Montandoniola thripodes Bergroth 1916
Creators: name: Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique
name: Streito, Jean-Claude
name: Matocq, Armand
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Montandoniola
Montandoniola thripodes

description: Montandoniola thripodes Bergroth, 1916, bona species
(Figs. 6–13, 30, 33, 36)
Montandoniola thripodes Bergroth, 1916: 233 (sp. n.); Carayon, 1961b: 542 (note); Carayon & Ramade, 1962: 208 (note); Herring, 1966: 93 (syn. with M. moraguesi (Puton)).
Type material examined: Holotype 3, China, Hong-Kong, A. Koebele [USNM (type N° 20153)] (Fig. 6).
Note: the specimen is damaged, thorax is separated from the abdomen, the right antennae, and the last two segments of the left one, have disappeared, as well as all the legs. Dissection of genitalia has been made by us.
Redefinition (male holotype). Body length: 2.3 mm. Head: antennal segments I and II dark brown to black, III whitish (based on original description), IV missing; labium brown, apex lighter. Thorax: lateral margins of pronotum nearly straight; lateral carinae well marked, more expanded anteriorly; ostiolar peritreme angular posteriorly; legs (based on original description) dark brown, foretibiae whitish (except extreme base dark), tarsi whitish. Male genitalia (Figs. 11–13, 30, 33, 36): pygophore covered with many long setae on right side, with scattered short setae (not arranged into a brush) anterior to genital opening (Fig. 30); paramere: flagellum long and thin, rectilinear; lame very thin and acute apically with conspicuous indentation at base.
Biological data. No data available.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality: Hong-Kong.
Comments. Examination of the holotype including the genitalia, clearly shows that M. thripodes is different from M. moraguesi and is a valid species. We have examined the male holotype alone, no female. In the original description, Bergroth gave some characters for the female, suggesting the existence of at least one female in the material he examined.
Herring (1966) erroneously synonymized M. thripodes with M. moraguesi because of a probable misunderstanding of Carayon’s explanation (Carayon, 1961b; Carayon & Ramade, 1962). In these papers, Carayon just suspected that M. thripodes could be a synonym of M. moraguesi; however, having not examined the holotype, he carefully decided not establish it. Herring (1966) did examine the type of M. thripodes, but he did not dissect it and apparently he did not compare both type specimens. Herring’s synonymy was accepted without discussion by the subsequent authors.
M. thripodes differs from M. moraguesi chiefly by the shape of the ostiolar peritreme (posteriorly angular, Fig. 10), the arrangement of the setae on the pygophore anterior to the genital opening (Fig. 30), the shape of the paramere (flagellum straight, lame thin and abruptly acute at apex, Fig. 33).
It differs also from other described species, especially ishikawai, bellatula, and confusa n. sp., by some external characters (size, colour of the male antennal segment III) and male genitalia.
description: Published as part of Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Streito, Jean-Claude & Matocq, Armand, 2009, Is Montandoniola moraguesi (Puton, 1896) a mixture of different species? (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae), pp. 25-43 in Zootaxa 2208 on page 33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189786