Peyrierocoris mirabilis, Chłond, Dominik & Junkiert, Łukasz, 2010

Chłond, Dominik & Junkiert, Łukasz, 2010, Peyrierocoris a new genus of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Madagascar, Zootaxa 2487, pp. 33-42 : 35-42

Peyrierocoris mirabilis n. sp. ( Figs 1 , 3–18 )

TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype—Male: Madagascar Est / Massif du Marojejy / (rés. nat. intégr. 12 [printed]; A. Peyrieras / 1600 m / II-1974 [printed]; Holotype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / mirabilis n. gen, n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN). Allotype—Female: Antalaha [handwritten on old label]; 2.45 / Abadie [handwritten on old label]; Intitut / Scientifique / Madagascar [printed on old label]; Allotype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / mirabilis n. gen, n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN). Paratype—Male: Beraty-XII-1960 / P.Griveaud [printed]; Madagascar Sambirano / Nord- Est de Maromandia / Base du Manongarivo [printed]; Museum Paris [printed]; Holotype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / mirabilis n. gen, n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN).

Description: Colour: Body generally pale—orange with black markings ( Figs 1 , 2 ). Head orange with dark labrum and black marking along transversal sutures and around ocelli. First antennal segment same colour as head with black basal and apical parts. Second and fourth segments black with pale basal part. Third segment with pale basal half and black apical half. Intercalar segments dark. First and second labial segments in head’s colour. Apical part of second segment and third segment of labium darker. Pronotum and scutellum orange. Hemelytra orange with black apical part of membrane (dark spot) and black marking on corium (extended on membrane) height of VI abdominal segment. Legs bicolorous. Fore, middle, and hind femora orange with black apical part. Fore tibiae orange with black basal and apical parts. Middle and hind tibiae orange with black basal part and slightly darker apex. Tarsi pale with darker apical part of third tarsomere. Ventral part of thorax and abdomen beneath orange in males. Females with darker abdomen beneath and with black VI and VII abdominal segments. Connexiva orange, only anterior part of connexiva of VI abdominal segment black (on the height of dark markings on hemelytrae). Females with black connexiva of VI and VII abdominal segments. Tip of abdomen pale (males) or dark (females).

Structure: Body medium-sized, shiny, slender in males, robust in females. Head with only a few mediumsized setae in postocellar and apical parts. First and second labial segments with long, erected setae. Second labial segment reaching posterior margin of head. First antennal segment with different-sized but short, erected setae. Second antennal segment with very dense, erected setae. Third and fourth antennal segments with dense adherent setae. Anterior pronotal lobe with distinct longitudinal suture, distinctly hollowed in the basal part. Two, short, diagonal depressions visible near the suture in basal part of each half of posterior pronotal lobe. Basal part of posterior lobe between processes with very long, numerous, thin setae. Scutellum with elongated and rounded apex. Margins of scutellum rather dense, and with very small setae and several very long setae. Trochanters, femora, and tibiae with erected, long, dense setae (very dense on ventral side of basal part of fore femora). Hemelytra slender and very long, distinctly surpassing apex of abdomen in both sexes. Corium shiny with small, dense, and curved setae on basal part of costal vein. Abdomen beneath with Genitalia: Male—Middle process of pygophore wide and convoluted with divided apex ( Figs 3–6 ). Both claspers slender, distinctly curved in dorsal and ventral view, and flattened in lateral view, with medium-sized setae ( Figs 7–10 ). Right clasper with two distinctly longer setae, visible on ridge in dorsal view ( Fig. 7 ). Left clasper with distinctly convolute apical part ( Fig. 10 ). Aedeagus robust and subquadrangular in shape ( Figs 11, 12, 14, 15 ). Phallosoma short, and robust ( Figs 11, 12, 14, 15 ). Phallotheca with two visible elongated corners ( Figs 11, 12, 14, 15 ).

Female—Valvifer 1 subquadrangular with fingerlike process ( Fig. 16 ). Valvula 1 triangular with straight interior margin ( Fig. 18 ). Valvula 3 with robust, subquadrangular apical part and medium-sized setae ( Fig. 17 ).

Measurements (in mm, male in parentheses): Body length: 11.25 (10.3–10.7); maximum width of abdomen: 3.08 (3–3.17); head length: 1.75 (1.67); head width: 1.3 (1.25–1.29); length of anteocular part: 0.6 (0.5–0.58); length of postocular part: 0.63 (0.58–0.67); length of synthlipsis: 0.5 (0.58–0.63); interocellar distance: 0.3 (0.21–0.25); length of antennal segments I:II:III:IV: 2.71 (2.83–2.88): 1 (1.04–1.08): 2 (2.42): 2.25 (missing); length of labial segments I:II:III: 0.8 (0.83): 1.25 (1.17–1.25): 0.3 (0.33–0.38); maximum length of anterior pronotal lobe: 0.8 (0.8–0.88); maximum length of posterior pronotal lobe: 1.5 (1.5–1.58); maximum width of anterior pronotal lobe: 1.42 (1.3–1.42); maximum width of posterior pronotal lobe: 3.04 (2.67–2.83); length of scutellum: 0.67 (0.63–0.75); length of hemelytra: 7.67 (6.92–7.42).

Distribution: Madagascar ( Fig. 35 )

Etymology: Name of the species is connected with the very bright and shiny colouration of the body.

Peyrierocoris guilberti n. sp. ( Figs 2 , 19–34 )

TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype—Male: Madagascar-Est / Dist. Mananara-N / Seranambe / Vadon-Peyrieras / VIII. 1965 [printed]; Holotype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / guilberti n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN). Allotype—Female: Madagascar-Est / Distr. Mananara-N / Mont Antampona / Vadon-Peyrieras [printed] / VII- [handwritten]; Museum Paris [printed]; Allotype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / guilberti n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN). Paratypes—Male: Perinet (Sahamaloto) du / 13 au 17 Janvier 1949 [handwritten] / Inst. Scient. Madagascar [printed] / PC [handwritten, old label]; Paratype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / guilberti n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN). Female: Madagascar Est / Vondrozo / collect. J. Vadon [printed]; Paratype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / guilberti n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN). Female: Museum Paris / Madagascar / Antanambé / Mocquerys / Coll. Noualhier 1898 [printed on old label]; Paratype [printed on red label]; Peyrierocoris / guilberti n. sp. [handwritten] / det. D. Chłond 2009 [printed] ( MNHN).

OTHER EXAMINED MATERIAL: Female: Madagascar, 2007. / Andasibe-Mantadia N.P., / Analamazaotra forest, / Z. Mráček leg., 11.–14.i [printed]; Collectio / Petr Baňař / Moravian Museum Brno [printed] ( MMBC). Male: Coll Mus. Tervuren / Madagascar: Fampanambo / 1962 / J. Vadon [printed] ( MRAC). Female: Madagascar 2001 / Andasibe, Park Périnet / prot. area / 19.–31.XII / V. Dolin lgt. [printed]; Collection / Ernst Heiss / Innsbruck-Austria [printed] ( TLMF)

Description: Colour: Body generally pale—dark orange to red with black markings (famales darker) ( Fig. 2 ). Head orange with black marking along transversal suture and around ocelli. First and second antennal segments black. Third and fourth antennal segments black with pale basal part. Intercalar segments dark. First labial segment in head’s colour. Second labial segment orange in basal half and black in apical half. Third segment dark with paler basal part. Pronotum and scutellum orange. Hemelytra orange with black apical part of membrane (dark spot) and black marking on corium on the height of VI abdominal segment (extended on membrane). Legs bicolorous. Fore, middle, and hind femora orange with black apical part. Fore and middle tibiae with black basal and apical parts. Hind tibia black. Tarsi dark. Ventral part of thorax orange. Abdomen beneath orange in males and dark orange with darker apical part in females. Connexiva orange. Anterior part of connexiva of VI abdominal segment black (up to height of dark markings on hemelytrae) Tip of the abdomen pale in both sexes.

Structure: Body medium-sized, both sexes slender. Entire body shiny. Head with only a few mediumsized setae in postocellar and apical parts. First and second labial segments with long, erected setae. Second labial segment reaching posterior margin of the head. First antennal segment with several short, erected setae. Second antennal segment with very dense, erected setae. Third and fourth antennal segments with dense adherent setae. Anterior pronotal lobe with distinct longitudinal suture, distinctly hollowed from the half of its length in the basal part. Two, short, diagonal depressions visible near the suture in basal part of each half of posterior pronotal lobe. Posterior pronotal lobe with very long, numerous, thin setae in marginal parts (the most numerous in the basal margin). Scutellum rounded without long process. Group of long setae visible in apex of scutellum; long setae visible on margins of scutellum. Trochanters, femora, and tibiae with erected, long, dense setae (very dense and adherent in apical part of middle tibia). Hemelytra slender and very long, surpassing apex of abdomen in both sexes. Corium shiny with small, dense, and curved setae on basal part of costal vein. Abdomen beneath with long, numerous setae.

Genitalia: Male—Pygophore distinctly quadrangular. Middle process of pygophore wide and convolute with divided apex (both apices shorter and distinctly thicker than in P. mirabilis ) ( Figs 19–22 ). Both claspers slender, slightly curved in dorsal and ventral view and flattened in lateral view with medium-sized setae ( Figs 23–26 ). Left clasper with one distinctly longer setae in apical part ( Figs 25, 26 ). Aedeagus robust and subquadrangular in shape ( Figs 27, 28, 30, 31 ). Phallosoma short and very robust ( Figs 27, 28, 30, 31 ). Phallotheca with rounded apical corners ( Figs 27, 28, 30, 31 ).

Distribution: Madagascar ( Fig. 35 )

Etymology: It is a great pleasure to dedicate this new species to Eric Guilbert, heteropterist and curator of the Collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Peyrierocoris mirabilis n. sp., holotype, dorsal habitus.

FIGURE 2. Peyrierocoris guilberti n. sp., holotype, dorsal habitus.

FIGURE 35. Distribution of the genus Peyrierocoris n. gen. in Madagascar.

FIGURES 3 – 18. Peyrierocoris mirabilis n. sp.: 3. pygophore, ventral view; 4. pygophore, middle process, frontolateral view; 5. pygophore, middle process, lateral view; 6. pygophore, frontal view; 7. right clasper, outer view; 8. right clasper, lateral view; 9. left clasper, outer view; 10. left clasper, lateral view; 11. aedeagus, dorsal view; 12. aedeagus, frontal view; 13. scutellum, dorsal view; 14. aedeagus, left lateral view; 15. aedeagus, right lateral view; 16. valvifer 1, inner view; 17. valvula 3, outer view; 18. valvula 1, inner view.

FIGURES 19 – 34. Peyrierocoris guilberti n. sp.: 19. pygophore, ventral view; 20. pygophore, middle process, frontolateral view; 21. pygophore, middle process, lateral view; 22. pygophore, frontal view; 23. right clasper, outer view; 24. right clasper, lateral view; 25. left clasper, outer view; 26. left clasper, lateral view; 27. aedeagus, dorsal view; 28. aedeagus, frontal view; 29. scutellum, dorsal view; 30. aedeagus, left lateral view; 31. aedeagus, right lateral view; 32. valvifer 1, inner view; 33. valvula 3, outer view; 34. valvula 1, inner view.