Argenis Distant, 1904

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, Zootaxa 4378 (3), pp. 301-322 : 319

Argenis Distant, 1904

( Figures 54–57 )

Argenis Distant 1904a: 107 (as new genus) (Type species by monotypy: Capsus incisuratus Walker 1873 from Peradenyia, Sri lanka as “ Ceylon ”). Argenis: Schuh 1995: 700 (catalogue); Chérot 1997a: 397 –398 (redescription); Zheng et al. 2005: 204, 686, 698 (redescription, in fauna); Schuh, 2002–2013 (online catalogue); Chérot et al. 2017: 89 (species from Papua New Guinera).

Diagnosis. Elongate-oval, small, shiny yellowish brown to dark brown, partially translucent bugs, with normal, suberect dorsal setae. Total length: 3.8–4.2 mm, maximal width across hemelytra: 1.2–1.6 mm. Head short, vertical. Vertex carinate, not sulcate but longitudinally impressed ( Distant, 1904a). Lora tuberculate. Frons smooth. First antennal segment widened sub-basally and narrowed just after. Labium reaching metacoxae. Pronotal collar relatively long, longer than first antennal segment maximal width, punctate. Callosities rounded, medially separated and separated from pronotal lateral margins. Punctation of pronotal disk wide and deep. Mesoscutum covered or almost covered. Scutellum slightly swollen, its punctation wide and deep. Punctation of clavus and corium narrow and shallow, however a line of deep and wide points is present along clavo-corial and emboliocorial sutures. Embolium relatively wide, slightly widened sub-posteriorly.

Distribution. The genus is known from China, Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi), Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

One species in India.

Figures

FIGURES 54–57. Argenis incisuratus Distant,1904. 54. Habitus in dorsal view.55. Endophallus. 56. Left paramere.57.Right paramere