Cylapus nobilis Poppius, 1909

Wolski, Andrzej, 2017, Taxonomic review of the plant bug genera Amapacylapus and Cylapus with descriptions of two new species and a key to the genera of Cylapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 (2), pp. 399-455 : 436

Cylapus nobilis Poppius, 1909

Cylapus nobilis Poppius, 1909: 11 , 43 (new species).

Cylapus nobilis: BERGROTH (1920) : 71 (list); CARVALHO & FONTES (1968): 274 (list); SCHUH (1995): 24 (catalog); GORCZYCA (2006b): 16 (catalog); SCHUH (2013) (online catalog).

Cylapus (Cylapus) nobilis: CARVALHO (1957) : 30 (catalog).

Type material (not examined). VENEZUELA: “Venezuela, 11°, 8’ S. Br., 75° 17’ W. von Greenw., 1800 in. EL. d. M., 10. IX. 1906, N ICONNIKOFF” ( ZMUM).

Remarks. The type specimen of C. nobilis was unavailable for my study and this species is not treated in this paper. Based on the description by POPPIUS (1909) this species seems to be most similar to C. antennatus , C. luridus , and C. tucuruiensis in having black pronotum, broadly tinged with red laterally ( Figs 37–39 , 43, 54, 55). Within the material deposited in USNM I found two specimens from Brazil each being identified as both C. antennatus and C. nobilis and both bearing the “compared with type ” label attached by J. C. M. Carvalho. However, those specimens do not seem to belong neither to C. antennatus nor to C. nobilis as they have a yellow stripe along the outer margin of cuneus not found in both species ( Figs 37–39 ; POPPIUS 1909). The finding of these specimens identified as C. antennatus and C. nobilis bearing a “compared with type label” would suggest affinity of C. nobilis with group of similar Cylapus species with red patches on lateral portion of pronotum ( C. antennatus , C. luridus , and C. tucuruiensis ).

Figures

Figs 36–40. Dorsal habitus photographs of Cylapus species: 36 – C. amazonicus Carvalho, 1989 (J); 37–39 – C. antennatus Carvalho & Fontes, 1968 (37 – J holotype, 38 – J, 39 – ♀); 40 – C. citus Bergroth, 1922 (J).