Teleorhinus crataegi, Wyniger, 2010

Wyniger, Denise, 2010, Resurrection of the Pronotocrepini Knight, with Revisions of the Nearctic Genera Orectoderus Uhler, Pronotocrepis Knight, and Teleorhinus Uhler, and Comments on the Palearctic Ethelastia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), American Museum Novitates 2010 (3703), pp. 1-68 : 50-51

Teleorhinus crataegi , new species

Figures 7 , 9 ; map 5; table 3

HOLOTYPE: Male: USA: Texas: Brazos Co.: Koppe Bridge [30.57222°N 96.32611°W] 20 Apr 1966, J.C. Schaffner, Crataegus sp. ( Rosaceae ) ( AMNH _PBI 00121395) ( CNC). PARATYPES: USA: Texas: Brazos Co.: Koppe Bridge [30.57222°N 96.32611°W] 20 Apr 1966, J.C. Schaffner, Crataegus sp. ( Rosaceae ), 1♂ (00121396), 1♀ (00121397) ( CNC).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by vesica with apical part beyond secondary gonopore straight (fig. 9) and vestiture shining, golden, brighter than in Teleorhinus cyaneus and T. tephrosicola ; second antennal segment not as inflated as in T. cyaneus and T. tephrosicola (fig. 7) and not twice as long as length of the pronotum (table 3); body form more slender and shorter than T. cyaneus and T. tephrosicola (fig. 7); dull area below eye just narrow band (fig. 7); phallotheca elongate, pointed (fig. 9); leπ paramere with anterior process round apically, posterior process distinct pointed (fig. 9); right paramere slightly curved (fig. 9). Most similar to T. tephrosicola in general aspect, but distinguished by its smaller body length (table 3), vesica straight beyond secondary gonopore (fig. 9) and second antennal segment inflated more than half of its length (fig. 7).

DESCRIPTION: Male: Total length 6.08–6.14, length apex clypeus-cuneus fracture 4.41–4.42, width across pronotum1.50–1.55. COLORATION: Labium yellow-brown, only segment four dark brown; pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum, and hemelytra black (fig. 7); cuneus slightly dark reddish brown; second antennal segment with small brown ring basally followed by band of brownish yellow, apical part black; coxae and trochanters bright yellow, brown basally; femora bright orange; tibia yellow-brown basally; first and third tarsal segments black, second tarsal segment yellow-brown. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsal surface, including antennal segments, clothed with reclining short, golden, shining setae; dull area below ventral margin of eye only narrow band (fig. 7). STRUCTURE: Rather elongate (fig. 7); labium reaching mesotrochanter. MALE GENITALIA: Vesica with apical part beyond secondary gonopore straight (fig. 9); phallotheca elongate, pointed (fig. 9); leπ paramere with anterior process round apically, posterior process distinct pointed (fig. 9); right paramere slightly curved (fig. 9).

Female: Total length 5.25, length apex clypeus-cuneus fracture 4.01, width across pronotum 1.22. Coloration, surface, vestiture, and structure as in male, except second antennal segment more inflated distally (fig. 7); inflated distal part of second antennal segment more than half of the entire segment length (fig. 7).

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host plant, Crataegus sp., on which the only known specimens were collected.

HOST: Crataegus sp. ( Rosaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION: Only known from a single locality in Texas (map 5).

DISCUSSION: Because this species is so far only known from two males and one female I refrained from dissecting the only available female.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Habitus view and antennal segments of Pronotocrepis clavicornis and habitus view, antennal segments and head of Teleorhinus spp.; antennal segments of males (leπ) and females (right); habitus view of males (leπ) and females (right) in dorsal view; head: in lateral, dorsal and frontolateral view.

FIGURE 9. Male genitalia of Pronotocrepis clavicornis and Teleorhinus spp.; vesica (lateral view), phallotheca (lateral view), right paramere.