Schaeferiana Stehlik , 2008

Stehlik, Jaroslav L. & Jindra, Zdenek, 2011, Schaeferiana (Gaboniella subgen. n.) incompleta sp. n. from Gabon, with notes on its relationships and new records from the Central African Republic (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Pyrrhocoridae), ZooKeys 126, pp. 49-56 : 50-51

Schaeferiana Stehlik, 2008

Schaeferiana Stehlík, 2008: 14-19.

Type species:

Schaeferiana mirabilis Stehlík, 2008, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Pronotal collar widened. Anterior, pale portion of pronotum elevated.

Discussion.

Stehlík (2008) established Schaeferiana as a new genus with particular reference to its structure of the pronotal collar and callar lobe, which is unique among all Pyrrhocoridae :

' Pronotum rather long, widening markedly towards base, posterior angles and posterior margin distinctly rounded; lateral margins strongly raised dorsally, concave (deeply in males, slightly in females); at level of callar lobe lateral margins wider than anteriorly. Pronotal collar projecting posteriad, forming rather large, horizontal plate of rectangular shape with rounded angles and irregular shallow imprints, extended above callar lobe. Base of callar lobe rudimentary, its anterior two-thirds cavernous, mostly covered by the rectangular projection of the pronotal collar, visible only as a narrow fissure. Anterolateral margin of the rudimentary part usually extended above level of the median part and strongly convex. Pronotal lobe towards base uniformly gibbous, anterolaterally deeply depressed’ ( Stehlík 2008). However, based on the new material available, this original diagnosis must be modified - the pale, transverse, ridge-shaped structure interpreted by Stehlík (2008) as posterior third of callar lobe, in fact, represents the anterior margin of the pronotal lobe.

However, Schaeferiana (Gaboniella) incompleta sp. n. does not fit the diagnosis of the genus Schaeferiana in some points, so we establish a new subgenus to accommodate it. This species is interesting from morphological and phylogenetic point of view, as it possesses characters placing it between the subgenus Depressoculus of Sericocoris and the genus Schaeferiana , especially in the structure of head and pronotum.

Key to the subgenera of Schaeferiana Stehlík, 2008