Carvalhocapsus Chérot & Carpintero, 2006

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 : 161

4. Carvalhocapsus Chérot & Carpintero, 2006

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Carvalhocoris Carpintero & Chérot, 2002: 40–41 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation Carvalhocoris scutellosum Carpintero & Chérot, 2002 ]. Carvalhocapsus Chérot & Carpintero, 2006: 91 (as nomen novum for Carvalhocoris Carpintero & Chérot, 2002, a primary junior homonym of Carvalhocoris Leston, 1953). Carvalhocapsus: Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body sub-oblong, total length 5.1, slightly convex laterally, and uniformly brown to black ( Fig. 7 ); eyes wide, posterior margin contiguous with pronotal collar; labium reaching to procoxae; first antennal segment elongate, bearing some stiff, erect setae; pronotum with sparse, short, recumbent setae; scutellum conspicuously swollen, ampule-like, shining black; metafemora not Phytocoris -like; metatibia slightly curved, the tibial spines yellow; hemelytra dull, with reduced and shallow punctation, with black, short and recumbent setae and longer and erect setae along the veins and with a tuft of black, erect setae on apical area of clavus; the veins raised. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite or long hairs; phallus devoid of comb, with an elongated furrowed phallic support and a small toothed sclerite posterior to secondary gonopore (spiculum); parieto-vaginal rings reduced, rounded, devoid of sclerite or anterior projection; margins of dorso-labiate plate reinforced; dorsal process of posterior wall present, divided, median process elongated; interramal lobes (E structures sensu Slater, 1950 ) reduced; H structures elongated.

Included species. C. scutellosum * ( Carpintero & Chérot, 2002) .

Distribution. Argentina.

Host plants. No data available.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Habitus of ACMc members: 1. Adelphocoridea brunnea Poppius, 1912, male from Madagascar (MNRJ). 2. Adelphocoridea laevigata Poppius, 1912, female holotype from Madagascar (MZHF). 3. Adelphocoris seticornis (Fabricius, 1775) from Belgium. 4. Adelphocorisella brunnescens (Poppius, 1915) n. comb., male holotype from Papua New Guinea (MZHF). 5. Adelphocorisella relata (Distant, 1904) n. comb., male lectotype from Sri Lanka (NHM). 6. Adelphocorisella rubricornis n. sp., female holotype from Australia (ANIC). 7. Carvalhocapsus scutellosum (Carpintero & Chérot, 2002), male paratype from Argentina (Coll. D. L. Carpintero). 8. Cheilocapsidea insignis (Distant, 1909), male from Laos (NMPC). Scales = 1 mm.