Transleucophoroptera, Menard & Schuh, 2011

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361), pp. 1-159 : 144-146

Transleucophoroptera , new genus Figure 40

TYPE SPECIES: Leucophoroptera philippinensis Schuh, 1984 .

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by lack of pronotal collar; elongate body, dark brown coloration with complete white transverse fascia, white anterior margin of cuneus and dark brown posterior, punctation on apex of clavus and parts of corium, eyes narrow in frontal view but occupying O height of head in lateral view, posterior margin of eyes partially obscuring anterior margin of pronotum, pronotum relatively narrow compared to width of head with posterior margin nearly equal in width to width of head, dorsally flat pronotum, elongate and round metafemur, and medially constricted hemelytron.

REDESCRIPTION: Male: Macropterous, small, lateral margins convex. Total length 2.04, width pronotum 0.69, maximum width across hemelytra 0.74. COLORATION: Dark brown with medially tapering white transverse fascia and white anterior margin of cuneus. Head: Dark brown. Eyes deep red to purple. Labium golden. Antennal segment 1 yellowwhite, segment 2 basally brown, segments 3 yellow-white basally dark brown distally and 4 completely brown. Thorax: Pronotum, scutellum, and thorax pleuron and venter dark brown. Legs: Procoxae completely yellow-white, mesocoxae dark brown, and metacoxae yellow-white distally, dark brown basally. Profemora yellow-white, remaining femora dark brown. Protibia completely yellow-white, mesotibia yellow-white distally, dark brown basally, metatibiae dark brown with extreme base with metafemur narrowly yellow-white. Metatibia with parallel rows of dark spicules. Tarsomeres completely golden. Hemelytra: Dark brown, corium and clavus at the level of apex of scutellum with a complete, medially tapering white transverse fascia. Anterior margin of cuneus with white band along anterior margin of cuneus posterior to cuneal fracture taking up half of total area coloration of cuneus, posterior of cuneus unicolorous with majority of hemelytron. Membrane brown without vein pigmentation. Abdomen: Dark brown. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsal surface of body and hemelytron covered with fine, brown simple setae, some recessed at bases in pits ( Schuh, 1984: fig 487). Reflective patches along lateromedial margins of corium. STRUC- TURE: Head: Frons convex, clypeus weakly projecting. Height head greater than width. Vertex convex, strongly declining posteriorly, posterior margin upturned as ridge, width less than width one eye. Eyes weakly removed from dorsal surface of vertex in anterior view, occupying greater than O total height of head in lateral view, posterior margin of eyes partially obscuring anterior of pronotum. Labium just passing apex of mesocoxae. Antennal segment 2 greater than 1.50 times head width. Thorax: Pronotum nearly 1.4 times as long as wide, with lateral margins weakly concave and nearly parallel forming a weak bell shape in dorsal view, dorsal surface flat and lacking demarcation between anteri- or and posterior lobes, calli not visible, anterolateral angle with single dark, stout spine. Pronotal collar absent. Mesoscutum exposed, scutellum weakly transversely rounded. Legs: Long, metafemur 1.25 times longer than pro- and mesofemora, all femora narrow and weakly flattened. Hemelytra: Lateral margins concave medially, dorsally nearly flat. Cuneus triangular, approximately M total length of membrane, cuneal fracture weakly angled anteromesially. Abdomen: Nearly parallel sided with narrowing adjacent to attachment to thorax, pygophore J total length of abdomen. GENITALIA: Pygophore: Tapering dorsally toward apex, unadorned. Endosoma: J-shaped, thin, and weakly twisting at median, small, with weakly developed semicircular subapical secondary gonopore ( Schuh, 1984: fig. 493). Phallotheca: Surface with ridges on dorsal median surface, weakly L-shaped, apex tapering to point without ornamentations ( Schuh, 1984: fig. 495). Right paramere: Unknown Left paramere: Posterior process elongate, narrow, with sensory pits, apex angled perpendicular relative to main body of paramere; anterior process short, stocky, apex directed in direction of posterior process, dorsal surface of anterior process below midline of total height of paramere ( Schuh, 1984: fig. 494).

Female: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin trans, ‘‘intermediate,’’ to represent the intermediary body form between the Ctypomiris Group and the Gulacapsus Group, and Leucophoroptera for the genus of original placement of the single included species; feminine.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Philippine Islands.

DISCUSSION: Transleucophoroptera is erect- ed to accommodate the Philippine species Leucophoroptera philippinensis , which is not closely related to Australian type species L. quadrimaculata (Menard and Woolley, in press). Transleucophoroptera philippinensis possesses punctation on the hemelytron and the posterior area of the cuneus is continuous in coloration with the majority of the hemelytron, which differs from all species of Leucophoroptera (Menard and Woolley, in press). This taxon is also unique within Leucophoropterini because it possesses the dark brown and white coloration pattern and elongate head of many members of the Gulacapsus Group, as well as the hemelytral punctation of most members of the Ctypomiris Group. The male genitalia also differ from all other Leucophoropterini , being nearly J-shaped and with a weakly developed semiovoid secondary gonopore that extends basally for J the total length of the endosoma ( Schuh, 1984: fig. 493). In almost all other Leucophoropterini the endosoma is clearly C- or S-shaped and the secondary gonopore is either weakly sclerotized, horse-collar shaped, or absent (although see Sejanus ), and if present never extends very far into the body of the endosoma.

Transleucophoroptera philippinensis (Schuh) , new combination Figure 40

Leucophoroptera philippinensis Schuh, 1984: 146 , figs. 475, 478, 480–488, 491–495 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum, MG, SEM).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the characters in the generic diagnosis.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Philippine Islands, Negros Island.

HOLOTYPE: PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Negros Island : Camp Lookout, Dumaguete, May 20, 1961, T.C. Schneirla and A. Reyes, 18 ( AMNH).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: PHILIPPINES: Angeles City: Camp Lookout, Dumaguete, Negros Island , 9.3 ° N 123.3 ° E, 396 m, 17 May 1961, T. Schneirla & A. Reyes, paratype, 18 (00095329) ( AMNH). Leyete: Abuyog, 35 mi S of Tacloban, 10.75 ° N 125.0167 ° E, 09 Jul 1961, P.I. National Museum, paratype, 18 (00196077) ( AMNH). Misamis Oriental: Gingoog, 8.82327 ° N 125.1024 ° E, 7 m, 12 May 1961, H.M. Torrevillas, Light Trap, paratype, 18 (00318872) ( BPBM). Negros Oriental: Dumaguete, Camp Lookout, 9.3103 ° N 123.3081 ° E, 20 May 1961, T. Schneirla & A. Reyes, 18 (00196080), paratype, 18 (00196079) ( AMNH) ; 24 May 1961, T. Schneirla & A. Reyes, paratype, 18 (00196078) ( AMNH) .

Figures

Figure 40. Distribution of Transleucophoroptera sp.