Kanigara oculata Scudder, 1969

Ban, Teruaki, 2022, ThegenusKanigara Distant (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae) from Malay Peninsula and Thailand, with description of a new species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 22-29 : 26

Kanigara oculata Scudder, 1969

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Kanigara oculata Scudder, 1969: 537–538 , 540 (original description, keyed); Slater & O’Donnell, 1995: 119 (catalogue); Kondorosy, 2006: 488 (fauna of Brunei); Tomokuni, 2010: 17, 20 (fauna of Borneo).

See http://lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa. aspx?TaxonNameID=1222703 for Bibliography of this species.

Material examined. 5 females ( CBM - ZI 179345–179349 ), MALAYSIA: Johor, Mersing, Semberong, Taman Negara Eudau-Rompin (Kg. Peta), light trap, Maruyama, Jimbo & Yamada coll., 13–17 May 2005 ; 1 female ( UNML), MALAYSIA: Johor, Mersing, Semberong, Taman Negara Eudau-Rompin (Kg. Peta), light trap, Maruyama, Jimbo & Yamada coll., 13–17 May 2005 .

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other congeners of Kanigara by the following characters: body length more than 6.5 mm; head and pronotum shiny brown; distance between ocelli equal to eye width; antennal segment II less than 1.5 times longer than segment I; labium surpassing procoxae, not reaching mesocoxae; lateral area of posterior lobe of pronotum with distinct pale yellowish line; corium shiny yellowish brown, subhyaline; apex of corium with blackish spot; length of ovipositor more than 1.0 mm, truncated at approx. sternite VI. Spermatheca as in Fig. 3C .

See Scudder (1969) for a detailed description of this species.

Distribution. Malay Peninsula (Johor), Borneo ( Sarawak, Brunei), Sumatra.

Biological notes. Specimens were collected along with those of several other heterogastrid and rhyparochromid species in the vicinity of artificial light within an area located adjacent to mountainous forest. However, detailed biological information, including the identity of host plant(s), has yet to be obtained.

Figures

Fig. 3. Kanigara oculata Scudder, 1969. A, B, female (A, dorsal view; B, ventral view); C, spermatheca. Scale bars: A, B = 1.0 mm; C = 0.1 mm.