Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B., 2016, A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 4126 (2), pp. 151-206 : 166-167

7.1. Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911

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Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911: 1 –2 (as new species); Cheesman 1927: 157 (list; citation from Society Islands); Van Duzee 1937: 115 (note on distribution); Carvalho 1959: 75 (catalog); Schuh 1995: 745 (catalog), 200 2–2013 (online catalog).

Material examined. Type specimen: holotype ♀ by monotypy: NEW CALEDONIA: PROVINCE SUD: Nouméa ( MNHN) [the specimen bears the Poppius’ original handwritten identification label with the mention “ Creontiades insularis n. sp. ” and a second label with the mention “ type Reuter Poppius Collection Fleutiaux”].

Additional material. 2♀♀: NEW CALEDONIA: PROVINCE SUD: Nouméa ( MNHN). 1♀: NEW CALEDONIA: PROVINCE SUD: Nouméa, 1902, Dr Joly leg. ( MZHF).

Diagnosis. Head yellowish brown to orange tinged with red, eyes reddish-brown. Antennal segments yellow, apically slightly darker. Frons shagreened, with a small sulcus. Vertex devoid of posterior carina. Pronotal collar yellow, callosities and disk orange brown, reddish-brown apically. Femora yellow spotted with red, tibia and tarsi yellow, tibial spines light brown, claws black. Mesoscutum covered. Scutellum yellow to dark brown. Hemelytra light yellow, clavus with orange tinge. Cuneus yellow. Membrane whitish, veins yellowish, reddish apically. Hemelytral punctation very reduced, sparse, narrow and shallow, the pilosity short, recumbent, white. Parietovaginal rings ( Fig. 23 ) large, with large anterior, medial projection (Ap). Dorso labiate plate wide, with laterally reinforced margins. Posterior wall ( Fig. 24 ) classical, the A structures or interramal sclerites fused ( AS), elongate, the E-structures or interramal lobes membranous, tiny, dorsal process undivided, median process reduced.

Discussion. The female external morphology and genitalia of C. insularis —the latter described for the first time—perfectly conform to our generic diagnosis of Creontiades , hence we now confirm the generic placement of this species.

The two additional females preserved in the MNHN seem to have come from the same collection as the holotype, however they were not cited by Poppius (1911), hence have been excluded from the type-series.

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 22. Habitus of ACMc members: 15. Chimsunchartella schwartzi Chérot & Pauwels, 2000, male holotype from Australia (MNHN). 16. Creontiades coloripes Hsiao & Meng, 1963, a male from Japan (USNM). 17. Creontiades debilis Va n Duzee, 1915, a male from North Bimini Island, Bahamas (AMNH). 18. Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911, a non-type female from New Caledonia (MNHN). 19. Creontiades rubrinervis (Stål, 1862), a male from Argentina (coll. Carpintero). 20. Creontiades sumatrensis Poppius, 1915, male syntype from Indonesia (MZHF). 21. Creontiades vittipennis Reuter, 1905, female holotype of C. vitticollis Poppius, 1915 (new junior synonym) from Australia (MZHF). 22. Galapagomiris longirostris Carvalho in Carvalho & Gagné, 1968, a male from Galapagos archipelago (ISNB). Scales = 1 mm.

FIGURES 23 – 24. Female genitalia of Creontiades insularis Poppius, 1911: 23. Parieto-vaginal rings. Ap: antero-medial projection of parieto-vaginal ring. 24. Posterior wall. SA: A-structures or interramal sclerites, SE: E-structures or interramal lobes. Scales = 0.1 mm.