Omania coleoptrata Horváth, 1915

Luo, Jiu-Yang, Wang, Yan-Hui, Chen, Ping-Ping & Xie, Qiang, 2022, First record of the intertidal dwarf bug family Omaniidae from China, with description of a new species (Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha), Zootaxa 5195 (5), pp. 449-467 : 457-458

Omania coleoptrata Horváth, 1915

( Figs. 8A–B , 9A , Table 3 )

Omania coleoptrata Horváth, 1915: 598 . Holotype: ♂, Oman, Muscat; HNHM. Poisson and Poisson (1943):123. (distribution, synonymy); Drake & Hoberlandt (1951): 5 (catalogue, distribution); Filippi (1957): 41 (distribution); Kellen (1960): 494 (distribution, habitat); Stichel (1960): 125 (catalogue, distribution); Schuster (1965): 125 (distribution); Cobben (1970): 63, 67, 70, 72, 76, 79, 85 (figures), 64 (diagnosis, distribution, morphology), 69 (in key), 71 (habitat); Cobben (1987): 25 (distribution); Schuh & Polhemus (1980): 6 (figures); Schuh et al. (1987): 261 (catalogue, distribution); Lindskog (1995): 141 (catalogue, distribution).

Dollfusella minutissima China, 1938: 257 . Holotype: ♂, Saudi Arabia, Sanafir Island; MNHN (synonymized by Poisson & Poisson 1943: 123).

Material examined: EGYPT: 50 km N. of M. Alam, leg. Linnavuori, 1 ex.; Rotes Meer, Gubal strait, winter 1961/1962, 1 ♀; “ Omania coleoptrata ” 1 ex. [no further information]; (all in RMNH) .

Diagnosis: Body length of male (1.28–1.38), female (1.44–1.48). This taxon can be distinguished from the species of Corallocoris by the following characteristics: the body surface is uniformly black ( Fig. 8A–B ); a collumlike area of the head is demarcated from the vertex by a line that makes a sharp triangular incision anteromedially; the forewing lacks claval and R+M sutures ( Fig. 8A–B ); the grasping structure of the male is simple; the ponticulus basalis of the phallus has a dorsal bridge-like projection (see Cobben 1970).

Habitat. Omania coleoptrata was found in rock crevices below the high tide level of the intertidal zone ( China 1938), and in one instance was found living with a species of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) and Halophiloscia sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda ) in the same rock pieces ( Schuster 1965).

Distribution: Egypt (African Egypt, Sinai Peninsula); Oman ( Muscat); Pakistan (the coast of Pakistan); and Saudi Arabia (Sanafir Island) ( Fig. 9A , Table 3 ).

Figures

FIGURE 8.A–B, Habitus of Omania coleoptrata, paratypes, female:A, dorsal view; B, lateral view C–D, habitus of Corallocoris nauruensis, paratypes, male: C, dorsal view; D, lateral view.

FIGURE 9. Distribution maps of species of Omaniidae: A, Distribution of all known species of Omaniidae. B, Detailed distribution records of Corallocoris xishaensis sp. nov. (solid red dots)