Poppiusia China 1944
Creators: name: Namyatova, Anna A.
name: Cassis, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Poppiusia

description: POPPIUSIA CHINA   
Figures 7, 10B, L, M, 13C, 17I–L, 21I, J, 24  
 Poppiusia China, 1944: 184 (gen. nov.; type species: Poppiusia combretorum China, 1944 jun. syn. of Poppiusia leroyi (Schouteden, 1943) by monotypy); China, 1944: 176 (key); Schouteden, 1945: 116 (disc); Schouteden, 1946: 285 (disc); Carvalho, 1952: 59 (cat.), Carvalho, 1955: 39 (key); Carvalho, 1957: 143 (cat.); Schmitz, 1968: 11 (key to gen.); Schuh, 1995: 522 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 – 2013 (cat.); Namyatova et al., in press (phylogeny).   
 Diagnosis: Among species with row of punctures on clavus and R + M, Poppiusia differs in following: presence of three small ridges on frons (Fig. 10M); head distinctly swollen in lateral view (Fig. 10L); ASII subequal to head and pronotum combined, filiform; ASIII–IV not clavate; labium slightly surpassing posterior margin of prosternum, its segments I-II only twice as long as wide; pair of punctures on depression delimiting calli absent; calli separated (Fig. 10B); setae on pronotum present; metepimeron c. 3–4× as long as wide, subtriangular (Fig. 13C); membrane cell forming right angle; ductus seminis shorter than phallotheca, without coils; outgrowths supporting ductus seminis long (Fig. 17I).   
 Redescription: Male: Body length 7–9 mm. COLORA- TION (Fig. 7). Body mostly orange to pale brown with brown to dark brown or reddish areas, antennae uniformly dark brown; hemelytra often mostly dark with yellow to pale brown areas. TEXTURE. Body smooth; vertex without wrinkles, tubercles or flattened areas; pronotum and scutellum mostly impunctate, without tubercles, only pair of punctures between mesoscutum and scutellum, striations on lateral margin of scutellum, and rows on punctures on clavus and on R + M present (as in fig. 11C, D in Namyatova et al., in press); punctures on depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent (fig. 11D in Namyatova et al., in press); semicircular depression between scutellum and mesoscutum present (as in Fig. 11A). VESTITURE. Body clothed with suberect dark or pale setae, setae on tibiae and abdomen longer than those on dorsum and pleura some of them twice as long as hind tibia width; black spinules on femora absent; tibiae regularly setose; spinules on tibiae organized in rows (as in fig. 18D in Namyatova et al., in press). STRUCTURE. Head. Distance between eye and pronotum subequal to eye diameter (Fig. 10B); depression delimiting occipital region distinct (Fig. 10L); longitudinal depression on vertex indistinct; eyes not stylate, in line with contour of head (Fig. 10B), c. 0.3× as wide as head; distance between antennal fossa twice as long as antennal fossa diameter; frons swollen, with three longitudinal ridges (Fig. 10M), without longitudinal depression; anterior view of head c. 1.3–1.4× as wide as high; eye almost twice as long as distance from eye to apex of clypeus; antennal fossa round, its diameter subequal to third part of eye height (as in fig. 3A in Namyatova et al., in press), tuberculate (Fig. 10L), its inferior margins placed slightly above inferior margin of eye; base of clypeus placed on the same level with inferior margin of antennal fossa, delimited with depression; in lateral view head distinctly swollen dorsally (Fig. 10L); gula c. 1.5× as long as buccula length, straight. Labium. Reaching or slightly surpassing anterior margin of mesosternum; LSI and II twice as long as wide, almost subequal in length or LSII slightly longer than LSI; LSIII c. 1.5× as long as wide, slightly shorter than LSII; LSIV c. 2.5× as long as wide, twice as long as LSIII. Antenna. Reaching apex of cuneus; ASI only slightly shorter than head width, widened medially (fig. 9D in Namyatova et al., in press); ASII c. 3× as long as ASI, subequal to length of head and pronotum combined; ASIII c. 0.6–0.7× as long as ASII; ASIV slightly longer than half of ASIII length; ASII–IV filiform. Thorax. Collar distinct, fused with calli posteriorly, slightly swollen; calli separated from each other, rounded, not conical; depression delimiting calli posteriorly distinct laterally, but indistinct between calli; humeral angles of pronotum rounded, not dilated; posterior margin of pronotum concave (Fig. 10B); scutellum almost flat, acute apically, without outgrowth; metepimeron enlarged 3× as long as wide, angulate (Fig. 13C); metasternum extending to abdominal segment II in triangular outgrowth (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press). Hemelytron. Costal margins subparallel, hemelytron not tapering; claval commissure almost twice as long as scutellum, straight (as in fig. 11C in Namyatova et al., in press); R + M distinct, reaching posterior margin of corium; medial fracture inclined towards midline; corium without swelling posteriorly; cuneus c. 1.7–2× as long as wide, c. 0.8× as long as pronotum; its medial margin straight; membrane cell distinctly surpassing apex of scutellum, forming almost right angle (as in fig. 13A in Namyatova et al., in press), slightly longer than pronotum; auxiliary vein absent; distance from cell to apex of membrane c. 0.6–0.7× as long as cell length. Legs. Forecoxae contiguous (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press); femora only indistinctly swollen apically, fore- and middle femora straight, hind femur moderately curved; swellings on tibiae absent; foretibia shorter than head and pronotum combined; segment I of hind tarsus subequal to segment II and slightly shorter than segment III; apical third of claw curved; basal tooth on claw three times as long as wide, distinctly concave (as in Fig. 13K). Genitalia (Fig. 17I– L). Genital capsule slightly longer than wide, without outgrowths, ventral wall not shortened anteriorly; left paramere r-shaped, c. 1.5× as long as right paramere; sclerite around primary suboval, with long outgrowths, supporting ductus seminis; ductus seminis not sclerotized basally or apically, slightly shorter than phallotheca length, without coils, attached to phallobase medially; sclerotized part of phallotheca broad, occupying entire dorsal part, rounded apically, without outgrowths and ridges; endosoma without spicules.   
 Female: Body length 9–10 mm. Coloration similar to male, abdomen reddish (Fig. 7). Surface and vestiture as in male, setae on abdomen dark and suberect of different length, sometimes twice as long as hind tibia width. Structure similar to male, but body generally larger, pronotum wider than in male, and hemelytron slightly widened posteriorly. Genitalia (Fig. 21I, J). DLP with two distinct sclerotized bands, without striations or sclerites, lateral oviducts and spermathecal gland placed posteriorly, not shifted right or left, lateral oviducts distinctly removed from each other, but placed far from lateral margins of DLP; posterior wall of bursa copulatrix with small tubercles, without sclerites; base of second valvula distinctly swollen; ventral wall membranous.   
 Distribution: Known from Ghana and Democratic Republic of Congo (Fig. 24).   
 Host plants: Poppiusia leroyi was recorded from Combretum sp. and Combretorum racemosum (Combretaceae) (China, 1944; Leston, 1980).
description: Published as part of Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2016, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world, pp. 36-136 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1) on pages 118-119, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12311, http://zenodo.org/record/5356719