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©Staatl. Mus. f. Naturkde Karlsruhe & Naturwiss. Ver. Karlsruhe e.V.; download unter www.zobodat.at Andrias 20 (2014): 75-77, 2 Abb.; Karlsruhe, 1.12.2014 75 A new species of Cylapinae from the Solomon Islands (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae)* JACEK GORCZYCA Abstract genus Samoafulvius which proved to be a new A new species of Cylapinae is described from the Tu- species. In the present paper I give a descrip- tuila Island (American Samoa). The key to the species tion of the new species and provide a key to the of the genus Samoafulvius GORCZYCA is presented. The known species of the genus. pictures of the lateral view of the head and pronotum both known species of the genus are given. Key words: Samoafulvius, new species, Solomon Is- Taxonomy lands, Cylapinae, Heteroptera. Samoafulvius riegeri sp. nov. (figs 1-2) Kurzfassung Samoafulvius antennatus GORCZYCA , 2004: 28 [in Eine neue Cylapinae-Art von den Salomon-Inseln part, only the specimen from the Tutuila Island]. (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) Type material Eine neue Art der Cyclapinae wird von der Insel Tutuila Holotype ()): Fagatogo, Tutuila, Samoa, VIII – (Amerikanisch-Samoa) beschrieben. Ein Schlüssel für 12 – 40; 700; Beating dead branches; E. C. ZIM- die Arten der Gattung Samoafulvius GORCZYCA und Ab- ( bildungen von Kopf und Pronotum ihrer beiden Arten MERMAN leg. Paratype ( ): Pago – Matafao Trail; werden gegeben. Tutuila I., Samoa, VIII – 17 – 40; 1300; Beating Shrubbery; E. C. ZIMMERMAN leg. – Both preserved Author in the Department of Zoology, University of Sile- JACEK GORCZYCA , Department of Zoology, University of sia, Katowice, Poland. Silesia, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland; E-Mail: [email protected] Diagnosis This species is similar to Samoafulvius anten- natus GORCZYCA but can be easily distinguished Introduction by the flattened pronotum without raised calli and The volcanic Samoa Island is an archipelago the much shorter first antennal segment (figs forming part of Polynesia in the central region of 1-2). South Pacific. Prior to this study, only three re- presentatives of the subfamily Cylapinae have Etymology: This species is named in honour of been known from this area. Two of them represent CHRISTIAN RIE G ER , an outstanding heteropterist. the genus Fulvius and were originally described as a new from Samoa (KNI G HT 1935) and synoni- Description male mized by CARVALHO (1956) with F. anthocoroides Body elongate, brown, covered with short, pale, (REUTER ) and F. variegatus PO pp IUS (GORCZYCA closely placed scale-like setae. Length of the 2006). The third species also described as new body 3.92 mm, width 1.28 mm. Head elongate, from the Samoa Islands represents a new genus brown, length of head 0.62 mm, width 0.58 mm, Samoafulvius GORCZYCA , 2004. The new genus diameter of eye 0.16 mm. First antennal segment has flattened body covered with dense, closely brown, slightly tinged with red in apical part, cov- placed scale-like setae, head elongated horizon- ered with short, dense, dark setae. Second seg- tally, long and thick first antennal segment, thin ment paler, darkened in the apical part, covered and long labium, small cuneus, single-celled with dense, short, pale setae. Length of anten- membrane and two segmented tarsi with a dis- nal segments in mm: 0.64 : 1.04 (third and fourth tinct subapical tooth on the claws. segments broken in the specimens examined). Among the material collected on Tutuila Island Labium brown, slender reaching beyond meta- (American Samoa) I found representatives of the coxae. Length of the individual segments in mm: 0.56 : 0.64 : 0.52 : 0.42. Pronotum dark brown, slightly tinged with red, humeral angles slightly * Dr. CHRISTIAN RIE G ER , honouring his 70th birthday. elevated and paler. Anterior lobe of pronotum ©Staatl. Mus. f. Naturkde Karlsruhe & Naturwiss. Ver. Karlsruhe e.V.; download unter www.zobodat.at 76 Andrias 20 (2014) Figs 1-2. Head and pronotum in lateral view. – (1) Samoafulvius antennatus GORCZYCA , paratype ()). – (2) Samoa- fulvius riegeri sp. nov., holotype ()). ©Staatl. Mus. f. Naturkde Karlsruhe & Naturwiss. Ver. Karlsruhe e.V.; download unter www.zobodat.at GORCZYCA : A new Cylapinae from the Solomon Islands 77 without distinctly raised calli. Mesoscutum dark tal fracture very short, cuneus small, uniformly brown, tinged with red, scutellum brown, paler brown. Membrane dark gray, venation indistinct at apex. Length of pronotum 0.44 mm, length in the specimen examined. Propleuron, mese- of the anterior margin 0.36 mm, lateral margins pisternum, mesepimeron and procoxa chestnut, 0.56 mm, posterior margin 1.05 mm. Hemelytra shining, apex of procoxa pale. Meso- and meta- brown with pale, partly translucent areas, slightly coxae pale, femora, tibiae and tarsi pale brown. tinged with red distally. Clavus brown, paler at Abdomen brown, tinged with orange. apex, exocorium with orange patch contiguous with costal fracture. Cuneus small, brown tinged Key to the species of the genus Samoafulvius with orange, membrane pale grey, venation pale, GORCZYCA , 2004 indistinct. Propleuron, mesepisternum, mese- 1 Pronotum with a distinctly raised calli (fig. 1) . pimeron and procoxa chestnut, shining, apex . S. antennatus GORCZYCA , 2004 of procoxa white. Meso- and metacoxa pale (re- – Pronotum with only slighty raised calli (fig. 2) . maining parts of the legs broken in the specimen . .S. riegeri sp. nov. examined), ostiolar peritreme pale, tinged with red, abdomen dark brown with red areas, pygo- phore brown. Acknowledgements I would like to thank HANNES GÜNTHER and SIE G FRIED RIET - Description fermale SCHEL for their invitation to participate in the Festschrift Body elongated oval, uniformly dark brown, cov- of CHRISTIAN RIE G ER . I would like to express my sincere ered with short, pale, scale-like setae. Length of thanks to MARZENA ZMARZ LY for drawing the pictures. the body 3.60 mm, width 1.50 mm. Head elon- gate, dark brown, length of head 0.65 mm, width References 0.62 mm, diameter of eye 0.12 mm. Antennal CARVALHO , J. C. M. (1956): Insects of Micronesia: Miri- segments broken in the specimens examined. dae. – Insects of Micronesia 7: 1-100. Labium thin, brown reaching beyond metacoxae, GORCZYCA , J. (2004): A new remarkable genus of Ful- length of the individual segments in mm: 0.60 viini from Samoa (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae). : 0.67 : 0.55 : 0.42. Pronotum dark brown, the – Genus – International Journal of Invertebrate Taxo- anterior lobe only slightly raised, mesoscutum nomy 15(1): 25-29. and scutellum dark brown, scutellum with paler GORCZYCA , J. (2006): The Catalogue of the subfamily Cylapinae KIRKALDY , 1903 of the World (Hemiptera, longitudinal stripe in the middle. Length of prono- Heteroptera, Miridae). – Monographs of the Upper tum 0.55 mm, anterior margin 0.50 mm, lateral Silesian Museum 5: 1-100. margins 0.65 mm, posterior margin 1.05 mm. KNI G HT , G. W. (1935): Insects of Samoa 2: Hemiptera, Hemelytra brown, exocorium wide, slightly paler Miridae and Anthocoridae. – British Museum of Na- with a small pale patch above the cuneus, cos- tural History 5: 193-228. ©Staatl. Mus. f. Naturkde Karlsruhe & Naturwiss. Ver. Karlsruhe e.V.; download unter www.zobodat.at 78 Andrias 20 (2014) .