Ceratocapsidea nigropicea
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Miridae
Genus: Ceratocapsidea
Name
Ceratocapsidea nigropicea (Reuter) comb. n. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Ceratocapsus nigropiceus Reuter, 1907: 13 (orig. descrip.); Van Duzee 1907[1]: 29 (note); Carvalho 1958[2]: 47 (cat.); Henry and Wheeler 1988[3]: 397 (cat. in part); Carvalho 1990[4]: 193 (descrip., illustr., in part); Schuh 1995[5]: 95 (cat. in part). Lectotype designated by Carvalho 1990[4]: 193.
Diagnosis
This species (Figs 39, 40) is distinguished by the dark brown to fuscous head, pronotum, and scutellum; the paler brown corium and clavus with evenly spaced brown-stained punctures, dark brown femora, the yellowish antenna with segments III and IV tinged with red, and the male genitalia, especially the apically bifid phallotheca (Fig. 187).
Description
Male (n = 2; paralectotype measurements in parentheses): Length 2.91 mm (2.94 mm), width 1.00 mm (1.10 mm). Head: Width 0.66 mm (0.69 mm), interocular width 0.20 mm (0.22 mm). Labium: Length 1.00 mm (1.03 mm). Antenna: Segment I, 0.23 mm (0.23 mm); II, 0.70 mm (0.72 mm); III, 0.36 mm (0.40 mm); IV, 0.34 mm (0.36 mm). Pronotum: Length 0.56 mm (0.56 mm), basal width 0.98 mm (0.98 mm).
Coloration: Overall yellowish brown to darker reddish brown. Head: Yellowish brown to dark brown; eyes black. Labium: Yellowish brown, sometimes tinged with red, segment IV often darker brown. Antenna: Yellowish brown, segment I with a red dash basally on inner surface, segment III and IV red tinged. Pronotum: Uniformly shiny reddish brown to dark brown; scutellum brown to dark brown, paler yellow apically. Scutellum: Fuscous to reddish brown, apex slightly paler. Hemelytron: Brown to yellowish brown, dark brown on costal area (embolium), cuneus and apical half of corium; membrane translucent brown, narrowly pale across basal margin. Ventral surface: Dark brown to dark reddish brown. Ostiolar evaporative area: Pale or white, central knob reddish. Legs: Coxae pale yellowish brown; fore femur pale yellowish brown, middle femur yellowish brown, dark brown on apical third, hind femur dark brown to dark reddish brown; fore and middle tibiae dark brown, yellowish brown on distal one fourth, hind tibia uniformly dark brown.
Structure, texture, and vestiture: Head: Dull, finely granulate, with scattered, short, recumbent simple setae, intermixed with a few longer, more erect setae on vertex. Labium: Extending to bases of hind coxae. Pronotum: Shiny, evenly punctate except for slightly duller granulate calli; evenly set with relatively long, semierect, simple setae. Scutellum: Evenly punctate; weakly rugose across basal half, thickly covered with silvery, scale-like setae, intermixed with several long, erect, simple setae. Hemelytron: Thickly and evenly covered with brown-stained punctures, less so on cuneus; thickly covered with silvery scale-like setae, especially on clavus and basal half of corium, intermixed with long, semierect, almost bristle-like simple setae.
Male genitalia: Left paramere (Fig. 186): Elongate, with a slender neck leading to beak-like apex, middle with two stout, apically acute processes, the longer one parallel with main stem, the basal one shorter and erect. Right paramere (Fig. 188) with one stout, upward-curving arm, having the apex marginally crenulate, and with one short, recurved spine arising from anterior aspect of arm. Phallotheca (Fig. 187) long, slender, with the apex bifid or Y-shaped.
Female (n = 5): Length 2.75–3.01 mm, width 1.02–1.21 mm. Head: Width 0.62–0.65 mm, interocular width 0.28–0.29 mm. Labium: Length 0.98–1.02 mm. Antenna: Segment I, length 0.23 mm; II, 0.72 mm; III, 0.39–0.40 mm; IV 0.36 mm. Pronotum: Length 0.52–0.56 mm, basal width 0.91–0.99 mm. Very similar to male but with a proportionately broader body and wider vertex.
Host
Unknown.
Distribution
Described and known only from Jamaica (Reuter 1907[6]). Henry and Wheeler’s (1982)[7] report of this species from Florida is a misidentification of Ceratocapsus balli (Knight) (which see).
Discussion
Carvalho (1990)[4] designated a male lectotype deposited in the California Academy of Sciences from Mandeville, Jamaica; all other specimens from the original type series are considered paralectotypes. Although the lectotype was not examined, the paralectotypes listed below were studied.
Type specimens examined
Paralectotypes: JAMAICA: Manchester: Mandeville, 18.03378EN, 77.50012EW, Jan 1906 - Apr 1906, Van Duzee, 1♂ (00286261) (USNM); 3♂♂, 1♀, Mandev’le, Ja, Apr. 06, Van Duzee coll. (1♂ CAS; 1♂ USNM; 1♂, 1♀ ZMUH).
Other specimens examined
JAMAICA: Manchester Parish: Mandeville, 18.03378EN, 77.50012EW, 618 m, 1700, Unknown, 1♂ (00099697) (MZH). St. Catherine Parish: Ferry River, 05 May 1941, Chapin, 3♂♂ (00286257-00286259), 1♀ (00286260) (USNM). Fort Clarence, 07 Dec 1975, O’Brien and Marshall, 3♀♀ (00286253-00286255), 1♂ (00286256) (USNM).
Taxon Treatment
- Henry, T; 2015: Revision of the Ceratocapsine Renodaeus group: Marinonicoris, Pilophoropsis, Renodaeus, and Zanchisme, with descriptions of four new genera (Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae) ZooKeys, (490): 1-156. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Van Duzee E (1907) Notes on Jamaican Hemiptera: A report on a collection of Hemiptera made on the island of Jamaica in the spring of 1906. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 8: 1–79.
- ↑ Carvalho J (1958) Catalogue of the Miridae of the World. Arquivos Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. Part III. Orthotylinae 47: 1–161.
- ↑ Henry T, Wheeler A (1988) Family Miridae Hahn, 1833. In: Henry T Froeschner R (Eds) Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Brill EJ, Leiden and New York, 251–507.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Carvalho J (1990) Mirideos neotropicais, CCCXVII: Novo gênero e espécies colecionadas por E. P. Van Duzee, descritas por Reuter, originarias da Jamaica (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 50: 497–505.
- ↑ Schuh R (1995) Plant Bugs of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). Systematic catalog, distributions, host list, and bibliography. New York Entomological Society, New York, 1329 pp.
- ↑ Reuter O (1907) Capsidae novae in insula Jamaica mense Aprilis 1906 a Van Duzee D. E. P. collectae. Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societatens Förhanglingar 49: 1–27.
- ↑ Henry T, Wheeler A (1982) New United States records for six Neotropical Miridae (Hemiptera) in southern Florida. Florida Entomologist 65: 233–241.
