Hyalopeplus lineifer ( Walker, 1873 )

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2018, The Indian Hyalopeplini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, Zootaxa 4378 (3), pp. 301-322 : 309-311

Hyalopeplus lineifer ( Walker, 1873)

( Figs. 10–16 )

Capsus vitripennis Stål, 1855: 186 (as new species) (a junior homonym of Capsus vitripennis Say, 1832 ). Capsus lineifer Walker, 1873: 122 (as new species). Hyalopeplus vitripennis: Carvalho & Gross 1979: 497 – 503 (redescription, DV, MG, head and pronotum in DV and LV). Hyalopeplus lineifer: Schuh 1995: 678 (catalogue); Zheng et al. 2005: 52 – 53 (redescription, in fauna); Schuh 2002 – 2013 (online catalogue); Chérot et al. 2017: 86 (citation).

Diagnosis. Middle-sized Hyalopeplus (total length 7.6 – 9.6 mm, maximal width across hemelytra 2.4 – 2.5 mm). Globally “citrine to lutescent with glassy hemelytra” ( Carvalho & Gross, 1979) and frequently with reddish or blackish stripes. Pronotal collar transversally striate. Pronotal callosities wide, not widely punctate. Pronotal disk transversally striate on a major part of the disk, slightly punctate laterally and posteriorly. Humeral angles almost rounded, not produced. Chromatic pattern very variable, particularly the longitudinal stripes of head and pronotum. Habitus in dorsal view Figs. 10 , 15 – 16 . Nymph Fig. 14 . Male genital structures Figs. 11 – 13 . Detailed measurements of Indian specimen: table 1.

Material examined. INDIA: ANDAMAN & NICOBAR: 31♂, 42♀: Mount Harriet, 349 m, 11°43’07.6”N, 92°43’ 58.6”E., 26.iv.2014, ex: Melastoma sp. ( Melastomataceae ), Yeshwanth H.M. leg. (UASB).

Distribution. Described from Java, known from Australia, Babelthaup Island, Caroline Islands, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), India, Japan, Mariana Islands, New Britain, New Hebrides, Palau Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines Islands, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri-Lanka, Vietnam. Already cited from India by Pathak (1969).

Figures

FIGURES 10–13. Hyalopeplus lineifer (Walker, 1873). 10. Habitus in dorsal view. 11. Endophallus. 12. Left paramere. 13. Right paramere (an Indianspecimen collected in Mount Harriet cited in the text).

FIGURES 14–16. Hyalopeplus lineifer (Walker, 1873) alive in Mount Harriet, Adaman & Nicobar Islands breeding on Melastomasp.