Miridiba kuatunensis Gao & Fang, 2018

Miridiba kuatunensis Gao & Fang in Gao et al., 2018: 4, figs 2, 6 (type loc.: Guadun, Fujian, China).

Miridiba kuatunensis – Gao et al. 2019: 461 (species list; in key).

Diagnosis

See Gao et al. (2018).

Remarks

Gao et al. (2018) described Miridiba kuatunensis based on a male holotype and fifteen paratypes (eight males and seven females) conserved in IZCAS. The 9-segmented antenna, pronotal surface densely punctate and parameres with two dorsal and two ventral branches (Gao et al. 2018: fig.2)allow us to include M.kuatunensis in morphotype I “ Trichophora ”. Miridiba kuatunensis is a species related to M. brancuccii, the parameres shape illustrated by Sabatinelli (1983: figs 1–2) shows similarities with those of M. kuatunensis (Gao et al. 2018: fig. 2h–i). However, these species differ in the dorsal surface of the body, glabrous in M. brancuccii (Sabatinelli 1983) and pubescent in M. kuatunensis . On the other hand, M. kuatunensis and M. pilosella (Moser, 1908) are quite similar, both species can be distinguished by the ratio between dorsal and ventral branches of the parameres and the curving of dorsal branches tips (Gao et al. 2018).

Distribution

China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Zhejiang).