Kanigara punctata Scudder, 1969

Ban, Teruaki, 2022, ThegenusKanigara Distant (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae) from Malay Peninsula and Thailand, with description of a new species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 22-29 : 26-28

Kanigara punctata Scudder, 1969

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Kanigara punctata Scudder, 1969: 538 (original description); Slater & O’Donnell, 1995: 119 (catalogue); Tomokuni, 2010: 17, 20 (fauna of Borneo).

See http://lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa. aspx?TaxonNameID=1222704 for Bibliography of this species.

Material examined. 2 males, ( CBM - ZI 179350–179351 ), THAILAND: Chanthaburi Prov., Krathing Country Resort , 12°49′14.5″N, 102°07′40.6″E, alt. 66 m, Light trap, Teruaki Ban leg., 14 March 2015 ; 3 males, 5 females, ( CBM - ZI 179352–179359 ), THAILAND: Rayong Prov., Near Rayong, 12°40′13.5″N, 101°24′49.5″E, alt. 452 m, Light Trap, Teruaki Ban leg., 17 March 2015 ; 1 female, ( CBM - ZI 179360), THAILAND: Rayong Prov., Near Rayong, 12°40′14–30″N, 101°24′50–52″E, alt. 452–552 m, Teruaki Ban leg., 17 March 2015 .

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other congeners of Kanigara by the following characters: body length more than 4.0 mm and less than 5.5 mm; head, pronotum, and scutellum matte dark brown; distance between ocelli 1.5 times wider than eye width; labium reaching midpoint between procoxae and mesocoxae; lateral area of posterior lobe of pronotum with distinct pale yellowish line; punctures on apical and lateral area of scutellum larger than punctures on basal area of scutellum and surface of pronotum; corium white, subhyaline; pygophore ( Fig. 5A ) globose, covered with relatively dense erect setae; dorsal pygophore opening circle-shaped, broadened to about basal one-third, then sharply narrowed by a pair of rounded protrusions; posterior margin of pygophore and cup-like sclerite fused; anterior margin of cup-like sclerite concave at middle; paramere ( Fig. 5B–E ) sparsely covered with erect setae, expanded at midpoint; phallus as in Fig. 5F, G ; phallosoma without processes; sperm reservoir as in Fig. 5H ; length of ovipositor less than 1.0 mm, truncated at approx. sternite VI; spermatheca as in Fig. 5I .

See Scudder (1969) for a detailed description of this species.

Distribution. Luzon, Leyte, Palawan, Thailand, Borneo ( Sarawak, Sabah), Sulawesi, Sumatra. New to Thailand.

Biological notes. Specimens were collected in the vicinity of artificial light within areas located adjacent to mountainous forest and open forest adjacent to a resort hotel.

Figures

Fig. 4. Kanigara punctata Scudder, 1969. A, B, male (A, dorsal view; B, ventral view); C, D, female (C, dorsal view; D, ventral view). Scale bars = 1.0 mm.

Fig. 5. Male and female genitalia of Kanigara punctata Scudder, 1969. A, pygophore, dorsal view; B–E, right paramere, four different aspects; F, G, phallus (F, dorsal view; G, lateral view); H, sperm reservoir; I, spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.