Pityopsallus sakuraii, Yasunaga, 2022

Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2022, The plant bug subfamily Phylinae in Japan, with key to genera and descriptions of eight new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae), Zootaxa 5094 (1), pp. 1-52 : 26-28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301176

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC7FEA3B-0814-FFF2-FF78-FEC1FBE27545

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scientific name

Pityopsallus sakuraii
status

sp. nov.

Pityopsallus sakuraii n. sp.

( Figs. 11E View FIGURE 11 ; 12D View FIGURE 12 , H−I; 16; 26G−L; 27F−G, 28J)

Material examined. Holotype (♂). JAPAN: Honshu, Niigata Pref., Naka-Uonuma-gun, Tsunan Town , Kettou, UV lighting, 36.93, 138.63, 4 Aug 2002, S. Sakurai ( NIAES) ( AMNH _ PBI 00380708 About AMNH ).

Diagnosis. Recognized by its smallest size among Japanese congeners; comparatively narrow vertex; short labium that is shorter than basal width of pronotum; faint spots on tibiae; and somewhat widened, less twisted subapical part of vesica. These diagnostic characters enable this new species to be distinguished from two close relatives, P. maeharai n. sp. and P. vittatus .

Description. Male: Body generally dark brown, elongate-oval, parallel-sided ( Fig. 11E View FIGURE 11 ); dorsal surface weakly shining, with uniformly distributed, semierect, brown, simple setae and silvery, lanceolate setae ( Fig. 26H View FIGURE 26 ). Head dark brown; vertex relatively narrow. Antenna pale grayish brown; extreme base of segment I infuscate; segment II longer than mesotibia, slightly shorter than labium. Labium pale brown, its apex not exceeding apex of mesocoxa. Pronotum uniformly fuscous, relatively shining; scutellum almost flat; thoracic pleura fuscous; metathoracic scent efferent relatively narrow ( Fig. 28I View FIGURE 28 ). Hemelytra uniformly dark brown; anterior margin of cuneus pale, semitransparent; membrane pale smoky brown. All coxae dark brown; trochanters pale brown; all femora dark brown, with pale apex; tibiae somber yellowish brown, without spots; tibial spines brown; tarsi yellowish brown, with dark apices; pretarsal structures as in Fig. 26J, L View FIGURE 26 ; all claws smooth. Abdomen fuscous. Male genitalia ( Figs. 12D View FIGURE 12 ; 27F–G View FIGURE 27 ): Subapical part of vesica somewhat widened, less twisted; apical flagellate process relatively short ( Fig. 12D View FIGURE 12 ). Female: Unknown.

Measurements: See Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Etymology. Named for the deceased lepidopterist, Mr. S. Sakurai (1940–2008, Niigata, Japan) who provided quite a few heteropteran specimens including the holotype of this new species.

Distribution. Japan (North Honshu: Niigata).

Biology. Unknown; an available male specimen was collected by UV-lighting.

NIAES

National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Pityopsallus

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