Cylapocoris simplex Wolski, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Cylapocoris
Cylapocoris simplex

description: Cylapocoris simplex Wolski sp. nov.
(Figures 10, 21, 61, 72–84, 91, Table 1)
Diagnosis. Recognized by the following set of features: body relatively small (3.1–3.3 mm); antennal segment II usually entirely yellowish or dirty yellowish (Fig. 10); hemelytron usually dark brown with dirty yellowish patch on apex of inner surface of endocorium and inner angle of cuneus (Fig. 10); endosoma elongate, with four membranous lobes at apical one fifth (Fig. 80); DSS distinctly broadened toward apex, shorter than its width (Fig. 80); ML distinctly developed, occupying most of endosoma (Fig. 80).
Most similar to C. barensis and C. fulvus in sharing hemelytron dark with pale patch on apex of corium and inner angle of cuneus (Fig. 4) and distinctly developed mesial lobe (Fig. 45; Carvalho 1982: Fig. 5). It can, however, be distinguished by the body length and the male genitalia (Figs. 80–84).
Redescription. Male. COLORATION (Figs. 10, 21). Dorsum dark castaneous to blackish, with scutellum usually darker than remainder of dorsal surface. Head. Usually dark brown with yellow areas; frons with two distinct, yellow patches laterally, each bordering inner margin of eye, frons also with two small, indistinct spots laterally each bordering antennal insertion; mandibular and maxillary plates and clypeus partly or entirely yellow; gula and buccula dark brown; antennal segment I mostly yellow, slightly paler basally, basal one third with more or less well developed fuscous patch on inner surface, apex with very narrow, whitish annulation; segment II yellowish or dirty yellow often more or less distinctly tinged with red, sometimes fuscous with reddish tinge apically, base with two very narrow annulations: one, situated closer to segment I blackish and other whitish; segments III and IV varying from dirty yellowish to blackish; labium with segments I–III dirty yellowish to dirty yellowish brown; segment IV brownish. Thorax. Thoracic pleura. Dark brown, ventral margin of proepisternum and proepimeron tinged with yellow; scent gland efferent system contrastingly yellow. Hemelytron. Apex of inner surface of endocorium and inner angle of cuneus with rather small, dirty yellowish patch; membrane, including cell veins fuscous, except for yellow outer portion of major cell. Legs. Dirty yellowish. Abdomen. Blackish brown. STRUCTURE, TEXTURE, AND VESTITURE (Figs. 10, 21, 72–79, 91). Head. Frons with shallow but distinct, transverse incision apically, bordering basal portions of clypeus and mandibular plates; antennal segment I almost cylindrical covered with moderately dense, semirecumbent setae; segment II almost cylindrical, slightly thickened toward apex, covered with relatively dense, semirecumbent setae, basal one fourth with setae sparser than those present on remainder of segment II; labium with apex reaching middle of abdomen, sometimes reaching pygophore. Thorax. Pronotum. Punctation shallow, indistinct. Scutellum. Moderately convex, smooth. Hemelytron. Membrane with several obvious setae near outer margin.
Male genitalia. Aedeagus (Fig. 80). Endosoma elongate, with four membranous lobes at apical one fifth; DSS distinctly broadened toward apex, abbreviated, shorter than its width; ML distinctly developed, occupying most of endosoma. Right paramere (Figs. 81–82). Paramere body: inner margin distinctly sinuate; apical process: lateral view: moderately curved, sharply pointed; dorsal view: left lateral view moderately sinuate, apex sharp, medial process weakly developed, rounded. Left paramere (Figs. 83–84). Apical process: lateral view: moderately curved; dorsal view: distinctly broadened; subapical incision moderately deep.
Female. Similar to male in coloration, texture, and vestiture.
Measurements. ♀/♂ (n=3, holotype measurements in parentheses): Body. Length 3.1/3.2–3.3 (3.3), width 1.5/ 1.5–1.6 (1.6). Head. Length 0.4/0.4, width 0.83/0.81–0.9 (0.81), interocular distance 0.34/0.28–0.33 (0.33). Antenna. Length of segment I 0.32/0.33, II 0.95/0.93–0.98 (0.98), III (♂ paratype, missing in ♀) 0.48, IV (♂ paratype, missing in ♂) 0.62. Labium. Length of segment I 0.55/0.48, II 0.55/0.51, III 0.55/0.46, IV 0.43/0.44. Pronotum. Length 0.63/0.62–0.63 (0.62), width of anterior margin 0.63/0.6, length of lateral margin 0.53/0.53, width of posterior margin 1.3/1.25.
Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin “ simplex ” meaning simple and is used to denote the endosoma devoid of sclerites or sclerotized lobes.
Biology. Unknown.
Distribution. Brasil (Amazonas), (Ecuador (Orellana), Venezuela (Amazonas) (Fig. 61).
Type material. Holotype ♂: Ecuador, Orellana Prov. [labeled Napo in error], Res. Ethnica Waorani, 1 km. S, Onkone Gare Camp, Trans. Ent., 29 June 1994, 220m, 00º39’10’’S, 76 º26’00’’W, T.L. Erwin, et al.; insecticidal fogging of mostly bare green leaves, some with covering of lichenous or bryophytic plants in terre firme forest, Lot 743 (USNM) (Fig. 10). Paratypes: 1 ♀: Ecuador: Orellana [labeled Napo in error], Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 216 m, 00º39’10’’S, 76º08’39’’W, 21 October 1998, T.L. Erwin, et al., collectors; Lot # 1932, Transect # T–4 insecticidal fogging of newly bare green leaves, some with of lichenous or bryophytic plants; 1 ♂: Ecuador: Orellana [labeled Napo in error], Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 216 m, 00º39’10’’S, 76º08’39’’W, 4 July 1998, T.L. Erwin, et al., collectors; insecticidal fogging of newly bare green leaves, some with of lichenous or bryophytic plants; Lot # 1876, Transect # T–8 (Fig. 21); 1 ♂: Ecuador: Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 216 m, 00º39’10’’S, 76º08’39’’W, 5 Feb. 1999, T.L. Erwin, et al., collectors; insecticidal fogging of newly bare green leaves, some with of lichenous or bryophytic plants; Lot # 2085, Transect # T–9; 1 ♀: Ecuador, Orellana Prov.
[labeled Napo Prov. in error], Res. Ethnica Waorani, 1 km. S, Onkone Gare Camp, Trans. Ent., 21 June 1994, 220m, 00º39’10’’S, 76 º26’00’’W, T.L. Erwin, et al., insecticidal fogging of mostly bare green leaves, some with covering of lichenous or bryophytic plants in terre firme forest, At 8 x-trans, 0m mark Project MAXIMUS Lot 701; 1 ♂: Venezuela, T. F. Amaz. Cerro de la Neblina, Basecamp, 140 m, 00º50’N, 66º10’W, 5 February 1985; On low foliage, rainforest trail W. E. Steiner collector (USNM); 2 ♂♂: R. Uaupés Taracua; Sv. Amaz. Exp. Roman; 5 april; Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm; 1 ♂: the same data; 18 mars (NHRS).
description: Published as part of Wolski, Andrzej, 2013, Revision of the plant bug genus Cylapocoris Carvalho (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), with descriptions of seven new species from Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, pp. 501-528 in Zootaxa 3721 (6) on pages 521-525, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217190