Hallodapus centrimaculatus (Poppius, 1909)

Duwal, Ram Keshari, Yasunaga, Tomohide, Tomokuni, Masaaki, Nakatani, Yukinobu & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2017, Further records on the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) in Asia, with proposition of two new species and a new synonymy, Zootaxa 4258 (5), pp. 401-424 : 415

Hallodapus centrimaculatus (Poppius, 1909)

( Figs. 2 A–D, 5B)

Tyraquellus centrimaculatus Poppius, 1914: 167 (n. sp.).

Hallodapus centrimaculatus: Schuh, 1984: 124 (diag., MG); 1995: 224 (cat.); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 291 (cat.); Duwal et al., 2016: 105 (cat.); Yasunaga et al., 2016: 385 (cat.).

Hallodapus fensetratus Linnavuori, 1961: 165 (n. sp.); Schuh, 1984: 126 (note); 1995: 224 (cat.); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 291 (cat.); Yasunaga, 2001: 153 (diag.); Yasunaga et al., 2013a: 596 (syn.).

Diagnosis. Recognized by its dark brown dorsum, with two contrasting white maculae; the anterior macula on clavus behind the scutellum large and more or less triangular, and the posterior macula on corium adjacent to the cuneal fracture; deep red cuneus; pale antennae with 1/3 basal region of segment I brown; and dark femora ( Fig. 5 B). For detailed description see Poppius (1914: 167) and Schuh (1984: 124; figs. 394̄396).

Measurements. (♀) (n= 2). Body length 2.2̄2.26; length from apex of tylus to cuneal fracture 1.68̄1.72; width of head across eyes 0.40̄0.42; width of vertex 0.20; lengths of antennal segments ĪIV 0.22̄0.24, 0.80̄0.82, 0.70̄0.72, 0.30̄0.32; length of labium 1.06̄1.10; mesal length of pronotum 0.32; basal width of pronotum 0.60̄0.64; width across hemelytron 0.72̄0.76; length of metafemora, tibiae and tarsus 0.90̄0.91, 1.24̄1.28, 0.28̄0.29.

Distribution. China ( Hong Kong, Macao), Japan (Honshu, Kyushu), Korea (South), Taiwan, Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima), India (Culcutta), Indonesia, Vietnam * (North). ( Duwal et al., 2016; Schuh, 1984; Yasunaga et al., 2013a; Yasunaga et al., 2016).

Specimens examined. JAPAN: Honshu : 4♂, 4♀, (all females examined brachypterous), Hyogo Pref ., Takasago City, Kitahama Town, Kitawaki , 1.ix.2002, T. Nazaki ( TYCN); Kyushu: 2♀, (all macropterous) Nagasaki Pref. , Nagasaki Biopark, Saikai City, Seihi Town, Nakayama , 32.988889, 129.786667, on light trap, 27.vii.2013, T. Yasunaga ( TYCN) . THAILAND: Nakhon Ratchasima Prov.: 1♂, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station ( SERS), 14.508935, 101.954052, 410 m, on light trap, 15.ix.2008, T. Yasunaga ( TYCN) . VIETNAM: Ninh Binh Province: 2♀, Gia Vien District, Cuc Phuong , 170̄ 370 m, on light trap, 11.vii.1997, M. Tomokuni ( NSMT) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Habitus images of live adults and final-instar nymph (H) for Asian hallodapines. A. Hallodapus centrimaculatus, macropterous male. B. Ditto, macropterous female. C – D. Ditto, brachypterous female. E. H. ravenar, macropterous male. F. H. linnavuori, macropterous female. G – H. Wygomiris kaliyahae (G: female).

FIGURE 5. Dorsal images of Hallodapus spp. H. albofasciatus (A); H. centrimaculatus (B); H. kyushuensis (C); H. linnavuorii (D ̅ E); H. ravenar (F). Scale bars: 0.5 mm.