Monasavuhygia, Brailovsky, 1996

Brailovsky, Harry & Barrera, Ernesto, 2022, Description of two new micropterous species of Monasavuhygia Brailovsky, 1996 from the Fiji and Solomon Islands and a key to species (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Colpurini), Zootaxa 5091 (3), pp. 495-500 : 496

Key to the known species of Monasavuhygia

1. Antenniferous tubercles armed with short spiny projection; humeri with one stout conical protuberance; calli with deep hole, behind posterior third; anterolateral margins of pronotum with one conical protuberance; posterior half of connexival segments III–VI conspicuously swollen; hemelytral membrane absent; postocular tubercle hemispheric, faintly insinuate over the surface ( Figs. 3 , 6 , 9)........................................................... M. incola sp. nov. ( Solomon Islands)

- Antenniferous tubercles unarmed; humeri unarmed; calli lacking a hole behind posterior third; anterolateral margins of pronotum without conical protuberance; posterior half of connexival segments III–VI conspicuously swollen or not; hemelytral membrane absent or present; postocular tubercle slightly protuberant or lacking.................................... 2

2. Posterior half of connexival segments III–VI swollen; hemelytral membrane absent; postocular tubercle not tuberculate; head longer than 1.83 mm ( Figs. 1 , 4 , 7)...................................... M. cordata Brailovsky, 1996 ( Fiji Islands)

- Posterior half of connexival segments III–VI not swollen, flat; hemelytral membrane reduced to a small expansion; postocular tubercle hemispheric, slightly protuberant; head length less than 1.60 mm. ( Figs. 2 , 5 , 8).... M. fodina sp. nov. ( Fiji Islands)

Figures

FIGURES 1–3. Dorsal view of Monasavuhygia spp. 1, M. cordata Brailovsky, 1996 (female). 2, M. fodina sp. nov. (female). 3, M. incola sp. nov. (female).

FIGURES 4–6. Female genital plates in caudal view of Monasavuhygia spp. 4, M. cordata Brailovsky, 1996. 5, M. fodina sp. nov. 6, M. incola sp. nov. FIGURES 7–9. Female genital plates in lateral view of Monasavuhygia spp. 7, M. cordata Brailovsky, 1996. 8, M. fodina sp. nov. 9, M. incola sp. nov.