Gryllofulvius Taszakowski & Jindra & Wolski 2025, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Taszakowski, Artur
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
name: Wolski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Gryllofulvius

description: Genus Gryllofulvius Taszakowski gen. nov.
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Type species
Gryllofulvius gibbosus Taszakowski gen. et sp. nov., here designated.
Diagnosis
Distinguished by small eyes, in female 0.14 × as width, and 0.3 × as long as head width, body glabrous and shiny, brachypterous; pronotal collar distinct, posterior angles of pronotum almost right; pretarsal claw with subapical tooth; hemelytra basally fused with each other and with the scutellum and mesoscutum and vertical hypocostal lamina developed as elongated stridulitrum.
Etymology
The genus name is created from a combination of ‘ Gryllus ’, in reference to the cricket, and ‘ Fulvius ’, the type genus of the tribe Fulviini Uhler, 1886, in which the new genus is placed. Gender: masculine.
Description
BODY. In the shape of an elongated pear, length 3.1 mm; brachypterous (Fig. 1).
TEXTURE AND VESTITURE. Body almost hairless; head, pronotum, thoracic pleura, mesoscutum, scutellum and basal part of hemelytron with isolated, scattered setae (Fig. 2A–F); femora with few setae, tibiae and tarsi with relatively dense setae (Fig. 2J). Body glabrous and shiny (Fig. 1A–B) except wrinkled pronotal collar (Fig. 2C), mesoscutum, base, middle and apical part of scutellum and base of hemelytra (Fig. 2D). Relatively vertical hypocostal lamina with developed elongated stridulitrum (Fig. 2F, H). Central part of inner metafemoral surface with numerous minute bumps forming plectrum (Fig. 2G, I).
STRUCTURE. Head. Eyes small, removed from pronotal collar (Figs 1, 2A); vertex strongly convex; scape nearly cylindrical; labium reaching hind coxae; segment I subdivided in distal part.
THORAX. Pronotum almost square, pronotal collar distinct, anterior angles rounded, anterior lobe strongly convex, large, occupying almost whole pronotum (Figs 1B–C, 2A–B); anterior margin strongly rounded, posterior margin straight, sides rounded in posterior part. Mesoscutum and scutellum: Mesoscutum flat; scutellum slightly concave (Figs 1B–C, 2A). Thoracic pleura: Scent gland evaporative area of metepisternum narrow.Hemelytron: brachypterous, narrow on basal half, flaring wider apically; strongly depressed across basal part, strongly convex in remaining part. Hemelytra basally fused with each other and with scutellum and mesoscutum; claval suture shortened, thickened and raised; clavus and corium partially fussing, cuneal fracture absent, apex rounded, apical margin cutting inward forming V with both hemelytra together; apical three abdominal segments exposed beyond hemelytra.
LEGS. Tarsus three-segmented (Fig. 2J); pretarsal claw with subapical tooth.
ABDOMEN. Female genitalia: genital chamber membranous (Fig. 3A–B); sclerotized rings paired, relatively large, subellipsoid; ovipositor thin; gonapophyses 8 connected by distinct membranous structure along entire length (Fig. 3B, E); apices of gonapophyses 8 and 9 obtuse, without any teeth apically (Fig. 3F–G).
description: Published as part of Taszakowski, Artur, Jindra, Zdeněk & Wolski, Andrzej, 2025, Gryllofulvius gibbosus Taszakowski gen. et sp. nov. - a remarkable, flightless and stridulating plant bug (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from Madagascar, pp. 171-181 in European Journal of Taxonomy 976 on pages 172-173, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2785, http://zenodo.org/record/14893600