Kundelungua meridionalis Schouteden, 1966

Jitka Davidová-Vilímová, 1993, Revision of the genus Kundelungua (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Podopinae), European Journal of Entomology 90 (2), No. 159 - 175, pp. 159-175 : 168-170

Kundelungua meridionalis Schouteden, 1966

Kundelungua meridionalis Schouteden, 1966: 372-373.

MATERIAL EXAMINEDZ Type material: I have designated a male as lectotype and a female as paralectotype, using two of Schouteden’s syntypes. Lectotype 6: S. Africa, Potchefstroom. 23.iii.32. Zumpt. MRAC. Paralectotype 9: from the same locality, with the same labels, MRAC .

Other material: S. Afr., Botharille, Dr. Brauns; MRAC: 16. 1 9. S. Afr., A.L. Capener; UCMS: 16 . S. Afr., Transvaal, Krüger Nat. Park, 9 mi SSW Skukuza , 26.iv. l 968. T. Schuh, J. A. & S. Slater, M. Sweet; UCMS: 16, 5 9 9 . S. Afr., Transvaal, Krüger Nat. Park. 5 mi SE Letaba river at Letaba camp. 1.v. l 968. T. Schuh, J.A. & S. Slater, M. Sweet; UCMS: 26 6, 39 9 . S. Afr., Transvaal, 17 mi N Louis Trichardt , 14. xii. 1967, T. Schuh, S. Slater, J. Munting; UCMS: 19 . S. Afr., Transvaal, Krüger Nat. Park, Letaba river E of Olifants camp, 30.iv. l 968, T. Schuh, J. A. &_ S. Slater, M. Sweet; UCMS: l 9 . S. Afr., Natal, 4.6 mi N Cato ridge , 16.iv. 1968, J. A. & S. Slater, T. Schuh; UCMS: 19 . S. Afr., Transvaal, Meintjies kop, Pretoria , l 8. iii. l967, J. A. & S. Slater, T. Schuh; UCMS: 1 Q. S. Afr., Transvaal, Kruger Nat. Park, 3 mi E Satara camp. Nwanedzi river , 29.iv. l 968, T. Schuh, J. A. & S. Slater, M. Sweet; UCMS: 19 . S. Afr., Transvaal, 15 mi SSW Pietersburg , 25.x. 1967, J. A. & S. Slater, T. Schuh; UCMS: 16 . S. Afr., Transvaal, 4 mi S Komatipoort , 600 ft .. 25.-26.iii. l 968, T. Schuh, J. A. & S. Slater, M. Sweet; UCMS: 16 . SW Madagascar, Andranohinaly ; ZMHB: 16 .

DISTRIBUTION: K. meridioııalis occurs in South Africa and in Madagascar.

DESCRIPTION

Somatic characters

Measurements (in mm): Total body length 3.7-4.9 ( M = 4.1); head length 1.1-1.3 ( M = 1.2), width 1.0-1.4 ( M = 1.2); pronotum length 0.8-1.0 ( M = 0.9), width 1.9-2.3 ( M = 2.0).

Head ( Figs 2, 26 -28). Ground color pale brown, with longitudinal stripe on each mandibular plate and almost entire anterior part of head beige. Narrowly subtriangular in dorsal view. Peg-shaped tubercles long, flattened at margins of mandibular plates. Bucculae always paler, entirely or in proximal part, than ventral surface of head, mostly white-‘

Pronotum ( Figs 4, 5). Ground color brown (paler than in K. leleupi), two dark brown spots on anterior part; flattened lateral margins beige, apices of peg-shaped tubercles distinctly white-yellowish. One large, bilobed, flattened tubercle at anterior angle of pronotum, this is the first of the tubercles forming a row at anterolateral margin of pronotum.

Venter of thorax (Figs 31-33). Evaporative area conspicuously small.

Legs. Tarsi beige, tibiae either entirely dark brown, or dorsal surfaces pale brown, ventral surfaces pale brown with three dark brown spots. Femora either entirely dark brown with subapical brown spot; or ground color of femora dark brown with bases, apices and distinct subapical spots beige.

Scutellum ( Figs 7, 26, 30). Longitudinal keel distinct, usually reaching to apex of scutellum. Lateral margin distinctly concave at anterior 1/ 3 in dorsal view. Scutellum extending from posterior margin of tergum 6 to the middle of tergum 7 (males), or from 1/4 of tergum 6 to anterior margin of tergum 7 (females).

Exposed parts of dorsum of abdomen and hemielytra ( Fig. 7). Membrane of variable length, usually short, from not protruding from the scutellum to reaching to apex of abdomen but never exceeding it. Corium usually reaching to the middle of tergum 5, rarely to posterior part of tergum 4.

Venter of abdomen ( Figs 34, 35). Sockets of trichobothria less distinct than in K. leleupi, pale brown.

Male external genitalia

Pygophore ( Figs 9, I I, 13, 15, 17, 36, 37). Ventral wall slightly depressed medially near ventral rim. Shape of processes of ventral rim: medial process high, triangular, with base only slightly wider than apex; lateral process high, triangular, distinctly flattened ( Figs 9, I 1, 37).

Lateral rim rounded, widening near dorsal rim. Processes of dorsal rim long, fragile, whitish ( Figs 9, 13, 37). Dorsal process on infolding of lateral rim wide, distinct ( Fig. 13).

Infolding of dorsal rim medially wider than in K. leleupi. Medial part of proctiger pale brown, remainder dark brown; proctiger high (Fig. IS), less concave medially in lateral view than in K. leleupi.

Structures at inner surface of ventral wall ( Fig. 17): sclerites near ventral rim conspicuously pigmented, with strongly pigmented, oval plates at lateral margins, transverse cross-section of all structures together slightly concave.

Parameres ( Figs 19, 36, 37). With long, rigid setae. Ventral arm slightly shorter than dorsal; arms parallel. Apex of dorsal arm without excision.

Phallus ( Figs 21, 23). Pale brown, thecal shield brown. Dorsal part of conjunctival membranous process wide, short, only apex bordered by distinct, dark brown sclerite ( Fig. 2 1). Medial penial lobe wide, short, apex slightly recurved ventrally. Secondary gonoporus proximal to medial penial lobes ( Fig. 21).