Kunungua cinnamomea Carvalho 1951
Creators: name: Bolshakova, Darya S.
name: Konstantinov, Fedor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Kunungua
Kunungua cinnamomea

description: Kunungua cinnamomea Carvalho, 1951
Figs 6 A, 7 G, 8 A, 9 A, 10 A – E
Kunungua cinnamomea Carvalho, 1951: 109.
Kunungua cinnamomea: Carvalho (1957: 107) (catalogue).
Material examined.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Nord-Kivu: Rutshuru, 1.18 ° S, 29.45 ° E, May 1937, J. Ghesquiere, 1 ♀ (ZISP_ENT00008425) (MRAC). Tshuapa: Bokuma, 0.67 ° S, 21.02 ° E, Mar 1954, R. P. Lootens, 1 ♂ (ZISP_ENT00008426) (MRAC). GABON: Estuaire: Mbel, 0.25 ° N, 10.18 ° E, Oct 1969, A. Villiers, 3 ♂ (ZISP_ENT00009332, ZISP_ENT00009333, ZISP_ENT00009335), 2 ♀ (ZISP_ENT00009334, ZISP_ENT00014341) (MNHN).
Revised diagnosis.
Recognised by the following combination of characters: antennal segment I reddish, segments II – IV pale yellow; head cinnamon; femora reddish; right paramere apically serrate.
Most similar to K. boxi in the structure and colouration (see the discussion section of the genus for more details), differing from the latter species in the colour of antenna, specifically pale yellow antennal segment II, sandy head, reddish femora, and the more dense, dark brown setae on fore tibia.
Redescription.
Male. Colouration (as in Figs 6 A, 7 G). Head sandy; antennal segment I reddish, segments II – IV pale yellow, sometimes segment II with reddish tinge basally; eyes scarlet; clypeus brownish; labial segments I and II pale yellow, segments III and IV brownish yellow; pronotum sandy; corium and cuneus brown to cinnamon; clavus brown; membrane fuscous, cinnamon, semitransparent; fore coxa yellowish, middle and hind coxa brownish; femora reddish; fore tibia brown, middle and hind tibiae reddish brown; tarsus pale yellow; abdomen brown.
Vestiture. Body covered with simple semierect setae, brown on legs and antennal segment I, goldish brown on hemelytron, goldish elsewhere. Setae on tibiae, especially fore tibia, extremely dense, longer than tibia diameter, dark brown to brown.
Structure. Total length 3.5–4.3 mm; body 3.4–3.7 times as long as basal width of pronotum and 3.6–3.7 times as long as pronotal length.
Head 0.4 times as long as wide, 1.8–2 times as wide as collar; eye peduncle short, oblique, longer in basal part; antennal fossa large, removed from inner eye margin by distance comprising about half of its own width, located at the level of inferior eye margin; frons short, swollen; vertex about as wide as length of antennal segment I; segment I 1.3 times as long as head, 0.4 times as long as pronotum, 0.4 times as long as pronotal width; labium short, reaching middle of fore coxa.
Thorax. Pronotum nearly as wide as long, 1.2 times as wide as head; calli 0.5 times as wide as basal width of pronotum; posterior margin slightly concave medially (Fig. 6 A); pronotal disk, calli, and collar 0.6 times, 0.2–0.3 times, and 0.1–0.2 times as long as pronotum, respectively; calli and collar together about 0.4 times as long as pronotum.
Hemelytron. Opaque, long, cuneus reaching distinctly beyond the apex of abdomen; cuneus about 1.5 times as long as wide at base (as in Fig. 6 A, 7 G).
Legs. Relatively short, robust, femora cylindrical, of about the same diameter along entire length (as in Fig. 6 A).
Genitalia. Genital capsule. Lateral portions of cuplike sclerite lobe-shaped, apically tapering, subequal in size. Outgrowth forming outer side of right paramere socket spike-like, left outer outgrowth blunt, apically widened (Fig. 9 A).
Parameres. Left paramere falciform, tapering towards apex (Fig. 10 A, B); right paramere with wide, flattened sensory lobe, serrated apically, with needle-shaped, upturned apex in lateral view (Fig. 10 C – E).
Aedeagus. As in Fig. 8 A, C - shaped, basal part without any outgrowths.
Female. Colouration, surface, and vestiture as in male. Total body length 3.7–4.4 mm; antennal segment I 1.4–1.5 times as long as head; head 0.3–0.4 times as long as wide.
Distribution.
The species was originally described from Kunungu and is currently known from two localities in Congo and one in Gabon.
Host.
Unknown.
description: Published as part of Bolshakova, Darya S. & Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2024, Revision of the genus Kunungua (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae) with descriptions of three new species and new generic synonymy, pp. 219-239 in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1) on pages 219-239, DOI: 10.3897/dez.71.122735