Cylapocoris funebris (Distant)

Wolski, Andrzej, 2013, Revision of the plant bug genus Cylapocoris Carvalho (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), with descriptions of seven new species from Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, Zootaxa 3721 (6), pp. 501-528 : 513-514

Cylapocoris funebris (Distant)

( Figures 5 , 17 , 50 , Table 1)

Camus funebris Distant 1883: 288 (sp. nov.)

Carmelus [sic] funebris: Carvalho 1959 (catalog)

Carnus funebris: Carvalho 1952: 7 ; Carvalho & Dolling 1976: 797

Cylapocoris funebris: Carvalho 1976: 56 , Fig. 5 ; Carvalho & Dolling 1976: 797; Schuh, 1995: 22 (catalog); Gorczyca 2006b: 28 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following set of features: body length 3.8–4.3 mm; pronotal collar with dirty yellowish brown, broad patch medially ( Fig. 5 ); hemelytron entirely dark brown, nearly black, without any pale patches ( Fig. 5 ).

Most similar to C. cucullatus in sharing a yellowish apical one third of the antennal segment II and pale patch on the pronotal collar ( Fig. 3 ). C. funebris can, however, be easily distinguished by the larger body and the darker head ( Fig. 5 ).

Redescription. Female. COLORATION ( Figs. 5 , 17 ). Dark brown with blackish areas. Head. Brownish with dark brownish areas; antennal segments I and II brownish, except for dirty yellowish one fourth of segment II; labium brownish. Thorax. Pronotum. Almost blackish except for very broad, dirty yellowish brown patch in the middle of pronotal collar. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Nearly blackish. Thoracic pleura. Blackish dark brown; scent gland efferent system yellow. Hemelytron. Dark brown without any pale patches; membrane fuscous. Legs. Brownish with reddish areas, except for dirty yellowish coxae, with weakly developed, reddish tinge on procoxa. Abdomen. Mostly dark brown with dirty yellowish areas. STRUCTURE, TEXTURE, AND VESTITURE ( Figs. 5 , 17 ). Head. Rugose, covered with irregularly distributed, relatively long setae; antennal segment II thin, slightly thickened toward apex, covered with moderately dense setae. Thorax. Pronotum. Covered with deep punctation. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Scutellum moderately convex. Hemelytron. Membrane devoid of setae.

Measurements. Holotype ♀ (n=2, holotype in parentheses). Body. Length 3.9–4.3 (4.3), width 2.0–2.1 (2.1). Head. Length 0.4–0.5 (0.4), width 0.8–0.83 (0.8), interocular distance 0.4–0.45 (0.4). Antenna. Length of segment I 0.4–0.43 (0.4), II 1.18–1.2 (1.2) (III and IV missed in the examined specimens). Labium (AMNH specimen). Length of segment I 0.63, II 0.65, III 0.66, IV 0.55. Pronotum. Length 0.8–0.88 (0.8), width of anterior margin (AMNH specimen) 0.75, length of lateral margin 0.8 (AMNH specimen), width of posterior margin 1.5–1.63 (1.5). Hemelytron (holotype). Cuneus length 0.4, basal width 0.5.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Panama, Costa Rica (Guanacasta Province) ( Fig. 50 ).

Type material. Holotype ♀: Bugaba, Panama, Champion; Carnus funebris Dist. ; type [round label]; female symbol; BMNH (E) #909457 (BMNH) ( Fig. 5 ).

Additional examined material. 1 ♀: Costa Rica: Guanacasta Prov., Las Cañas, Finca La Taboga, 17–27 June 1969, Toby Schuh, Janet Crane (AMNH) ( Fig. 17 ).

Figures

FIGURE 50. Distribution map of Cylapocoris spp.

FIGURES 1 – 12. Dorsal habitus photographs of the species of Cylapocoris. 1. C. castaneus (holotype); 2. C. costaricaensis (holotype); 3. C. cucullatus (holotype); 4. C. fulvus (holotype); 5. C. funebris (holotype); 6 – 7. C. laevigatus: 6, holotype, 7, paratype (♀); 8. C. marmoreus (holotype); 9. C. plectipennis (holotype); 10. C. simplex (holotype); 11. C. sulinus (♂); 12. C. tiquiensis (♀).

FIGURES 13 – 22. Lateral views of the Cylapocoris species. 13. C. castaneus (holotype); 14. C. costaricaensis (holotype); 15. C. cucullatus (holotype); 16. C. fulvus (holotype); 17. C. funebris (♀); 18. C. laevigatus (paratype, ♀); 19. C. marmoreus (holotype); 20. C. plectipennis (holotype); 21. C. simplex (paratype, ♂); 22. C. tiquiensis (♀).