Hallodapus albofasciatus ( Motschulsky, 1863 )

Duwal, Ram Keshari, Yasunaga, Tomohide, Tomokuni, Masaaki, Nakatani, Yukinobu & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2017, Further records on the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) in Asia, with proposition of two new species and a new synonymy, Zootaxa 4258 (5), pp. 401-424 : 414-415

Hallodapus albofasciatus ( Motschulsky, 1863)

( Figs. 1 G–H, 5A, 10ĀH)

Leptomerocoris albofasciatus Motschulsky, 1863: 86 (n. sp.)

Hallodapus albofasciatus: Schuh, 1974: 94 (syn.); 1995: 223 (cat.); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 290 (cat.); Yasunaga, 2001: 152 (diag.); Yasunaga et al., 2013a: 599 (diag.); 2013b: 442 (list); Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015: 195 (list)

Diagnosis. Recognized by its dark brown shiny dorsum, with a clear white anterior transverse fascia behind apex of scutellum; more or less quadrate white macula at posterior corium; pale antennae, basal half of the segment I dark with reddish extreme apex; and form of male genital structures ( Figs. 5 A, 10ĀH). For detailed description see Motschulsky, (1963: 86), Schuh (1974: 94) and Schuh (1984: 120; figs. 368, 371̄387).

Measurements. (♂ / ♀) (n= 1/2). Body length 2.36/ 2.59̄2.60; length from apex of tylus to cuneal fracture 1.92/ 1.98̄2.02; width of head across eyes 0.49/ 0.45̄0.46; width of vertex 0.24/ 0.24̄0.26; lengths of antennal segments ĪIV 0.30, 0.90, 0.86, 0.42/ 0.30̄0.32, 0.98̄1.00, 0.84̄0.86, 0.46̄0.48; length of labium 1.19/ 1.20̄1.22; mesal length of pronotum 0.32/ 0.31̄0.32; basal width of pronotum 0.70/ 0.71̄0.72; width across hemelytron 0.86/ 0.89̄0.90; length of metafemora, tibiae and tarsus 0.99, 1.41, 0.38/ 0.99̄1.02, 1.42̄1.46, 0.38̄0.39.

Distribution. Vietnam (North), Nepal * (Bhaktapur) widely distributed to Afrotropical to Oriental regions. ( Schuh, 1984; Yasunaga et al., 2013a).

Specimens examined. MALAYSIA: Selangor: 1♂, Gombat, Setapak , Ula Gombak , on light trap, 6– 16.v.2016, T. Yoshida ( ELKU) . MYANMAR: Yangon: 1♂, Insein Township , 16.8786, 96.1022, on light trap, 10.iii.2015, T. Yasunaga ( TYCN) . NEPAL: Bhaktapur: 1♂, Dadhikot , 12.viii.2006, R.K. Duwal ( NMTU) . THAILAND: Nakhon Nayok: 2♂, Sarika , 14.310833, 101.300, on light trap, 20.xii.2010 & 15.xii.2011, T. Yasunaga ( TYCN) ; Nakhon Ratchasima: 2♂, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station ( SERS), 14.508935, 101.954052, 410 m, on light trap, 12–14.vi.2009, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada ( TYCN) ; 1♀ [macropterous], same locality, light trap, 31.v.2012, T. Yasunaga (00379667) . Suphan Buri: 1♀ [brachypterous], Sri Prachan (on ground of a vegetable garden), 14.688417, 100.140500, 10 m, 25.x.2008, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada ( TYCN) . VIETNAM: Ninh Binh Province: 1♂, Gia Vien District, Cuc Phuong , 170 m, on light trap, 10.vii.1997, M. Tomokuni ( NSMT) . Son La Province: 2♀, Deo Pha Din , 1,000 m, on light trap, 24.vi.1997, M. Tomokuni ( NSMT) .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitat (A) and habitus images of live Asian hallodapines. A. Japanese Sakura-cherry, Prunus yedoensis, habitat of Acrorrhinium inexpectatum. B. A. inexpectatum, male adult. C. Ditto, female adult. D. Ditto, darkened variant. E. Ditto, final-instar nymph, male. F. Ditto, female. G. Hallodapus albofasciatus, macropterous male. H. Ditto, brachypterous female. I. H. kyushuensis, macropterous male. J. Ditto, brachypterous female.

FIGURE 5. Dorsal images of Hallodapus spp. H. albofasciatus (A); H. centrimaculatus (B); H. kyushuensis (C); H. linnavuorii (D ̅ E); H. ravenar (F). Scale bars: 0.5 mm.