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Fingulus angkorensis Yasunaga & Yamada, n. sp.

Description

Fingulus angkorensis Yasunaga & Yamada, n. sp.

(Figs. 1, 3 A–C, 4A–B)

Diagnosis. Distinguished from any other congeners by a combination of the following characters: punctate pronotal collar; uniformly pale antennal segments II–IV; dark ostiolar peritreme; pale legs with darkened apex of each femur and base of each tibia. Most similar to F. porrectus (Bergroth) known from Hong Kong and India in general shape of body; distinguished by its uniformly fuscous dorsum; dark antennal segment I; shorter labium not exceeding apex of procoxa; darkened apices of femora and bases of tibiae; and endosoma with an elongate, slender spiculum and a sword-like lobal sclerite.

Description. Body generally dark brown, elongate in form; dorsal surface shining, with rather shallow and roughly arranged punctures. Head slightly shorter than or almost equal to width across eyes in dorsal view; vertex narrowly carinate at base; tylus vertically slanted; neck moderate, with postocular region a little constricted. Antenna uniformly pale brown except for shiny dark brown segment I. Labium shiny brown, short, not exceeding apex of procoxa; apex of segment IV narrowly infuscate. Pronotum including collar punctate; calli oily shiny, almost smooth; scutellum nearly flat; pleura fuscous; propleuron punctate; ostiolar peritreme tinged with gray, matte, not contrasting with surrounding areas. Hemelytron nearly parallel-sided, rather roughly punctate; cuneus impunctate; membrane pale brown, semitransparent, basally suffused with fuscous to level of apices of areolar cells. Coxa and leg pale brown; each coxa more or less tinged with brown; more than apical 1/3 of each femur and base of each tibia dark brown; extreme apex of protibia fuscous. Abdomen shiny fuscous. Male genitalia: Left paramere with roundly developed sensory lobe; hypophysis with weak, flattened apical process (Fig. 4 A). Endosoma (Fig. 4 B) with a slender, long spiculum and a sword-like lobal sclerite.

Measurements. ♂ / ♀: Total body length 3.6−3.8/ 4.1−4.5; length of head 0.56−0.62/ 0.61−0.63; width of head across eyes 0.63−0.64/ 0.61−0.62; width of vertex 0.09−0.12/ 0.12−0.13; lengths of antennal segments I −IV 0.41−0.43, 1.45−1.47, 0.91−0.94, 0.60−0.62/ 0.46−0.49, 1.46−1.60, 0.89−1.00, 0.56−0.59; length of labium 1.22−1.33/ 1.34−1.35; mesal length of pronotum including collar 0.96−0.98/ 0.85−1.03; basal width of pronotum 1.09−1.12/ 1.28−1.33; maximum width across hemelytron 1.12−1.17/ 1.34−1.49; and length of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.28−1.30, 1.82−1.85, 0.28−0.30/ 1.40−1.47, 1.82−1.90, 0.30−0.32.

Etymology. Named after the type locality, the Angkorian World Heritage site.

Biology. Adults of this new species were found on leaves (Fig. 1 A) of Ficus microcarpa L.f. (Moraceae), and some of them in leaf curl galls (Fig. 1 B) induced by a thrips, Gynaikothrips sp. (Thysanoptera: Tubulifera), during recent observations at a college campus in Siem Reap, Cambodia. From the galls on one tree of Ficus microcarpa, both adults and immature forms of (undescribed) Montandoniola sp. (Anthocoridae: Oriini) (Fig. 1 C, D) and a few adults of Cardiastethus exiguus Poppius (Anthocoridae: Cardiastethini) (Fig. 1 D) were found. The new mirid, F. angkorensis, and these two anthocorids presumably predate on the thrips. As pointed out by Nakatani et al. (2000) and Yasunaga et al. (2001), the nymphs of some Fingulus members are presumed to mimic their hosts (thrips) (cf. Fig. 2 D). This phenomenon suggests close relationships between Fingulus species and the thrips, as implied by Yasunag a et al. (2015). In Japan Fingulus longicornis Miyamoto and Montandoniola thripodes Bergroth are known to co-occur in the gall of Ficus microcarpa made by their assumed prey, Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal) (Yamada et al., 2010; Yasunaga et al., 2001; 2015).

Holotype: ♂, CAMBODIA: Siem Reap, PTTC [Provincial Teacher Training College] Campus, 3km S of Angkor Wat, 13º22'51.50" N 103º51'51.30" E, on Ficus microcarpa, 31 Mar 2014, T. Yasunaga (AMNH _PBI 00380424) (DOAT).

Paratypes. CAMBODIA: Same data as for holotype, 2♂ (00380425−00380426), 4♀ (AMNH, TYCN); same data except for date 4 Apr 2014, 1♂ 1♀ (TYCN). THAILAND: Nakhon Nayok, Sarika, N14º17'16.35" E101º17'22.77", on Ficus microcarpa, 16 Dec 2011, T. Yasunaga, 2♀ (00380427−00380428) (TYCN); Nakhon Ratchasima, Wang Nam Khieo, Sakaerat Environmental Research Station (SERS), 24 Dec 2012, T. Yasunaga, B. Shishido, 1♀ (00380429) (TYCN).

Notes

Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, Yamada, Kazutaka, Duangthisan, Jomsurang & Artchawakom, Taksin, 2016, Review of the plant bug genus Fingulus Distant in Indochina (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Deraeocorini), with descriptions of two new species, pp. 581-588 in Zootaxa 4154 (5) on pages 583-584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/264983

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH, TYCN , PTTC, AMNH, DOAT , SERS, TYCN , TYCN
Event date
2011-12-16 , 2012-12-24 , 2014-03-31 , 2014-04-04
Verbatim event date
2011-12-16 , 2012-12-24 , 2014-03-31 , 2014-04-04
Scientific name authorship
Yasunaga & Yamada
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Fingulus
Species
angkorensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Fingulus angkorensis Yasunaga & Yamada, 2016

References

  • Nakatani, Y., Yasunaga, T. & Takai, M. (2000) New or little known deraeocorine plant bugs from Japan (Heteroptera: Miridae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 142, 317 - 326. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1163 / 22119434 - 99900032
  • Yasunaga, T., Takai, M. & Kawasawa, T. (Eds.) (2001) A Field Guide to Japanese Bugs II, 351 pp. Zenkoku Noson Kyoiku Kyokai, Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).
  • Yamada, K., Yasunaga, T. & Miyamoto, S. (2010) A review of Japanese species of the genus Montandoniola (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae). Zootaxa, 2530, 19 - 28.
  • Yasunaga, T., Schuh, R. T., Poorani, J. & Cassis, G. (2015) A remarkable new genus and new species of the plant bug (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), inhabiting psyllid leaf margin roll gall on Indian Banyan, Ficus benghalensis. American Museum Novitates, 3839, 15 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1206 / 3839.1