Volkelius, DISTANT, 1904

Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2016, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1), pp. 36-136 : 130

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VOLKELIUS DISTANT

Figures 8, 10H, 12A, 24

Volkelius Distant, 1904b: 271 (gen nov.; type species Volkelius sulcatus Distant, 1904 by monotypy); Kirkaldy, 1906: 134 (list); Miller & China, 1957: 430 (key to gen.); Reuter, 1910: 154 (cat.); Carvalho, 1952: 60 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 43 (key to gen.); Carvalho, 1957: 149 (cat.); Odhiambo, 1962: 307 (descr., disc); Cassis & Gross, 1995: 145 (cat.); Schuh, 1995: 533 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 – 2013 (cat.); Namyatova & Cassis, 2014 (revision); Namyatova et al., in press (phylogeny).

Diagnosis: Volkelius belongs to the Odoniella -complex and is recognized by the following characters: ASII incrassate towards apex (as in Fig. 8E); ASIII–IV distinctly clavate (as in fig. 8F in Namyatova et al., in press); pronotum and scutellum impunctate, with longitudinal and shallow wrinkles ( Figs 10H, 12A); scutellum only moderately swollen, not vesiculate; tooth on claw long (fig. 3F, I in Namyatova & Cassis, 2014); DLP with sclerotized circle and spermathecal gland placed on right-hand side (fig. 5 in Namyatova & Cassis, 2014).

Description: See Namyatova & Cassis (2014).

Distribution: Known from Australia ( Fig. 24).

Host plants: Volkelius carvalhoi was collected from Tephrosia sp. aff. rosea ( Papilionaceae ). Volkelius maculatus was collected from Ficus rubiginosa ( Moraceae ) ( Namyatova & Cassis, 2014).

References

Carvalho JCM. 1952. On the major classification of the Miridae (Hemiptera). (With keys to subfamilies and tribes and a catalogue of the world genera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 24: 31 - 110.

Carvalho JCM. 1955. Keys to the genera of Miridae of the world (Hemiptera). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Zool 11: 1 - 151.

Carvalho JCM. 1957. A catalogue of the Miridae of the world. Part I. Arquivos do Museu Nacional 44: 1 - 158.

Cassis G, Gross GF. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha). Zoological catalogue of Australia: Vol. 27.3 A. Melbourne: CSIRO.

Distant WL. 1904 b. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Vol. 2. London: Taylor and Francis, 243 - 503. part 2.

Kirkaldy GW. 1906. List of the genera of the pagiopodous Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with their type species from 1758 to 1904 and also of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Trochalopoda. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 117 - 156, 156 a- 156 b.

Miller NCE, China WE. 1957. A new genus and species of Miridae from Areca catechu in South India (Hemiptera Heteroptera). Bulletin of Entomological Research 47: 429 - 431.

Namyatova AA, Cassis G. 2014. Revision of the Australian endemic plant bug genus Volkelius Distant, 1904 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae). Austral Entomology doi: 10.1111 / aen. 12106; online version.

Odhiambo TR. 1962. Review of some genera of the subfamily Bryocorinae (Hemiptera: Miridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 2: 245 - 331.

Reuter OM. 1910. Neue Beitrage zur Phylogenie und Systematik der Miriden nebst einleitenden Bemerkungen uber die Phylogenie der Heteropteren-Familien. Mit einer Stammbaumstafel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 37: 1 - 167. iv.

Schuh RT 2002 - 2013. On-line systematic catalog of plant bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). Available at: http: // research. amnh. org / pbi / catalog.