Myiommia ramamurthyi, Yeshwanth & Chérot & Henry, 2021

Yeshwanth, H. M., Chérot, F. & Henry, T. J., 2021, The Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) of India and Sri Lanka: A Review of the Subfamily, with Descriptions of Six New Species, Zootaxa 4903 (2), pp. 151-193 : 168-169

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:339B8883-E0FA-4310-968B-81E7AAC76376
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4422956
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C24787C5-BF42-FFE5-FF74-F5756DBC6366
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Myiommia ramamurthyi
status	sp. nov.

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Myiommia ramamurthyi , n. sp.

( Figs. 3 View FIGURES 3 E–F, 6L, 16A–I, 20D)

Diagnosis: Easily recognized by shiny black head; the dark brown to black pronotum, mesoscutum, anterior half of scutellum, and outer margins of corium and claval commissures; and the male genital structures.

Type material. Holotype (³): INDIA: Karnataka, Chikkaballapura, Nandi Hills , 18.vii.2015, ex: Grewia sp. bark, Yeshwanth H.M. leg. ( UASB) . Paratypes: 1³, 2♀, same data as for holotype ( UASB) .

Description. Oval, length 2.9 mm. Colouration: Head, including eyes, pronotum, scutellum and body ventrally black. Legs pale to dark brown. Hemelytron with margins of clavus and corium and apex of cuneus black; apex of antennal segment II black or dark brown. Surface structure and vestiture: Body shiny with a punctate pronotum and scutellum. Body with short, shiny, yellow, flattened setae. Eyes holoptic; ocelli raised and weekly separated. Antennae arising just below the ventral margin of eyes in lateral view; segment I short tubular; segment II longest, cylindrical; III and IV subequal in length. Pronotum with lateral margins rounded and curved, posterior margin weakly curved at middle. Mesoscutum broadly exposed; scutellum triangular, equilateral. Metathoracic scent gland evaporatory area large, with a prominent opening. Hemelytron broadest through middle; claval commissure oblique; cuneus longer than wide; membrane with a single large cell. Fore and middle femora cylindrical, hind femur swollen; tarsi 2 segmented. Male genitalia: as in Figs. 16 View FIGURES 16 C-I.

Female similar to male. Detailed measurements in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Distribution. India (Karnataka: Nandi hills).

Biology. Found together with Isometopus webbi , n. sp. and Isometopus wolskii , n. sp. on Grewia sp. ( Malvaceae ) bark.

Etymology. We name this new species after Dr. Vilayanoor V. Ramamurthy (IARI, New Delhi), well-known Indian weevil taxonomist, who encouraged the first author to take up mirid taxonomy.

Discussion. This new species is separated from other Indian Myiomma species by the characters mentioned in the diagnosis and the key, mainly the total length, dorsal coloration and male genital structures.