Globicephalomiris, Mingheti & Montemayor & Dellapé, 2025

Mingheti, Eugenia, Montemayor, Sara Itzel & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2025, Phylogenetic revision of the Neella-Neoneella complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae), with description of five new genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (2) : -

Globicephalomiris gen. nov.

( Figs 1I, K, 2B, 4 A–D, 8)

Tope species: Neella pallescens Carvalho and Schaffner, 1985 . By present designation.

Included species: htp://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:465E9E66-F5ED-4820-9A02-D2E43F4ABFA0 G. carmelitana ( Carvalho, 1945) , comb. nov.

G. oaxacana ( Carvalho and Schaffner, 1985) , comb. nov.

G. pallescens ( Carvalho and Schaffner, 1985) , comb. nov.

G. veracruzana ( Carvalho and Schaffner, 1985) , comb. nov.

Diagnosis: Small, less than 4 mm; eyes covering collar in lateral view; clypeus not visible in dorsal view, basal half bulging; frons globose; vertex convex; labium extending to half of mesosternum; antennal segment I cylindrical; medial fracture adjacent to R + M; inner margin of cuneus straight; total overlap between inner margin of cell with hemelytra in repose; membrane unicolorous; right paramere rectangular, larger and more flatened than lef, without projections; phallobase tilted to right side and phallotheca curved to lef side.

Description: Male. TBL 3.71–3.99; PBL 3.15–3.81; BW 1.41– 1.87. Female. TBL 4.00; PBL 3.52; BW 1.55 (only a female of G. pallescens comb. nov. was measured). Coloration: Head: yellow to orange, apex of clypeus dark red to dark brown in some specimens; eyes black or silver, or black with silver areas; antennal segments brown, I–II with yellow areas. Torax: pronotum yellow or orange, with brown to black areas in some species; collar yellow or orange; mesoscutum and pleura yellow to orange; scutellum yellow to orange, in some specimens with brown areas. Hemelytron: yellow, with small brown or black areas on embolium, corium and clavus in some species, or orange with brown to black areas on embolium, corium, clavus and cuneus; membrane brown or greyish; veins brown or yellow. Legs: coxae yellow; femora and tibiae yellow, apex brown to black; tarsi brown or yellow; claws brown. Abdomen: yellow, orange or brown, or combined. Surface: Shiny; posterior pronotal lobe evenly punctate; head, pronotum, and hemelytra with short and recumbent setae; labium with semierect setae; antennal segments with semierect setae or segment I with recumbent setae and III–IV with erect setae; veins with very short, recumbent setae; pleura and abdomen with semierect setae, longer than dorsum; coxae, trochanters, femora and tarsi with semierect or erect setae; femora with dorsal setae as long as ventral setae; tibiae with abundant semierect setae. Structure: Head: more than 2× as wide as long; clypeus prominent, basal half bulging; frons globose in lateral view; vertex convex, wider than head length; eyes large, at maximum half of head height, sessile, covering collar in lateral view, upper margin ataining or not ataining dorsal margin of head, inner margin straight, at level with lateral margins of collar; gula well developed; labium extending to half of mesosternum; antennal segment I straight; II, straight, thinner and longer than I; III, tapering towards apex, thinner than II; IV, as thin as III. Torax: anterior margin of collar concave and posterior margin straight; calli slightly to strongly evident, connected or not in central area, attaining or not lateral margins of pronotum; posterior pronotal lobe with shallow lateral depressions before humeral angles; posterior margin convex or straight; mesoscutum exposed or not exposed; scutellum with or without basal depression. Hemelytron: embolium bent upwards or not; passing or not apex of abdomen; medial fracture shorter than half of corium, adjacent to R + M; claval commissure less than 2× as long as scutellum; cuneus longer than wide; inner margin straight; veins angled in middle of membrane, before or beyond apex of cuneus; inner and posterior margins of cell straight, most of species with total overlap between inner margin of cell with hemelytra in resting position. Legs: profemora widened basally; meso- and metafemora straight; metafemora slightly curved; protibiae slightly flatened distally; meso- and metatibiae straight. Male genitalia: genital capsule wider than long; genital opening broad or small, facing caudally; right wall as long as than lef; dorsal wall can be reduced; ventral wall more developed than dorsal; supragenital bridge present or absent. Lef paramere smaller than right, curved, hook-shaped; broad basally and narrow distally. Right paramere wider and longer than lef, slightly to strongly curved, flatened; apex broad and rounded. Aedeagus small and simple; phallobase lean to right side, membranous, with some sclerotized areas distally, curved to lef side; seminal duct membranous and not folded initially, sclerotized posterior to its distal curvature, extending at least to apex of phallotheca; endosoma membranous.

Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua ( Fig. 8).

Etomologo: Te genus name is derived from the Latin word ‘ globus ’, meaning globe, and the Greek word ‘ kephalé ’, meaning head, due to its globose frons and vertex, in combination with the suffix ‘ miris ’ in reference to its assignment to the family Miridae . Te gender is feminine.

Discussion: Tis new genus includes four species transferred from Neella , N. carmelitana , N. oaxacana , N. pallescens , and N. veracruzana . In our analysis Globicephalomiris gen. nov. is recovered as monophyletic supported by nine synapomorphies. One continuous character:the relation posterior pronotal margin width/anterior pronotal margin width (11: 0.198 –0.206); five discrete contradictory synapomorphic characters: eyes covering collar in lateral view (22:1), clypeus not visible in dorsal view (27:0), frons globose (30:1), antennal segment I cylindrical (37:0), membrane unicolorous (158:0), and three discrete character: clypeus with a basal bulge (28:1), right paramere rectangular, without projections (125:1), phallobase curving to the right side (144:1). Globicephalomiris gen. nov. is hypothesized as the sister-group of the clade formed by Adneella + Paraneella + Parafurius discifer + Pocnoderes quadrimaculatus. Te GC frequencies indicate a high support due to low contradictory information ( Fig. 7).

Globicephalomiris gen. nov. runs to couplet 46 in the key to the Neotropical eccritotarsine genera ( Carvalho and Ferreira 1995) where the monotypic Tomascoris Carvalho, 1985a and Pachomerocerus Reuter, 1909 are identified. Tomascoris henroi Carvalho, 1985a has a pronotum and scutellum heavily punctate and with abundant pilosity on the antennae, legs, and body, and a genital capsule with two dorsal projections. Pachomerocerus species exhibit a convex, declivent anteriorly and subtriangular pronotum, with the posterior margin 2× longer than head width, the antennal segments I and II conspicuously wider than III and IV, and the genital capsule with dorsal projections. Globicephalomiris gen. nov. has a posterior pronotal lobe evenly punctate, with the posterior margin barely longer than the head width, the antennal segments I and II not evidently widened and the genital capsule without projections.

Four Neotropical genera were omited in Carvalho and Ferreira (1995) ´s key ( Perissobasis Reuter, 1892 , Eurocipitia Reuter, 1905, Bugabacoris Carvalho and China, 1959 , and Pocnoderiella Henry, 1993) and five genera were described afer 1995 ( Cubanomiris Hernández and Stonedahl, 1996 and Agaveocoris , Laterospinocoris , Nigrotomocoris , and Schaffnerocoris , described by Henry and Menard, 2020). Te combination of characters given in the diagnosis distinguish Globicephalomiris gen. nov. from all the other eccritotarsines.