Crystal Perreira, Scott Carroll & Jenella Loye , ursulae , a new from Uganda Leptocoris ursulae , a new species of soapberry bug from Uganda (Heteroptera: , ) l Crystal Perreira, Scott Carroll & Jenella Loye

Description. Measurements . Holotype. Abstract. We found a new species of Zusammenfassung. Wir fanden eine Body length (anterior tip of tylus to dis - soapberry bug in the Leptocoris neue Glasflügelwanze der Gattung tal tip of folded wings) 11.5 mm . Maxi - at the northern tip of the Rwenzori Leptocoris in den Nordausläufern der mum pronotum width 3.0 mm . Beak Mountains in western Uganda. The in - Ruwenzori Berge in West-Uganda. length 6.98 mm . Paratypes (14 individuals ). sects were feeding and reproducing on Diese saugten und reproduzierten sich Body length 10.4 –13.5 mm (2 brachy- seeds of the sapindaceous vine Car - an den Samen der Car - pterous females excluded from this diospermum grandiflorum. We name diospermum grandiflorum. Wir nennen measurement) . Pronotum width 2. 5–3.7. this Leptocoris ursulae in honor die Art in Würdigung der Lebensleis - Beak length 5.7 –7.6 mm . Dr. Ursula Göllner-Scheiding . tung von Dr. Ursula Göllner-Schei - ding . Dorsal color, Holotype. Head light orange with bright red margins around eyes and Key words. Albertine Rift, Rwenzori, Semuliki , Africa, Afrotropical Region, new ocelli, lateral margins of tylus dark; eyes species, , , host plant . and ocelli scarlet red. Antennae black. Collar light grayish orange with orange posterior margin; anterior pronotal lobe Introduction similarly grayish orange, with two prominent dark orange ovals on either Leptocoris was described by Hahn (1833) Loye ) searched for Leptocoris spp. main - side of the anterior pronotal keel; poste - for the species rufus (now considered ly along roads in rural areas by inspect - rior pronotal lobe grayish orange, bisect - synonymous to abdominalis ). Göllner - ing fruiting plants in Sapindaceae as they ed by grayish yellow pronotal keel, pos - Scheiding (1980) provided a compre - were encountered. Locality names were terior end of pronotum mottled gray. hensive treatment of this group in Africa, taken from governmental maps and road Scutellum light grayish orange. Clavus as part of the foundational research for her signs. The new species was found on a mottled dark gray. Coria gray and light general catalog of the Rhopalidae (1983). single host plant growing by the road be - orange, bright orange at proximal ends. tween Karogoto (Ntoroko Distict) and Membrane black. Ventral color. Light There are three Serinethine genera, Kasitu (Bundibugyo District) of western grayish orange with bright orange spira - namely Leptocoris, and . Uganda. Further information was gath - cles; coxae mottled grayish orange and Göllner -Scheiding (1980) distin - ered by dissection. bright orange; legs and beak black; geni - guished Leptocoris from the other two tal capsule orange. genera by its relatively shorter bucculae, Leptocoris ursulae sp. nov . its broader, shorter head, longer and Structure . Head including eyes slightly trapezoidal pronotum, and larger, more Holotype. `, Uganda, between the vil - wider than long; jugum and tylus fairly slender body. Members of this genus lages of Karogoto and Kasito, on the side short, anteriorly tapering to rounded have features that lie between the gener - of road between Fort Portal and Bun - point; ocelli located near posterior half ally narrower Boisea and stouter Jadera. dibugyo, 1028 m, N 00°50.127 ', E 30° of eyes; two bulges along margin of eye, The Serinethine Rhopalids consist of 13.718 ', ex. Cardiospermum grandiflorum posterior bulge larger than anterior about 65 species worldwide, about two- Swartz , 9. VIII .2008, coll. S . P. Carroll , bulge. Trapezoidal pronotum wider than thirds of which are in Leptocoris, and of University of California-Davis Bohart long, pronotal keel tapers posteriorly and those, 20 are African. Serinethines are Museum of Natural History (Type #1799) . does not reach posterior edge, posterior seed predators of certain plants in the edge of pronotum curves up forming Paratypes. 4 `, (2 in alcohol), 10 ´, paratype soapberry family, Sapindaceae ( Carroll convex ridge along margin, posterior (3 brachypterous, 5 in alcohol), same data as Loye & 2012). This article adds one new holotype, Institute for Contemporary Evolution. corners of pronotum rounded. Scutellum species, which was encountered during a longer than wide, margins of apex slight - field survey of host relationships of Lep - Etymology . We name this species for Dr. ly concave causing scutellum to form an tocoris , which are poorly known in Africa. Ursula Göllner-Scheiding , who has imperfect triangle. Raised veins on coria made the seminal contributions to soap - prominent. Hemelytra macropterous (al - Materials and methods berry bug taxonomy, both for Africa and though four paratypes brachypterous). worldwide. Her papers have served as Membrane extends beyond abdomen. The fieldwork documenting Leptocoris the foundation for work on the ecology Spiracles on lateral edge of abdomen. host plant relationships took place in Au - and evolution of the Serinethine Rho - Beak extends nearly to posterior edge of gust 2008. The field team ( Carroll and palids. abdominal segment II. Parameres hooked

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Figs 1–3. Habitus and detail of Leptocoris ursulae sp. nov. 1. Specimen on fruit of host plant Cardiospermum grandiflorum . 2. Ventral view; genital capsule. 1 3a. Paramere, dorsal view. 3b. Paramere, alternate view. laterally, hooks curving outward and native vine Cardiospermum grandiflorum promptu bug catching in the field. Tech - dorsally; distal tips of parameres curve Swartz . The vine shrouded the canopy of nical and financial support was provided ventrally; pygophore short and shallowly a tree approximately 5 m in height. The by the Institute for Contemporary Evolu - indented in the center; parandria rela - habitat consisted mainly of cleared and tion. Steve Heydon , Bohart Museum of tively short and pilose (Figs 2, 3 ). cultivated roadside lands beneath steep Entomology, University of California- partially cleared slopes. The area is on Davis [UCDC ] assisted with curation of Integument . Head finely covered in short the western margin of the Albertine Rift, the holotype specimen. light brown pilosity, becoming darker in a narrow transition zone between the and longer toward distal end of tylus. Rwenzori Mountains and the lowland References Antennae covered in thin light brown pi - rainforests of Semuliki National Park, losity. Pronotum finely punctated, pat - which have strong biogeographic affi- Carroll, S. P. & Loye, J. E. 2012. Soapberry bug native and introduced host plants: the biogeo - tern becomes more prominent and irreg - nities with the adjacent Congo Basin. graphic background of anthropogenic evolu - ular posteriorly, lateral margins lined in Congeneric soapberry bugs of the species tion. Annals of the Entomological Society of sharp dark brown pilosity. Coria finely L. mutilatus and L. teyrovskyi were also America . In press. and unvenly punctate. Pronotum and co - present on this host individual. Göllner-Scheiding, U. 1980. Revision der afri - ria sparsely covered in very sparse light kanischen Arten sowie Bemerkungen zu wei - brown pilosity. Pronotum, pro-, meso-, Acknowledgements . Before Dr. Ursula teren Arten der Gattungen Leptocoris Hahn, 1833, und Boisea Kirkaldy, 1910. Deutsche En - and metapleuron shallowly punctated. Göllner-Scheiding published her semi - tomologische Zeitschrift, N. F. 27 : 103–148. Ventral surface covered in short light nal papers on the species of Serinethine Göllner-Scheiding , U. 1983. General-Katalog brown pilosity. Rhopalids, these ecologically prominent der Familie Rhopalidae (Heteroptera). Mittei - were not readily accessible to in - lungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde, Ber - Diagnosis . Leptocoris ursulae sp. nov. is vestigators with questions regarding lin 59 : 37–189. Hahn distinguished by its pale orange color - their ecology, behavior, evolution or , C. W. 1833. Die Wanzenartigen Insecten , 1. C. H. Zeh’schen Buchhandlung, Nurnberg. ation, bilaterally symmetrical gray dorsal physiology. As such we owe her a special overtones, bright scarlet eyes, slender debt of gratitude for her insight, perspi - body, and uniquely hooked parameres cacity and perseverance in the systemat - from its congeners . ic treatment of these organisms. We also l Crystal Perreira 1, Scott Carrol l1,2 , thank Dr. Jürgen Deckert for his help - Jenella Loye 2, Ineke Distribution . Known only from type lo - ful suggestions on the manuscript. 1 Institute for Contemporary Evolution, Jongerius Maurice Barnes cality. and , owners 711 Oak Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 USA , of the RuwenZori View Guesthouse, Fort Ecology. The species was discovered Portal, Uganda, provided local logistic 2 Department of Entomology, University feeding and reproducing on the mature support. Members of the Uganda Peo - of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA ; seeds of a large isolated individual of the ple’s Defence Force kindly assisted in im - E-Mail: [email protected] .

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