Humria bimaculicollis Linnavuori

Ahmad, Imtiaz & Zahid, Muhammad, 2010, Redescription Of The Myrocheine Species Humria Bimaculicollis Linnavuori (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae) From Sudan With Special Reference To Its Genitalia And Their Bearing On The Phylogeny, Int. J. Biol. Biotech. 7, No. 4, pp. 375-378 : 376

Humria bimaculicollis Linnavuori

( Fig.1)

Humria bimaculicollis Linnavuori 1975: 33-34 ; 1982: 73; 1986: 113

Colouration and general shape:

Body pale brown with dark brown punctures; antennae usually yellowish brown, first segment redish brown; pronotum with two rounded black spots; connexiva entirely pale; venter whitish grey; legs ochraceous; body small sized, ovate.

Head:

As broad as long, anteocular distance distinctly longer than remainder of head; paraclypei narrowly elongate and enclosing clypeus, posterolateral margins slightly concave, apex of head smoothly rounded; antennae with basal segment distinctly shorter than head apex, second segment longer than third, length of antennal segments, I 0.4mm, II 0.6mm, III 0.5mm, IV 0.8mm, V 0.8mm; labium reaching to mesocoxae; anteocular distance1.0mm, remainder of head0.38mm.

Thorax:

Pronotum more than 1.5X broader than its length, anterior margins distinctly broader than head width, anterior angles slightly toothed, humeral angles round, lateral margins slightly convex or straight, length of pronotum 4.6mm, width 3.1mm; scutellum longer than broad with narrow sub rounded apical lobe, length of scutellum3.3mm, width 3.1mm; metathoracic scent gland ostiolar complex with peritreme long and smoothly curvate; distance apex scutellum apex abdomen including membrane 1.2mm.

Male genitalia:

Pygophore ( Fig. 2) subquadrangular, lateral margins apically bilobed, near mesad convex, slopping proximally, lateral lobes terminating into outwardly cyrved, thumb-like processes, ventroposterior margins sinuate, curved at sides and concave near middle, medially notched terminating into minute conically bilobed appearance medially; paramere ( Fig.3) T-shaped, outer margin sinuate distally, roundly broadly lobed, turned outwardly, distal margin sinuate, outwardly convex, terminating concavely, inwardly projecting into a thumb-like inner process, proximally curved into a finger-like process, and more or less straight distad.

Material examined:

Holotype male, Sudan: Kordofan, Lake Keilak , now in AMNH.