Saileria bella (Van Duzee)

Forero, Dimitri, 2009, Description of One New Species of Chileria and Three New Species of Orthotylus, with Nomenclatural and Distributional Notes on Neotropical Orthotylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylini), American Museum Novitates 3642, pp. 1-50 : 43-46

Saileria bella (Van Duzee)

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Hyalochloria bella Van Duzee, 1916: 217 [n. sp.].

Saileria bella: Hsiao, 1945: 27 [new genus, as type species]; Carvalho, 1958: 131 [catalog]; Henry, 1976a: 31 [key]; Henry and Wheeler, 1988: 446 [catalog]; Schuh, 1995: 191 [catalog].

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the delicate body (fig. 2); hyaline hemelytra (fig. 2); greenish, quadrate spots on hemelytra (fig. 2); male with eyes surpassing dorsal margin of head (fig. 19A); eyes not close to anterior margin of pronotum (fig. 19B); pretarsus as in figs. 5C, 19E–F; metepisternal scent gland as in figs. 5B, 19C; genital capsule with opening nearly vertical (fig. 20), anterior margin well sclerotized, without tergal processes (fig. 20); genital capsule with ventral, posteriorly directed prolongation (figs. 19H, 20); aedeagus simple, phallotheca cylindrical, narrow, apically nearly circular (figs. 19G, 20); vesica with a single spicule, about one-half the length of the phallotheca (fig. 20); left paramere bifurcated, apex notched (fig. 20); right paramere rodlike, with a medially directed projection (fig. 20).

HOSTS: Saileria bella is associated with Eriodictyon crassifolium Benth. , Eriodictyon tomentosum Benth. , and an unidentified species of Eriodictyon (Hydrophyllaceae) . A few specimens were associated with Fremontodendron californicum (Torr.) Coville (Sterculiaceae) , and Rhamnus californica Eschsch. (Rhamnaceae) .

DISTRIBUTION: Saileria bella is only known from southern California (see below).

DISCUSSION: Saileria bella , the type species of Saileria , has a simple aedeagus, with a single reduced vesical spicule. The other taxa treated in this paper that were previously included in Saileria (i.e., Ch. pamparum , as ‘‘ S. chilena ’’, and P. youngi , as ‘‘ S. youngi ’’) show no relationship with S. bella , neither regarding head and pronotum structure, nor male genitalia structure. Saileria mexicana Carvalho, 1985 , has a very similar head and paramere structure (see Carvalho, 1985: figs. 130–132), and thus is probably congeneric with S. bella . Saileria irrorata Henry, 1976 , a species from the eastern United States, has two vesical spicules and slightly different paramere structure ( Henry, 1976a, 1980). Head and pronotum structure of S. irrorata , nonetheless, is very similar to S. bella . Some of the other species of Saileria not treated in this paper may not be congeneric with S. bella but still be part of the Zanchius group (e.g., S. carmelitana Carvalho , S. sulina Carvalho ), whereas others may belong in other

Orthotylini genera (e.g., S. fluminensis , which is very similar to Orthotylus cyanescens Carvalho ).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: USA: California: Monterey Co.: Lockwood, 35.93667 ° N 121.08056 ° W, 24 Jul 1935, R. H. Beamer, 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00075320) (KU). Riverside Co.: 10 mi E of Hemet, San Bernardino National Forest, 33.73813 ° N 116.838 ° W, 581 m, 20 May 2004, Schuh, Cassis, Schwartz, Weirauch, Wyniger, Forero, Eriodictyon crassifolium var. crassifolium Benth. (Hydrophyllaceae) , det. A. Sanders UCR140621, 523 (AMNH_PBI 00102870–AMNH_PBI 00102890, AMNH_PBI 00194957–AMNH_ PBI 00194966, AMNH_PBI 00195000–AMNH_ PBI 00195006, AMNH_PBI 00195015– AMNH_PBI 00195025, AMNH_PBI 00195063– AMNH_PBI 00195065), 99♀ (AMNH_PBI 00102891–AMNH_PBI 00102910, AMNH_PBI 00194967–AMNH_PBI 00194999, AMNH_PBI 00195007–AMNH_PBI 00195014, AMNH_PBI 00195026–AMNH_PBI 00195056, AMNH_PBI 00195066–AMNH_PBI 00195072) (AMNH). Chino Canyon W of Palm Springs, 33.86444 ° N 116.57028 ° W, 11 Apr 1965, Doyen, 13 (AMNH_ PBI 00080114), 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00080116) (UCB). Palm Springs, 33.83028 ° N 116.54444 ° W, 24 May 1940, R. L. Usinger, 13 (AMNH_PBI 00080115), 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00080117) (UCB). San Jacinto Mountains, 33.75028 ° N 116.66667 ° W, 21 Jul 1929, R. H. Beamer, 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00075319) (KU); 30 Jul 1938, R. I. Sailer, 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00075318) (KU). San Jacinto River Canyon, San Jacinto Mountains, 33.78389 ° N 116.95778 ° W, 30 May 1940, R. L. Usinger, Eriodictyon sp. (Hydrophyllaceae) , 23 (AMNH_ PBI 00080110, AMNH_PBI 00080111), 2♀ (AMNH_PBI 00080112, AMNH_PBI 00080113) (UCB). San Bernardino Co.: just E of Wrightwood on Rt 2, 34.35774 ° N 117.6105 ° W, 1700 m, 18 May 2004, Schuh, Cassis, Schwartz, Weirauch, Wyniger, Forero, Fremontodendron californicum (Torr.) Coville (Sterculiaceae) , det. A. Sanders UCR140607, 13 (AMNH_PBI 00169937) (AMNH). San Luis Obispo Co.: E of Arroyo Grande, Husana Valley, Stony Creek Campground, 35.20933 ° N 120.25846 ° W, 09 May 1985, R. T. Schuh and B. M. Massie, Eriodictyon tomentosum Benth. (Hydrophyllaceae) , 23 (AMNH_PBI 00195202, AMNH_ PBI 00195203), 1♀ (AMNH_PBI 00195204) (AMNH). Tulare Co.: NE of Springville on Bear Creek Rd near Scicon, 36.21394 ° N 118.7716 ° W, 700 m, 23 May 2004, Schuh, Cassis, Schwartz, Weirauch, Wyniger, Forero, Rhamnus californica Eschsch. (Rhamnaceae) , det. A. Sanders UCR140642, 43 (AMNH_PBI 00194928–AMNH_PBI 00194931), 13♀ (AMNH_ PBI 00194932–AMNH_PBI 00194944) (AMNH).

Figures

Fig. 2. Dorsal habitus digital photographs. Orthotylus chilensis, O. chullan, O. kikin, O. kakan, O. tafoensis, and Saileria bella. Specimens of O. kikin (A–C, arrows) show variation on embolium coloration from brown to white.

Fig. 19. Saileria bella, male (AMNH_PBI 00102886). SEM of male selected structures. A. Head, lateral view. B. Head and pronotum, dorsolateral view. C. Mesothoracic spiracle and metathoracic scent gland evaporative area. D. Vestiture on hemelytron. E–F. Pretarsus, ventral and apical views respectively. G–H. Genital capsule, dorsolateral and dorsal views respectively.

Fig. 20. Saileria bella. Male genitalia: vesica, right and left parameres, and genital capsule.