Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae)

Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae)

Zootaxa 1153: 63–68 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 1153 Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) A new Fulvius species from Azores Islands (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) CHÉROT FRÉDÉRIC1*, RIBES JORDI2 & GORCZYCA JACEK3 1Free University of Brussels, Systematic and Animal Ecology, Department of Population Biology, C.P. 160/13, av. F. D. Roosevelt, 50, B - 1050 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] 2València 123-125, ent., 3a, E-08011 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] 3Silesian University, Department of Zoology, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland. E-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author. Abstract The new species Fulvius borgesi is described from Azores Islands. The male and female genital structures are illustrated. Key words: Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae, Fulvinii, Fulvius, new species, Azores Islands Introduction Fulvius Stål, 1862 is the largest genus within the Cylapinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae), with upward of 60 species in the World (Gorczyca, 1997, 2000 ; Ferreira & Henry, 2002). Despite recent efforts to document the species of the genus, various taxa - particularly from the New World - remain undescribed. Recently, our colleague P. A. V. Borges sent to the second author a small series of Fulvius sp. impossible to attribute to an already known species, from Terceira, Azores Islands. In the present work, we provide the description of both sexes of Fulvius borgesi n. sp. to accomodate these specimens. The Arthoropoda biodiversity of Azores was recently reviewed (Borges et al., 2005). Eighteen Miridae species, including two endemics and fifteen assumed native (J. Ribes & Borges in Borges et al., 2005: 192), in four subfamilies (Bryocorinae, Mirinae, Orthotylinae, and Phylinae), are listed from the archipelago. Taylorilygus apicalis (FIEBER, 1861) was very probably introduced. Accepted by C. Schaefer: 2 Feb. 2006; published: 17 Mar. 2006 63.

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