Chimsunchartella Chérot & Pauwels, 2000

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 (2), pp. 151-206 : 163-164

6. Chimsunchartella Chérot & Pauwels, 2000

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Chimsunchartella Chérot & Pauwels, 2000: 129 –130 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation: Chimsunchartella schwartzi Chérot & Pauwels, 2000 ]. Chimsunchartella: Chérot & Malipatil 2003: 149 –153 (description of female, discussion of variability); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body elongate, total length 6, laterally almost straight, relatively uniform stramineous, yellow or yellow brown, frequently with small dark brown to black spots ( Fig. 15 ); vertex distinctly sulcate, slightly carinate; labium reaching mesocoxae; first antennal segment slightly club-like, relatively short, straight, with red spots; pronotum dull, with dense recumbent pilosity, less conspicuous in females, and a pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners; dorsal dark spots of pronotal disk frequently callose; scutellum swollen, mesoscutum slightly pilose; hemelytra dull, almost smooth, with two different punctations, one very reduced, narrow and shallow, the other sparse, wider, shallow; pilosity relatively dense, short, simple, recumbent; veins not raised; tibial spines brown, red brown in females. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite; phallus devoid of comb or true spiculum, with an elongate, acute phallic support and several fields of denticles. Parieto-vaginal rings reduced, narrow, devoid of anterior projections; dorso-labiate plate elongated. Dorsal process of posterior wall present but undivided, median process medially narrowed, interramal lobes (E structures) reduced. H structures absent.

Included species. C. schwartzi Chérot & Pauwels, 2000 *.

Distribution. Australia.

Host plants. Chenopodiaceae and Myrtaceae ( Chérot & Malipatil 2003; Schuh 2002–2013).

Discussion. C. schwartzi Chérot & Pauwels, 2000 , as presently defined ( Chérot & Pauwels 2000; Chérot & Malipatil 2003) seems a relatively variable species. The possibility the name “ C. schwartzi ” as applied here, may refer to several closely related species cannot totally be excluded, even if Namyatova et al. (2013: 1005) consider that “there is insufficient information to separate additional species and that the polymorphic coloration observed in C. schwartzi is typical for a widely distributed mirine plant bug”. Additional study of male and female genitalia of a large number of specimens would be desirable to correctly interpret this variability.

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 22. Habitus of ACMc members: 15. Chimsunchartella schwartzi Chérot & Pauwels, 2000, male holotype from Australia (MNHN). 16. Creontiades coloripes Hsiao & Meng, 1963, a male from Japan (USNM). 17. Creontiades debilis Va n Duzee, 1915, a male from North Bimini Island, Bahamas (AMNH). 18. Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911, a non-type female from New Caledonia (MNHN). 19. Creontiades rubrinervis (Stål, 1862), a male from Argentina (coll. Carpintero). 20. Creontiades sumatrensis Poppius, 1915, male syntype from Indonesia (MZHF). 21. Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905, female holotype of C. vitticollis Poppius, 1915 (new junior synonym) from Australia (MZHF). 22. Galapagomiris longirostris Carvalho in Carvalho & Gagné, 1968, a male from Galapagos archipelago (ISNB). Scales = 1 mm.