Dysdercus (Paradysdercus) transversalis castaneus, Stehlík & Jindra, 2008

Stehlík, Jaroslav L. & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2008, New taxa of the Largidae and Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Oriental Region, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (2), pp. 611-648 : 640

Dysdercus (Paradysdercus) transversalis castaneus subsp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, INDONESIA: TANIMBAR ISLANDS: YAMDENA: Lorulun village , env. 20 km NE Saumlaki, 28.xi.-24.xii.2006, S. Jakl lgt. ( PPUA) . PARATYPES: The same locality, 10.i.-5.ii.2007, 2 ♀♀, S. Jakl lgt. ( ZJPC). YAMDENA: S Yamdena, Mam’s village, 21 km of Saumlaki, xii.2006, 1 ♀, S. Jakl lgt. ( ZJPC) ; 20 km NE of Saumlaki, 1.-30.i.2007, 2 ♀♀, M. Obořil lgt. ( MMBC: coll. P. Baňař). BANDA ISLANDS: Gross Isl. [= Banda Besar or Great Banda Island], 1 ♀ ( ZSMC) .

Description. Female. Colouration (Fig. 40). Head reddish; lateral pronotal margins, pronotal lobe (usually more distinctly), scutellum, clavus, corium (its margin usually more distinct), femora, and pleura I-III orange; callar lobe chestnut to red. Ventrites whitish yellow without black stripes on anterior ventrite margins; ventrite VII red.

Measurements (all in mm). Female (n = 5, excluding the specimen from Great Banda Island). Body length 15.10 (13.77-18.25); pronotum width (at base) 3.84 (3.51-4.16).

Variation. The female from Great Banda Island is smaller: body length 11.39 mm; pronotum width 2.97 mm.

Differential diagnosis. The nominotypical subspecies, D. (P.) t. transversalis Blöte, 1931 , differs from D. (P.) t. castaneus subsp. nov. in the following characters: basic colouration ochraceous (not orange); callar lobe, scutellum, pleura I-III, femora and ventrite VII largely black; ventrites usually with black stripe on proximal margin; black colouration on ventrite VII laterally and posteriorly pale bordered. Dysdercus (P.) t. hippotigrisoides Stehlík & Jindra, 2006, differs from the new subspecies in having red ventral laterotergites; the red colouration extends to the adjacent parts of zygosternites, and the distal part of zygosternites II-VII has a distinct, sharply outlined white band, while the remaining parts of zygosternites (between the white bands) are black ( STEHLÍK & JINDRA 2006c).

Etymology. The subspecies epithet is the Latin adjective castaneus (= chestnut-coloured), referring to the colouration of the pronotal lobe.

Distribution. Indonesia, Tanimbar Islands (Yamdena), and Banda Islands (Banda Besar). The nominotypical subspecies is known from Wetar, Java, Bali, Timor, Key ( BLÖTE 1931), Damar, Sulawesi, Ternate ( FREEMAN 1947), Flores, and Sumbawa ( STEHLÍK & JINDRA 2006c). Dysdercus (P.) t. hippotigrisoides Stehlík & Jindra, 2006 was described from Seram (STEH- LÍK & JINDRA 2006c). The record of D. transversalis from Tanimbar ( FREEMAN 1947) and the single female of Dysdercus t. hippotigrisoides from Banda Islands ( STEHLÍK & JINDRA 2006c) belong in fact to D. t. castaneus subsp. nov.