Gollneria Carvalho, 1983

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 : 168

9. Gollneria Carvalho, 1983

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Gollneria Carvalho, 1983: 383 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation: Megacoelum quadrituberculatum Poppius, 1912b ]. Gollneria: Schuh 1995: 772 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body sub-oblong, total length 4.5, slightly convex laterally, uniformly stramineous yellow with red brown patches; labium reaching posterior coxae, first antennal segment short and club-like; pronotum dorsally pilose, lacking a pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners, the callosities consist of two pairs of tubercles; scutellum swollen, pilose; hemelytra slightly reflective, stramineous ( Fig. 28 ), smooth with reduced sparse and shallow punctation and two types of pilosity: one recumbent and white, the second erect and black. Tibia with dark red brown spines. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite; phallus devoid of comb and true spiculum; phallic support and denticle fields present.

Included species. G. quadrituberculatum ( Poppius, 1912) *.

Distribution. Cabo Verde Island, Cameroon, Kenya (Kibwezi, type-locality of type-species), Somalia, Sudan.

Host plants. Fabaceae ( Lindberg 1959).

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 35. Habitus of ACMc members: 28. Gollneria quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975, female holotype from South Sudan (AMNH). 29. Megacoelum formosanum Poppius, 1915, male lectotype from Taiwan (MZHF). 30. Megacoelum infusum Herrich-Schaeffer, 1837, a specimen from France (MNHN). 31. Megacoelum salsolae Linnavuori, 1986, male holotype from Saudi Arabia (AMNH). 32. Megacoelum zollikoferiae (Lindberg, 1953), male paratype from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (MNHN). 33. “ Megacoelum ” esmedorae Ballard, 1927, female holotype from Coimbatore, India, a species remaining to reclassify, probably in a genus still to describe (NHM). 34. Neomegacoelum vitreum (Kerzhner, 1988), a male from Japan (USNM). 35. Neopeplus trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003, female paratype from Australia (SAM). Scales = 1 mm.