Arthriticus, BERGROTH, 1923

Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2016, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1), pp. 36-136 : 83-84

ARTHRITICUS BERGROTH

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Arthriticus Bergroth, 1923: 413 (gen. nov.; type species Arthriticus eugeniae Bergroth, 1923 by monotypy); Carvalho, 1952: 59 (cat.); Carvalho, 1955: 38 (key to gen.); Carvalho, 1957: 132 (cat.); Schuh, 1995: 509 (cat.); Schuh, 2002 –2013 (cat.).

Diagnosis: Arthriticus belongs to the Monalonion - complex (see discussion for tribe) and among the genera of this group it be recognized by: elongate body and appendages ( Fig. 9 ), ASI and femora distinctly swollen apically; ASI longer than head and pronotum combined; frons not swollen on only slightly convex (as in Fig. 10J ); distance between antennal fossa longer than antennal fossa width; antenna distinctly longer than body; forefemur curved; scutellum without spine-like projection; claw broadly rounded (fig. 10C in Namyatova & Cassis, 2013b); sclerotized part of phallotheca wide basally and distinctly tapering apically ( Fig. 14I ); DLP with two sclerotized bands ( Fig. 18E ).

Redescription: Male: Length c. 5 mm. COLORATION ( Fig. 9 ). Body mostly red, with brown markings, mostly on appendages. TEXTURE. Body mostly smooth, without punctures, wrinkles and tubercles; vertex without flattened areas; semicircular depression between scutellum and mesoscutum absent; striations on scutellum laterally absent; only single depression at each side of scutellum anteriorly, present (as in fig. 9H in Namyatova & Cassis, 2013b). VESTITURE. Setae on dorsum and thoracic pleura absent; pale simple setae on clypeus, labium, appendages and abdomen present; setae on lateral margins of head, labium and abdomen mostly adpressed and short, setae on abdomen very rare, present apically only; setae on antenna mostly short, suberect or adpressed, sometimes setae on ASII longer than width of hind tibia; setae on femora present only apically, adpressed; setae on tibiae short, mostly spine-like, suberect, not very dense; apex of tibia and tarsi with adpressed short setae; black spinules on femora and tibiae absent. STRUCTURE. Head. Distance from eye and pronotum slightly shorter than eye diameter (as in Fig. 10J ); occipital region not delimited by transverse depression; longitudinal depression distinct, almost as long as or longer than eye diameter; eyes not stylate, in line with contour of head, c. 0.25× as long as head width (as in Fig. 10J ); distance between antennal fossa longer than antennal fossa diameter; frons slightly convex, without ridges, outgrowths or longitudinal depression; anterior view of head c. 1.3× wide as high; eye height c. 1.5× as long as distance between eye and apex of clypeus; antennal fossa oval c. 0.7× as long as eye height, not raised, inferior margin placed distinctly above inferior margin of eye; base of clypeus placed slightly below than margin of antennal fossa, basally not delimited with depression; head more or less swollen in lateral view; gula c. 2–3× as long as buccula, convex. Labium. Length slightly surpassing posterior margin of metasternum; LSI twice as long as wide; LSII c. 3× as long as wide, subequal to LSI; LSIII c. 3× as long as wide, subequal to LSII; LSIV c. 6× as long as wide, twice as long as LSIII. Antenna. About 1.8× as long as body; ASI c. 2.3× as long as head width, swollen apically; ASII c. 1.7× as long as ASI, c. 2.5× as long as head and pronotum combined; ASIII 0.8× as long as ASII; ASIV c. 0.5× as long as ASIII; ASII–IV filiform. Thorax. Collar slightly swollen (as in fig. 7A in Namyatova & Cassis, 2013b), faintly delimited posteriorly; calli separated, almost flat; depression delimiting calli posteriorly absent (as in Fig. 10J ); humeral angles of pronotum rounded, not dilated; posterior margin of pronotum straight or slightly concave (as in Fig. 10J ); scutellum flat, rounded apically; without outgrowth, ridge or medial depression; metepimeron narrow, c. 2.5–3× as high as long, with subrectangular outgrowth (as in Fig. 13A ); metasternum rounded posteriorly, without medial projection on to abdominal segment II (as in fig. 17B in Namyatova et al., in press). Hemelytron. Costal margin concave or straight; claval commissure c. 2.3× as long as scutellum, concave (as in fig. 11G in Namyatova et al., in press); R + M distinct, reaching posterior margin of corium; medial fracture subparallel to R + M (as in fig. 11G in Namyatova et al., in press); corium without swelling posteriorly; cuneus c. 5× as long as wide, subequal to pronotum, medial margin distinctly concave (as in fig. 13C in Namyatova et al., in press); membrane cell distinctly surpassing apex of cuneus, c. 1.75× as long as pronotum, acute apically (as in fig. 14C in Namyatova et al., in press); short auxiliary vein present; distance between cell and apex of membrane c. 0.14× as long as cell. Legs. Forecoxae separated (as in fig. 17B in Namyatova et al., in press); femora distinctly swollen apically and medially, apically as wide as eye, curved; foretibia longer than head and pronotum combined; swelling on tibiae absent; segment I of hind tarsus distinctly longer than segment II, segment II and III subequal in length (as in fig. 19B in Namyatova et al., in press); claw broadly rounded (fig. 10C in Namyatova & Cassis, 2013b); basal teeth short and triangular (as in fig. 10B in Namyatova & Cassis, 2013b). Genitalia ( Fig. 14I–L ). Genital capsule slightly longer than wide, with ventral wall shortened anteriorly (as in Fig. 15Q ); left paramere r-shaped, twice as long as right paramere; phallobase sclerite of primary gonopore subtriangular, concave, without outgrowth(s); ductus seminis slightly longer than phallotheca, with coils, forming broad tube, without sclerotization basally or apically, attached to phallobase medially; sclerotized part of phallotheca broad basally and tapering apically; endosoma with pair of symmetrical elongate spicules.

Female: Length c. 6–7 mm. Coloration, surface, vestiture and structure as in male, but body generally larger ( Fig. 9 ). Genitalia ( Fig. 18E, F ). DLP membranous, with two narrow sclerotized bands, some striations present; lateral oviduct placed slightly anteriorly to midline of DLP, close to lateral margin of DLP; spermathecal gland shifter anteriorly from midpoint; posterior wall of bursa copulatrix with distinct tubercles, without outgrowths or sclerotization; base of second valvula with swelling; ventral wall with sclerites around vulva.

Distribution: Bogor ( Indonesia) ( Fig. 22 ).

Host plants: Known from Eugenia sp. (Myrtaceae) ( Bergroth, 1923).

Figures

Figure 9. Habitus photographs. Monalonion dissimulatum ♂ AMNH_PBI 19564, ♀ AMNH_PBI 5258; Physophoropterella bondroiti ♂ AMNH_PBI 400348, ♀ AMNH_PBI 5037; Physophoroptera mirabilis ♂ AMNH_PBI 5070, ♀ AMNH_PBI 5083; Arthriticus eugeniae ♂ AMNH_BPI 19573, ♀ AMNH_PBI 19575; Ragwelellus suspectus ♂ AMNH_PBI 34153, ♀ AMNH_PBI 34154; Ragwelellus vittatus ♂ AMNH_PBI 34152, ♀ AMNH_PBI 45821; Schuhirandella fulva ♂ PT AMNH_PBI 400345, ♀ PT AMNH_PBI 19576; Helopeltis clavifer ♂ AMNH_PBI 40416, ♀ AMNH_PBI 202016; Afropeltis corbisieri ♂ AMNH_PBI 5133, ♀ AMNH_PBI 5216.

Figure 10. Scanning electron micrographs. Head and pronotum, dorsal view. A, Mansoniella nitida ♀ AMNH_PBI 46067; B, Poppiusia leroyi ♀ AMNH_PBI 5838; C, Chamus bellus ♀ AMNH_PBI 5223; D, Lycidocoris mimeticus ♀ AMNH_PBI 5043; E, Physophoropterella bondroiti ♂ AMNH_PBI 19110; G, Odoniellia reuteri ♂ AMNH_PBI 19090; H, Volkelius carvalhoi ♀ PT AMNH_PBI 19630; I, Yangambia vesiculata ♀ AMNH_PBI 19084; J, Ragwelellus suspectus ♂ AMNH_PBI 19629. Head, dorsal view. F, Sahlbergella tai ♀ AMNH_PBI 5106. Head, anterior view. K, Parachamus bellus ♀ AMNH_ PBI 5837. Head, lateral view. L, Poppiusia leroyi ♀ AMNH_PBI 5838. Frons, dorsal view. M, Poppiusia leroyi ♀ AMNH_PBI 5838.

Figure 13. Scanning electron micrographs. Metepimeron. A, Helopletis pellucida sex unknown AMNH_PBI 19628; B, Afropeltis hyalospilosus ♂ AMNH_PBI 5137; C, Poppiusia leroyi ♀ AMNH_PBI 5838; D, Pachypeltis reuteri ♂ AMNH_PBI 45980; E, Odoniella reuteri ♂ AMNH_PBI 19194. Setae on hemelytron. F, Boxia khayae ♂ AMNH_PBI 5065. Fore- and middle femora. G, Physophoropterella bondroiti ♂ AMNH_PBI 19110. Hind femur. H, Helopeltis pellucida sex unknown AMNH_PBI 19628. Hind tarsus. I, Physophoropterella bondroiti ♂ AMNH_PBI 19110. Claw, lateral view. J, Chamus sp. sex unknown, not databased; K, Pachypeltis brevirostris sp. nov. sex unknown, not databased; L, Helopeltis bradyi sex unknown, not databased.

Figure 14. Male genitalia, dorsal view. Afropeltis hyalospilosus AMNH_PBI 5137. A, aedeagus; B, right paramere; C, left paramere; D, genital capsule. Arculanus marshalli AMNH_PBI 5102. E, aedeagus; F, right paramere; G, left paramere; H, genital capsule. Arthriticus eugeniae AMNH_PBI 19573. I, aedeagus; J, right paramere; K, left paramere; L, genital capsule. Boxia khayae AMNH_PBI 5065. M, aedeagus; N, left paramere; O, genital capsule. Distantiella theobromae AMNH_PBI 19056. P, aedeagus; Q, right paramere; R, left paramere; S, genital capsule. Chamus bellus AMNH_PBI 19059. T, aedeagus; U, right paramere; V, left paramere; W, genital capsule. Chamus conradti AMNH_PBI 19048. X, aedeagus; Y, right paramere; Z, left paramere; AA, genital capsule. Chamus overlaeti AMNH_PBI 19073. AB, aedeagus; AC, right paramere; AD, left paramere; AE, genital capsule. The smaller scale is for genital capsule, the larger scale is for aedeagi and paramers.

Figure 15. Male genitalia. Dorsal view. Bryocoropsis laticollis var. infuscata. AMNH_PBI 18942. A, aedeagus; B, right paramere; C, left paramere. AMNH_PBI 5108. D, genital capsule. Bryocoropsis soror AMNH_PBI 19072. E, aedeagus; F, right paramere; G, left paramere; H, genital capsule. Eupachypeltis flavicornis LT AMNH_PBI 19128. I, aedeagus; J, right paramere; K, left paramere; L, genital capsule. Helopeltis clavifer AMNH_PBI 34191. M, aedeagus; N, right parameres; O, left paramere; P, genital capsule. Dimia inexpectata PT AMNH_PBI 271336. R, aedeagus; S, right paramere; T, left paramere; U, genital capsule. Lycidocoris mimericus AMNH_PBI 5066. V, aedeagus; W, right paramere; X, left paramere; Y, genital capsule. Lycidocoris thoracicus no USI. Z, aedeagus; AA, right paramere; AB, left paramere; AC, genital capsule. Lateral view. Helopeltis clavifer AMNH_PBI 34191. Q, genital capsule. The smaller scale is for genital capsule, the larger scale is for aedeagi and parameres.

Figure 18. Female genitalia, bursa copulatrix. Afropeltis lalandei AMNH_PBI 5261. A, dorsal labiate plate; B, posteri- or wall. Arculanus marshalli AMNH_PBI 19290. C, dorsal labiate; D, posterior wall. Arthriticus eugeniae no USI. E, dorsal labiate plate; F, posterior wall. Bryocoropsis laticollis var. infuscate AMNH_PBI 29096. G, dorsal labiate plate; H, posterior wall. Bryocoropsis soror AMNH_PBI 5144. I, dorsal labiate plate; J, posterior wall. Chamus bellus AMNH_PBI 19290. K, dorsal labiate plate. Chamus conradti AMNH_PBI 19046. L, dorsal labiate plate; M, posterior wall. Chamus overlaeti AMNH_PBI 19073. N, dorsal labiate plate; O, posterior wall. Dimia inexpectata AMNH_PBI 271341. P, dorsal labiate plate; Q, posterior wall. Distantiella theobromae. R, dorsal labiate plate; S, posterior wall.

Figure 22. Distribution maps of Afropeltis, Arculanus, Arthriticus, Boxia, Chamus, Eupachypeltis, Helopeltis, Mansoniella, Physophoropterella, Pseudodoniella and Sahlbergella.