Poppiocapsidea Yasunaga, 1998

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 : 181

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( Figures 52–54 View FIGURES 51 – 58 , 59–61 View FIGURES 59 – 61 )

Poppiocapsidea Yasunaga, 1998a: 68 View in CoL –69 (as n. gen.) [type-species by original designation: Megacoelum clypeale Poppius, 1915b ]. Poppiocapsidea: Chérot, Yasunaga & Gorczyca 1999: 15 View in CoL –23 (new generic definition, discussion); Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 171 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body length 6–8, sub-oblong, slightly convex, non-uniformly orange to pale red. Labium short, not reaching posterior coxae. Pronotum dorsally almost glabrous with a shining collar and a pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners. Scutellum relatively flat. Hemelytra dull, rugose, punctation very reduced, dense, narrow and shallow, their pilosity dense, recumbent. Tibia with dense suberect setae and light, yellow spines. Primary apophysis of right paramere with two pointed lobes. Secondary gonopore incomplete, only lower half distinct, and thickly covered with long hairs; phallus devoid of comb, true spiculum or phallic support (Chérot’s ACH). Parietovaginal rings wide, devoid of anterior projection; dorso-labiate plate reduced.

Included species. P. biseratensis ( Distant, 1903) *, P. clypealis ( Poppius, 1915b) , P. tagalica (Poppius, 1915) * (n. comb.).

Distribution. Genus known from Australian and Oriental regions ( India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar—as Burma -, Sri Lanka—as Ceylon -, Philippines Islands, Taiwan, Thailand).

Host plants. No available data.

References

Cherot, F., Yasunaga, T. & Gorczyca, J. (1999) Notes on Thai and other Oriental Miridae (Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha). The generic allocation of Megacoelum biseratense (DISTANT, 1903) [Heteroptera: Mirinae, Mirini]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 104 (1), 15 - 23.

Distant, W. L. (1903) Report on the Rhynchota, Part 1. Heteroptera. In: Annandale, N. & Robinson, H. C. (Eds.), Fasciculi malayenses: anthropological and zoological results of an expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901 - 1902 undertaken by Nelson Annandale & Herbert C. Robinson under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Liverpool. Zoology. Part I. Longmans, Green & Co., London, pp. 223 - 272 + 2 pls.

Kerzhner, I. M. & Josifov, M. (1999) Cimicomorpha II. Miridae. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, R. (Eds.), Catalog of the Heteroptera of the Palearctic Region. Netherlands Entomological Society, Ponsen & Looijen, Wageningen, xiv + 577 pp.

Poppius, B. (1915 b) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Nabidae, Anthocoridae, Termatophylidae, Miridae, Isometopidae und Ceratocombidae. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 1914 (A), 8, 1 - 80.

Figures

FIGURES 51 – 58. Habitus of ACMc members: 51. Pleurochilophorus quadripunctatus Reuter, 1905, female holotype from Eritrea (MRAC). 52. Poppiocapsidea biseratensis (Distant, 1903), a male from Thailand. 53. “ Megacoelum townsvillensis ” Distant, 1904, a junior synonym of P. biseratensis (Distant, 1903) (new synonymy), female lectotype from Australia. 54. Poppiocapsidea tagalica (Poppius, 1915) n. comb., female holotype from Philippine Islands (MZHF). 55. Poppiomegacoelum gearyi n. gen., n. sp., female paratype from Australia. 56. Pseudomegacoelum beckeri (Fieber, 1870) n. comb., a specimen from Spain (MNHN). 57. Pseudomegacoelum irbilanum (Linnavuori, 1988) n. comb., male holotype from Iraq (AMNH). 58. Pseudomegacoelum quercicola (Linnavuori, 1965) n. comb., male holotype from Tunisia (AMNH). Scales = 1 mm.

FIGURES 59 – 61. Male genitalia of Poppiocapsidea biseratensis (Distant, 1903): 59. Apex of left paramere. 60. Right paramere (the arrow indicates the notch). 61. Phallus. LL: left lobe. SG: secondary gonopore. Scales = 0.2 mm.