Cylapocoris sulinus Carvalho & Gomes

Wolski, Andrzej, 2013, Revision of the plant bug genus Cylapocoris Carvalho (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae), with descriptions of seven new species from Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, Zootaxa 3721 (6), pp. 501-528 : 525-526

Cylapocoris sulinus Carvalho & Gomes

( Figures 11 , 61 , 85–89 , Table 1)

Cylapocoris sulinus Carvalho & Gomes 1971: 486 , 488, figs 2–5 (n.sp), Carvalho & Froeschner 1987: 154 (list); Schuh 1995: 22 (catalog); Paula & Ferreira 1998: 44 (list); Gorczyca 2006b: 28 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the pronotum shallowly punctate, pale yellow, with the darkened, brownish tinge on pronotal calli, and with two distinct, castaneous, triangular patches medially, contiguous with the posterior margin of the pronotum ( Fig. 11 ) and the endosoma elongate, with distinctly enlarged ML, that is rounded and serrate apically ( Fig. 85 ), the endosomal apical one fourth with the strongly inflated, membranous lobes, of which one is strongly serrate ( Fig. 85 ), the right paramere with the apical process in dorsal view distinctly convex at left lateral margin ( Fig. 87 ).

Description. Male. COLORATION ( Fig. 11 ). Brown with large, pale yellowish areas. Head. Yellow with several reddish and brownish tinges; buccula almost entirely reddish, except for narrowly yellow posteriorly; antenna dirty yellowish; segment I dirty yellowish; segment II–IV slightly darker than I, with indistinct reddish tinges; labium brownish yellow. Thorax. Pronotum. Mostly pale yellow; collar pale yellow, with narrow, lateral tinges; calli area and anterior part of lateral margin brownish; posterior lobe with two distinct, relatively large, triangular patches medially, contiguous with posterior margin. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Entirely dark castaneous. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron and proepisternum brownish with yellowish areas; remaining pleura dark castaneous; scent gland efferent system contrastingly yellow. Hemelytron. Brown, with clavus and basal portion of corium somewhat darker; outer portion of apex of corium with small, yellowish patch; apex of cuneus indistinctly and narrowly yellowish; membrane grey. Legs. Dirty yellowish; femora indistinctly tinged with red near apical area. Abdomen. Brown. STRUCTURE, TEXTURE, AND VESTITURE ( Fig. 11 ). Head. Matte, covered with irregularly distributed setae, Antennal segment II cylindrical, covered with fine, dense, semirecumbent, yellow setae. Thorax. Pronotum. Punctation shallow; collar convex. Mesoscutum and scutellum. Scutellum moderately convex. Hemelytron. Membrane with several obvious setae near outer margin.

Male genitalia. Aedeagus ( Fig. 85 ). Endosoma elongate; DSS very strongly broadened toward apex, as long as its basal width; ML distinctly enlarged and elongate with rounded and serrate apex; endosomal apical one fourth with the strongly inflated, membranous lobes, of which one is strongly serrate. Right paramere ( Figs. 86–87 ). Paramere body: inner margin weakly sinuate; apical process: lateral view: slightly curved, moderately rounded apically; dorsal process: left lateral margin strongly convex medially, apex rounded, medial process distinctly developed, moderately sharpened. Left paramere ( Figs. 88–89 ). Apical process: lateral view: almost straight; dorsal view: widened, subapical incision deep.

Measurements (based on Carvalho & Gomes 1971 and single ZSM specimen; holotype measurements in parentheses): Body. Length 4.2–4.3/3.9–4.3 (4.3), width 1.7–1.9/1.4–1.5 (1.5). Head. Length 0.4–0.6/0.3–0.58 (0.3), width 0.8–1.0/0.95–1.0 (1.0), interocular distance 0.48/0.32–0.33 (0.32). Antenna. Length of segment I 0.3– 0.5/0.38–0.4 (0.4), II 1.0–1.2/1.0–1.1 (1.0), III 0.5–0.6/0.2–0.63 (0.2), IV 0.8/0.2–0.75 (0.2). Labium. Immeasurable in the ZSM specimen. Pronotum. Length 0.6–0.8/0.6–0.74 (0.6), width of anterior margin (ZSM male specimen) 0.65, length of lateral margin (ZSM male specimen) 0.65, width of posterior margin 1.6/1.4–1.45 (1.4).

Biology. Unknown, collected in black light traps (Paula & Ferreira 1998).

Distribution. Brasil (Santa Catarina) ( Fig. 61 ).

Type material. Holotype ♂: Brasilien, Nova Teutônia, 27º11’S, 52º, 23’L, XI-1944, Fritz Plaumann (deposited in Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, not examined).

Additional examined material. 1 ♂: Nova Teutônia, Santa Catarina, Brasil, 15.11.1944 (ZSM) ( Fig. 11 ).

Species Location

Cylapocoris barensis Carvalho, 1982 Brasil (Amazonas)

Cylapocoris castaneus (Carvalho, 1989) Panama (Colón)

Cylapocoris costaricaensis sp. nov. Costa Rica (Heredia)

Cylapocoris cucullatus sp. nov. Costa Rica (Heredia)

Cylapocoris fulvus sp. nov. Ecuador (Orellana)

Cylapocoris funebris (Distant, 1883) Panama, Costa Rica (Guanacasta) Cylapocoris laevigatus sp. nov. Venezuela (Amazonas)

Cylapocoris marmoreus sp. nov. Costa Rica (Cartago: Turrialba) Cylapocoris pilosus Carvalho, 1954 Brasil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso) Cylapocoris plectipennis sp. nov. Costa Rica (Puntarenas)

Cylapocoris salvadorensis Carvalho, 1989 Salvador (San Vincente)

Cylapocoris simplex sp. nov. Brasil (Amazonas), Ecuador (Orellana), Venezuela (Amazonas) Cylapocoris sulinus Carvalho & Gomes, 1971 Brasil (Santa Catarina)

Cylapocoris tiquiensis Carvalho, 1954 Brasil (Amazonas), Peru (Tambopata)

Figures

FIGURE 61. Distribution map of Cylapocoris spp.

FIGURES 1 – 12. Dorsal habitus photographs of the species of Cylapocoris. 1. C. castaneus (holotype); 2. C. costaricaensis (holotype); 3. C. cucullatus (holotype); 4. C. fulvus (holotype); 5. C. funebris (holotype); 6 – 7. C. laevigatus: 6, holotype, 7, paratype (♀); 8. C. marmoreus (holotype); 9. C. plectipennis (holotype); 10. C. simplex (holotype); 11. C. sulinus (♂); 12. C. tiquiensis (♀).

FIGURES 80 – 89. Male genitalia of C. simplex (80 – 84) and C. sulinus (85 – 89). 80, 85. Endosoma (dorsal view); 81, 86. Left paramere (left lateral view); 82, 87. Apical process of left paramere (dorsal view); 83, 88. Right paramere (left lateral view); 84, 89. Apical process of right paramere (dorsal view). APR = apical process of paramere; BPR = basal process of paramere; DSS = sclerotized portion of ductus seminis inside endosoma; ML = mesial lobe; PB = paramere body.