Torunotum flavomaculatum Gierlasinski & Taszakowski 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gierlasiński, Grzegorz
name: Dobosz, Roland
name: Taszakowski, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Torunotum
Torunotum flavomaculatum

description: Torunotum flavomaculatum Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov.
Figs. 3–5.
Diagnosis: Torunotum flavomaculatum Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov. is recognised by the following combination of characters: dorsum brown to yellowish with a blackish head with a clearly defined, rectangular, yellow spot situated between the eyes; pronotum evenly punctuated, yellowish with two dark L-shaped bands, calli well developed; scutellum yellowish, evenly punctuated, body length in male 3.28; scape short, in male 0.28x as long as head width, 0.58x as long as interocular distance; pedicel in male 1.53x as long as head width; vertex medially distinctly depressed.
Description:
Male: Body elongate-ovoid, length 3.3 (Fig. 3).
Colouration. Dorsum: brown to yellowish brown. Head: blackish with a clearly defined, rectangular, yellow spot between eyes. Eyes: blackish. Antennae: scape yellowish; pedicel yellowish with darkened apical part; flagellum brownish (Fig. 3A, B). Labium: all segments yellowish (Fig. 3C). Pronotum: collar medially stramineous; callosite region stramineous; disc mostly yellowish with two L-shaped dark stripes (Fig. 3A, B). Scutellum: yellowish (Fig. 3A). Hemelytra: brown to yellowish brown; clavus brownish; corium brown to yellowish brown; embolium stramineous; R + M dark red; cuneus stramineous, with a red triangular marking; membrane light brown, veins blackish (Fig. 3A). Thoracic pleura and metathoracic scent glands (MTG): propleuron, mesepimeron, mesepisternum and metepisternum in various shades of brown; metepisternal evaporative area in anterior part brown, in posterior part yellowish, peritreme ivory (Fig. 3C). Legs: all legs stramineous, the femora of the hind legs with a light brown band, apical part slightly coloured red (Fig. 3C). Abdomen: yellowish in the middle part, brown at the lateral edges (Fig. 3C).
Vestiture. Dorsum covered with yellowish setae. Eyes without setae (Fig. 4A, C). Antennae: scape with few short setae (Fig. 4C); pedicel with dense, straight setae (Fig. 3A). Pronotum: with short setae (Fig. 4A, D). Scutellum: with semi-erected setae (Fig. 3B, C). Legs: with sparse, straight setae, longer on femora, shorter on tibia.
Texture. Head punctate (Fig. 4C); pronotum punctate, except callosite region (Fig. 4A, D); scutellum punctate (Fig. 4A); hemelytra impunctate; clavus irregular punctate, base of R + M with a row of punctures; propleuron punctate (Fig. 4A).
Structure. Antennae: scape 0.27x as long as head width, 0.58x as long as interocular distance; scape and pedicel distinctly thicker than flagellum, pedicel 1.37x as long as head width, 0.79x as long as posterior width of pronotum. Pronotum: mesal length 0.45x as long as the maximal width of pronotum. Hemelytra: Fig. 3A. Thoracic pleura and MTG: Fig. 3C. Legs: Fig. 3B, C.
Male genitalia. Pygophore weakly asymmetrical (Fig. 5A), aedeagus with endosoma mostly membranous, multilobed (Fig. 5B), left paramere strongly C-shaped, sensory lobe swollen, with few short setae, apophysis sinuate with apex reflexed and expended (Fig. 5A, C–E); right paramere with lateral edges non-parallel, left side convex, without projection (Fig. 5F).
Measurements (in millimetres). Male (n=1).
Body. Length, clypeus–apex of membrane: 3.28; width: 1.38.
Head. Length (perpendicular view): 0.54; width, including compound eyes: 0.70; vertex width: 0.33; eye dorsal width: 0.18.
Antenna. Length of antennomere I: 0.19; II: 0.96; III: 0.18; IV: missing.
Pronotum. Mesal length: 0.56; posterior pronotal maximal width (straight): 1.22.
Scutellum. Anterior width: 0.59; mesal length: 0.45.
Hemelytron. Claval commissure: 0.49; heme length: 2.40; corium length: 1.38.
Material examined: Holotype: ♂ “ New Caledonia (S) \ Mt.Koghi, 480m, rainforest\ 22°10.648’S 166°30.430’E \ 06.03.2008, at light \ leg. R. Dobosz & T. Blaik ” \\ 5915/17421 \\ MB0407423 The holotype is deposited in MNHN.
Biology: Unknown. The specimen was attracted to a light trap (bulb “MIX”- type 250 W, E40) in the rainforest (Fig. 6A, B).
Distribution: Torunotum flavomaculatum Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov. is known only from the type locality in New Caledonia (Fig. 1).
Etymology: The species is named after the yellow spot on its head, which contrasts sharply with the black head. The name derives from the Latin words " flavus ”, meaning yellow, and “macula”, meaning spot.
description: Published as part of Gierlasiński, Grzegorz, Dobosz, Roland & Taszakowski, Artur, 2024, Two new species of Torunotum Hosseini & Cassis 2019 (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae: Hyaliodini) from New Caledonia, pp. 567-578 in Zootaxa 5512 (4) on pages 569-572, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13849206