Nabidomiris longipennis Odhiambo, 1958

Morales, Irina, Forero, Dimitri & Unesis, 2016, The genusNabidomiris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae): review of the species and description of a new species from South Africa, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (2), pp. 507-516 : 513

Nabidomiris longipennis Odhiambo, 1958

( Figs 3 , 9, 10 , 21 )

Material examined. ALLOTYPE: ♀, ‘ UGANDA / KAWANDA / 14.v.1958 / T.R. Odhiambo’ ( BMNH) [photo examined].

Additional material examined. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 4 JJ 1 ♀, ‘[SUD-KIVU]: Lwiro / River Km 47 / N. of Bakavu / 1650 m. / [2° 13’ 55S, 28° 47’ 11 E] / 15.vii.1957 / E.S. Ross and R.E. Leech’ ( CASC). TANZANIA: 1 J, ‘[MKOAWA MOROGORO] / Mlimba / [8° 48’ 0S, 35° 49’ 0 E] / xi. 1967 / I.A.D. Robertson’ ( AMNH).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following combination of characters: basal margin of pronotum about 1.55 times the width of the head (Table 1), humeral angles with two rounded black spots; macropterous in both sexes ( Fig. 3 ); male endosoma with a wide ribbon-like sclerite with narrow base ( Fig. 9 , rs), ventral right sclerite ovoid ( Fig. 10 , vrs).

Male genitalia. Pygophore: elongated with apex semi-triangular and a tubercle on left lateroposterior ventral margin. Parameres: left paramere sickle-shaped, ending in lateral tip, right paramere with hypophysis curved. Endosoma: ribbon-like sclerite (rs) wide with narrow base, trichiae on surface medium-sized ( Fig. 9 ); median sclerite (ms) absent; ventral right sclerite (vrs) ovoid, entire surface covered with microtrichiae ( Fig. 10 ).

Plant associations. Unknown.

Distribution. Described originally from Uganda ( ODHIAMBO 1958) and recorded from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa ( LINNAVUORI 1973). New country records from Tanzania in eastern Africa ( Fig. 21 ).

Figures

Figs 1–4. Nabidomiris spp., dorsal habitus of male. 1 – N. clypealis Poppius, 1914, 2 – N.giloicus Linnavuori, 1975, 3 – N. longipennis Odhiambo, 1958, 4 – N. natalensis sp. nov.

Figs 5–16. 5–10 – Nabidomiris spp., male endosoma.5–6 – N. clypealis Poppius, 1914: 5 – left lateral view, 6 – right lateral view; 7–8 – N. giloicus Linnavuori, 1975: 7 – left lateral view, 8 – right lateral view; 9–10 – N. longipennis Odhiambo, 1958: 9 – left lateral view, 10 – right lateral view. 11–16 – N. natalensis sp. nov., male genitalia: 11 – left lateral view; 12 – right lateral view; 13 – ventral view; 14 – pygophore, dorsal view; 15 – right paramere; 16 – left paramere. Scale bars: 1 mm. Abbreviations: gs – secondary gonopore, ms – medial left sclerite, rs – ribbon-like sclerite, s – spicule of endosoma, sgs – sclerite of the secondary gonopore, t – tubercle on ventral left margin of pygophore, vrs – ventral right sclerite.

Fig. 21. Distribution map for species of Nabidomiris. Black symbols represent data from specimens examined; grey symbols represent data taken from the literature.