Dashymenia remus (Distant)

Wolski, Andrzej & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2012, Plant bugs of the tribe Bothriomirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from the Oriental Region: descriptions of eight new species and keys to Oriental genera and species of Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, Dashymenia Poppius, and Dashymeniella Poppius, Zootaxa 3412, pp. 1-41 : 26

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scientific name	Dashymenia remus (Distant)
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Dashymenia remus (Distant) View in CoL

( Figures 64–65 View FIGURE 64 View FIGURE 65 )

Capsus remus Distant 1904a: 468 View in CoL [sp. nov.]

Dashymenia remus: Poppius 1911: 360 View in CoL [new combination]; Carvalho 1957: 27 [catalog]; Schuh 1995: 24 [catalog]; Gorczyca 2006: 12 [catalog]

Dasymenia remus: Bergroth 1920: 70 View in CoL [unnecessary emendation]

Diagnosis. Dashymenia remus can be recognized by the following set of characters: body suboval; head including antenna dark brown; dorsum blackish with contrastingly orange patches on scutellum and corium apically.

Most similar to D. tenmalai in sharing an orange tinge on the scutellum and apically on the corium. D. remus can, however, be distinguished by the more ovoid body, the dark brown coloration of the head, and the blackish dorsal surface.

Redescription. Female. COLORATION. Dorsal surface blackish with orange areas on scutellum and hemelytron. Head. Dark brown; antennal segment I brown; segment II dark brown, paler, brown basally; segments III and IV pale brown; labium chestnut. Thorax. Pronotum. Entirely blackish. Scutellum. Blackish, with large, broad patch apically. Hemelytron. Blackish with distinct, relatively large orange, patch on corium apically; membrane dark gray. Thoracic pleura. Chestnut. Legs. Orange brown; coxae and femora orange; tibiae and tarsi brown. Abdomen. Chestnut. STRUCTURE AND VESTITURE ( Fig. 64 View FIGURE 64 ). Body suboval; dorsum covered with dense setae and protruding setae. Head. Covered with pale, dense, protruding setae; antennal segment I almost cylindrical, weakly narrowed basally, covered with sparse, short setae; segment II weakly thickened toward apex, mixed with dense, dark, short setae and a few long, protruding bristlelike setae; segments III and IV thin, covered with long protruding, bristlelike setae. Thorax. Pronotum. Pronotal calli narrow, indistinct. Scutellum. Arched, inpunctate apically.

Male. Unknown.

Measurements. Holotype Ƥ: body length 5.0, width 2.52. Head. Length 0.50, width 1.48, diameter of eye in dorsal view 0.34. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.70, II 1.50, III 1.0, IV 0.60. Labium obscured by glue and immeasurable. Pronotum. Length 1.26, width of anterior margin 0.90, length of lateral margin 1,0, width of posterior margin 2.12.

Distribution ( Fig. 65 View FIGURE 65 ). Myanmar (Kayin State).

Type material. Holotype Ƥ: Carin Cheba, 900–1100 m., L. Fea, V. XII – 88; Distant Coll. 1911-383; Type. H. T. [round label with red]; remus Dist. [old, handwritten label] ( BMNH).

References

Bergroth, E. (1920) List of the Cylapinae (Hem., Miridae) with description of new Philippine forms. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 60, 67 - 83.

Carvalho, J. C. M. (1957) Catalogue of the Miridae of the World. Part I. Subfamilies Cylapinae, Deraeocorinae and Bryocorinae. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 44, 1 - 158.

Distant, W. L. (1904 a) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Taylor & Francis, London. Vol. 2, part 2, pp. 243 - 503.

Poppius, B. (1911) Uber Capsus croesus Dist. Und C. remus Dist. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 51, 359 - 361

Schuh, R. T. (1995) Plant bugs of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). New York Entomological Society, New York: 1329 pp.