Adelphocorisella relata
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Miridae
Genus: Adelphocorisella
Name
Adelphocorisella relata Distant, 1904 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Adelphocorisella relata Chérot, F., 2016, Zootaxa 4126: 159-160.
Description
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Materials Examined
Material examined.Type specimens: lectotype Ƌ (present designation): SRI LANKA (as “ Ceylan ”): Kandy, vii (or i, difficult to read). 1902, Green leg., type number BMNH E 1653729 (NHM) [the specimen bears additional modern labels with the mention “ syntype ”, several data about sex and identification and three old labels with the following mentions: “ type ”, “ relatum Dist. ” and “Distant coll. 1911 - 383 ”; the collector is given according to Distant (1904: 428) but not cited on the available labels]. Paralectotype of both sexes (present determination): 1 Ƌ: SRI LANKA (as “ Ceylan ”): Kandy, vi. 1902, type number BMNH E 1653730 (NHM) [the specimen bears additional modern labels with the mention “ syntype ”, several data about sex and identification and an old label with the mention: “Distant coll. 1911 - 383 ”]; 1 ♀: SRI LANKA (as “ Ceylan ”): Kandy, ii. 1902, type number BMNH E 1653731 (NHM) [the specimen bears additional modern labels with the mention “ syntype ”, data about sex and identification and an old label with the number “ 2280 ”]. Additional material. 1 Ƌ and 1 ♀: INDIA: KARNATAKA: Chikkaballapura, T. V. Campbell leg. (NHM) [Collect date lacking, accession label with the following information: “Brit. Mus. 1926 - 171 ”].
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. Body chocolate brown to red brown; head chocolate brown with small red brown spots, eyes dark brown to black, posterior margin contiguous with pronotal collar; first antennal segment brown, apically red, clublike and curved, second segment yellow, last segments dark; apical collar of pronotum brown, pronotal disk light brown basally, medially and apically dark red brown, posterior margin yellowish brown; mesoscutum covered; scutellum brown, except sub-apex red brown and apex yellow; legs yellowish brown to red, base of femora yellow, apex dark brown, tibial spines yellow; hemelytra brown, with darker areas, lateral margin of corium sometimes broadly infuscate, cuneus brown mottled with red-brown, membrane brown, veins red.
Discussion
Discussion. In its external anatomy, the type of A. relata conforms to our diagnosis of the genus Adelphocorisella. We therefore suggest the new combination.
Taxon Treatment
- Chérot, F.; Malipatil, M. B.; 2016: A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 4126: 159-160. doi
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