Coridromius macchabeeus, Tatarnic and Gerasimos Cassis & Nsw & Nsw, 2013

Tatarnic, Nikolai J. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2013, Description of eight new species of the traumatically inseminating plant bug genus Coridromius (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae: Coridromini), European Journal of Taxonomy 35, pp. 1-24 : 9-11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2013.35

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3815725

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/52DD412D-6DAB-4AA1-A938-1AF93B3DD4C3

taxon LSID

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Carolina

scientific name

Coridromius macchabeeus
status

sp. nov.

Coridromius macchabeeus sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Recognised by the following combination of characters: frons nearly flat, smooth and shining, pronotum densely punctate with well-demarcated callosite region, and proepimeron unilobed.

Etymology

Named for the Macchabee Forest where the holotype was collected.

Type material

Holotype

♀, MAURITIUS: Macchabee Forest , 20.4° S – 57.45° E, 8 Jun. 1971, A. M. Hutson ( AMNH_PBI 00377687 ) ( BMNH).

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Description

BODY LENGTH. ♀ (holotype): 2.32 mm.

COLOURATION ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B). Mostly concolorous orange-yellow. Head: Orange-yellow ( Fig. 3A View Fig ). Antennae mostly orange-yellow, AI with broad brown medial annulation, AII with apical club brown ( Fig. 3 View Fig A- B), AIII and AIV brown, paler at base. Pronotum: orange-yellow with a faint green tint ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B). Thoracic pleura orange-yellow. Hemelytra: Orange-yellow ( Fig. 3B View Fig ). Legs: Uniform orange-yellow; metafemur without transverse banding; tarsi slightly embrowned. Abdomen: Uniform orange-yellow.

SURFACE AND VESTITURE ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B). Head smooth, without punctures ( Fig. 3A View Fig ). Head, pronotum and scutellum glossy ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B). Pronotum, hemelytra, and scutellum with fine punctations ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B). Thoracic pleura impunctate. Pronotum and hemelytra clothed in very short, brown, semidecumbent, spinelike setae ( Fig. 3B View Fig ). Buccula with brown hairlike setae. Pronotal collar with slightly longer white, decumbent hairlike setae. Legs with brown, hairlike setae. Metatibial spines short and thin.

HEAD. Approximately 6 x as wide as eye ( Fig. 3A View Fig ) in anterior view. Frons weakly convex, nearly flat, posterior margin rounded and thin, weakly carinate ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B). Bucculae tumid. Antennae thin, AII long and slender with weak apical club ( Fig. 3 View Fig A-B).

THORAX. Pronotum with calli deeply demarcated ( Fig. 3A View Fig ). Posterior margin of pronotum weakly medially cleft and thinly carinate, posteromedial margins depressed ( Fig. 3B View Fig ). Proepimeron appears unilobed, with reduced anterior lobe barely visible (fig 3C). Posterior margin of metepimeron truncate with sulcate groove ( Fig. 3D View Fig ). Scutellum rounded and swollen ( Fig. 3B View Fig ).

HEMELYTRA. With lateral margin weakly sinuate ( Fig. 3B View Fig ).

ABDOMEN. Posterolateral margin of second abdominal sternite relatively straight.

MALE GENITALIA. unknown.

FEMALE PARAGENITALIA. Right second abdominal sternite swollen, posterolateral margin slightly flared and carinate, exposing a copulatory groove leading to site of penetration ( Fig. 3D View Fig ).

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Remarks

This is one of several species that have been discovered from examination of undetermined material at the Natural History Museum, London. Based on this sole specimen, we cannot comment on whether or not this species is endemic to Mauritius or has a wider distribution.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Coridromius

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