Peniculimiris meniscus Yasunaga & Duwal, n. sp.
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Duwal, Ram Keshari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Peniculimiris
Peniculimiris meniscus

description: Peniculimiris meniscus Yasunaga & Duwal, n. sp.
(Figs. 1 A–D, 2–4)
Diagnosis. Recognized by distinctive characters mentioned in the generic diagnosis; these unique characters enable the present new species to be distinguished from other hallodapines. At first sight similar to a certain member of Leucophoropterini (e.g., Arafuramiris Schuh, Gulacapsus Schuh, Waterhouseana Carvalho: see Menard & Schuh, 2011) as well as to some Pilophorus species of Pilophorini; distinguished easily from any of them by yellow, crescent mark on scutellum that is furnished with a bundle of brush-like, stiff setae.
Description. Surface and vestiture: Dorsal surface, including head and thoracic pleura, generally matte, with uniformly distributed, silky, reclining setae. Coloration: Body generally dark brown. Antenna brown; segment I with two reddish brown stripes; segments III and IV dark brown; apical 1/3 of segment III creamy white. Labium shiny reddish brown; apical half of segment IV darkened. Pronotum weakly shining; collar tinged with silver-gray; mesoscutum and anterior 1/4 of scutellum shiny chestnut brown; median scutellum with a creamy white, crescent mark, just posterior to which a bundle of blackish setae are present; pleura dark brown; mesepisternum shiny castaneous ventrally; ostiolar peritreme creamy yellow. Hemelytron including membrane dark brown; inner margin of clavus narrowly silver-gray; setae on posterior clavus and posterior inner part of corium golden-brown. All coxae creamy white; procoxa partly tinged with red; leg dark brown; basal 1/3−1/2 of each femur creamy white; apex of each tibia and all tarsi brown. Abdomen fuscous; pygophore shiny, dark reddish brown. Structure: As mentioned in generic description.
Measurements. ♂ / ♀: Total body length 3.43/ 3.58 length from apex of clypeus to cuneal fracture 2.70/ 2.77; width of head across eyes 0.76/ 0.71; head height 0.71/ 0.75; width of vertex 0.26/ 0.33; lengths of antennal segments I −IV 0.37, 1.08, 0.74, 0.40/ 0.37, 1.05, 0.61, 0.39; mesal length of pronotum 0.61/ 0.67; basal width of pronotum 0.93/ 0.97; maximum width across hemelytron 1.11/ 1.21; and length of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 0.98, 1.59, 0.31/ 1.10, 1.63, 0.33.
Etymology. From Greek, meniskos (= crescent moon), referring to a noticeable, crescent mark on the scutellum of this new species; an adjective.
Biology. Unknown; two known individuals were both attracted to light in September.
Distribution. Philippines (Palawan), Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima).
Holotype: Ƌ, PHILIPPINES: Palawan Island, Trident Mines, 500m near Narra (9.25, 118.33), light trap, 5 Sep 1985, M. Tomokuni (AMNH _PBI 00380442) (NSMT).
Paratype. THAILAND: Nakhon Ratchasima Prov., Wang Nam Khieo, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, 14˚30'27”N, 101˚55'39”E, 410 m alt., light trap, 25 Sep 2013, T. Yasunaga, 1♀ (AMNH _PBI 00380441) (TYCN).
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide & Duwal, Ram Keshari, 2016, A unique new genus and species of the phyline plant bug tribe Hallodapini from the Philippines and Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Hallodapini), pp. 251-258 in Zootaxa 4173 (3) on pages 254-257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/159403