Kanigara nebulosa, Ban, 2022

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 : 23

Kanigara nebulosa , new species

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Type Material. Holotype: male ( CBM - ZI 179325), MALAYSIA: Johor, Mersing, Semberong, Taman Negara Endau-Rompin (Kg. Peta), light trap, Maruyama, Jimbo & Yamada coll., 13–17 May 2005 . Paratypes: all of them same data as holotype : 6 males, 13 females ( CBM - ZI 179326–179341 ) ; 1 male, 2 females ( TKPM) , 1 male, 3 females ( UNML) , 1 male, 2 females ( ZRC) .

Diagnosis. Distinguished from congeners of Kanigara by the following characters: body length 3.9–5.1 mm; head and pronotum brown; distance between ocelli subequal to eye width; labium surpassing procoxae, not reaching mesocoxae; lateral part of posterior lobe with blurred yellow line; scutellum matte reddish brown; punctures on apical and lateral part of scutellum distinctly larger than in the basal area; apex of corium with irregular pale brown spot; legs yellowish brown; abdominal sternite brown.

Description. Colouration. Head brown. Clypeus brown. Antennal segments I to IV uniformly yellowish brown. Labium yellowish brown. Pronotum reddish brown, lateral margin of anterior lobe with 0.1 mm wide indistinct yellow line; lateral area of posterior lobe with blurred yellow line. Venter of mesothorax and metathorax reddish brown; peritreme dull reddish brown; scent gland yellowish brown. Scutellum matte reddish brown. Corium and clavus pale yellowish brown. Membrane hyaline. Supracoxal lobes yellowish brown; coxae and trochanter yellowish brown; femora yellowish brown; pro- and mesotibia yellowish brown, metatibia dark yellowish brown; tarsomere I reddish brown; tarsomeres II and III yellowish brown. Abdominal sternites reddish brown; trichobothria bright brown. Long decumbent setae on abdominal venter silver.

Structure. Body 2.5 times as long as wide across hemelytra. Head 1.5 times as wide as its length, without hairs; clypeus projecting anteriorly; vertex weakly convex; distance between ocelli subequal to eye width. Antennal segments covered with setae; proportional length of antennal segments I to IV 1:1.9:1.9:1.8. Labium surpassing procoxae, not reaching mesocoxae ( Fig. 1B ); proportional length of rostral segments I to IV 1:1:0.6:0.4.

Figures

Fig. 1. Kanigara nebulosa, new species. A, B, holotype, male (A, dorsal view; B, ventral view); C, D, paratype, female (C, dorsal view; D, ventral view). Scale bars = 1.0 mm.

Fig. 2. Male and female genitalia of Kanigara nebulosa, new species. A, pygophore, dorsal view; B–E, right paramere, four different aspects; F, G, phallus (F, dorsal view; G, lateral view); H, sperm reservoir; I, spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.