Rhinomiriella tuberculata, GORZYCA, 2001

Namyatova, Anna A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2019, Total-evidence phylogeny of the Rhinomirini, taxonomic review of its subgroupings (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) and description of new Australian taxa, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187, pp. 1196-1252 : 1244-1245

RHINOMIRIELLA TUBERCULATA GORZYCA, 2001

Rhinomirella tuberculata Gorczyca, 2001: 428 (original description); Gorczyca, 2006: 74 (catalogue).

Material examined

AUSTRALIA. New South Wales: Cherry Tree SF, Mallanganee, five ♂ (00043533–00043537), three ♀ (00043530–00043532) ( QM) . Queensland: Lamington National Park IBISCA Qld Plot IQ-700-B, two ♀ (00404441, AMNH _ PBI 00404442 ) , one ♂ ( AMNH _ PBI 00404440 ) ( QM) . Mount Asplenium , one ♀ (00043097) ( QM) . Mt Superbus , one ♀ (00043096) ( QM) . Tomewin Range, Upper Currumbin , two ♀ (00043093, 00043094), one ♂ (00043095) ( QM) . South Australia: 51 km north-west of Morgan, one ♀ (00043090) ( AM) .

Diagnosis

Recognized by the following set of characters: outer margin of hemelytron rounded, slightly concave basally ( Fig. 5); distance between calli and posterior margin of pronotum shorter than callus length ( Fig. 18C); antennal segment II thinner than tibia length; ridge along medial fracture distinct, reaching middle of corium ( Fig. 18G); left paramere triangular, flattened ( Fig. 19F); vesical spicules not widened apically ( Fig. 19A, C).

Description: male

Body length 3.6–4.2.

Coloration ( Fig. 5): Head. Yellow with brown markings of irregular shape, ventral side yellow; vertex with two red spots posteriorly, eye pale to dark brown, often with red posterior margin. Labium. Segment I yellow, with two bands, first placed basally, and second placed in apical half; segments II – IV from pale to dark yellow. Antenna. Segment I yellow with irregular brown markings; segment II brown to dark brown with yellow apex and markings in basal half; segments III – IV uniformly dark brown. Thorax. Pronotum yellow with dark brown marking of irregular shape, often also with red marking around calli; mesoscutum and scutellum yellow with red markings; pleura mostly brown, often with red markings, metathoracic scent gland evaporative area and area around metathoracic spiracle mostly yellow, often with red markings. Hemelytron. Ground colour yellow, sometimes with greenish tinge, with many brown and red markings of irregular shape, large brown marking placed on corium medially; membrane yellow with numerous brown markings, sometimes mostly brown. Legs. Yellow with brown markings and bands. Abdomen. Yellow with brown, and sometimes red markings.

Surface and vestiture: Pronotum with narrow area of rugosities behind calli ( Fig. 18B); lateral sides of scutellum, longitudinal ridge on clavus and ridge along medial fracture rugose ( Fig. 18G). Head and pronotum clothed with scarce adpressed pale setae usually shorter than antennal segment II diameter; hemelytron with scarce suberect dark setae, longer than antennal segment II width; antennae, legs and abdomen clothed with short, dense adpressed pale setae, shorter than antennal segment II width.

Structure and measurements: Body ~2.4–2.6 times as long as wide, ~2.8–3.2 times as long as pronotum width. Head. Head ~0.9–1.0 times wider than long, vertex ~1.2–1.5 times as wide as eye; in anterior view, head ~1.6–2.2 times as wide as high; in lateral view, distance between eye and ventral margin of head subequal to one-third of eye height ( Fig. 18C). Antenna ( Fig. 18H). Longer than body length; segment I ~1.9–2.3 times as long as vertex, segment II ~2.6– 3.1 times as long as segment I, ~5.9–6.9 times as long as vertex, ~1.4–1.5 times as long as pronotum base width, segments III ~0.5 times as long as segment II, segment IV ~0.6 times as long as segment III. Labium ( Figs 18D–F). Segments I and III subequal in length, segment II longer than all other segments, segment IV shortest. Thorax. Pronotum ~1.8–2.4 times as wide as long, ~1.7–1.8 times as wide as head; posterior margin of pronotum bisinuiate ( Figs 18B, G); calli strongly upraised, their height subequal to at least half of eye height, distance between callus and posterior margin of pronotum shorter than callus length ( Figs 18B, C). Hemelytron. Ridge along medial fracture distinct, reaching middle of corium ( Fig. 18G); embolium distinct only anteriorly. Legs. Segment I of hind tarsus almost twice as long as segments II and III combined, segment III slightly longer than segment II ( Fig. 18N). Genitalia. Genital capsule triangular, posterior margin of ventral wall curved dorsally, bearing angulate outgrowth, opening placed dorsally ( Fig. 19D). Right paramere small and C-shaped, with swellings subbasally ( Fig. 19E, G); left paramere broad and flattened, subtriangular, its angles curved ( Fig. 19F, H). Theca distinctly sclerotized dorsally; vesica with two long curved spicules; left spicule hook-shaped basally, ductus seminis short, its apical part placed within vesica, sclerotized, its right wall elongate ( Fig. 19A–C).

Description: female

Body length 4.3–6.9.

Coloration ( Fig. 5): Similar to male, labial segments II – IV sometimes yellow.