Noualhieridia ornatula Breddin, 1898

Kment, Petr, 2005, Revision of Mahea Distant, 1909, with a review of the Acanthosomatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of Madagascar and Seychelles, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 45, pp. 21-50 : 40

Noualhieridia ornatula Breddin, 1898

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Noualhieridia ornatula Breddin, 1898: 267-268 (description).

Noualhieridia ornatula: BERGROTH (1908) : 191 (catalogue).

Noualhieridia ornatula: KIRKALDY (1909) : 178 (catalogue).

Noualhieridia ornatula: CACHAN (1952) : 309, Figs. 5 (Pl. VII, p. 275), 183-186 (p. 311), (redescription, figures, distribution).

Noualhieridia ornatula: KUMAR (1974) : 24, Figs. 33-34 (p. 22) (lectotype designation, figures).

Type locality. Madagascar.

Material examined. MADAGASCAR, coll. Noualhier 1898, 3 ♁♁ 5 ♀♀, Martin det. (part) or Cachan det. (part), P. Kment revid. ( MNHN). Madagascar, 1 ♀, P. Kment det. ( NMPC).

Bionomy. Unknown.

Distribution. Central Madagascar (Antananarivo) and West Madagascar (Maevatanana) ( CACHAN 1952).

Note. Noualhieridia ornatula resembles (in body shape and colouration) another endemic Madagascar species, Cloequeria bourgini Cachan, 1952 ( Pentatomidae : Pentatominae : Coquerelini), which differs by having 3-segmented tarsi, a different shape of the peritreme, no conspicuous round black spot on the mesopleura, and by other details of colouration.

Figures

Figs. 46-51. 46 – Catadipson imernensis (Cachan, 1952), female, holotype. 47 – Noualhieridia marginata Cachan, 1952, female, holotype. 48 – N. ornatula Breddin, 1898, female. 49 – N. rufa Cachan, 1952, female, lectotype. 50- 51 – Ibocoris ficivora Roche, 1947. 50 – male; 51 – female. (Photo: P. Kment – Figs. 46-49; J. Macek – Figs. 50- 51). Scale bars = 2 mm.

Figs. 1-5. Mahea sexualis Distant, 1909. 1 – head, dorsal view; 2 – pronotum, dorsal view; 3 – pronotum, posterior view; 4 – abdomen of male (lectotype), ventral view; 5 – abdomen of female (paralectotype), ventral view.

Figs. 31-34. Pleura and metathoracic scent gland opening, most exposed view. 31 – Mahea sexualis Distant, 1909; 32 – Catadipson imernensis (Cachan, 1952); 33 – Noualhieridia rufa Cachan, 1952; 30 – Ibocoris ficivora Roche, 1947.