Lycidocoris, REUTER AND POPPIUS, 1911

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 : 98-99

LYCIDOCORIS REUTER AND POPPIUS

Figures 7, 10D, 15V –AC, 19E–G, J, K, 23

Lycidocoris Reuter & Poppius, 1911: 409 (gen. nov.; type species: Lycidocoris mimeticus Reuter & Poppius, 1911 by monotypy); Poppius, 1912: 175, 182 (key to gen., descr.); Bergroth, 1922: 53 (cat.); Schouteden, 1942a: 1, 3 (disc., key to spp.); China, 1944: 174 (key to gen.); Schouteden, 1945: 117 (note); Villiers, 1952: 188 (descr.); Carvalho, 1952: 60 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 40 (key to gen.); Carvalho, 1957: 145 (cat.); Odhiambo, 1962: 287, 288 (descry., key to spp.); Schuh, 1995: 528 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 –2013 (cat.); Namyatova et al., in press (phylogeny).

Pantilioforma Schumacher, 1917: 447 (gen. nov.; type species Pantilioforma impressopunctata Schumacher, 1917 by monotypy); Bergroth, 1922: 53 (cat.); China, 1944: 173, 179, 180 (key to gen., disc., key to spp.); Carvalho, 1952: 60 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 40 (key to gen.); Schouteden, 1946: 274 (note); Carvalho, 1957: 147 (cat.); Odhiambo, 1962: 297 (descr.); Schuh, 1995: 530 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 –2013 (cat.), syn. nov., this work.

Pantiliomorfa Mayné & Ghesquière, 1934: 25 (error pro Pantilioforma Schumacher, 1917 ).

Ealincola Schouteden, 1942a: 4 (gen. nov.; type species Pantilioforma modesta Distant, 1918 by original designation); China, 1944: 172, 179 (syn., disc.); Schouteden, 1946: 275 (note); Carvalho, 1957: 147 (cat.); Schuh, 1995: 530 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 –2013 (cat.).

Diagnosis: Lycidocoris is diagnosed by the following characters: presence of row of punctures on clavus and R + M (as in fig. 11C, D in Namyatova et al., in press); antennal fossa oval, subequal half of eye height (as in fig. 3B in Namyatova et al., in press); ASII incrassate apically; ASIII and IV clavate, ASIV subequal to quarter of ASIII; eyes not stylate; calli flat (as in Fig. 10D); pronotum and scutellum punctuate ( Fig. 10D); claval commissure subequal to scutellum length ( Fig. 10D); membrane cell short, forming right angle (as in fig. 13B in Namyatova et al., in press), distance between cell and apex of membrane subequal to cell; phallotheca with outgrowth from left-hand side, wide basally and distinctly tapering towards apex ( Fig. 15V, Z).

Redescription: Male: Body length 8–12 mm. COLORA- TION ( Fig. 7). Main coloration yellow, reddish, brown or reddish brown, with dark brown markings; legs whitish yellow or mostly or entirely dark brown; abdomen pale brown or reddish, sometimes with dark brown areas. TEXTURE. Body without tubercles; flattened areas on head absent or present; pronotum and scutellum punctate, without wrinkles; pair of punctures between mesoscutum and scutellum, striations on lateral margin of scutellum and row of punctures on clavus and R + M present; punctures on depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent; semicircular depression between scutellum and mesoscutum absent; hemelytron rugose, without swelling posteriorly. VESTITURE. Body clothed with dark or pale simple setae, usually dense; head, pronotum, appendages and abdomen with suberect setae, usually short; setae on abdomen and legs longer than width of hind tibia; setae on scutellum and hemelytron short and adpressed; setae on thoracic pleura suberect, short and rare; tibiae regularly setose; spinules on femora apically present or absent; rows of black spinules on tibia present (as in fig. 18D in Namyatova et al., in press). STRUCTURE. Head. Distance between eye and pronotum absent or distinctly shorter than eye diameter ( Fig. 10D); occipital region not delimited with depression; longitudinal depression on vertex absent or very short; eyes not stylate, in line with contour of head, c. 0.2–0.25× as wide as head; distance between antennal fossae as long as or slightly longer than antennal fossa diameter; frons distinctly swollen ( Fig. 10D), without ridges, outgrowths or longitudinal depression; anterior view of head c. 1.5–1.8× as wide as high; eye 1.5–2× as high as distance between eye and apex of clypeus; antennal fossa oval, diameter subequal to half of eye height, not raised (as in fig. 3B in Namyatova et al., in press); inferior margin of fossa placed slightly above inferior margin of eye; base of clypeus placed near inferior half of eye, delimited with distinct or shallow depression; head flat in lateral view; gula as long as or slightly longer than buccula length, almost straight or convex. Labium. Length varying from almost reaching middle of mesosternum to reaching posterior margin of mesosternum; LSI c. 2–3× as long as wide; LSII c. 2–4× as long as wide, almost subequal or slightly longer than LSI; LSIII c. 1.5–3× as long as wide, slightly shorter than LSII; LSIV c. 3–5× as long as wide, c. 1.5–2× as long as LSIII. Antenna. Almost reaching base of clypeus; ASI c. 0.3–0.6× as long as head width, c. 2–4× as long as wide, widened basally; ASII c. 4–6× as long as ASI, c. 0.9–1.3× as long as head and pronotum combined, incrassate towards apex; ASIII c. 0.6–0.7× as long as ASII, distinctly clavate; ASIV c. 0.2–0.3× as long as ASIII, clavate. Thorax. Collar distinctly delimited or fused with callosite region posteriorly, flat or upraised ( Fig. 10D); calli separated, flat; depression delimiting callosite region posteriorly distinct medially, distinct laterally and distinct or indistinct medially ( Fig. 10D); humeral angles of pronotum rounded, not dilated ( Fig. 10D); posterior margin of pronotum straight or slightly concave ( Fig. 10D); scutellum flat or slightly swollen, slightly rounded apically, without outgrowth, ridge or medial depression; metepimeron enlarged twice as high as long, angulate, with two apices (as in Fig. 13D); metasternum with medial projection to abdominal segment II (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press). Hemelytron. Costal margin of hemelytron straight or slightly rounded, hemelytra not widened or rounded; margins of claval commissure c. 0.6–0.8× as long as scutellum, straight; R + M distinct, reaching posterior margin of corium; medial fracture strongly inclined towards midline; corium without swelling posteriorly; cuneus c. 0.7–1× as long as wide, c. 0.6– 0.8× as long as pronotum, its medial margin straight; membrane cell distinctly surpassing apex of cuneus, forming right angle, almost subequal to or slightly shorter than pronotum (as in fig. 13B in Namyatova et al., in press), auxiliary vein short or absent; distance from cell to apex subequal to cell length. Legs. Forecoxae contiguous (as in fig. 17A in Namyatova et al., in press); femora only indistinctly swollen apically, straight; foretibia shorter than head and pronotum combined; swellings on tibiae absent; segments of hind tarsus subequal on length or segment III slightly longer than each of segments I and III (as in fig. 19A in Namyatova et al., in press); apical third part of claw curved; basal tooth on claw elongate and concave (as in Fig. 13K). Genitalia ( Fig. 15, V-AC). Genital capsule as long as wide or slightly longer than wide, without outgrowth(s), its ventral side not shortened anteriorly; left paramere distinctly r-shaped or only slightly curved, c. 4–5× as long as right paramere; phallobase sclerite of primary gonopore subtriangular or suboval, rounded apically, without outgrowth(s); ductus seminis not sclerotized basally or apically, shorter than phallotheca, with coils forming wide tube, attached to phallobase medially; sclerotized part of phallotheca broad, occupying entire dorsal side, acute apically, with outgrowth on left-hand side, without ridge; endosoma with long spicule, sometimes also with elongate area of small spicules; sometimes without any sclerotization.

Female: Body length 9–14 mm. Coloration, surface and vestiture as in male ( Fig. 7). Structure similar to male, but females generally larger. Genitalia ( Fig. 19E–G, J, K). DLP with sclerotized bands, sometimes covered with membrane, with striations, sometimes with distinct membranous outgrowth medially, without additional sclerites; lateral oviducts widely separated or close to each other, placed in posterior part or at halfway of DLP, near lateral margins or at distance from them; spermathecal gland placed near posterior margin of DLP, centrally; posterior wall of bursa copulatrix with small tubercles, with or without pair of depressions anteriorly; base of second valvula slightly concave; ventral wall of bursa copulatrix membranous.

Distribution: Tropical Africa ( Fig. 23).

Host plants: The genus was collected from different species of the family Rubiaceae , including Coffea arabica L. (coffee) and Cinchona sp. (quina) ( Distant, 1918; Mayné & Ghesquière, 1934; China, 1944; Odhiambo, 1962).