Creontiades sumatrensis Poppius, 1915

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 : 167

7.2. Creontiades sumatrensis Poppius, 1915

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Creontiades sumatrensis Poppius, 1915a: 20 –21 (as new species); Carvalho 1959: 78 (catalog); Schuh 1995: 747 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Material examined. Type specimens: Syntypes: 5Ƌ♀: INDONESIA: SUMATRA: Panscherang-Pisang, x.1890 - iii.1891, Modigliani E. leg ( MZHF).

Diagnosis. Head yellowish-green to brown, eyes reddish-brown. Antennal segments yellow, first and second segments tinged with red basally. Frons shagreen, with a deep and elongate median depression near the vertex and an elongated sulcus. Vertex devoid of posterior carina. Apical collar of pronotum, callosities and disk yellow tinged with red, the posterior margin of pronotum with a wide dark red stripe medially. Femora yellow to reddish, tibia and tarsus yellow, tibial spines light brown. Mesoscutum covered. Scutellum yellow, dark red on the sides and apically. Hemelytra light yellow, inner margins of clavus and endocorium and border between endocorium and membrane red. Cuneus yellow with red spots. Membrane light brown, veins red. Hemelytral punctation very reduced, sparse and shallow, pilosity short, recumbent.

Discussion. By their habitus, the types of C. sumatrensis perfectly conform to our diagnosis of the genus Creontiades . Therefore, we can confirm the generic placement of this poorly known species. Poppius (1915a: 21) explicitly cited five specimens of both sexes in his description, from Genoa and Helsinki museums. According to the Article 73.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), they constitute collectively the name-bearing type. They are currently all preserved in MZHF. When the first author visited the MZHF in September 2007 to examine the types, of the five type specimens, three bore type labels (with the numbers 10050 to 10052), a fourth was devoid of type label but was mentioned in the MZHF entomological Department file of types and the fifth was devoid of type label and was not cited in the file.

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.