Bolbomiris koghi Gierlasiński & Taszakowski, 2025

Gierlasiński, Grzegorz, Dobosz, Roland, Poźniak, Aleksandra, Sitnik, Michelle & Taszakowski, Artur, 2025, Notes on plant bugs from New Caledonia with descriptions of two new species of the genus Bolbomiris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 65 (1), pp. 95-104 : 96-99

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2025.008
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16972948
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Bolbomiris koghi Gierlasiński & Taszakowski
status	sp. nov.

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Bolbomiris koghi Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov.

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Material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀, “ NEW CALEDONIA (S) \ Mt. Koghi ; 450-500 m \ 22°10.7’S 166°30.4’E \ 16.12.2006, rainforest \ leg. R. Dobosz” \\ 5915/2844 \\ MB0408247 \\ GoogleMaps HOLOTYPE \ Bolbomiris koghi \ GIERLASIŇSKI & \ TASZAKOWSKI, 2025 ( MNHN) . PARATYPE: 1 ♀, “ NEW CALEDONIA (S) \ Mt.Koghi; 450-500 m \ 22°10.7’S 166°30.4’E \ 16.12.2006, rainforest \ leg. R. Dobosz” \\ 5915/2820 \\ MB 0408371 \\ PARATYPE \ Bolbomiris koghi \ GIERLASIŇSKI & \ TASZAKOWSKI, 2025 ( USMB). Holotype is glued on the card.

Diagnosis. Bolbomiris koghi Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov. is recognized by the following combination of characters: dorsum brown, hemelytra slightly lighter than pronotum, cuneus reddish in color; scape mostly pale, pronotum uniformly brown; scutellum dark brown with whitish apical part; body length in female 3.10 mm; scape relatively long, in female almost as long as head width, and two times as long as interocular distance; pedicel in female 2.30× as long as head width; anterior margin of pronotum over three times shorter than posterior margin. Description. Female. Body elongate-ovoid, length 3.10 mm ( Fig. 3 View Fig ).

Colouration. Dorsum brown, partially light brown. Head brown to reddish. Eyes blackish with reddish parts at edges. Antennae: scape mostly stramineous, darker at base, with a few red spots on inner side ( Fig. 3D View Fig ); pedicel stramineous with darkened apical part ( Fig. 3A View Fig ); flagellum darkened. Labium: all segments yellowish, last one slightly darkened. Pronotum brown ( Figs 3A–C View Fig ). Scutellum dark brown with whitish spot at apex ( Figs 3A, B View Fig ). Hemelytra reddish-brown to brown; clavus dark brown; corium brown to light brown; embolium light brown; R + M vein blackish; cuneus reddish ( Fig. 3A View Fig ); membrane light brown with transparent apical part ( Fig. 3C View Fig ). Thoracic pleura yellowish with reddish peritreme. All legs distinctly bicoloured; femora reddish to dark brown; tibiae dark brown in basal half, stramineous in apical part ( Fig. 3C View Fig ). Abdomen dark brown to reddish.

Vestiture. Dorsum as well as eyes without setae. Antennae: scape without setae ( Figs 3D View Fig , 4E View Fig ), pedicel and flagellomeres with very short setae. Pronotum: without setae. Scutellum without setae. Legs: femora and tibiae with sparse setae, tarsi with dense and long setae ( Figs 4D, F View Fig ).

Texture. Head with longitudinal groove between eyes ( Fig. 4A View Fig ), pronotum densely punctate, except for callar region ( Fig. 4B View Fig ); scutellum impunctate ( Figs 3A, B View Fig ); hemelytra very delicately and irregularly punctate, in some parts impunctate; clavus irregularly punctate, base of R + M vein with row of deep punctures ( Figs 3A, B View Fig ); propleuron impunctate.

Structure.Antennae: scape almost as long as head width, 2× as long as interocular distance; total length of scape and pedicel 0.80× as long as body length, pedicel 2.31× as long as head width, 1.21× as long as posterior width of pronotum. Pronotum: mesal length 0.53× as long as maximal width of pronotum; anterior margin of pronotum over three times narrower than maximal width of pronotum. Scutellum: slightly tumid. Hemelytra: Fig. 3A View Fig . Thoracic pleura and scent efferent system of metathoracic scent gland: Fig. 4C View Fig . Legs: Figs 3C View Fig , 4D View Fig .

Measurements. Female (n = 2, holotype / paratype, mm). Body. Length, clypeus–apex of membrane: 3.10 / 3.11; width: 1.41 / 1.41. Head. Length (perpendicular view): 0.46 / 0.46; width, including compound eyes: 0.74 / 0.72; interocular distance: 0.36 / 0.34; eye dorsal width: 0.19 / 0.19. Antenna. Length of antennomere I: 0.72 / 0.75; II: 1.71 / 1.71; III: 0.93 / missing; IV: 0.56 / missing. Pronotum. Mesal length: 0.75 / 0.81; anterior pronotal width: 0.44 / 0.45; posterior pronotal maximal width (straight): 1.41 / 1.42. Scutellum. Anterior width: 0.53 / 0.50; mesal length: 0.33 / 0.35. Hemelytron. Claval commissure: 0.55 / 0.58; outer margin length of cuneus (straight): 0.63 / 0.52.

Etymology. The species is named after its locus typicus, Mt. Koghi. Noun in apposition.

Biology. Unknown. The type specimens were collected in the rainforest.

Distribution. Bolbomiris koghi Gierlasiński & Taszakowski sp. nov. is known only from the type locality in New Caledonia ( Fig. 5 View Fig ).