Saldula swezeyi, Usinger, 1946

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 101-102

97. Saldula swezeyi , new species.

·Elongate-oval, moderately convex above, the entire surface clothed with short, fine, backwardly directed hairs.

Head broader than long, 21.5: 16; subtriangular, the anteocular portion only half as long as an eye, gradually tapering to broad, blunt apex; eyes about two thirds as wide as interocular space, 6.25: 9; ocelli prominent, located at middle of interocular space, as far apart as distance from ocelli to eyes; surface rather dull, finely punctate, and pubescent posteriorly, more polished anteriorly, with the clypeus glabrous. Antennae less than twice as long as width of pronotum, 53: 34; segments of nearly uniform thickness except for the considerably thicker first segment; proportion of segments, 8: 17: 14: 14.

Pronotum over three times as broad as long on median line, 34: 10; disk subdepressed laterally, with a moderately elevated callus at middle curving forward behind eyes and enclosing a small anterior, median, transverse impression; anterior angles concealed from above by the overlapping eyes, sides arcuate, hind margin broadly, shallowly concave.

Scutellum a little broader than long, 25: 21; elevated basally, depressed behind middle at an inverted V-shaped impression.

Hemelytra complete, long, exceeding tip of abdomen; commissure of clavus three fifths as long as scutellum; veins of corium poorly defined but present; costal margin arcuate at base, scarcely sinuate at basal third and gradually arcuate apically; membrane four fifths as long as corium, with three long, complete, closed cells, the veins with occasional erect hairs and outer portion of membrane outside of cells and beyond corium pubescent.

Under surface finely pubescent. Details of rostrum concealed, but its apex reaching distinctly beyond hind coxae.

Color dark brownish black, the coria each with a broad sinuous white fascia joining at base of membrane, extending briefly along claval suture, then laterally to embolar suture to basal third. Outer apex of corium with a white area. Under surface and ap· pendages paler brown, the tibiae and tarsi testaceous.

Size: length 3.66 mm.; width (pronotum) 1.13 mm., (hemelytra) 1.3 mm.

Holotype female, Tarague, April 19, 1936, E. H. Bryan , Jr.

This distinctively marked species is relatively more slender than the other Guam species and does not resemble any other Oriental saldid known to me.