Cantheconesia cyanacantha ( Stål, 1870 ) Brugnera & Grazia & Maynard & Roca-Cusachs, 2024

Brugnera, Ricardo, Grazia, Jocelia, Maynard, Andrew & Roca-Cusachs, Marcos, 2024, Delimiting Cantheconidea Schouteden 1907, with the description of a new genus (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 947, pp. 191-215 : 208-211

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.947.2629

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2415C5F6-6ACC-4C61-994A-3AD1D2205731

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13331785

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5609856-B12C-9D47-C09E-68D7FCFFC4B4

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Plazi

scientific name

Cantheconesia cyanacantha ( Stål, 1870 )
status

gen. et comb. nov.

Cantheconesia cyanacantha ( Stål, 1870) gen. et comb. nov.

Figs 7–8 View Fig View Fig , 10 View Fig

Type material

Holotype

FIJI • 1 ♂; “Ins. / Fidschi // Harry // TYPE. // Typus // NHRS-GULI / 000027281”; NHRS; NHRS 000027281 View Materials ( Fig. 7 View Fig ).

Other material examined

FIJI • 1 ♂; “Fiji / Surra R. N. Paine // Press by / Imp. Bur. Ent. / Brit. Mus. / 1927-209 // NHMUK / 010935723”; NHMUK; NHMUK 010935723 About NHMUK ( Fig. 8a–k View Fig ) .

SAMOA • 1 ♀; “Samoa // Platynopus // W.W. Froggatt / Collection ( ANIC)”; ANIC ( Fig. 8l–m View Fig ) .

Records retrieved from iNaturalist

FIJI • Central , Naitasiri; 17.713° S, 178.07° E; 2 Oct. 2018; inaturalist.org/observations/57897374 GoogleMaps Western , Nadroga / Navosa; 18.202°S, 177.69° E; 14 Oct.2022;inaturalist.org/observations/138679311 GoogleMaps .

VANUATU • Lowanatom ; 19.506° S, 169.24° E; 30 Nov. 2022; inaturalist.org/observations/143424559 GoogleMaps .

Redescription

COLORATION. General body coloration light brown; dorsal and ventral surface densely punctured. Posterior portion of dorsal head, humeral angles, and foveae black. Legs light brown.

HEAD. As long as wide; mandibular plates and clypeus subequal. Apex of labium reaching metacoxae; fourth labiomere darker than preceding; proportion of labial segments: I<II=III>IV. Antennae light brown; proportion of antennal segments: I<II>III <IV>V.

THORAX. Anterolateral margins of pronotum pale, crenulated, and rectilinear; humeral angles acute. Scutellum triangular, frenal portion longer than postfrenal portion; foveae elongated, more than 3 × the diameter of ocelli. Corium longer than scutellum, reaching posterior margin of abdominal segment VI; hemelytral membrane light brown surpassing apex of abdomen. Peritreme disc-type, rectilinear; metapleural evaporatorium surrounding peritreme, not reaching lateral margin of pleura; mesopleural evaporatorium concentrated in two different places, not reaching lateral margin of pleura ( Fig. 8e View Fig ); presence of pair of metasternal processes holding apex of labium, region between and surrounding processes black.

ABDOMEN. Apex of connexival segments acute and projected posteriorly. Abdominal tubercle short, not reaching metacoxae.

MALE GENITALIA. Pygophore cuplike; anterior opening oval; dorsal rim sinuose; superior layer of ventral rim concave in ventral view; inferior layer of ventral slightly projected; head of paramere sickle-like, with acute apex; pseudoclasper small and slender, tongue-like shaped. Phallus with thecal shield distinctly longer and wider than basal theca; processes of conjuctiva absent; vesica U-shaped.

FEMALE GENITALIA ( Fig. 8n View Fig ). Valvifers 8 as long as wide, juxtaposed, posterior margins rectilinear; valvifer 9 rectangular; laterotergites 9 longer than wide, rounded apically, surpassing segment X.

MEASUREMENTS. (n =1, NHMUK 010935723) Head length: 1.61, width: 1.88; pronotum length: 2.27, width: 5.09; scutellum length: 3.05, width: 2.82; antennomeres missing; labial segments length: I 0.93, II 1.16, III 1.16, IV 0.85 (0.5–0.6); abdominal length: 3.65, width: 4.01; total length: 9.75.

Distribution

Fiji, Vanuatu (new record), Samoa (new record) ( Fig. 10 View Fig ).

ANIC

Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra City, CSIRO, Australian National Insect Collection

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Cantheconesia

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