Callitricola wollemi Symonds &amp; Cassis 2018, new species
Creators: name: Symonds, Celia L.
name: Cassis, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Callitricola
Callitricola wollemi

description: <i>Callitricola wollemi</i>, new species Figures 13, 47, 48; map 3 DIAGNOSIS: Defined by the following characters: moderately large size; bright yellow-green coloration; forewing membrane veins yelloworange with color confined to veins only; left paramere with strongly recurved hook and subrectangular, apically truncate apophysis; right paramere with expanded subapical dorsal lobe with spinelike serrations on surface; right paramere apex enlarged and strongly curved inward to form large flange; phallotheca with twisted point at apex, left and right lateral tumescence, and subquadrate lobe on right dorsal margin near base of margin; female laIRL wider and weakly curved inward distally, base spiniferous with one small lobe; mIRL moderately elongate, three-quarters length of laIRL, subtriangular, margins and distal surface (sparsely) serrate. DESCRIPTION: <i>Male</i>: Moderately large size, body length 4.73 mm, pronotal width 1.18 mm. COLORATION: Dorsum yellow-green, mostly faded to yellow; forewing membrane light brown with slightly darker patches laterally, vein yelloworange, color confined to vein, major cell with faint green spot (fig. 13). VESTITURE: Dorsum with moderately dense distribution of pale to medium-brown simple setae. STRUCTURE: <b>Head:</b> Eyes very large, bulbous, greatly exerted from outline of head (fig. 13); antennae with AI subequal to vertex width, AII 1.5× pronotal width; labium elongate, extending just past metacoxae, over abdomen. <b>Hemelytra:</b> Cuneus and major cell of membrane elongate, major membrane vein straight (fig. 13). GENITALIA: <b>Pygophore:</b> Not examined, damaged. <b>Left paramere:</b> Apophysis subrectangular; apex truncate with strongly recurved hook; hook weak, reduced (fig. 47B, C). <b>Right paramere:</b> Base short; subtriangular in lateral view; apex enlarged and strongly curved inward, forming slightly sclerotized ridge along inner subapical ventral margin of paramere; subapical dorsal margin expanded into bulbous lobe, with small spinelike serrations covering surface (fig. 47D, E). <b>Phallotheca:</b> Dorsal opening large, narrows distally; apex with twisted point; large subapical ventral tumescence; left lateral tumescence present; large right lateral tumescence; small right lateral basal tumescence; small subquadrate lobe on right dorsal margin, subbasal (fig. 47A). <b>Aedeagus:</b> Not examined, teneral. <i>Female</i>: Midsized, body length 3.97–4.46 mm, pronotal width 1.06–1.10 mm. GENITALIA: Interramal lobes (fig. 48): mIRL and laIRL partially joined at base; laIRL wider and weakly curved inward distally, base spiniferous with one small lobe; mIRL moderately elongate, threequarters length of laIRL, subtriangular, margins and distal surface (sparsely) serrate. ETYMOLOGY: Named after the type locality, Wollemi National Park, northwest of Sydney. Noun in apposition. HOST PLANT: From <i>Callitris rhomboidea</i> (table 2). HOLOTYPE: <b>AUSTRALIA: New South Wales:</b> Wollemi National Park, Glowworm Tunnel Rd, 21 km N of Bungleboori Picnic Area, 33.26031 <b>°</b> S 150.2181 <b>°</b> E, 942 m, 05 Feb 2005, C. Symonds, <i>Callitris rhomboidea</i>, det. RBG Sydney, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00005714) (AM). PARATYPES: <b>AUSTRALIA: New South Wales:</b> Wollemi National Park, Glowworm Tunnel Rd, 21 km N of Bungleboori Picnic Area, 33.26031 <b>°</b> S 150.2181 <b>°</b> E, 942 m, 05 Feb 2005, C. Symonds, <i>Callitris rhomboidea</i>, det. RBG Sydney, 2&amp;female; (AMNH _PBI 00005715, 00005716) (AM). DISTRIBUTION: <i>Callitricola wollemi</i> is known only from the type locality, on sandstone plateaus in the Wollemi National Park, near Newnes on the Great Dividing Range (map 3). <i>Callitris rhomboidea</i> and <i>C. endlicheri</i> grow together in this location, and where <i>Callitricola wollemi</i> and <i>Erysivena sydneyensis</i> also cooccur (table 2). REMARKS: <i>Callitricola wollemi</i> is known only from one male and two female specimens. As the male specimen is teneral and the pygophore was damaged, it was not possible to describe the pygophore and aedeagus. However, from the structure of the right paramere and female genitalia, we were able to determine that this is a distinct species. It is similar to <i>Callitricola cordylina, C. graciliphila</i>, and <i>C. finlayae</i> in external appearance; all are large in size, and have orange/yellow hemelytral membrane veins. The male phallotheca is very similar to that of <i>C. cordylina</i> with left and right apical tumescences (cf. figs. 47A and 32D, E). In addition, the subbasal lobe or the right dorsal margin of the phallotheca is subquadrate in both species (cf. figs. 32E and 47A). The left paramere of <i>C. cordylina</i> also has a subrectangular and truncate apophysis, with a strongly recurved apical hook (cf. figs. 47B, C and 32B). The right paramere of <i>Callitricola wollemi</i> differs from <i>C. cordylina</i> by having an enlarged apex and an enlarged and bulbous subapical dorsal lobe with spinelike serrations (fig. 47D). This bulbous subapical dorsal lobe is also found in <i>C. parawirra</i> (fig. 37D) and <i>C. finlayae</i> (fig. 35D), but <i>C. wollemi</i> is distinctive, with the lobe slightly smaller, and with a much larger and greatly expanded apical flange (fig. 47D, E), in comparison with <i>C. parawirra</i> and <i>C. finlayae</i>. The female interramal lobes of <i>Callitricola wollemi</i> are most similar to <i>C. cordylina</i> (cf. fig. 48), with an elongate subtriangular mIRL. However, in <i>C. wollemi</i> the mIRL is slightly less angular and basal lobe and spiniferous base of the laIRL are more expansive. See also remarks for <i>C. cordylina</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Symonds, Celia L. &amp; Cassis, Gerasimos, 2018, Systematics And Analysis Of The Radiation Of Orthotylini Plant Bugs Associated With Callitroid Conifers In Australia: Description Of Five New Genera And 32 New Species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae), pp. 1-229 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (422)</i> on pages 145-147, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-422.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5409470