; metafemur with two or three reddish annulations apically; apex of each tibia dark reddish brown; apical half of each tarsomere III darkened; meta-tarsomere II as long as III (Fig. 29E); pretarsal structure as in Fig. 29F; parempodia relatively short. Abdomen almost uniformly pale reddish brown. Male genitalia (Figs. 13D–F, 29G–K): Hypophysis of left paramere with sharp apex (Fig. 29H); right paramere ovoid, with short, pointed hypophysis (Figs.13F, 29I); vesica with distinctly notched lobal-sclerite (Figs. 13D, 29J, K); secondary gonopore comparatively large. Female genitalia (Figs. 13H, I, 29L–O): Sclerotised rings relatively large, subtriangular (Fig. 29L); dorsal margin of posterior wall with sparsely distributed, scaly micro-structures, lacking field of spinules (Fig. 29N); interramal lobes mesally separated to each other (Fig. 29M).
Measurements. See Table 1.
Etymology. Named to honour Dr. Michael D. Schwartz; a noun in the genitive case.
Distribution. Indonesia (N. Sumatra).
Biology. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2024, New genera and species of the ' Lygus-complex' ranging from the Himalaya-Oriental to the Wallacea region (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae), pp. 371-423 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72 on pages 400-404, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0030, http://zenodo.org/record/14682946