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Corresponding author: Chérot Frédéric ( frederic.cherot@spw.wallonie.be ) Academic editor: Thomas Henry
© 2015 Yeshwanth H.M., Chérot Frédéric.
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Yeshwanth HM, Frédéric C (2015) A new species of the genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Chérot, & Štys, 2004 (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae) from India. ZooKeys 475: 89-95. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.475.8349
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A new species, Sulawesifulvius indicus sp. n., is described from Bangalore, India. It is easily separated from the type species S. schuhi
Sulawesifulvius indicus sp. n., Cylapinae , India, taxonomy
The monotypic genus Sulawesifulvius was erected by
Recently, two specimens of an unknown cylapine were collected by the first author in Hessaraghatta, near Bangalore, South India. These Indian specimens conform to the original generic diagnosis of the genus Sulawesifulvius. However, the genital structures of the male holotype, especially the parameres, are different and much simpler than the male genitalia of S. schuhi. Consequently, we describe these specimens as a new species of Sulawesifulvius.
The specimens examined for the study are deposited in the collection of the Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India (UASB). The terminology adopted for male genitalia follows
All measurements are given in millimeters. Photographs were taken using a Leica M205 C microscope. Multiple images were taken at different depths and were combined using a Combine ZM software. Illustrations of male genitalia were drawn using a Leica DM2000 compound microscope attached to a camera lucida.
Holotype ♂: India: Karnataka: Hessarghatta, near Bangalore (approx. 13°09'N, 77°29'E; altitude: 960 m), 20.vi.2011, at light, H.M. Yeshwanth leg. (UASB). Paratype ♀: India: Karnataka, Hessaraghatta, near Bangalore, 2.v.2010, at light, H.M. Yeshwanth leg. (UASB).
Small species, length 2.70, width 1.50 (versus length 3.40 and width 1.80 in S. schuhi), dorsally yellowish brown, slightly tinged with dark red, with simple parameres (Figs
Body of male pale yellow with pale red and brown markings; body length 2.70, width 1.50 (Fig.
Head pale yellow, longer than width, clypeus prominent; vertex and frons with two pairs of tubercles; head length in dorsal view 0.40, intraocular width 0.27; first segment of antenna tubular, pale yellow, tinged with red and brown markings; second segment yellow with a brown band medially, covered with short, pale setae; third segment pale yellow, apex dark brown, with bright white setae; fourth segment dark brown, with bright white setae; length of antennal segments: 0.15: 0.30: 0.40: 0.15; rostrum brown, shiny, length of rostral segments: 0.22: 0.25: 0.22: 0.25.
Pronotum pale yellow with red and brown markings, anterior margin of pronotum concave, with two brown spots; calli raised, large, tuberculate; lateral margins with brown spots on posterior region; anterolateral angle with scalelike setae; posterior margin arcuate. Length of pronotum 0.39, width of pronotum 1.18, length along lateral margin 0.50.
Legs (Figs
Mesoscutum exposed, yellowish brown, with brown patches and tinged with red on sides.
Scutellum pale yellow, with a longitudinal pale stripe medially; apex with red markings.
Hemelytra pale yellow, with short shining scalelike setae; corium with brown pattern reaching cuneal incisure, outer margin of embolium with brown patches; cuneus broadly triangular, with brown patches reaching apex of membrane; membrane whitish, tinged with brown.
Ventral surface pale yellow, with red bands.
Pygophore basally broad and narrow toward apex (Fig.
Parameres simple, left paramere flat, strongly curved, with a basal sensory lobe, apex rounded, beaklike (Fig.
Phallus prominent (Fig.
Body of female very similar to that of male in shape, size, color, and vestiture (Fig.
The name of the species refers to India, the country where it was collected (adjective derived from the geographical name).
The habitat surrounding street lamps consisted of trees dominated by tamarind (Tamarindus indica Linné) (Caesalpiniaceae), few trees of neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) (Meliaceae), Acacia sp., and bushes dominated by lantana (Lantana camera Linné) (Verbenaceae).
Sulawesifulvius indicus sp. n. is similar to S. schuhi, the type species and only other species known for the genus (
The discovery of a new species of Sulawesifulvius in southern India considerably extends the distribution of the genus, previously recorded only from Sulawesi, Indonesia but does not modify significantly the original diagnosis of the genus (
As noted by
This work was supported by the ICAR Network Project on Insect Biosystematics funded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. Dr M. Malipatil, Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Centre for AgriBioscience, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, reviewed an earlier version of the manuscript. Dr T. Henry, Department of Entomology, United States National Museum, Washington DC, USA (acting as coeditor of Zookeys) and to two anonymous reviewers provided constructive criticism on the submitted version of the manuscript. The first author is grateful to Dr. C.A. Viraktamath and Dr. V.V. Ramamurthy for their encouragement.