Cysteochila missimensis, Guilbert, Eric, 2006

Guilbert, Eric, 2006, New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea, Zootaxa 1117, pp. 37-68 : 41-43

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.171651
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6257853
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/915C8791-8330-7E0B-FEB0-FAA9FA98FE2E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cysteochila missimensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Cysteochila missimensis sp. n. ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 )

Material examined: 8M + 3F, New Guinea, Ne, Morobe prov., Mt Missim, S. side, 2000m, 15.VI.1984, pyrethrum fog of Castanopsis acuminatissima mature (Bl.) A. DC. ( Fagaceae ), Canopy, sample #8, tree #3308, W.C. Gagné & UREP session III colls., BPBM.

Description: Body long and slender, dark brown to yellowish, head, antennae (except dark brown last segment), legs, and body beneath yellowish. Body length: 3.38; width: 1.03.

Head armed with five spines; occipital spines long and curved inward, frontal and median spines short and stout; bucculae narrow, biseriate, closed in front; antennae long and slender, segments measurements: I, 0.20; II, 0.13; III, 1.16; IV, 0.44. Rostral sulcus narrow and slightly sinuate, quite closed posteriorly; rostrum reaching median coxae.

Pronotum long, gibbose, tricarinate, carinae uniseriate, the areolae small and rounded, lateral carinae slightly converging on top of pronotum, collar large, two areolae long on the sides, not raised as to form a hood, paranota wide, appressed onto the pronotum, concealing the lateral carinae on the anterior half of the pronotum, almost reaching the median carina, 7–8 areolae wide on the highest part, with two raised spots opposite humeri, one on the top and one on the side of the pronotum.

Hemelytra as wide as the pronotum, costal area narrow, regularly uniseriate, the areolae larger than on other areas, subcostal area bent downward, biseriate, the areolae small, discoidal area longer than half the length of hemelytra, nine areolae wide at widest part, sutural area ten areolae at widest part, the areolae at posterior part as large as those of costal area.

Etymology: The name refers to the location where all specimens were caught.

Comments: The female is slightly larger and wider than the male. Conversely, the antennal segments of the male are slightly longer than those of the female. This species is closely related with to C. lita Drake (1960) , but differs from it by the wider discoidal area.