Xylocoris (Proxylocoris) cerealis Yamada & Yasunaga 2006
Authors/Creators
- 1. Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukôterayama, Hachiman-chô, Tokushima, 770 - 8070 Japan; e-mail: yamada. kaz @ gmail. com
- 2. Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York 10024; e-mail: tyasunaga @ amnh. org
- 3. Sakaerat Environmental Research Station (SERS), Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand Institute of Scientific & Technological Research (TISTR), Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 Moo 9, A. Udom Sab, Wang Nam Khieo, Nakhon Ratchasima, 30370 Thailand; e-mail: sakaerat @ tistr. or. th
Description
(Figs 4, 9, 10)
Xylocoris (Proxylocoris) cerealis Yamada & Yasunaga, 2006: 526.
Specimens examined. THAILAND: 1 J (Figs 9, 10), Suphan Buri, Sri Prachan, N14°41′18.3″, E100°08′25.8″, 10 m alt., 25.x.2008, K. Yamada lgt. (TKPM); 1 J 1 ♀, Nakhon Nayok, Sarika, N14°17′20.8″, E101°17′20.5″, 25 m alt., 22.–23.iii.2010, at light, K. Yamada lgt. (TKPM); 1 ♀, Nakhon Ratchasima, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, N14°29′24.4″ –30′37.5″, E101°54′37.8″ –55′49.7″, 372–601 m alt., 23.–25.i.2009, light trap, T. Yasunaga & K. Yamada lgt. (TKPM); 1♀, same locality, N14°30′26.9″, E101°55′39.2″, 407 m alt., light trap, 11.–14.vi.2009, K. Yamada lgt. (TKPM); 1 ♀, Chiang Mai, Mae Rim, Mae Sa, 400–450 m alt., 1.–4.viii.2001, S. Nagashima lgt. (TKPM).
Diagnosis. Recognized by the following characters: head and thorax blackish-brown (Figs 4, 9, 10); hemelytra semi-transparent with darkened area along claval commissure and coriummembrane boundary, and with dark sub-triangular spot on apico-mesial corium (Figs 4, 9); ostiolar peritreme not reaching anterior margin of metapleuron; femora brown to blackishbrown, with apex yellowish-brown (Fig. 10); tibiae and tarsi uniformly pale yellow (Fig. 10); paramere medially angulate in posterior view; ectospermalege much smaller, extending posteriorly, and weakly sclerotized.
Distribution. Thailand.
Remarks. This species have hitherto been known only from southern Thailand (Songkhla and Nakhon Si Thammarat Provinces) (YAMADA et al. 2006). However, we also found it in central (Suphan Buri, Nakhon Nayok, and Nakhon Ratchasima Provinces) and northern (Chiang Mai Province) territories of Thailand (this paper).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TKPM
- Event date
- 2001-08-01 , 2008-10-25 , 2009-01-23 , 2009-06-11 , 2010-03-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-08-01/04 , 2008-10-25 , 2009-01-23/25 , 2009-06-11/14 , 2010-03-22/23
- Scientific name authorship
- Yamada & Yasunaga
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Anthocoridae
- Genus
- Xylocoris
- Species
- cerealis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xylocoris (Proxylocoris) cerealis Yamada, 2006 sec. Yamada, Yasunaga, Artchawakom & Sers, 2013
References
- YAMADA K., YASUNAGA T., NAKATANI Y. & HIROWATARI T. 2006: The minute pirate-bug genus Xylocoris Dufour (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from rice mills in Thailand. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108: 525 - 533.