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A NEW Cyrtotylus SPECIES (HETEROPTERA, , ) FROM FRENCH GUYANA

Una nueva especie de Cyrtotylus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae) de la Guayana Francesa

Diego L. Carpintero1,2 and Frédéric Chérot3

1 División Entomología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Av. Á. Gallardo 470 (C1405DJR), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. 2 Investigador Adscripto de la Fundación de Historia Natural Félix de Azara, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas, Universidad Maimónides, Hidalgo 775, 7mo piso (C1405BDB), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. [email protected] 3 Service Public de Wallonie, DGO3, DEMNA, Av. Maréchal Juin, 23 (BE-5030), Gembloux, Belgium, U.E. CARPINTERO D. AND CHÉROT F.

Abstract. Cyrtotylus henryi (Orthotylinae, ) is described as a new species on the base of a female from French Guyana. Justifications are offered for this action. The genusCyrtotylus Bergroth, 1922 is mentioned for the first time from French Guyana.

Key words. Cyrtotylus henryi, Neotropics, Miridae, Orthotylini, .

Resumen. Se describe a la nueva especie Cyrtotylus henryi (Orthotylinae, Orthotylini) en base a una hembra de la Guayana Francesa. Se dan justificaciones para esta acción. El género Cyrtotylus Bergroth, 1922 es mencionado por primera vez para la Guayana Francesa.

Palabras clave. Cyrtotylus henryi, Fauna Neotropical, Miridae, Orthotylini, Taxonomía.

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INTRODUCTION RESULTS

The genus Cyrtotylus was described by Cyrtotylus henryi sp. nov. (Figures 1-5). Bergroth (1922) to accommodate his new species C. rubricatus from Callanga (Perú). Holotype. (female) French Guyana, Kaw, Later, Carvalho (1950, 1988, 1989a, b) and Patawa, Pk 37.5, 03.x.2000, Matocq A. leg. Carvalho and Carpintero (1991a, b) de- (MNHN) [according to Costa, Chérot and scribed seven additional new species from Carpintero, 2008: 371, appendix 2, the cor- Argentina (Cordoba, Salta, Tucuman), responding place lies on the National road Brazil (Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Ca- number 6 to Patawa, 37.5 km to Roura, tarina) and Venezuela (Bolivar). Finally, 52°04’56’’W, 4°30’47’’N]. Costa et al. (2008) transferred C. ruber Car- Etymology. The authors are happy to valho and Carpintero, 1991a to the new dedicate this new species to Dr Thomas J. genus Guianocoris. Also, significant num- Henry (United States National Museum, ber of new species from Argentina, close Washington D.C, United States of Amer- to C. wygodzinskyi Carvalho, and other ica) in homage to his prominent contribu- new species from Perú are being studied tion to modern Heteropterology. by Dr. T. Henry and the first author. Measurements. Total length in dorsal Among the rich material of plant bugs view: 3.20, maximal width of hemelytra: from French Guyana sent to the second au- 1.05, width of vertex: 0.24, width of head thor for identification by Armand Matocq across eyes or diatone: 0.63, length of an- (Paris, France), there was one specimen of tennal segments: I: 0.45, II: 1.26, III: 0.73 Cyrtotylus belonging to a new species, de- (left antenna), IV: 0.55 (right antenna), scribed hereafter. medial length of pronotum: 0.40, poste- rior width of pronotum: 0.78, total length of scutellum, mesoscutum included: 0.38, MATERIAL AND METHODS anterior width of scutellum: 0.40, length of cuneus: 0.55, width of cuneus: 0.38. The specimen described as new species External morphology and coloration. in the present work comes from the pri- Tiny, yellow, orange-red and green bug vate collection of our colleague and friend (Figure 1), dorsally with sparse, semi- A. Matocq (Paris, France). It will be pre- erect, brown (silvery under incident light), served in collection of Heteroptera of Mu- relatively long setae. Head: Elongate, obvi- seum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, ously declivous in dorsal view, smooth, France. yellow (Figures 1-2). Clypeus anteriorly The terminology concerning morphol- rounded, laterally flattened, yellow. Clyp- ogy and descriptive format follows Car- eus and tylus with sparse, brown, erect pintero and Chérot (2008) and subsequent setae. Mandibular and maxillary plates works (2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017). yellow, slightly tinged with red-brown. Measurements are given in millimeters Frons smooth, yellow, with sparse, elon- (mm). The photos showing morphological gate, semi-erect, stiff white setae. Vertex details were taken with a Nikon DXM1200 slightly carinate, yellow. Eyes silvery to digital camera. whitish, occupying more than ¾ of head height in lateral view (Figure 2). First an- tennal segment relatively thick, club-like, longer than vertex width, yellow, slightly

HISTORIA NATURAL Tercera Serie Volumen 8 (1) 2018/71-76 HISTORIA NATURAL Tercera Serie Volumen 8 (1) 2018/71-76 73 CARPINTERO D. AND CHÉROT F. tinged with red. Second segment narrower, with green, bearing a wide red stripe under significantly longer, yellow, with reddish whitish margin. Meso- and metapleura yel- ring at apex. Third and fourth segments lowish with brownish areas. Mesoscutum slightly narrower than the second, yellow- yellowish. Scutellum slightly swollen, red- ish, darker apically, apex of the third red. dish, its base and its tip yellowish. Hemely- All segments with short, semi-erect setae. tra: Clavus uniformly green. Endocorium Labium reaching beyond mesocoxae, yel- green with a wide rectangular reddish lowish. Pronotum: Bell-shaped. Pronotal stripe contiguous to claval suture (Figure collar very short, yellow. Pronotal cal- 4). Exocorium (embolium) yellowish, its losities yellow, rounded, medially almost base and its apex reddish. Cuneus yellow- contiguous and separated from pronotal ish, its basal margin tinged with red. Mem- lateral margins. Pronotal lateral margins brane yellowish brown with two brown obviously concave medially (Figures 1, 3), spots under the main cell and two other whitish. Pronotal posterior margin almost small brown patches under tip of cuneus. straight. Humeral angles rounded. Prono- Legs yellowish, metafemora with elongate tal disk slightly rough, yellowish, spotted brown line, apex of tarsi darker. Abdomen with green. Propleura yellowish, spotted yellowish.

Figures 1-5 - Cyrtotylus henryi n. sp. Holotype fema- Figures 6-8 - Habitus in dorsal view of Cyrtotylus spp. le. 1, Habitus in dorsal view. 2, Head and Pronotum in of wygodzinski-group. 6-7, C. cruciatus Carvalho and lateral view. 3, Pronotum and scutellum in dorsal view. Carpintero, 1991b. 8, C. wygodzinski Carvalho, 1950. 4, Left clavus and corium. 5, Membrane and cuneus. Scale = 0.5 mm. Scale = 0.5 mm.

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DISCUSSION having seen large series of most of known and many other new species, because they The genus Cyrtotylus Bergroth, 1922 can are being studied by the first author and be separated from the other genera of Cen- the honoree, we can assert that the chro- tral and South-American Orthotylinae of matic variability in this group of species the tribes Orthotylini and Ceratocapsini by of the genus (wygodzinskyi - cruciatus - hen- the following character states: clypeus an- ryi) is given by a different intensity of the teriorly rounded, laterally flattened, vertex red lines, which go from an intense red to slightly swollen, marginate, two last anten- a pale orange, and the background tone of nal segments slightly narrower than two the hemelytra that goes from a gray-blue, first and not spindle-shaped, eyes contigu- in the most intensely colored, even a pale ous to pronotal anterior margin, fine and yellowish in less intensely colored speci- shallow dorsal punctuations (pronotum mens, but always respecting the pattern of and hemelytra apparently smooth at low red lines and spots. This is, in this group, magnification), dorsal coloration not black invariable and characteristic of each species (yellow, green or red, sometimes locally hitherto known. Because Cyrtotylus hen- blue-grey), dorsal pattern not even, dorsal ryi has a particular red line pattern of this surface pilose, embolium slightly widened species, the authors decided to describe it apically and cuneal fracture not deep (Car- as new, although we do not have a male to valho 1985, Costa, Chérot and Carpintero ratify its validity with the characters com- 2008). The new species possess all of these ing from its genitalia. character states and consequently we clas- C. henryi sp. nov. belongs to the third sify it in Cyrtotylus. group by the wide rectangular reddish From the 7 already described species of stripe of endocorium and the yellowish Cyrtotylus, C. henryi sp. nov. differs by the head but differs from both already described dorsal pattern of coloration. According to species by the membrane (versus a species Costa, Chérot and Carpintero (2008), the with a complex dark pattern inC. cruciatus), Cyrtotylus can be classified in three - spe the even clavus (versus clavus with almost cies groups based on external anatomy and rectangular, fuzzy, orange brown stripe in male genital structures: one including the C. cruciatus and with elongate orange to red type-species C. rubricatus Bergroth, 1922 stripe lining clavus anterior margin in C. and C. venezuelanus Carvalho, 1989b, a sec- wygodzinski) (Figure 1 versus Figures 6-8), ond group including C. antoniensis Carv- the anteriorly yellowish and posteriorly alho, 1989a, C. catarinensis Carvalho, 1989a green pronotum missing reddish longitudi- and C. ricardoi Carvalho, 1988 and a third nal stripes dorsally etc. (Figures 1-3 versus group including C. cruciatus Carvalho and Figures 6-8). From the members of the first Carpintero, 1991b and C. wygodzinski Car- and second species groups, C. henryi sp. valho, 1950. nov. differs by the totally different dorsal F. Konstantinov (pers. com.) commented chromatic pattern, particularly complex in to the authors that ”Well sampled spot- this species-group (the narrow red lines on ted orthotyline species, e.g. from the gen- hemelytra being convoluted). Finally, it is era , , , and good to mention that the genus Cyrtotylus Zanchius almost unequivocally show a high Bergroth, 1922, originally described from degree of polymorphism (read polychro- Perú, and lately mentioned for Argentina, my) in the color-pattern of dorsum”. In Brazil and Venezuela is recorded for the reference to the genus Cyrtotylus, and after first time from French Guyana.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Carvalho, J.C.M. (1988). Mirídeos Neotropicais, CCXCIX: Novos Gêneros e Espécies da Região Authors are grateful to M. A. Matocq Néotropicais. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 48(4), 873-887. (Paris, France) who kindly entrusts to the Carvalho, J.C.M. (1989a). Mirídeos Neotropicais, CC- second author his very interesting collec- CIV: Novos Gênero e Espécies do Brasil. Revista tion of Guyanese Miridae. To Lic. S. De Brasileira de Biologia, 49(2), 443-460. Biase (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Natu- Carvalho, J.C.M. (1989b). Mirídeos Neotropicais, rales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos-Aires, CCCVIII: Gênero e Espécies novos da Venezuela Argentina) who takes the photos of the e Colombia com correções taxonómicas. Revista plate 2, and to Conicet, for their support for Brasileira de Biologia, 49(2), 461-484. the participation of the first author in this Carvalho, J.C.M. and Carpintero, D.L. (1991a). Mirídeos Neotropicais, CCCXXXVII: Descrip- investigation. ción de doce especies nuevas de Orthotylynae (sic) (). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 51(4), 763-780. REFERENCES Carvalho, J.C.M. and Carpintero D.L. (1991b). Mirídeos Neotropicais, CCCXLVI: Descripción Bergroth, E. (1922). New Neotropical Miridae de un Género y Siete Especies Nuevas de la (Hem.). Arkiv för Zoologi, 14(21), 1-14. Subfamilia Orthotylinae, con notas y correccio- Carpintero, D. L. and Chérot, F. (2008). Sur quelques nes taxonómicas (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Phytocoris, Fallen, 1814 (Heteroptera: Miridae) Brasileira de Ciências, 63(2), 33-42. nouveaux provenant de l’Argentine et du Chili. Chérot F. and Carpintero, D.L. (2016). New and little Nouveau Revue Entomologie, 24(3), 221-258. known Miridae from French Guyana and neigh- Carpintero, D.L. and Chérot, F. (2011). Una nueva bouring areas (Insecta, Heteroptera). Festschrift especie de Phytocoris Fallen, 1814 (Heteroptera: R. Linnavuori, Entomologica Americana, 122 (1-2), Miridae) de la República Argentina. Heteropterus 82-96. Revista de Entomología, 11(2), 209-214. Chérot F. and Carpintero, D.L. (2017). Miscellanea Carpintero, D.L. and Chérot, F. (2014). A new genus Miridologica IV. Taxonomy and chorology of and species of Mirini from Argentina (Insecta, new or little known taxa of Neotropical Region Heteroptera, Miridae). Zootaxa, 3774 (4), 395-400. (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae). Dugesiana, 24(2), Carvalho, J.C.M. (1950). Mirídeos Neotropicais, 185-214. XXXVIII: Descrição de três especies novas. Anais Costa, L.A.A., Chérot, F. and Carpintero, D.L. (2008). da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 22(1), 19-24. Hétéroptères Miridae de Guyane française: Liste Carvalho, J.C.M. (1985). Mirídeos Neotropicais, préliminaire, descriptions de taxa nouveaux et CCLII: Descrições de novos gêneros e espécies données additionnelles. Annales de la Société en- da tribo Orthotylini Van Duzee (Hemiptera). Re- tomologique de France, 44(3), 345-371. vista Brasileira de Biologia, 45(3), 249-298.

Recibido: 02/05/2018 - Aceptado: 16/06/2018 - Publicado: 31/07/2018

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