Pseudodoniella KIRKALDY
Creators: name: Namyatova, Anna A.
name: Cassis, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Pseudodoniella

description: PSEUDODONIELLA KIRKALDY   
Figures 8, 11F, H, 17M–P, 21A, B  
 Pseudodoniella China & Carvalho, 1951: 465 (gen. nov.; type species Pseudodoniella pacifica China & Carvalho, 1951 by monotypy); Carvalho, 1952: 60 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 42 (key to gen.); Carvalho, 1957: 148 (cat.); Miller & China, 1957: 430 (key to gen.); Miller, 1958: 57 (disc., key to spp.); Odhiambo, 1962: 303, 305 (syn., key to spp.); Lavabre, 1977a: 51, 55 (key to gen., descry.); Lavabre, 1977b: 109 (key to spp., descr.); Carvalho, 1981: 36, 37 (key to gen., descr.); Schuh, 1995: 530 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 –2013 (cat.).   
 Parabryocoropsis China & Carvalho, 1951: 468 (gen. nov.; type species Parabryocoropsis typicus China & Carvalho, 1951 by monotypy, synonymized by Odhiambo, 1962: 303); Carvalho, 1952: 60 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 42 (key to gen.); Carvalho, 1957: 147 (cat.); Miller, 1958: 57 (disc); Steyskal, 1973: 206 (correction); Carvalho, 1981: 36 (key to gen., descr.); Schuh, 1995: 531 (cat.).   
 Diagnosis: Pseudodoniella belongs to the Odoniella - complex and is distinguished by the following characters: ASIII distinctly incrassate apically, ASIV clavate (as in Fig. 8E in Namyatova et al., in press); frons with bifurcate outgrowth or paired tubercles (as in fig. 4C in Namyatova et al. in press); pronotum and scutellum with tumescences (Fig. 11F, H, as in Fig. 4C in Namyatova et al. in press); scutellum distinctly swollen (Fig. 11F, H) and uniformly colored, not subdivided into lower and upper parts (as in Fig. 12A), tibiae without distinct tumescences and with regular setation, not very dense.   
 Redescription: Male: Body length 7–10 mm. COLORA- TION (Fig. 8). Body varying from pale brown, to dark brown, sometimes mostly orange or reddish, can be brown with orange markings or orange with dark markings, or uniformly colored. TEXTURE. Two pairs of tubercles on vertex between eyes medially more or less distinct, sometimes indistinct, flattened areas on vertex indistinct; wrinkles on head absent; tumescences on ASII absent or present; pronotum and scutellum covered with punctures (as in fig. 4C in Namyatova et al. in press); collar with two pairs of shallow tubercles, sometimes indistinct; shallow tumescences on pronotum and scutellum present (as in fig. 4C in Namyatova et al. in press); row of punctures on clavus and on R + M and punctures on depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent; striations on lateral margins of scutellum indistinct or present only anteriorly; semicircular depression between scutellum and mesoscutum absent; hemelytron smooth, without tubercles. VESTITURE. Head, pronotum scutellum, thoracic pleura and abdomen clothed with pale or dark simple adpressed setae, sometimes those setae very rare; hemelytron mostly clothed with flattened dark setae, with cuneus clothed with simple setae; sometimes hemelytron clothed with pale short simple adpressed setae only; antenna with pale or dark simple setae, long or short; setae on legs adpressed or suberect pale or dark, of variable length, not very dense, spinules on femora present or absent apically; spinules on tibia irregularly distributed (as in fig. 18F in Namyatova et al. in press). STRUCTURE. Head. Distance between eye and pronotum shorter than eye diameter (as in Fig. 10F); occipital region not delimited with depression; longitudinal depression on vertex indistinct or very short; eyes stylate, directed outwards (as in Fig. 10F), c. 0.16–0.25× as long as head width; distance between antennal fossa c. 2–3× as long as antennal fossa diameter; frons distinctly swollen, with paired outgrowths (as in fig. 4C in Namyatova et al., in press), sometimes only shallow paired tubercles present, without longitudinal depression or ridges; anterior view of head c. 1.6–2.1× as wide as high; eye height c. 0.8–1.5× as distance from eye to apex of clypeus; antennal fossa oval, c. 0.5–0.7× as long as eye height, not raised (as in fig. 3B in Namyatova et al., in press), its inferior margin placed near inferior margin of eye; or base of clypeus placed slightly above or near inferior margin of eye, distinctly delimited basally; in lateral view head flat; gula shorter than buccula length, straight. Labium. Reaching posterior margin of metasternum; LSI twice as long as wide; LSII c. 3–4× as long as wide, subequal to or slightly longer than LSI; LSIII c. 4× as long as wide, subequal to LSII; LSIV c. 4–5× as long as wide, c. 1–1.5× as long as LSIII. Antenna. Reaching base of cuneus; ASI c. 1.5–2× as long as wide, subequal to quarter of head width, swollen basally (as in fig. 8E in Namyatova et al., in press); ASII c. 5–6× as long as ASII, c. 0.8– 1× as long as head and pronotum combined, slightly or distinctly incrassate apically; ASIII c. 0.6–0.8× as long as ASII; widened towards apex or swollen api- cally; ASIV c. 0.7–0.9× as long as ASIII, clavate (as in fig. 8E in Namyatova et al., in press). Thorax. Collar not delimited or delimited posteriorly, flat (as in fig. 4C in Namyatova et al., in press); calli separated, flat; depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent; humeral angles of pronotum distinctly dilated (as in fig. 4C in Namyatova et al., in press); posterior margin of pronotum distinctly concave, forming right angles (Fig. 11F, H) scutellum distinctly swollen, often covering, rarely not covering base of pronotum, round or subtriangular (Fig. 11F, H), not divided into parts (as in Fig. 12A), obtuse apically, without longitudinal depression, ridge or outgrowth; metepimeron c. 1–1.5× as long as wide, angulate (as in Fig. 13E); metasternum with medial projection to abdominal segment II (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press). Hemelytron. Tapering posteriorly; costal margin straight; claval commissure c. 0.3× as long as scutellum, straight; R + M almost reaching posterior margin of corium; medial fracture strongly inclined towards midline (as in fig. 12E in Namyatova et al., in press); corium without swelling posteriorly; cuneus c. 1.5–2.3× as long as wide, c. 0.5–0.6× as long as pronotum, its medial margin slightly concave; membrane cell slightly or distinctly surpassing apex of cuneus, forming right angle (as in fig. 13B in Namyatova et al., in press), c. 0.7–1× as long as pronotum; auxiliary vein absent; distance from cell to apex of membrane c. 0.7–1.0× as long as cell. Legs. Forecoxae contiguous (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press); femora almost not swollen apically, straight, hind tibia often slightly curved; foretibia shorter than head and pronotum combined; tibia without tumescences; segments of hind tibia subequal in length or segments I subequal to segment III and longer than segment II; apical half or third part of claw curved; basal tooth on claw elongate, straight or slightly concave (as in Fig. 13J). Genitalia (Fig. 17M–P). Genital capsule as wide as long or slightly wider than long, without outgrowth, ventral wall not shortened anteriorly; left paramere r-shaped, twice as long as right paramere; phallobase sclerite of primary gonopore subtriangular, with anterior margin concave, without outgrowths; ductus seminis not sclerotized basally or apically; shorter than or as long as phallotheca, with coils forming wide tube, attached to phallobase medially; phallotheca narrow, occupying half of dorsal side, only slightly tapering apically; without ridge or outgrowths; endosoma with sclerotized areas.   
 Female: Body length 8–10.5 mm. Coloration, surface, vestiture and structure as in male, but females slightly larger than males (Fig. 8). Genitalia (Fig. 21A, B). DLP with a single sclerotized ring anteriorly, c. 2–2.5× as long as wide; with two large areas of striations, mostly subequal in diameter,; lateral oviducts attached at middle of those striated areas, widely separated, placed near lateral margin and at a halfway of DLP or in posterior half; spermathecal gland placed on right-hand side; posterior wall with small tubercles, without outgrowths with paired sclerotization posteriorly; base of second valvula concave; ventral wall membranous.   
 Distribution: Known from China and New Guinea (Fig. 22).   
 Host plants: Pseudodoniella pacifica and P. typica are pests of cocoa (Leston, 1970; Entwistle, 1977; Lavabre, 1977b; Carvalho, 1981; China & Carvalho, 1951). Pseudodoniella pacifica was also recorded from Ficus pungens (Carvalho, 1981) (Moraceae) and P. typicus is the pest of Cinnamomum cassia (Lauraceae) (Zheng, 1992). Unidentified representatives of Pseudodoniella were also recorded from Ficus sp. (Hill, 1983).
description: Published as part of Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2016, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world, pp. 36-136 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1) on pages 116-118, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12311, http://zenodo.org/record/5356719