Sundacapsus flavonitidus Yasunaga &amp; Chérot &amp; Schwartz 2021, new species
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Chérot, Frédéric
name: Schwartz, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Sundacapsus
Sundacapsus flavonitidus

description: <i>Sundacapsus flavonitidus</i>, new species (Figs. 4 A−C, 5A−I, 6, 8D–I, 9C, D, 12) <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype</b>: male, <b>INDONESIA</b>: North Sumatra, Prapat (1,000 m), 50 km E of Pematang Siantar, 2.88°N, 99.52°E, UV light trap, T. Yasunaga, 29 November 1989 (AMNH _ PBI 00380629) (AMNH). Paratypes: INDONESIA: North Sumatra: 1 male, same data as for holotype (CNC); 3 males, same data (TYCN); 2 males, 10 females, Brastagi, North of Toba Lake, 3.18°N, 98.50°E, 1,400 m, UV light trap, T. Yasunaga, 5–9 December 1989 (1 male with USI label: 00380630) (TYCN); 2 females, same data (CNC); 2 females, same data (ZRC); 1 male, 2 females, same locality, E. W. Diehl, 24 March 1974 (AMNH); 1 female, same locality and collector, 23 November 1973 (AMNH); 1 male, Simalungun, Dolok Merangir, 3.12°N, 99.12°E, light trap, E. W. Diehl, April–June 1970 (AMNH); 1 female, same locality and collector, April 1970 (AMNH); 2 males, 4 females, same locality and collector, without date (AMNH). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Recognised by moderate size and yellowish brown, oily shiny, glabrous, impunctate dorsum, with darkened scutellum, clavus and cuneus (male only) (Fig. 4A, B), in addition to the male and female genitalic structures mentioned in the above generic description. The male antenna is generally longer and cuneus is darker than those of female. <b>Description.</b> <i>Male</i>. COLOURATION: Body yellowish brown; dorsum more or less tinged with red (Fig. 4A). Antenna dark brown; extreme bases of segments III and IV pale. Labium yellowish brown; apical half of segment IV darkened. Pronotum somewhat shining, widely pale brown, narrowly darkened posteriorly, with yellowish white collar and posterior margin. Thoracic pleura chestnut brown, with yellowish brown ostiolar peritreme; mesoscutum and scutellum shiny dark brown. Hemelytron pale brown; clavus and cuneus usually chestnut brown; membrane pale smoky brown, semitransparent, with dark brown veins. All coxae and legs yellowish brown; metafemur with two reddish rings subapically. Abdomen shiny chocolate brown, except for median part of sternites II−VII and base of pygophore pale brown. Surface, vestiture, and structure as in generic description. <i>Female</i>. Almost similar to male, but body larger and stouter (Fig. 4B). Antenna pale yellowish to reddish brown; apex of segment I and apical ¼ of II and apical &amp;frac13; of III dark reddish brown. Labium shiny pale reddish brown. Mesoscutum and cuneus pale reddish brown. Ventral surface generally pale brown, not significantly darkened (Fig. 4C). Male (Figs. 6A–C, 8G–I) and female (Figs. 6D, E, 8D–F) genitalia as mentioned in generic description. <b>Measurements.</b> See Table 1. <b>Etymology.</b> From Latin, flavus (yellow) + nitidus (shiny, polished), referring to the shiny yellowish basic colouration of this new species; an adjective. <b>Distribution.</b> Indonesia (northwestern highlands of Sumatra) (Fig. 12). <b>Biology.</b> Unknown; all known specimens were collected at mercury or fluorescence lights.
description: Published as part of <i>Yasunaga, Tomohide, Chérot, Frédéric &amp; Schwartz, Michael D., 2021, New genera and species of the Oriental mirine plant bugs from Southeast Asia, with six new combinations (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini), pp. 137-155 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69</i> on pages 148-150, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/5351998