Pseudoloxops lateralis ( Poppius, 1915 )

Kim, Junggon, Jeon, Juhyeon, Jang, Geunho, Phan, Quoc Toan & Jung, Sunghoon, 2024, First record of the genera Pseudoloxopidea Yasunaga, 1999 and Pseudoloxops Kirkaldy, 1905 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Vietnam, Zootaxa 5541 (2), pp. 227-234 : 232

Pseudoloxops lateralis ( Poppius, 1915)

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Zonodorellus lateralis Poppius, 1915: 68 .

Pseudoloxops lateralis Carvalho, 1980: 658 ; Yasunaga & Duwal, 2017: 292, 294; Yasunaga & Takai, 2017: 40.

Specimen examined. [ ZCDTU] 1♀, Bach Ma National Park (16.2281, 107.8583), Loc Tri , Phu Loc district, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam, 25.vi.2023, by light trap, G. Jang leg .

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam (Central) *.

Diagnosis. Distinguished by dorsum being mostly yellowish brown with sanguineous outer margin from head to apex of cuneus; antennae coloration clearly bipartite, first and base of second segment sanguineous, others entirely pale brown; first segment entirely reddish, inner margin slightly paler; head mostly pale brown, except for the red line near compound eye and clypeus; pronotum mostly pale brown with sanguineous outer margin; scutellum entirely pale brown, except for red apical marking; hemelytra mostly pale brown with reddish markings and sanguineous margin on embolial area; clavus mostly pale brown with a pair of reddish markings apically; corium mostly pale brown with reddish outer and posterior margins; cuneus with sanguineous outer margin; vein where closed to cuneus sanguineous; posterior margin of membrane grayish; legs entirely pale brown.

Description. see Poppius (1915) for the original description, and Yasunaga & Duwal (2017) for the illustrations of male genitalia. Female genitalia: not examined.

Measurements (in mm). Female (n=1) Body length, clypeus–apex of membrane: 3.12; head length, excluding collar: 0.25; head width, including compound eyes: 0.64; vertex width: 0.31; 1 st antennal segment length: 0.47; 2 nd antennal segment length: 1.22; 3 rd antennal segment length: 0.52; 4 th antennal segment length: missing; total antennal length (I–III): 2.21; mesal pronotal length: 0.35; posterior pronotal maximal width (straight): 0.97; anterior scutellar width: 0.75; mesal scutellar length: 0.56; commissure length: 0.68; maximal width across hemelytron: 0.58.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus images of Pseudoloxopidea and Pseudoloxops spp. A, B: Pseudoloxopidea ruberuniformis sp. nov., holotype, male; C: Pseudoloxops clavolineatus sp. nov., holotype, male; D: Pseudoloxops clavolineatus sp. nov., paratype, male; E: Pseudoloxops lateralis, female. Scale bars: 1 mm.