Cheilocapsidea Poppius, 1915

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B., 2016, A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 4126 (2), pp. 151-206 : 162

5. Cheilocapsidea Poppius, 1915

( Figures 8 , 12–14 )

Cheilocapsidea Poppius, 1915a: 13 (comme n. gen.) [type-species by original designation: Megacoelum insignis Distant, 1909a ]. Creontiades: Carvalho 1952: 87 (catalog of genera, synonymy and new combination), 1959: 73, 75 (catalog); Schuh 1995: 743, 745 (catalog); Carvalhopantilius Yasunaga, 1995: 452 –453 (as new genus, the synonymy by Yasunaga & Kerzhner 1998); Cheilocapsidea: Yasunaga & Kerzhner 1998: 88 (resurection); Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 83 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog); Zheng et al. 2004: 235–236, 700 (diagnosis, Chinese species, key); Yasunaga 2011: 370 (diagnosis).

Diagnosis. Body elongate, total length 8–11, laterally straight, with translucent, red brown or white to stramineous reflective hemelytra; vertex not carinate, longitudinally sulcate, sulcus short; frons slightly protruding above the vertical tylus, scarcely separated by a tiny notch; eyes separate from pronotal collar; labium exceeding mesocoxae; first antennal segment stout, slightly club-like and longer than head, straight, remaining segments slightly thinner; pronotum lacking stiff setae on anterior corner, lateral margins slightly carinate, disk shagreened, shallowly and sparsely punctate, pilosity light, sparse, erect; scutellum almost flat, with sparse, erect pilosity; legs elongate, tibial spines brown; hemelytral punctation double, one very reduced but dense, narrow and shallow, the second, shallow but larger, hemelytral pilosity simple, suberect, veins raised; primary apophysis of left paramere lacking accessory lobes; secondary gonopore with associated U-shaped sclerite, lacking long hairs; phallic true spiculum elongate and apically pointed; phallic support absent; parieto-vaginal rings large, contiguous, lacking anterior projection; dorso-labiate plate reduced; dorsal process and median process of posterior wall absent, interramal lobes developed.

Included species. C. insignis ( Distant, 1909) *, C. pura ( Yasunaga, 1995) , C. rufescens ( Yasunaga, 1995) *.

Distribution. China, India, Laos, Taiwan.

Host plants. No data available.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Habitus of ACMc members: 1. Adelphocoridea brunnea Poppius, 1912, male from Madagascar (MNRJ). 2. Adelphocoridea laevigata Poppius, 1912, female holotype from Madagascar (MZHF). 3. Adelphocoris seticornis (Fabricius, 1775) from Belgium. 4. Adelphocorisella brunnescens (Poppius, 1915) n. comb., male holotype from Papua New Guinea (MZHF). 5. Adelphocorisella relata (Distant, 1904) n. comb., male lectotype from Sri Lanka (NHM). 6. Adelphocorisella rubricornis n. sp., female holotype from Australia (ANIC). 7. Carvalhocapsus scutellosum (Carpintero & Chérot, 2002), male paratype from Argentina (Coll. D. L. Carpintero). 8. Cheilocapsidea insignis (Distant, 1909), male from Laos (NMPC). Scales = 1 mm.

FIGURES 12 – 14. Cheilocapsidea insignis (Distant, 1909), male genitalia of Laos specimen (NMPC): 12. Apex of primary apophysis of left paramere. 13. Apex of primary apophysis of right paramere. 14. Phallus. DS: ductus seminis, G 2: secondary gonopore, GpSc: gonoporal sclerite, Sp: spicule. Scales = 0.1 mm except Fig. 13 scale = 0.05 mm.