Rhinocylapoides, WOLSKI & GORCZYCA, 2011

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 : 1238-1239

RHINOCYLAPOIDES WOLSKI & GORCZYCA, 2011

Rhinocylapoides Wolski & Gorczyca, 2011: 22 (type species Rhinocylapoides brachypterus Wolski & Gorczyca, 2011 by monotypy).

Diagnosis

The genus is recognized by the following combination of characters: shortened hemelytron in male ( Fig. 13M; Wolksi & Gorczyca, 2011: fig. 1), horizontal head, slightly inclined ventrally in male ( Fig. 13B; Wolksi & Gorczyca, 2011: fig. 2), antennal fossa removed from pronotum at distance subequal to antennal fossa diameter ( Fig. 13B; Wolksi & Gorczyca, 2011: fig. 2), calli covering most of pronotum ( Fig. 13A, D; Wolksi & Gorczyca, 2011: fig. 1).

Remarks

Wolski & Gorczyca (2011) described Rhinocylapoides to accommodate Rhinocylapoides brachypterus , known only from three males. In this paper, we include another species, Rhinocylapoides valentinae , in the genus (see remarks for Rhinocylapoides valentinae ). We agree that this group should be considered as a separate genus, because it is readily separated by the characters listed in the diagnosis. However, relationships of Rhinocylapoides with other genera are uncertain.

Wolski & Gorczyca (2011) compared this genus with Rhinocylapidius and Rhinocylapus , and they argue that Rhinocylapoides is similar to Rhynocylapidius and Rhinocylapus in having a horizontal head in males, antennal fossa distinctly removed from the eye, labial segment I reaching the middle of the forecoxa, a distinctly punctate hemelytron and several sclerites in the vesica. Amongst them, only the position of the antennal fossa is unique within the Rhinocylapus complex and can be considered as a potential synapomorphy ( Fig. 13B, E).

Our BI total-evidence analysis showed that Rhinocylapoides was unresolved with respect to Mycetocylapus and Yamatofulvius , although with low support. However, the clade was supported by two synapomorphies: a wide vertex in the male, which is at least 2.5 times as wide as eye diameter, and the peritreme of the evaporative area rounded, less than twice as high as wide ( Figs 6R, 9G, 13K; Wolski, 2010: fig. 5B). All of them are unique in the Rhinocylapus complex, but also occur in other fulviines. These two genera also share pronounced sexual dimorphism.

RHINOCYLAPOIDES VALENTINAE NAMYATOVA &