Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952

Wolski, Andrzej, 2021, Revised classification of the New World Cylapini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae): taxonomic review of the genera Cylapinus, Cylapoides and Peltidocylapus and a morphology-based phylogenetic analysis of tribe Cylapini, Zootaxa 5074 (1), pp. 1-66 : 61-62

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Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952
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Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952 View in CoL

Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952a: 270 View in CoL , figs 6–9 (new species).

Cylapoides bicolor: Carvalho 1957: 29 View in CoL (catalog); Carvalho & Froeschner 1987: 154 (list); Schuh 1995: 23 (catalog); Gorczyca 2006a: 14 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following set of characters: head and pronotum contrastingly pale yellow; antennal segment I entirely dark brown; posterior margin of pronotum arcuate ( Fig. 3c View FIGURE 3 ); parameres as described by Carvalho (1952a: figs 7–9).

Redescription. Male. COLORATION. Head pale yellow; antennal segments I– IV dark brown ( IV segment mutilated); labium with segment I yellow; segment II red (segments III and IV mutilated in holotype). Thorax. Pronotum. Contrastingly pale yellow. Mesoscutum, scutellum and hemelytron. Dark brown. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron and proepisternum pale yellow; remaining pleura dark brown. Legs. Dark brown. TEXTURE AND VESTITURE. As in generic description. STRUCTURE. Thorax. Pronotum. Posterior margin weakly convex medially. Genitalia. Parameres as described by Carvalho (1952a: figs 7–9) .

Measurements. Holotype ♂: Body. Length: 2.8, width 1.4. Head. Length: 0.2, width: 1.0, interocular distance 0.42. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.4, II 0.9, III 0,8, IV (missing). Labium. 1.4. Pronotum. Length 0.4, width of anterior margin 0.7, length of lateral margin 0.3, width of posterior margin 1.0.

Female. Unknown.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Belize.

Type material. Belize. Holotype: Male, British Honduras, Punta Gorda, Oct. 1935, J. J. White, B. M. 1937–147 ( BMNH).

Carvalho, J. C. M. (1952 a) Neotropical Miridae, 56: Description of three new genera and five new species from Brazil and British Honduras (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 12, 265 - 273.

Carvalho, J. C. M. (1957) Catalogue of the Miridae of the World. Part I. Subfamilies Cylapinae, Deraeocorinae and Bryocorinae. Arquivos do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, 44, 1 - 158.

Carvalho, J. C. M. & Froeschner, R. C. (1987) Taxonomic names proposed in the insect order Heteroptera by Jose Candido de Melo Carvalho from 1943 to January 1985, with type depositories. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 95, 121 - 224.

Gorczyca, J. (2006 a) The catalogue of the subfamily Cylapinae Kirkaldy, 1903 of the World (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae). Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum. Vol. 5. Department of Natural History, Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, 100 pp.

Schuh, R. T. (1995) Plant bugs of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). New York Entomological Society, New York, New York, 1329 pp.

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FIGURE 3. Dorsal habitus photographs. a. Cylapinus minusculus (♂, Ecuador); b. Cylapinus yasunagai (holotype); c. Cylapoides bicolor (holotype); d. Cylapoides unicolor (♂, Ecuador).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Tribe

Cylapini

Genus

Cylapoides