Torunotum hirsutum 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 hirsutum

description: Torunotum hirsutum Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov.
Figs. 7–9
Diagnosis: Torunotum hirsutum Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov. is recognised by the following combination of characters: dorsum brown to yellowish brown with uniformly yellowish head, antennae and stramineous legs; pronotum uniformly punctate; posterior pronotal angles distinctly brighter than the rest of pronotum, with poorly developed calli; lateral margins of scutellum distinctly brighter, contrasting with clavus, body length in male 3.04 mm; scape short, in male 0.29x as long as head width, 0.58x as long as interocular distance; pedicel in male 1.53x as long as head width; vertex medially slightly depressed; pedicel, pronotum, scutellum and hemelytra with long setae.
Description:
Male: Body elongate-ovoid, length 3.00 (Fig. 7).
Colouration. Dorsum: brown to yellowish brown. Head: uniformly yellowish. Eyes: blackish, tinted red at the edges. Antennae: scape, pedicel and flagellum yellowish (Fig. 7A). Labium: all segments yellowish (Fig. 7C). Pronotum: collar medially yellowish brown; callosite region brown; disc mostly dark brown with posterior pronotal angles cream white (Fig. 7B). Mesoscutum: brown (Fig. 7C). Scutellum: mostly brown, yellowish-white at the lateral edges. Hemelytra: brown to yellowish brown; clavus uniformly brown; corium brown to yellowish brown; embolium yellowish; R + M dark red; cuneus brown, with a lightened lateral edge and a blurred, yellowish spot in the middle; membrane light brown (Fig. 7A). Thoracic pleura and MTG: propleuron, mesepimeron, mesepisternum and metepisternum various shades of brown; metepisternal evaporative area in anterior part light brown, in posterior part yellowish, peritreme ivory (Fig. 7C). Legs: all legs yellowish, the femora of the hind legs with a light brown band (Fig. 7C). Abdomen: yellowish in the middle part, brown at the lateral edges (Fig. 7C).
Vestiture. Dorsum covered with long yellowish setae. Eyes without setae (Fig. 8A). Antennae: scape with few short setae (Fig. 8A); pedicel with dense, straight setae, almost as long as the thickness of the segment (Fig. 8H), flagellum with dense, long setae, often longer than thickness of segments (Fig. 8I). Pronotum: with long, lying and semi-erected setae (Fig. 8F). Scutellum: with long, lying and semi-erected setae (Fig. 8F). Legs: with sparse, straight setae.
Texture. Head (Fig. 8A, B), pronotum punctate, except callosite region (Fig. 8B, G); scutellum and hemelytra impunctate (Fig. 8F); clavus and base of R + M with a row of punctures; propleuron punctate (Fig. 8F).
Structure. Antennae: scape 0.29x as long as head width, 0.58x as long as interocular distance; scape and pedicel distinctly thicker than flagellum, pedicel 1.53x as long as head width, 0.90x as long as maximal width of pronotum. Pronotum: mesal length 0.56x as long as the maximal width of pronotum. Hemelytra: Fig. 7A, C. Thoracic pleura and MTG: Fig. 8C. Legs: Fig. 7A–C.
Male genitalia. Pygophore weakly asymmetrical (Fig. 9A), aedeagus with endosoma mostly membranous, multilobed (Fig. 9B), left paramere C-shaped, sensory lobe swollen, with very long setae, as long as the width of sensory lobe; apophysis sinuate with apex reflexed and expanded (Fig. 9C–F); right paramere: lateral edges almost parallel, left side with a small projection basally (Fig. 9G).
Measurements (in millimetres). Male (n=1).
Body. Length, clypeus–apex of membrane: 3.04; width: 1.31.
Head. Length (perpendicular view): 0.53; width, including compound eyes: 0.66; vertex width: 0.33; eye dorsal width: 0.17.
Antenna. Length of antennomere I: 0.19; II: 1.01; III: 0.18; IV: 0.20.
Pronotum. Mesal length: 0.63; posterior pronotal maximal width (straight): 1.12.
Scutellum. Anterior width: 0.55; mesal length: 0.44.
Hemelytron. Claval commissure: 0.47; corium length: 1.29; outer cuneal margin length (straight): 0.53.
Material examined: Holotype: ♂ “ New Caledonia (S) \ Bois du Sud, 160 m \ 22°10.5’S 166°45.8’E \ 23.12.2006, at light \ leg. R. Dobosz ” \\ 5915/5724 \\ MB0408343. The holotype is deposited in MNHN.
Biology: Unknown. The specimen was attracted to a light trap (bulb “MIX”- type 250 W, E40) (6B, C).
Distribution: Torunotum hirsutum Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov., is known only from the type locality in New Caledonia (Fig. 1).
Etymology: The species is named from the Latin hirsutum (hairy), referring to long setae covering the entire body.
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 573-575, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13849206