Bothriomiris Kirkaldy 1902
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Bothriomiris

description: Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, 1902
(Figs. 7–10)
Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, 1902: 270, type species by monotypy: Bothriomiris marmoratus Kirkaldy, 1902 (junior synonym of Capsus dissimulans Walker, 1873 synonymized by Distant 1904b); Distant, 1904a: 469 (redescription), 1904b: 112 (list); Kirkaldy, 1906: 145 (list); Reuter, 1910: 154 (list and taxonomy), 1912: 43 (taxonomy); Bergroth, 1910: 235 (diagnosis), 1920: 70 (list); Carvalho, 1955: 18 (key to genera), 1957: 26 (catalog); Carvalho & Lorenzato, 1978: 121 (diagnosis); Schuh, 1995: 20 (catalog); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 10 (catalog); Gorczyca, 2000: 47 (list), 2006: 9 (catalog); Yasunaga, 2000: 185, 203 (diagnosis, key to Japanese species); Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: 721–722 (diagnosis, key to Japanese species); Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: 3, 6, 7–8 (checklist, key to Oriental genera, diagnosis).
Bothriomiridius Poppius, 1915: 44 (synonymized by Carvalho, 1952: 49), type species by original designation: Bothriomiridius lugubris Poppius, 1915; Bergroth, 1920: 70 (list); Carvalho, 1957: 26 (catalog); Schuh, 1995: 20 (catalog); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 10 (catalog).
Diagnosis. Recognised by the following combination of characters: body subovate to elongate oval (Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: figs. 1C, D; Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 1–4), relatively large (usually over 5.5 mm); dorsum usually moderately shining, covered with dense, semierect or erect setae; head rugose (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 42–43); antennal segment I constricted at basal one fourth (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 3–4, 28); segment II thin, covered with moderately dense setae (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 29); metepisternum covered with densely distributed punctures (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 26); scutellum almost flattened or weakly arched (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: 2–4; Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: 1 C, D); ostiolar peritreme obtuse, matte, covered with minute, fine setae (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: 27); endosoma simple; DSS thin, nearly parallel-sided along entire length or tapering; endosomal sclerites absent or very weakly developed (Figs. 7, 10; Yasunaga, 2000: fig. 85; Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 36).
Key to species of Bothriomiris
1. Pronotum with a triangular, ochraceous patch from anterior margin reaching medial portion............... B. ornatus Bergroth
– Pronotum entirely dark brown to black, rarely reddish (Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: figs. 1C, D; Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 3–4), sometimes with an anterior lobe yellow and with a yellow swelling from anterior lobe to posterior margin (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 1, 2), but never with a triangular, ochraceous patch anteriorly ....................................................2
2. Dorsal surface entirely reddish ................. B. testaceus Distant
– Dorsal surface usually dark brown or blackish brown, sometimes with yellow, reddish or ochraceous areas, never entirely reddish (Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: figs. 1C, D; Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 1–4) .......................................................................3
3. Vertex with two distinct, broad tubercles, each situated laterally and contiguous with an inner margin of eye and occipital carina; antennal segment I longer than width of vertex (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 4); left paramere with sensory lobe strongly convex, without sharply pointed process (Gorczyca, 2005; Fig. 3)..................................... B. sulawesicus Gorczyca
– Tubercles on vertex weakly developed; antennal segment I nearly as long or shorter than width of vertex (Figs. 1–3); left paramere with sensory lobe not convex (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 37), or if convex, furnished with sharply pointed process (Gorczyca, 2005: fig. 6).............................................4
4. Dorsum varying from pale brown with reddish and yellowish areas to dark brown or blackish with yellowish stripes and/or patches (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: figs. 1, 2); pronotal calli impunctate; posterior lobe of pronotum with a distinct, pale, median, longitudinal stripe (Figs. 1, 2); endosoma with relatively weakly developed AES and MES (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 36) ............................................... B. dissimulans (Walker)
– Dorsal surface almost entirely blackish dark brown except for a dull yellowish to nearly orange apex of scutellum (Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: figs. 1C–D; Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 3); pronotal calli punctate; posterior lobe of pronotum entirely blackish (Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: figs. 1C, D; Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 3); endosoma without sclerites (Figs. 7, 10; Yasunaga, 2000: fig. 85) ..............................................5
5. Apex of scutellum and corium with an indistinct, dull yellowish patch (Wolski & Gorczyca, 2012: fig. 3); left paramere with sensory lobe strongly convex, furnished with a distinct spine (Gorczyca, 2005: fig. 6) ........................... B. lugubris Poppius
– Apex of scutellum and corium with distinct, large, yellowish to nearly orange patches (Yasunaga & Miyamoto, 2006: figs. 1C–D); left paramere with sensory lobe either with weakly developed process or just slightly convex (Fig. 8; Yasunaga, 2000: fig. 83)...........................................................................6
6. Endosoma with DSS thin and strongly sinuate along entire length (Yasunaga, 2000: fig. 85); sensory lobe of left paramere with weakly developed, obtuse process (Yasunaga, 2000: fig. 83).............................................................. B. gotohi Yasunaga
– Endosoma with DSS relatively broad, straight (Fig. 7); sensory lobe of left paramere only slightly convex, without process (Fig. 8)................................. B. ernsti Yasunaga & Miyamoto
description: Published as part of Wolski, Andrzej & Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2016, Taxonomic review of the fungal-inhabiting plant bug genera Bothriomiris and Dashymenia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae: Bothriomirini), with descriptions of two new species of Dashymenia from Thailand, pp. 176-186 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64 on pages 178-180, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4502022