Himalisundacoris duwalae Yasunaga, 2024, new species
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Himalisundacoris
Himalisundacoris duwalae

description: Himalisundacoris duwalae, new species
(Figs. 7E, F, 13, 26A–I, 27A–I)
Type material. Holotype: male, NEPAL: Kathmandu Valley: Lalitpur, Godawari, Mt. Pulchoki (1,500–1,800 m), 27°34′45″N, 85°22′44″E, on Urtica dioica, T. Yasunaga, 4 August 2006 (NMTU) (AMNH _ PBI 00378782). Paratypes: 2 males, 2 females, same data as for holotype (AMNH, TYCN, ZRC); 1 male, 2 females, same data as for holotype, except for date 2 August 2006 (TYCN).
Diagnosis. This new species is recognised by the following characters: Moderate size; yellowish brown, oily shiny, dorsum, with darkened clavus and posterior corium (Fig. 7E, F); and bright greenish or yellowish white scutellum, in addition to the characters provided in the above key.
Description. Body oval, slightly elongate; basic colouration pale brown with widely darkened hemelytra (Fig. 7E, F); dorsum polished, impunctate (Fig. 26C). Head pale whitish brown, smooth, with fuscous apical half (including jugum, lorum, buccula, and clypeus); vertex with faint, weak basal transverse carina (Fig. 26B); frons (in fresh specimens) tinged with red. Antenna dark brown; antennomere I partly and irregularly pale at middle; antennomere II shorter than basal width of pronotum; extreme base of antennomere III creamy yellow. Labium pale reddish brown, reaching anterior margin of metacoxa; apical half of segment IV darkened. Pronotum pale brown, more or less darkened posteriorly, almost glabrous; calli (in fresh specimens) with a pair of dark small spots, partly suffused with red; pleura uniformly pale reddish brown; metathoracic scent efferent system as in Fig. 26G; mesoscutum and anterior half of scutellum with sparsely distributed, short setae (Fig. 26D); mesoscutum dark reddish brown; scutellum greenish or yellowish white, with fuscous extreme apex. Hemelytron dark brown, oily shiny, smooth, with uniformly distributed, pale, short, simple setae (Fig. 26C); basal ⅔ of clavus pale brown; subapical part of cuneus narrowly pale; membrane pale smoky brown, semi-transparent, with dark brown veins. All coxae and legs pale brown; each femur with two red, subapical rings; metafemur with broader reddish annulation at middle; apical part of each tarsomere III darkened; pretarsal structure as in Fig. 26I. Abdomen pale reddish brown; apical half of male genital segment (pygophore) fuscous. Male genitalia (Figs. 13 A−G, 27A–E): Hypophysis of left paramere elongate (Fig. 13A), with barb-like apex (Figs. 13B, 27B); right paramere bulbous, ovoid, with short, pointed hypophysis (Figs. 13D, E, 27C); vesica with three notched lobal-sclerites (Figs. 13F, 27D). Female genitalia (Figs. 13H, I, 27F–I): Genital chamber circular, with elongate oval sclerotised rings (Figs. 13I, 27F); posterior wall with widened interramal lobes (Figs. 13H, 27H).
Measurements. See Table 1.
Etymology. Named to honour Dr. Ram Keshari Duwal, a Nepalese heteropterist (now working at CNC); a noun in the genitive case.
Distribution. Nepal (Lalitpur, Kathmandu Valley).
Biology. All available specimens of this new species were found from Urtica dioica L. (Urticaceae).
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2024, New genera and species of the ' Lygus-complex' ranging from the Himalaya-Oriental to the Wallacea region (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae), pp. 371-423 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72 on page 395, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0030, http://zenodo.org/record/14682946