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Adresse de l’auteur / Author address:

Harry Brailovsky Alperowitz

Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Depto. de Zoologia, Apdo Postal 70153

México D. F 04510, México

coreidae@ibiologia.unam.mx

FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR

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Madagascar

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fondamentales de l'académie nationale des Arts, des Lettres et des Sciences),

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Table des matiéres / Contents

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Remerciements / Acknowledgments

Résumé / Summary

Introduction

Taxonomy

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Malagasy Coreidae taxa checklist

22 Clé des sous-familles malgaches de Coreidae /

22 Key to Malagasy subfamilies of Coreidae

Subfamily Coreinae Leach, 1815

23) Clé des tribus malgaches de Coreinae /

24 Key to Malagasy tribes of Coreinae

Tribe Acanthocorini Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

26 Clé des genres malgaches d’Acanthocorini /

27 Key to Malagasy genera of Acanthocorini

Genus Antanambecoris Brailovsky, 2001

Genus Acanthocoris Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843

Genus Choerommatus Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843

35 Clé des espèces malgaches de Choerommatus /

36 Key to Malagasy species of Choerommatus

Genus Petalocnemis Stal, 1853

42 Clé des espéces malgaches de Petalocnemis /

43 Key to Malagasy species of Petalocnemis

Genus Pluotenia Brailovsky, 2001

Genus Phelaus Stal, 1865

Tribe Anisoscelini Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

Genus Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Tribe Daladerini Stal, 1873

55 Clé des genres malgaches de Daladerini /

56 Key to Malagasy genera of Daladerini

Genus Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky, 2002

58 Clé des espèces malgaches de Kerzhnercryptes /

58 Key to Malagasy species of Kerzhnercryptes

Genus Odontocurtus n. gen.

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Genus Odontorhopala Stal, 1873

65 Clé des espèces malgaches d’Odontorhopala /

65 Key to Malagasy species of Odontorhopala

Genus Parabrachytes Distant, 1879

70 Clé des espèces malgaches de Parabrachytes /

ali Key to Malagasy species of Parabrachytes

Tribe Dasynini Bergroth, 1913

Genus Madagalaesus Brailovsky, 2007

gi Clé des espèces malgaches de Madagalaesus /

81 Key to Malagasy species of Madagalaesus

Tribe Gonocerini Stal, 1873

85 Clé des genres malgaches de Gonocerini /

85 Key to Malagasy genera of Gonocerini

Genus Cletus Stal, 1859

87 Clé des espéces malgaches de Cletus /

88 Key to Malagasy species of Cletus

Genus Cletoscellus n. gen.

103 Clé des espèces malgaches de Cletoscellus n. gen. /

103 Key to Malagasy species of Cletoscellus n. gen.

Genus Cletoliturus n. gen.

Genus Plinachtus Stal, 1859

112 €lé des espèces malgaches de Plinachtus /

112 Key to Malagasy species of Plinachtus

Tribe Hydarini Stal, 1873

119 Clé des genres et sous-genres malgaches d’Hydarini /

119 Key to Malagasy genera and subgenera of Hydarini

Genus Corduba Stal, 1862

Subgenus Acanthocorduba Linnavuori, 1978

Genus Hydara Dallas, 1852

123 Clé des espèces malgaches d'Hydara /

123 Key to Malagasy species of Hydara

Tribe Latimbini Stal, 1859

Genus Latimbus Stal, 1859

128 Clé des espéces malgaches de Latimbus /

128 Key to Malagasy species of Latimbus

Tribe Mictini Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

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135 Features in common of the Mictine genera from Madagascar

135 Clé des genres malgaches de Mictini /

136 Key to Malagasy genera of Mictini

136 Genus Anoplocnemis Stal, 1873

138 Clé des espèces malgaches d’Anoplocnemis /

138 Key to Malagasy species of Anoplocnemis

147 Genus Dianomictis O'Shea, 1980

150 Genus Elasmocniella n. gen.

152 Genus Mygdonia Stal, 1865

155 Tribe Petascelini Stal, 1873

155 Genus Oxypristis Signoret, 1860

157 Clé des espèces malgaches d’Oxypristis /

157 Key to Malagasy species of Oxypristis

163 Tribe Phyllomorphini Stal, 1873

163 Genus Craspedum Rambur, 1839

166 Subfamily Pseudophloeinae Stal, 1867

166 Clé des tribus malgaches de Pseudophloeinae /

167 Key to Malagasy tribes of Pseudophloeinae

167 Tribe Clavigrallini Stal, 1873

168 Clé des genres malgaches de Clavigrallini /

168 Key to Malagasy genera of Clavigrallini

168 Genus Clavigralla Spinola, 1837

169 Clé des espèces malgaches de Clavigralla /

170 Key to Malagasy species of Clavigralla

181 Genus Oncaspidia Stal, 1873

183 Tribe Pseudophloeini Stal, 1873

183 Genus Mevanidea Reuter, 1883

185 Incertae sedis: genus and species inquirenda

185 Genus Rhombolaparus Bergroth, 1906

186 Bibliographie / Bibliography

192 Figures / Plates

265 Glossaire / Glossary

267 Index des taxons / Index of taxa

271 Points de vente / Outlets

271 Déjà parus / Published volumes

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Remerciements / Acknowledgments

Lam very obliged to Dominique PluotSigwalt (MNHN) for her help and hospitality dur-

ing my stay in Paris and for the kind invitation to participate to the serie of Faune de

Madagascar.

| wish to thank the following individuals and institutions for kindly providing material and

other assistance: Randall T. Schuh (AMNH), Mick Webb (BMNH), Norman D. Penny

and Vincent Lee (CASC), Ernst Heiss (EHCA), Jérôme Constant (IRNB), Carolina Martin

(MNCN), Dominique PluotSigwalt (MNHN), Eliane de Coninck and Marc de Meyer

(MRAC), Herbert Zettel (NHMW), Petr Kment (NMPC), Bert Viklund (NRES), lan Lansbury

(OXUM), Petr Banar (PBCC), Jan van Tol and Pieter van Doesburg Jr. [RMNH), Thomas

J. Henry (USNM), the late Izyaslav M. Kerzhner (ZMAS), Jürgen Deckert (ZMHB], and

Klaus Schônitzer (ZSMC).

Special thanks are extended to Ernesto Barrera (UNAM), Elvia Esparza (UNAM), Albino

Luna (UNAM), Felipe Villegas (UNAM), and Jesüs Contreras for the preparation of the il.

lustrations; and to Oscar Francke Ballve (UNAM), Thomas J. Henry (USNM), Henri-Pierre

Aberlenc (Cirad, CBGP) and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and sugges-

tions that helped to improve this paper.

This work was partly supported by grants of the Direccién General de Asuntos del Per-

sonal Académico (Subdireccién de Formacién Académica), Universidad Nacional Au-

ténoma de México (DGAPA), and the French Embassy in México (CCC-IFAL).

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Résumé / Summary

Résumé

Les Coreidae (Hemiptera Heteroptera) de Madagascar sont révisés ; tous les taxa con-

nus présents dans l'île sont traités. Deux sous-familles, douze tribus, vingtneuf genres,

un sous-genre et soixante-neuf espèces sont traités en détail. Plusieurs nouveaux taxa

sont décrits et placés dans la sous-famille des Coreinae : quatre genres [Cletoliturus

n. gen. (Gonocerini), Cletoscellus n. gen. (Gonocerini), Elasmocniella n. gen. (Mictini)

et Odontocurtus n. gen. (Daladerini]] et dixneuf espèces [Choerommatus decoratus

n. sp. (Acanthocorini), Choerommatus linnavuorii n. sp. (Acanthocorini), Petalocnemis

inconditus n. sp. (Acanthocorini), Kerzhnercryptes couturieri n. sp. (Daladerini), Odon-

torhopala pallescens n. sp. (Daladerini), Odontocurtus consociatus n. gen., n. sp. (Da-

laderini), Parabrachytes inornatus n. sp. (Daladerini), Cletoscellus delectabilis n. gen,

n. sp. (Gonocerini), Cletus incultus n. sp. (Gonocerini), Cletus poikilus n. sp. (Gonoce-

tini), Cletus presignus n. sp. (Gonocerini), Latimbus naevillus n. sp. (Latimbini), Latimbus

refulgens n. sp. (Latimbini), Latimbus saphisus n. sp. [Latimbini}, Latimbus stereus n. sp.

(Latimbini), Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp. (Mictini), Elasmocniella gloriosus n. gen.,

n. sp. (Mictini), Oxypristis augurium n. sp. (Petascelini), Oxypristis conspicuus n. sp.

(Petascelini)]. Trois espèces sont transférées dans un autre genre : Petalocnemis dilatatus

(Garcia Varela) n. comb. anciennement dans le genre Acanthocoris ; Cletoliturus lituri-

pennis (Stal) n. comb. anciennement dans le genre Gonocerus ; Cletoscellus spinijugis

(Bergroth} n. comb. anciennement dans le genre Clefomorpha. Les espèces suivantes

sont mises en synonymie : Gonocerus caffer Stal n. syn. = Cletus capensis (Westwood) ;

Gonocerus varius Dallas n. syn. = Cletus capensis (Westwood) ; Cletus borealis Blôte

n. syn. = Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer) ; Cletus fuscescens Walker n. syn. = Cletus

ochraceus (Herrich-‘Schaeffer) ; Cletus madagascariensis Bléte n. syn. = Cletus ochraceus

(Herrich-Schaeffer). Deux genres — Latimbus Stal et Oncaspidia Stal — et une espèce

= Oncaspidia pilosicollis (Stal) - sont cités pour la première fois de Madagascar. Le

genre monospécifique Rhombolaparus Bergroth et son espèce R. tardigradus Bergroth

sont considérés comme incertae sedis (genre et espèce inquirenda). Dans ce travail,

une espèce par genre, au moins, est illustrée par son habitus en vue dorsale et environ

200 dessins, représentant des détails morphologiques (téte, antennes, pronotum, pattes],

ainsi que les genitalia mâles et femelles de quelques espèces, facilitent l'identification

des espèces. Des clés en français et en anglais des sous-familles, tribus, genres, sous-

genres et espèces malgaches sont fournies. Des localités nouvelles apportent des préci-

sions sur la distribution des espèces déjà connues de Madagascar.

Summary

The Coreidae (Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Madagascar are revised, including all taxa

known to occur in the area. Two subfamilies, twelve tribes, twenty-nine genera, one

subgenus, and sixty-nine species are treated in detail. The four new genera [Cletoliturus

n. gen. (Gonocerini), Cletoscellus n. gen. (Gonocerini), Elasmocniella n. gen. (Mictini),

and Odontocurtus n. gen. (Daladerini)], and the nineteen new species [Choerommatus

decoratus n. sp. (Acanthocorini), Choerommatus linnavuorii n. sp. (Acanthocorini), Peta-

locnemis inconditus n. sp. (Acanthocorini), Kerzhnercryptes couturieri n. sp. (Daladerini),

Odontorhopala pallescens n. sp. (Daladerini), Odontocurtus consociatus n. gen., n. sp.

(Daladerini), Parabrachytes inornatus n. sp. (Daladerini), Cletoscellus delectabilis n. gen,

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n. sp. (Gonocerini), Cletus incultus n. sp. (Gonocerini), Cletus poikilus n. sp. (Gonoce-

fini), Cletus presignus n. sp. (Gonocerini), Latimbus naevillus n. sp. (Latimbini), Latimbus

refulgens n. sp. (Latimbini), Latimbus saphisus n. sp. (Latimbini), Latimbus stereus n. sp.

(Latimbini), Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp. (Mictini), Elasmocniella gloriosus n. gen.,

n. sp. (Mictini), Oxypristis augurium n. sp. (Petascelini), Oxypristis conspicuus n. sp.

(Petascelini]] are described and placed in the subfamily Coreinae. Three species are

transfered to other genera: Petalocnemis dilatatus (Garcia Varela) n. comb. described in

the genus Acanthocoris; Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal) n. comb. described in the genus

Gonocerus; and Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth) n. comb. described in the genus Cleto-

morpha. The following species are synonymized: Gonocerus caffer Stal n. syn. = Cletus

capensis (Westwood) ; Gonocerus varius Dallas n. syn. = Cletus capensis (Westwood) ;

Cletus borealis Blôte n. syn. = Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer) ; Cletus fuscescens

Walker n. syn. = Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer] ; Cletus madagascariensis Blôte

n. syn. = Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer). Two genera, Latimbus Stal and Onca-

spidia Stal, and one species, Oncaspidia pilosicollis (Stal), are recorded for the first

time from Madagascar. The genus Rhombolaparus Bergroth and its only known species

Rhombolaparus tardigradus Bergroth are placed as incertae sedis (genus and species

inquirenda). A dorsal habitus illustrations for at least one species of each genus, as

well as 200 drawings of morphological details of head, antennae, pronotum, legs, and

male and female genitalia to some of the species are provided to help to distinguish

these taxa. Keys to subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera and species recorded from

Madagascar are included. New distributional records for many of the previously known

species are added.

Mots-clés

Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae, révision, nouveaux genres, nouvelles espè-

ces, nouvelles combinaisons, nouvelles synonymies, clés, Madagascar.

Keywords

Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae, revision, new genera, new species, new

combinations, new synonymies, keys, Madagascar.

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Introduction

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world after Greenland, New Guinea and

Borneo. Its area covers 587,038,935 km?, with a maximum length of 1580 km, and a

maximum width of 570 km. It lies in the southern hemisphere between latitude 11°57’

and 25°38’S and longitude 43°12’ and 50°17'E, and is thus almost entirely within the

tropics; the tropic of Capricorn crosses the southern end of it. The Mozambique channel

separating it from Africa is about 398 km wide at the narrowest point. Madagascar is

surrounded at distances of 290 km to 890 km by small groups of volcanic islets: the

Comoro Islands, the Mascarene Islands, and the Seychelles Islands.

Madagascar consists of three large, parallel, longitudinal zones: the Central Plateau

formed from ancient systems; a narrow littoral strip to the East; and a zone of sedimen-

tary formations comprising low plateau and vast plains to the West.

Most of the unique fauna and flora is found in the lush rain forest of the narrow eastern

coastline, whereas the wider drier western plain with more arid vegetation has less

diversity.

Bugs in the family Coreidae are commonly known as squash bugs, leaffooted bugs, or

plantfeeding bugs. The coreids include some of the largest living heteropterans, as well

as other species that are delicate or slender. Most coreids are relatively heavy-bodied

insects usually robustly elongate or broadly elliptical. Many species have bizarre dila-

fions and expansions of their humeral angles, hind femur, tibiae, and antennal segments.

Coreidae are characterized by having the head usually small relative to body size;

antennae inserted above a line running through the center of the eyes; hind femur some-

times ornamented with large spines; hemelytral membrane usually with numerous veins;

well developed scent gland openings ventrally on the metathorax of adults; nymphal dor-

sal abdominal scent gland orifices between terga IV-V and V-V|; inner laterotergites usu-

ally present; and all abdominal spiracle ventral. The scent gland fluid releases an odor

that serves both to deter predators and as an alarm pheromone, causing aggregations

fo scatter. Composition of the gland secretion is variable, but may include acids, alde-

hydes, alcohols and acetate or butyrate esters of these alcohols. Adults and nymphs are

capable of exuding a strong-smelling fluid when disturbed. The body color is variable;

the temperate species are predominately dull brown or gray as adults, but nymphs may

be brightly colored; adults of several tropical species are quite colorful (Levin Mirciew in

Scuaerer & Panizzi 2000).

The biology of Coreidae is typically hemipterous. In all species, the nymphs pass through

five stages, suck plant juices, and in due time transform into adults. There may be one or

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more generations per year depending the region of the country in which they develop

(BARANOwsK! & Stater 1986).

All members of this family are essentially phytophagous, chiefly feeding on plant saps

and fruits, though some are seed feeders. Occasional reports mention that some individu-

als imbibe fluids from descomposing animal carcasses, but this is not a regular habit. The

majority live above ground, dwelling on plants. The coreids are characteristic inhabitants

of the herb and shrub layers of tropical and, to a lesser extent, of temperate ecosystems.

They are frequently encountered in surveys of crops. There are a number of important

destructive and invasive species. Many groups of coreids bugs show definite associa-

tion with particular groups of plants; others, by contrast, contain members that are more

polyphagous and feed on unrelated plants (DowNG 1986; Henry & FRoescHNeR 1988

ScHuH & SiaTer 1995).

The family was established by Leach (1815) and included Rhopalidae and Alydidae as

subfamilies, which are now accorded full family rank. The basic suprageneric classifica-

tion was established by Stät (1867, 1870), and although there has been considerable

recent work on the higher classification of this family, the tribal relationships remain

obscure and need a modern synthesis.

The family is found in all major zoogeographic regions, and comprises three subfamilies

Meropachynae restricted to the Western Hemisphere, chiefly Neotropical, with three rec-

ognized tribes Merocorini, Meropahydini and Spathophorini; Pseudophloeinae predomi-

nately Old World, with most of the species distributed in the tropics and with two tribes

Clavigrallini and Pseudophloeini; and Coreinae with 32 tribes found on both Old and

New World. Twelve of the tribes are found in the New World and with the exception

of Coreini, Hydarini, Anisoscelini and Chariesterini, the other eight are restricted to that

region: Acanthocephalini, Acanthocerini, Barreratalpini, Chelinideini, Discogastrini, Lep-

toscelini, Nematopodini, and Spartocerini. The Coreini of the Old World include twenty

tribes: Acanthocorini, Agriopocorini, Amorbini, Anhomoeini, Cloresmini, Colpurini, Cyl-

larini, Daladerini, Dasynini, Gonocerini, Homoeocerini, Latimbini, Manocoroeini, Mecoc-

nemini, Mictini, Petascelidini, Phyllomorphini, Prionotylini, Procamptini and Sinotagini,

plus Coreini, Hydarini, Anisoscelini, and Chariesterini shared with the New World.

ScHUH & Siar (1995) and Cassis & Gross (2002) estimated that the family comprised

252 genera and 1802 species. Henry (2009) estimated 267 genera and 1884 species.

Perhaps an objective assessment of an appropriate size of the family is still impossible.

Despite early descriptions by SieNorer (1860), SrA (1853, 1873}, Distant (1879, 1902],

Bercroth (1894b, 1914), and Garcia Varela (1913), the coreid fauna of Madagascar

has been little studied. Recently Brauovsky (1998, 2006), Braiovsky & Barrera (1998,

2006), and Bratovsky & ORTEGA LEON (1998), described several new genera and species

and built a general overview of the family.

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twenty-two genera, one subgenus, and forty-nine species. In this contribution, six genera,

and twenty species are added, bringing to twenty-nine genera, one subgenus, and sixty-

nine species the total number of known taxa. From that list, four genera and nineteen

species are’ harainl described /asvnew Sand uwergeneral latimbus Stalrand!Oncaspidia

Stal and one species Oncaspidia pilosicollis (Stal) are recorded for the first time from

Madagascar.

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Taxonomie / Taxonomy

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Abbreviations

AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA;

BMNH The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom;

CASC California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA;

EHCA Ernst Heiss Collection, Austria;

IRNB Institut royal des Sciences naturelles, Bruxelles, Belgique;

MNCN Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain;

MNHN Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France;

MRAC Musée royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium;

NHMW_ Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria;

NMPC National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic;

NRES Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden;

OXUM Oxford University Museum, Hope Entomological Collections, United Kingdom;

PBCC Petr Banar Collection, Czech Republic;

RMNH Nationaal Natuurhistorische Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands;

UNAM Coleccién Entomolégica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional

Auténoma de México, México;

USNM _ National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA,

ZMAS Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia;

ZMHB Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany;

ZSMC — Zoologische Staatsammlung München, Germany.

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Abbreviations used in the text

A.R. Pierre André Robinson;

n. comb. nouvelle combinaison / new combination;

E.R. Edouard Razafimamdimby, collecteur / collector;

2 femelle / female;

n. gen. nouveau genre / new genus;

mm millimètres / millimeters;

mâle / male;

R. P. Renaud Paulian;

n. sp. nouvelle espèce / new species;

n. syn. nouvelle synonymie / new synonymy.

Localities names follow Vierre (1991).

Glossary of structures used in the text

Diagrams are provided of the structures used in the specific and generic descriptions, as

well as those used to define the various tribes.

The meaning of the character states and their location are provided in the diagrams and

additional support is provided with a glossary of commonly used terms, based mostly

on Torre-BUuENo (1989) and ScHuH & Suarer (1995), which is included at the end. It is im-

portant to note that the handling of each specimen during microscopic examination can

result in some variation with respect to the description or redescription presented, and

thus the illustrations and the keys are important aids for correct taxonomic identifications.

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Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae

Malagasy Coreidae checklist

Order HEMIPTERA Linnaeus, 1758

Suborder HETEROPTERA Latreille, 1810

Family Coreipae Leach, 1815

Subfamily Coreia Stal, 1867

Tribe Acanthocorini Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

Genus Acanthocoris Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

A. tibialis Signoret, 1860

Genus Antanambecoris Brailovsky, 2001

A. pronotalis Brailovsky, 2001

Genus Choerommatus Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843

C. argillaceus Stal, 1865

C. decoratus n. sp.

C. linnavuorii n. sp.

Genus Petalocnemis Stal, 1853

P. dilatatus (Garcia Varela, 1913) n. comb.

P. inconditus n. sp.

Genus Phelaus Stal, 1865

P. dilaticornis (Signoret, 1860)

Genus Pluotenia Brailovsky, 2001

P. pulla Brailovsky, 2001

Tribe Anisoscelini Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

Genus Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville, 1831

L. gonagra (Fabricius, 1775)

Tribe Daladerini Stal, 1873

Genus Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky, 2002

K. couturieri n. sp.

K. perinetus Brailovsky, 2002

Genus Odontorhopala Stal, 1873

©. callosa Stal, 1873

©. pallescens n. sp.

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Genus Odontocurtus n. gen.

O. consociatus n. gen., n. sp.

Genus Parabrachytes Distant, 1879

P. antsalovus Brailovsky, 2002

P. coloratus Distant, 1879

P. inornatus n. sp.

P. longicornis Garcia Varela, 1913

P. morondavus Brailovsky, 2002

P. obscurus Distant, 1879

Tribe Dasynini Bergroth, 1913

Genus Madagalaesus Brailovsky, 2007

M. garciai Brailovsky, 2007

M. notios Brailovsky, 2007

Tribe Gonocerini Stal, 1873

Genus Cletoliturus n. gen.

C. lituripennis (Stal, 1855) n. comb.

Genus Cletoscellus n. gen.

C. delectabilis n. gen., n. sp.

C. spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905] n. comb.

Genus Cletus Stal, 1859

C. capensis (Westwood, 1842)

| clavatus (Signoret, 1860)

incullusn pe

. ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842)

. poikilus n. sp.

OO Be Of D

. presignus n. sp.

C. pronus (Bergroth, 1914)

Genus Plinachtus Stal, 1859

P. contortus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2006

P. madagascariensis (Kiritshenko, 1916)

P. scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002

P. vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002

Tribe Hydarini Stal, 1873

Genus Corduba Stal, 1862

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Subgenus Acanthocorduba Linnavuori, 1978

C. baniana Brailovsky et Ortega Leôn, 1998

Genus Hydara Dallas, 1852

H. kmenti Brailovsky, 2006

H. tenvicornis (Westwood, 1842]

Tribe Latimbini Stal, 1873

Genus Latimbus Stal, 1859

lenaevillds ep)

iBTefulgensin=sps

Hope

L. stereus n. sp.

Tribe Mictini Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

Genus Anoplocnemis Stal, 1873

A. brevicornis Bergroth, 1910

. brevicrus Bergroth, 1910

. consociatus n. sp.

. curvipes (Fabricius, 1781)

. distincta (Brancsik, 1893)

. luctuosa (Stal, 1865)

pS ss

A. madagascariensis (Signoret, 1860)

Genus Dianomictis O'Shea, 1980

D. expansa (Distant, 1879)

Genus Elasmocniella n. gen.

E. gloriosus n. gen., n. sp.

Genus Mygdonia Stal, 1865

M. elongata Distant, 1879

Tribe Petascelini Stal, 1873

Genus Oxypristis Signoret, 1860

O. augurium n. sp.

O. conspicuus n. sp.

©. leroyi Signoret, 1860

©. modestus Blôte, 1938

Tribe Phyllomorphini Stäl, 1873

Genus Craspedum Rambur, 1839

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C. madagascariense (Coquerel, 1848)

Subfamily PSEUDOPHLOEINAE Stal, 1867

Tribe Clavigrallini Stal, 1873

Genus Clavigralla Spinola, 1837

C. ankatsoensis Dolling, 1979

| annulipes Signoret, 1860

asterix Dolling, 1979

| elongata Signoret, 1860

madagascariensis Dolling, 1979

. pusilla Dolling, 1979

wittei (Schouteden, 1938)

C. tuberculicollis (Reuter, 1887)

Genus Oncaspidia Stal, 1873

©. pilosicollis (Stal, 1855)

Tribe Pseudophloeini Stal, 1873

Genus Mevanidea Reuter, 1883

Qa 40. O. 010

M. spiniceps (Signoret, 1860)

Incertae sedis: Genus and species inquirenda

Genus Rhombolaparus

R. tardigradus Bergroth, 1906

Clé des sous-familles malgaches de Coreidae

1. Tibias non sulciformes ; péritrème métathoracique non bilobé, généralement avec

un seul lobe large, parfois avec deux lobes presque fusionnés ; méso- et métaster-

nUMisulciiormest nem ner RESTE Pseudophloeinae Sial

= Tibias sulciformes [parfois peu profondément) ou si non sulciformes, sans la com-

binaison de caractères ci-dessus ; péritréme métathoracique plus large, nettement

Teillelst=> orseesshine ae anne Coreinae leach

Key to Malagasy subfamilies of Coreidae

1. Tibiae not sulcate; metathoracic peritreme not bilobed, usually with a single large

or occasionally with two nearly fused auricles (lobes); mesosternum and metaster-

fumpsUleate rs et ths cal a eee cae te Pseudophloeinae Sidl

— Tibiae sulcate (sometimes shallowly] or if appearing non-sulcate, without the

above combination of characters; metathoracic peritreme larger, conspicuously

bilobed .... Coreinae Leach

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SuBrAMmily CoREINAE LEACH, 1815

The Coreinae can be distinguished from other Coreidae subfamilies by having the head

variable, always much narrower than the thorax; interocellar distance longer, rarely

shorter or equidistant to eye; anterolateral opening of the metathoracic scent gland well

developed; metathoracic peritreme with well developed projections; apical margin of

corium straight or slightly sinuous; membranal veins of forewing arising from a transverse

vein near or touching corial margin; abdominal terga Hil and IILVII fused in both sexes.

This subfamily contains the vast majority of coreid bugs, with aproximately 210 genera

and 1586 species. It is worldwide in distribution, but most species occur in the tropics

(ScHUH & Siater 1995)

19 tribes occur in the Eastern Hemisphere and 10 are recorded from Madagascar.

Clé des tribus malgaches de Coreinae

1. Téte quadrangulaire, courte, plus large que longue, inclinée vers le bas au niveau

des tubercules antenniférres ; tubercules antenniféres saillant vers l'avant, rappro-

chés ; tylus indistinct, non prolongé ; buccule totalement, ou presque, située en

arrière du tubercule antennifére, ou atteignant au plus le bord antérieur de l'œil ;

rostre épais, court, ne dépassant pas le mésosternum ...

— Téte comparativement longue, partie antérieure rectiligne vers l'avant, dépassant

ou non les tubercules antenniféres ; tylus distinct prolongé ; rostre fin, atteignant

ou dépassant le mésosternum ; tubercules antennifères moins saillants ....

2. Jugum développé antérieurement formant une plaque quadrangulaire située sous le

tubercule antennifére ; article | des antennes généralement plus long que le Il ..

… Latimbini Stal

3. Fémur antérieur avec une ou deux grandes dents pointues subapicales sur la face

. Mictini Amyot et AudinetServille

_ Fémur antérieur sans grande dent subapicale sur la face inférieure, généralement

avec deux rangées ventrales d’épines, ou non armé ....

— Jugum non développé en avant et ne formant pas de plaque quadrangulaire

inférieure .

4. Stigmates abdominaux assez grands, transversalement ovales à elliptic (Fig. 60g) ;

coxae postérieures distantes ; femurs postérieurs épaissis ... Petascelini Stal

— Stigmates abdominaux petits, ronds (Fig. 75b) ; coxae postérieures non distantes,

presque contigués ; femur postérieur généralement robuste, non nettement épais-

si ; article antennaire II dilaté à l'apex .... . Daladerini Stal

Téte longue, plus longue que large ; partie antérieure toujours rectiligne en avant ;

femur postérieur atteignant l’apex de l'abdomen ; tibia foliacé, les expansions

s'étendant à la fois sur les faces inférieure et supérieure

_ Tate plus courte, plus large que longue, brusquement inclinée vers le bas au ni-

Veau des tubercules antenniféres, ou fortement inclinée ou rectiligne vers l'avant ;

tibia postérieur non expansé ou expansé seulement sur la face inférieure ....

. 6

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Apex des fémurs antérieurs avec une rangée d’épines et de tubercules sur la

face inférieure ; abdomen à bords presque parallèles, non dilaté latéralement ;

femurs postérieurs des mâles fortement ou graduellement épaissis, généralement

épineux ou dentés ; partie basale des fémurs postérieurs distinctement courbée ;

lobe antérieur du péritréme métathoracique proche de la marge antérieure des

métapleures ; trochanters des pattes postérieures fortement séparés, la distance

les séparant étant plus grande que la distance séparant le trochanter de la marge

latérale du métasternum ... . Acanthocorini Amyot et Audinet-Serville

= Apex des fémurs antérieurs sans épine, et s'il y a deux rangées d'épines ou de

tubercules, l'abdomen est alors distinctement dilaté ; femurs postérieurs du mâle

non nettement épaissis ; trochanters postérieurs du mâle non ou à peine distants,

la distance les séparant étant plus courte que celle séparant le trochanter de la

marge latérale du métasternum ...

7. Bords latéraux du thorax et des segments abdominaux avec des expansions folia-

cées lobées semi-hyalines portant sur leur marge et leur surface de longues épines

aiguës ; articles antennaires et pattes minces, en partie épineux

Phyllomorphini Stal

= Bord latéraux du thorax et des segments abdominaux sans expansion foliacée

lobée et sans longues épines . .. 8

8. Tibia postérieur non sulciforme sur sa face supérieure ; article | des antennes

avec l'apex distinctement dilaté en massue ; article IV des antennes généralement

aplati ; article Ill plus de deux fois aussi long que le Il ; apex des fémurs légère-

ment épaissi … … Hydarini Stal

= Tibia postérieur sulciforme sur sa face supérieure ; article | des antennes avec

l’apex non dilaté en massue ou seulement légèrement épaissi ; article IV non

aplati ; article Ill généralement plus court que le Il, jamais deux fois aussi long que

le Il ; apex des femurs variable .

Article antennaire IV plus long que le | ; stigmates abdominaux distinctement

situés dans la première moitié de chaque segment et beaucoup plus proches du

tiers médian des marges latérales .. ... Dasynini Bergroth

= Article antennaire IV plus court que le | ; stigmates abdominaux situés près des

marges latérales des segments, plus distants des marges antérieures que des la-

térales ; distance entre le stigmate abdominal et la marge latérale de l'abdomen,

plus courte que la distance entre le stigmate et le marge antérieure de chaque

segment ... . Gonocerini Stal

Key to Malagasy tribes of Coreinae

Head quadrate, short, wider than long, bending downward at the antenniferous

tubercle level; antenniferous tubercle protruding forward, almost occupying the in-

tertubercular space; tylus not protracted; buccula almost or totally situated before

antenniferous tubercle or at must reaching anterior margin of eye; rostrum wide,

short, not extending beyond mesosternum

— Head comparatively long, anterior portion porrect, surpassing or not the antenni-

ferous tubercle; tylus protracted; rostrum slender, reaching or extending beyond

mesosternum; antenniferous tubercle less prominent ...

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2. Jugum anteriorly expanded as a quadrate plate, projected below the antennife-

rous tubercle; antennal segment | usually longer than Il... Latimbini Sial

— Jugum anteriorly not expanded, never projected as a quadrate plate; antennal

segment | usually shorter than Il ....

3. Fore femur ventrally with one or two large, sharp subapical teeth … à

… Mictini Amyot et AudinetServille

— Fore femur ventrally without one or two large, sharp subapical, teeth, usually with

two rows of ventral spines or unarmed ...

4. Abdominal spiracles rather large, transversely elliptical (Fig. 60; hind coxae wi-

dely separated; hind femur incrassate . Petascelini Stal

= Abdominal spiracles small, rounded (Fig. 75); hind coxae not widely separated,

almost contiguous; hind femur not conspicuously incrassate, usually slightly ro-

bust ... … Daladerini Stal

5. Head long, longer than wide, anterior portion always porrect; hind femur reachi-

ng the apex of abdomen; tibiae foliaceous, expanding both dorsally and ven-

trally .... ...Anisoscelini Amyot et AudinetServille

— Head shorter, wider than long, suddently bending downward at the antenniferous

tubercle level, or strongly slanting or porrect; hind tibiae not expanded, or only

ventrally expanded ...

6. Apex of fore femur with a row of spines and tubercles on ventral side; abdomen

almost parallel-sided, not dilated laterally; male hind femur strongly incrassate

or gradually incrassate, usually spinose or dentate; basal part of hind femur dis-

tinctly curved; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme close to anterior margin

of metapleura; trochanters of hind legs strongly separated, their distance greater

than that between the trochanter and the lateral margin of metasternum ............

.. Acanthocorini Amyot et AudinetServille

— Apex of fore femur spineless, or if with wo rows of spines or tubercles, then abdomen

distinctly dilated; male hind femur not distinctly incrassate; male hind trochanters not

separated or not very widely, so that their distance is shorter than that between the

trochanter and the trochanter and the lateral margin of metasternum ....

7. Lateral margins of thorax and abdominal segments expanded into leaflike, semi-

hyaline lobes on their margins and on the surface long pointed and acute spines;

antennal segments and legs slender, and partially spinate ..... Phyllomorphini Stal

— Lateral margins of thorax and abdominal segments not foliated or lobated, and

without long spines; antennal segments and legs non-spinated . Ho

8. Hind tibiae not sulcate dorsally; antennal segment | with apex distinctly clavate;

antennal segment IV usually flattened; antennal segment Ill over twice as long as

Il: apices of femora slightly thickened ... … Hydarini Stal

— Hind tibiae sulcate dorsally; antennal segment | not clavate at apex or slightly

thickened; antennal segment IV not flattened; antennal segment Ill usually shorter

than Il, never twice as long as Il; apices of femora variable...

9. Antennnal segment IV longer than |; abdominal spiracles located before the

middle of sternum, and much nearer to middle third of lateral margins . GH

… Dasynini Bergroth

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— Antennal segment IV shorter than |; abdominal spiracles placed close to the lateral

margins of segments, more distant from their anterior margins than from the late-

ral ones; distance between abdominal spiracles and lateral margins of abdomen

shorter than distance between spiracle and anterior margin of sternum

. Gonoce

TRIBE ACANTHOCORIN| AMYOT ET AUDINET-SERVILLE, 1843

Body dull colored, relatively small to large sized. Head not strongly elongated in front

of the antenniferous tubercles, usually wider than long, suddenly bending downward at

the antenniferous tubercles; antenniferous tubercles protruding forward, not contiguous,

and the space between them filled by tylus; tylus protracted; rostrum slender, reaching

or extending beyond mesosternum; hind femur incrassate, and distinctly spinated and

tuberculate; apex of hind femur not reaching the apex of abdomen; hind tibiae narrowed

or conspsicuously dilated at inner surface; abdominal spiracles small, circular, frequently

closest to anterior edge, and far from lateral edge.

Description

Head. Quadrate, wider than long, dorsally flat; tylus extending anteriorly to and later-

ally higher than juga; antennae shorter than body length; antennal segment | longer

than total head length; ocelli close to eyes; distance between ocelli to eye shorter than

interocellar distance; buccula rectangular, raised, short, entire, not projecting beyond

antenniferous tubercles, meeting posteriorly, and closed

Thorax. Pronotum trapezoidal, wider than long; collar wide. Scutellum: triangular.

Abdomen. Abdominal sterna without furrow.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; gonocoxae | in caudal

view closed; paratergite VIII with spiracle visible.

Clé des genres malgaches d’Acanthocorini

1. Tibias antérieurs et médians irréguliérement tuberculés et épineux ; article | des

antennes et tylus fortement tuberculés et épineux

= Tibias antérieurs et médians non armés ; article | des antennes et tylus lisse, sans

tubercule ni épine

Corps aplati dorso-ventralement ; yeux petits, faiblement saillants ; chez la fe-

melle, sternite X de l'abdomen remarquablement saillant entre les paratergites

IX ; article | des antennes épais, robuste, quadrangulaire ou subquadrangulaire ;

tibias antérieurs cylindriques ... .… Choerommatus Amyot et Audinet-Serville

= Corps non aplati dorso-ventralement ; yeux grands, protubérants ; sternite X de

l'abdomen chez la femelle non saillant entre les paratergites IX ; article | des

antennes mince, cylindrique ; tibias antérieurs dilatés, dilatations inférieure et

supérieure externe de taille et de forme variables ....

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3. Articles antennaires Il et Ill non dilatés ; article Il plus long que les autres ; tiers

médian de la téte en vue dorsal et tiers médian du disque du pronotum sans caréne

longitudinale semblable à une nervure ; marge supérieure du connexivum avec une

double rangée de minuscules tubercules ; tibias postérieurs allongés, légèrement

dilatés sur leur face inférieure … .. Acanthocoris Amyot et AudinetServille

— Articles antennaires Il et Ill dilatés à l'apex ; article Ill plus long que les autres ;

tiers moyen de la tête en vue dorsale, et tiers moyen du disque du pronotum avec

une étroite carène longitudinale semblable à une nervure ; marge supérieure du

connexivum armée de gros tubercules épineux ; fibias postérieurs notablement

dilatés sur leur face inférieure et généralement sur leur face supérieure ... x

.... Petalocnemis Stal

4. Marge antérieure du mésosternum dépourvue de gouttiére médiane longitudi-

nale ; angles huméraux aigus, saillants (Fig. 8) ; lobe postérieur du disque du

pronotum densément tuberculé .. Pluotenia Brailovsky

— Marge antérieure du mésosternum avec une gouttière médiane recevant l'extré-

mité du labium ; angles huméraux obtus où arrondis (Figs 3; 7) ; lobe postérieur

du pronotum lisse, sans tubercule ni épine

5. Espèce dépassant 23 mm de long ; article antennaire Ill dilaté en spatule a

l'apex ; angles huméraux hémisphériques, larges, relevés (Fig. 7) ; face supé-

rieure des fémurs postérieurs tuberculée chez les mâles ; rostre court, dépassant

la marge antérieure du mésosternum . … Phelaus Stl

— Espèce n’atteignant pas 19 mm de long ; article Ill des antennes uniformément cylin-

drique ; angles huméraux obtus, non saillants (Fig. 3) ; face supérieure des femurs

postérieurs lisse ; rostre atteignant la marge postérieure du métasternum eS

Antanambecoris Brailovsky

Key to Malagasy genera of Acanthocorini

Fore and middle tibiae irregularly tuberculate and spinate; antennal segment |

and tylus conspicuously tuberculate and spinate ..

— Fore and middle tibiae unarmed; antennal segment | and tylus smooth, lacking

tubercles or spires

2. Body dorsoventrally flattened; eyes small, weakly protuberant; female abdomina

sternite X strongly raised between paratergite IX; antennal segment l stout, robust,

quadrate to subquadrate; fore tibiae cylindrical

…. Choerommatus Amyot et AudinetServille

_ Body non flattened dorsoventrally; eyes large, protuberant; female abdominal

sternite X not raised between paratergite IX; antennal segment | cylindrical, slen-

der; fore tibiae dilated, outer and inner dilation variable in size and shape ...... 3

3. Antennal segments Il and Ill not dilated; antennal segment Il the longest; middle

third of head in dorsal view and middle third of pronotal disk without raised

longitudinal stripe-like rib; upper margin of connexivum with double row of tiny

tubercles; hind tibiae elongate, weakly dilated on inner face a

.... Acanthocoris Amyot et AudinetServille

— Antennal segments Il and Ill apically dilated; antennal segment Ill the longest;

middle third of head in dorsal view, and middle third of pronotal disk with narrow

and raised longitudinal stripelike rib; upper margin of connexivum armed with

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large and stout tubercle-like spines; hind tibiae conspicuously dilated on inner and

usually on outer face ... ... Petalocnemis Stal

4. Anterior margin of mesosternum lacking longitudinal furrow; humeral angle pro-

duced laterally into an angulate projection (Fig. 8); posterior lobe of pronotal disk

densely tuberculate … … Pluotenia Brailovsky

— Anterior margin of mesosternum with sulcate tubercle to receive the labium; hume-

ral angle entire, not produced into an angulate projection (Figs 3; 7); posterior

lobe of pronotal disk smooth, lacking tubercles or spines ...

5. Species longer than 23 mm; antennal segment Ill apically dilated, obovate in out-

line; humeral angle hemispheric, broad, raised, directed upward (Fig. 7); male

dorsal face of hind femur tuberculate; rostrum short, not extending beyond ante-

rior border of mesosternum .... .... Phelaus Stal

— Species shorter than 19 mm; antennal segment Ill uniformly cylindrical; humeral

angle obtuse, not exposed (Fig. 3); male dorsal face of hind femur smooth; ros-

trum reaching posterior margin of metasternum ....... Antanambecoris Brailovsky

Genus Antanambecoris Brailovsky, 2001

Antanambecoris Brailovsky, 2001: 627-628.

Redescription

Body medium-sized.

Head

Tylus and juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercle unarmed, protruding, never contiguous;

antennal segment | robust, thickest, slightly curved outward, not sulcated or flattened;

segments Il and Ill cylindrical, IV fusiform; antennal segment Il the longest or subequal to

IV, lll the shortest, | shorter or subequal to IV; preocellar pit obliquely deep; eyes globose,

protuberant; postocular tubercle absent; rostrum reaching middle third of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Almost flat; frontal and humeral angles obtuse, not exposed; calli entire, not

raised, separated at midline by short longitudinal furrow; anterior margin smooth; ante-

rolateral and posterolateral borders obliquely straight, smooth; posterior border smooth,

weakly convex; posterior margin with an irregular and low transverse ridge; anterior and

posterior lobe of pronotal disk lack tubercles; mesosternum flat, with median sulcus at

anterior portion; metasternum rectangular, flat; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme

oval, raised, posterior lobe, raised, short, and obtuse; canal short, semicircular, with

raised sides; evaporative area well developed.

Legs. Fore and middle femora robust, ventrally armed with two subdistal spines, and one

inner row of three to four spines or tubercles, dorsal surface smooth; hind femur of both

sexes incrassate, more in males, dorsally smooth, ventrally with two subdistal spines and

one inner row of five to six stout spines or tubercles; fore and middle tibiae unarmed,

sulcate; male hind tibia flattened, with outer margin sulcate, not expanded, and inner

margin weakly expanded and apically armed with a single broad, long spine; female

Rinciibietemilar eeromecly unarmed:

Scutellum. Wider than long, flat; apex subacute; lateral margins emarginate.

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Hemelytra. Macropterous, extending beyond the apex of last abdominal segment; costal

margin emarginate; apical margin obliquely straight with apical angle narrow, long, but

not extending beyond middle third of hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Gradually expanded, widest point beyond segments V and VI, and compressed between

segments VII and IX; connexivum elevated above terga, and posterior angle unarmed;

abdominal spiracle closer to middle third.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule. Posteroventral edge straight, with small concavity at

middle third. Female genitalia. Plica triangular; fissura short, barely reaching middle

third of segment, inner margin overlapping. Genital plates: gonocoxae | subtriangular,

upper border rounded; paratergite Vill quadrangular; paratergite IX subquadrate.

Integument

Body rather dull, not tuberculate, covered with short decumbent whitish bristle-like setae;

head, calli, prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, connexivum, and abdominal sterna

impunctate; pronotum, acetabulae, clavus, and corium densely punctate; propleuron,

mesopleuron, and metapleuron scarcely punctate; scutellum transversely striate; antennal

segments and legs with intermixed, short and long, decumbent to suberect, whitish setae.

Comments

Externally the genus resembles Physomerus Burmeister, which is distributed in India and

the Indonesian and Pacific islands, such as Borneo, Java, Sumatra, the Philippines, and

the Mollucas. In Physomerus, the humeral angles in males form spines (obtuse angles in

females), the dorsal face of hind femur, and the abdominal sterna Ill and IV are densely

tuberculate, the inner face of male hind tibia has a long and robust spine close to middle

third, whereas the inner face in females is entirely dentate. In Antanambecoris Brailovsky,

known only from Madgascar, the humeral angles in both sexes are obtuse, the dorsal

face of hind femur and the abdominal sterna Ill and IV are non-tuberculate, smooth, and

the hind tibia in both sexes lack strong spines or denticles

Type species

Antanambecoris pronotalis Brailovsky, 2001.

Antanambecoris pronotalis Brailovsky, 2001

(Fig. 3)

Antanambecoris pronotalis Brailovsky, 2001: 628-631.

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar East: Antanambe, 1898 (Mocauerys) (MNHN)

Paratype 9: Mapacascak East: District Mananara N, Antanambe, VII (VADON, PEYRIERAS|

(MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.62 mm; width across eyes 2.40 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.37 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.20 mm, Il, 3.30 mm, Ill, 2.25 mm, IV,

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3.30 mm. Pronotum: length 3.45 mm, width across humeral lobes 4.35 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.50 mm, width 1.70 mm. Body length 15.76 mm.

Dorsal color. Head, and antennal segments | to Ill dark orange; antennal segment IV

pale orange; pronotum shiny dark orange, except middle third of posterior margin with

yellow discoidal spot covered with black hemispheric spot; scutellum dark reddish with

lateral margins and apex yellowish orange; clavus and corium shiny dark chestnut or-

ange except anal margin, and corial veins shiny chestnut yellow; hemelytral membrane

dark ambarine; connexival segments Ill to V reddish orange, VI black with anterior and

posterior angle yellow, and VII yellow with reddish brown spot close to posterior margin;

dorsal abdominal segments black with scars of segments IV-V, and V.VI yellow.

Ventral color. Head dark orange; rostral segments (apex of IV black), fore and middle

legs, prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum pale orange; propleuron, mesopleu-

ron, and metapleuron dark reddish orange; anterior and posterior lobes of metatho-

racic peritreme yellow; hind leg with coxae and trochanter pale orange, femora reddish

brown with basal and apical third pale orange, tibiae with inner face pale orange and

outer face reddish brown, and tarsi yellow with orange reflections; abdominal sterna

and genital capsule reddish brown with chestnut orange reflections; pleural abdominal

sterna Ill to VI reddish brown with anterior third yellow, and pleural sternite VII yellow

with reddish brown spot close to posterior margin.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.13 mm; width across eyes 2.64 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.45 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.45 mm, ll, 3.75 mm, Ill, 2.55 mm, IV,

3.45 mm. Pronotum: length 4.10 mm, width across humeral lobes 5.36 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.70 mm, width 2.30 mm. Body length 18.68 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Ill to VI reddish brown with dark

brown reflections, Vil with anterior half yellow, and posterior half orange with posterior

angle yellow, and segments Vill and IX orange; dorsal abdominal segments orange;

genital plates shiny chestnut orange.

Variation

1 - Head ventrally, and prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum pale yellow. 2 - Ab-

dominal sterna shiny reddish orange.

Comments

This species, belonging to the monotypic genus Antanambecoris Brailovsky, is clearly

distinguished by having the pronotum shiny dark chestnut orange, except the middle third

of posterior margin with yellow discoidal spot covered with black hemispheric spot, and

the scutellum dark reddish with lateral margins and apex yellowish orange.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Specimens examined. MapaGascar East: District Mananara N., Antanambe, 1898 (Moc-

auerys) (MNHN); District Mananara N, Antanambe, VII (VADon, Pevrieras) (MNHN); 1 9,

Andrakamba, Dandrakatoa (Tananara) [without date] (MNHN); 1 &, Baie d'Antongil

[without date] (Mocauerys) (MNHN); 1 9, Vohémar [without date] (NMPC).

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Genus Acanthocoris Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

Acanthocoris Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843: 213-214.

Redescription

Body medium-sized, robust.

Head

Armed with eight or more short, robust tubercles; tylus armed with one or more rows of ir-

regular stout tubercles, and basally with one large, stout spine, directed upward and for-

ward; juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercles protruding, unarmed or armed with short

tubercles, non contiguous, and the space between them filled by tylus; antennae shorter

than total body length; antennal segment | thickest, strongly, shortly spinated; antennal

segments Il and Ill robust (less than antennal segment |), cylindrical, shortly spinate;

apical third of antennal segment Ill with or without large stout spine, and segment IV

fusiform, unarmed; antennal segment Il the longest, IV the shortest, and Ill subequal to

|; preocellar pit deep; eyes hemispheric, protuberant; postocular tubercle protuberant;

rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Declivent; anterior margin strongly tuberculate; frontal angles obtuse, not ex-

posed; anterolateral borders obliquely straight, uniformly tuberculate or dentate; humeral

angles quadrate, slightly exposed apicad, with outer border truncated, and slightly crenu-

late (Fig. 2); posterolateral borders obliquely straight, weakly crenulate; posterior border

straight, smooth; calli slightly swollen, separated at midline by wide longitudinal furrow;

posterior margin with low, irregular transverse ridge; pronotal disk posteriorly densely

tuberculate; mesosternum not sulcate; metasternum rectangular, flat, densely tuberculate;

anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, short, auriculiform; canal

wide open, oval, with raised sides; evaporative area well developed.

Legs. Fore and middle femora robust, short, ventrally armed with double row of stout

spines, dorsally scattered with low tubercles, and apically with one large and stout spine,

directed upward, and forward; hind femur strongly incrassate in both sexes, especially

in males, with ridge of blunt tubercles along dorsal surface, and each tubercle with a

spinule, and ventrally with basal half tuberculate, and distal half with ventral surface

emarginate, and armed with one row of strong, stout, and multiple spines, and dorsal

surface not emarginate, and armed with four to five stout, large spines; fore and middle

tibiae short, robust, inner margin slightly dilated, unarmed, and outer margin sulcate, not

dilated, and armed with two rows of stout tubercles; hind tibiae elongate, slightly dilated,

and armed at inner margin, and sulcate, not dilated, and armed with two rows of stout

spines at outer margin (Fig. 2).

Scutellum. Wider than long or longer than wide; anterior half depressed, and posterior

half raised, and armed with two rows of small tubercles; apex globosus; scutellar disk

with Tshaped elevation.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate; apical margin obliquely straight, with apical angle not extending beyond

middle third of the hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Dilated; connexivum elevated above tergum, with upper margin armed with double row

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of tiny tubercles; posterior angle of each connexival segment unarmed; dorsal abdomi-

nal segment VII in males straight, in females weakly concave; abdominal sterna tubercu-

late; abdominal spiracles closest to anterior edge, and far from lateral edge.

Female genitalia. Plica U-shaped, narrow, and close to posterior margin of abdominal

sternite VI; fissura well developed, with inner margins overlapping. Genital plates: gono-

coxae | subtriangular, upper border rounded; paratergite VIII triangular; paratergite IX

rectangular, longer than paratergite VIII; outer borders of paratergites VIII and IX smooth.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posterolateral angles narrowly produced and between

them a wide medial projection. Paramere: Fig. 1a, b.

Integument

Body rather dull, and densely covered with short decumbent to suberect golden bristle-

like setae.

Comments

This genus can be placed near Petalocnemis Stal as they are similar in the following

characters: fore and middle tibiae short, irregularly tuberculate and spinated, antennal

segment | and tylus conspicuously spinate to tuberculate, and antennal segment | cylindri-

cal, and relatively slender. Acanthocoris can be easily distinguished by having the apex

of antennal segments II and III not dilated, antennal segment Il the longest, outer margin

of antenniferous tubercles unarmed or with short tubercles, middle third of head in dorsal

view and middle third of pronotal disk simple, without raised longitudinal stripe like-rib,

upper margin of connexivum with double row of tiny tubercles, posterior angles of con-

nexival segments unarmed, and hind tibiae elongate, feebly dilated at inner margin, and

sulcate and not dilated at outer margin. In Petalocnemis, the apices of antennal segments

Il and Ill are dilated; antennal segment Ill the longest; outer margin of antenniferous tuber-

cles armed with large and stout spine; middle third of head in dorsal view, and middle

third of pronotal disk with narrow and raised longitudinal stripelike rib; upper margin of

connexivum armed with large, stout tubercle like-spines; posterior angles of connexival

segments armed with large, stout, bifid tubercles; and hind tibiae conspicuously dilated

at inner and usually at outer margin. Only one species, A. tibialis Signoret, is known

from Madagascar.

Type species

Coreus scabrator Fabricius, 1803.

Acanthocoris tibialis Signoret, 1860

(Figs Ta, b; 2)

Acanthocoris tibialis Signoret, 1860: 945.

Type material

Madagascar: no locality given; not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.06 mm; width across eyes 1.44 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.96 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.80 mm, ll, 1.92 mm, Ill, 1.70 mm, IV,

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1.24 mm. Pronotum: length 2.40 mm, width across humeral lobes 3.44 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.40 mm, width 1.36 mm. Body length 10.25 mm.

Dorsal color, Dark to reddish brown; antennal segment | reddish brown, Il and Ill pale

orange castaneus, and IV yellowish orange; scutellum shiny reddish brown with yellow-

ish white longitudinal stripe basally, and apically yellow; hemelytral membrane yellowish

brown; connexivum reddish brown, with anterior third of connexival segment VII yellow;

dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange.

Ventral color, Dark to reddish brown, with following areas yellow: anterior and posterior lobe

of metathoracic peritreme, rectangular or irregular spot near the middle third of each tibiae,

and anterior third of pleural abdominal sternite VII; rim of abdominal spiracle reddish brown.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.18 mm; width across eyes 1.60 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.14 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.04 mm, ll, 2.28 mm, Il, 2.08 mm, IV,

1.40 mm. Pronotum: length 2.68 mm, width across humeral lobes 4.35 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.76 mm, width 1.88 mm. Body length 12.15 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VII and IX, and dorsal abdomi-

nal segments VIII and IX reddish brown; ventral surface dark orange.

Variation

1 - Antennal segment IV dark yellowish orange.

Comments

Acanthocoris tibialis is distinguished by having the humeral lobes quadrate, with outer

border truncated and feebly tuberculate, and connexival segments and pleural abdomi-

nal sterna reddish brown except the anterior third yellow.

Distribution

This species, originally described from Madagascar, is also recorded from South Africa

(SicNoret 1860; Stat 1865).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: without data; 3 3, 1 2. ANJOUAN, Remani, 800 m,

IX.1958 (RanarizonINa) (MNHN, UNAM)

Genus Choerommatus Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843

Choerommatus Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843: 204.

Redescription

Body

Small to medium-sized, slender to robust, dorsoventrally flattened.

Head

Tuberculate; tylus armed with one or more rows of irregular, short to large stout tubercles;

juga armed with short tubercles; antenniferous tubercles not clearly protruding, densely

tuberculate, not contiguous, and the space between them filled by tylus; antennal seg-

ment | thickest, quadrate to subquadrate, with dense, short tubercles; antennal segment

land Ill robust (less than antennal segment I}, cylindrical, with short tubercles; antennal

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segment IV fusiform, unarmed, except the basal third tuberculate; antennal segment IV

the shortest, Ill usually the longest, and II longer than |; preocellar pit deep; ocelli close

to eye; distance between ocelli to eye shorter than interocellar distance; ocellar tubercle

slightly to remarkably raised; eyes hemispheric, small, weakly protuberant; postocular

tubercle exposed, tuberculate; rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Slightly declivent; frontal angles obtuse, not exposed; anterolateral borders

obliquely straight, uniformly tuberculate; humeral angles quadrate, not exposed apicad,

outer border truncate, feebly crenulate; posterolateral borders obliquely straight, smooth;

posterior border straight, smooth; calli slightly swollen, separated at midline by nar-

row longitudinal furrow, sometimes difficult to see; posterior margin with low, irregular

transverse ridge; posterior lobe at midline with wide longitudinal furrow; anterior mar-

gin, space between calli, and posterior lobe scattered tuberculate; mesosternum deeply

sulcate; metasternum rectangular, flat, scattered tuberculate; anterior lobe of metatho-

racic peritreme raised, auriculiform, posterior lobe raised, slightly elongate; canal wide

opened, oval, with raised sides; evaporative area small.

Legs. Fore and middle femora robust, short, ventral and dorsally abruptly armed with

double row of stout and large tubercles; hind femora elongate, not strongly incrassate,

ventrally armed with double row of tiny to short stout tubercles, dorsally with double

row of irregular stout medium-sized tubercles; fore and middle tibiae short, robust, not

dilated, with dense, robust tubercles; hind tibiae elongate, not dilated, outer margin

sulcate, armed with double row of short tubercles, inner margin feebly crenulate, almost

unarmed.

Scutellum. Wider than long or as long as wide; lateral borders emarginate; anterior half

weakly depressed, posterior half raised, unarmed; apex globose to truncated; scutellar

disk with T-shaped elevation.

Hemelytra. Macropterous to submacropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal seg-

ment or anterior border of abdominal segment VII; costal margin emarginate, crenulate;

apical margin obliquely straight, and apical angle not extending beyond middle third of

hemelytral membrane; veins of hemelytral membrane densely reticulate.

Abdomen

Male. Narrower, elongately ovate or relatively dilated; connexivum elevated above

terga, with upper margin sulcated, feebly crenulate; posterior angle of each connexival

segment unarmed; posterior border of abdominal segment VII widely opened, middle

third straight to concave, and lateral lobes sharply prominent, with triangular expansion,

apically rounded; abdominal sterna with small tubercles; abdominal spiracle raised,

closest to lateral edge, far from anterior edge; abdominal spiracle Ill usually visible in

dorsal view.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge simple, not exposed, uniformly

rounded. Paramere: Fig. Ich.

Female. Abdomen strongly dilated, broadly ovate; connexivum remarkably raised above

erga, upper margin sulcated, feebly crenulate; posterior angle of each connexival seg-

ment unarmed; lateral angles of abdominal segment VII large, apically subtruncate,

slightly directed outward, middle third straight; lateral angles of abdominal segment

Vill large, triangular, apically rounded, middle third straight; abdominal segment IX

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U-shaped, lateral lobes elongated, far or close from each other, robust, and the space

between them elongated, and widely opened; abdominal sterna with sparse, small tuber-

cles; abdominal spiracle raised; abdominal spiracle Ill and VII closest to lateral edge, far

from anterior edge, and spiracles IV to VI closest to anterior edge, far from lateral edge;

abdominal spiracle Ill usually visible in dorsal view.

Female genitalia. Plica U-shaped, wide, far from posterior margin of abdominal sterni-

te VI; fissura well developed, inner margin not overlapping. Genital plates: gonocoxae |

subquadrate, upper border straight, truncate; paratergite VIII triangular; paratergite IX

elongated, narrowed, middle third constricted, apical half foliaceous, widened; ster-

nite X circular, remarkably raised between paratergite IX.

Integument

Body rather dull, blackish, densely covered with white farinaceous marks or chestnut or-

ange without withish farinaceous marks; body surface including antennal segments and

legs with short to large-sized, erect, silvery, bristle-like setae. The whitish bloom condition

is well preserved in newly matured and freshly caught individuals; it is easily rubbed off

and often became greasy in specimens captured long time ago or after immersion in

alcohol; hemelyiral membrane light brown contrasting with dark veins; cells of the mem-

brane with secondary venation giving to the wings a reticular aspect.

Comments

Choerommatus resembles Acanthocoris and Petalocnemis, in having the fore and middle

tibiae irregularly tuberculate, and antennal segment | and tylus conspicuously tuber-

culate. However, Choerommatus can be distinguished from them by having the body

dorso-ventrally flattened, eyes small, weakly protuberant, abdominal sternite X of female

remarkably raised between paratergite IX, and antennal segment | stout and robust. On

the other genera the body is not flattened dorsoventrally, the eyes are large-sized, the

female abdominal sternite X is not raised between paratergite IX, and the antennal seg-

ment | is slender.

Seven species of Choerommatus have been described, and only one, C. argillaceus Stal,

is recorded from Madagascar. In this contribution, two new species are added.

Type species

Choerommatus farinosus Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 1843.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Choerommatus

1. Tubercule des ocelles remarquablement proéminent ; couleur générale marron

orangé, sans tache farineuse ; corps densément recouvert de soies dressées,

courtes ou longues, semblables à des poils argentés … ... decoratus n. sp.

Tubercule des ocelles faiblement proéminent ; couleur générale noirätre, recou-

verte de marques farineuses ; corps non densément recouvert de soies dressées,

courtes ou longues, semblables à des poils argentés .... ay)

2. Males ..

- Femelles ....

3. Submacroptère, les ailes atteignant le fiers antérieur ou médian du segment abdo-

minal VII ; corps étroit, petit, inférieur à 9,5 mm de long ; abdomen relativement

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Ail clan Biel alien ad seseaeun dune clbdommall te cu

échancré ; longueur de l'article antennaire | inférieure à 1 mm ..... argillaceus Stal

Macroptére, les ailes atteignant presque l’apex du dernier segment abdominal ;

corps robuste, de taille moyenne, longueur inférieure à 11 mm ; abdomen di-

laté, d'un ovale large ; bord postérieur du segment abdominal Vil non largement

échancré (Fig. 4) ; longueur de l'article antennaire | supérieure à 1,20 mm.......

. linnavuorii n. sp.

Submacroptère, les ailes atteignant le tiers antérieur ou médian du segment ab-

dominal VII ; abdomen fortement dilaté ; angles latéraux du segment abdominal

VII légèrement saillants ; lobes latéraux du segment abdominal IX divergents,

l'espace entre-eux large ; stigmate abdominal Ill visible dorsalement ... =n

. argillaceus Stal

Macroptére, les ailes atteignant la marge antérieure du segment abdominal IX ;

abdomen non fortement dilaté : angles latéraux du segment abdominal Vil non

saillants ; lobes latéraux du segment abdominal IX non divergents, et l'espace entre-

eux étroit ; stigmate abdominal Ill non visible dorsalement .. linnavuorii n. sp.

Key to Malagasy species of Choerommatus

Ocellar tubercle strongly raised; overall color chesinut orange, without withish

farinaceous marks; body densely covered with short to large-sized erect, silvery,

bristle-like setae ... decoratus n. sp.

Ocellar tubercle weakly raised; overall color blackish, densely covered with fari-

naceous marks; body not densely covered with short to large-sized erect, silvery,

bristle-like setae ......

Males ....

Females ......

Submacropterous, hemelytra reaching anterior or middle third of abdominal seg-

ment VII; body narrow, small, shorter than 9.5 mm; abdomen narrow, elongately

ovate; posterior border of abdominal segment VII wide opened; antennal seg-

ment | shorter than 1 mm . argillaceus Stal

Macropterous, hemelytra almost reaching the apex of last abdominal segment;

body robust, medium-sized, longer than 1 1 mm; abdomen dilated, broadly ovate;

posterior border of abdominal segment VII not widely opened (Fig. 4); antennal

segment | longer than 1.20 mm .. linnavuorii n. sp.

Submacropterous, hemelytra reaching anterior or middle third of abdominal

segment Vil; abdomen strongly dilated; lateral angles of abdominal segment VII

slightly directed outward; lateral lobes of abdominal segment IX far from each

other, and the space between them widely opened; abdominal spiracle Il visible

in dorsal view... . argillaceus Stal

Macropterous, hemelytra reaching anterior margin of abdominal segment IX; ab-

domen not strongly dilated; lateral angles of abdominal segment VII straight;

lateral lobes of abdominal segment IX near to each other, and the space between

them narrow; abdominal spiracle III not visible in dorsal view... linnavuorii n. sp.

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Choerommatus argillaceus Stal, 1865

(Fig: Ic, d)

Choerommatus argillaceus Stal, 1865: 61-62.

Type material

Lectotype 3: Mapacascar: no locality given (NRES).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 0.90-0.94 mm; width across eyes 1.18-1.21 mm; inte-

rocular distance 0.84-0.87 mm; length antennal segments: 1, 1.06-1.08 mm, Il, 1.26-

1.28 mm, Ill, 1.54-1.56 mm; IV, 0.78-0.80 mm. Pronotum: length 1.97-2.01 mm, width

2.46-2.48 mm. Scutellum: length 0.94-0.96 mm, width 0.94-0.96 mm. Body length

9.78-9.92 mm. Body small, narrow, shorter than 9.50 mm.

Overall color blackish; apical half of antennal segment IV, and tarsi pale chestnut or-

ange; dorsal abdominal segments Ill to VI (posterior margin of Vil black) dark to pale

reddish orange; prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, and abdominal sterna Ill to VII

black to dark reddish orange; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme and

adjacent areas yellow; hemelytral membrane pale whitish-brown contrasting with dark

veins; rim of abdominal spiracles dark white.

Structure. Antennal segment | subquadrate, shorter than 1.10 mm; antennal segment Ill

the longest; ocellar tubercle weakly raised; scutellum as long as wide; submacropterous,

reaching anterior or middle third of abdominal terga Vil; abdomen narrow, elongately

ovate; posterior border of abdominal segment VII widely opened, middle third straight

to slightly concave, and lateral lobes exposed, rounded; abdominal spiracle Ill clearly

visible in dorsal view.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge simple, not exposed, uniformly rounded.

Paramere: Fig. lc, d.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.00-1.04 mm; width across eyes 1.30-136 mm; inte-

rocular distance 0.92-1.00 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.06-1.08 mm, Il, 1.26-

1.38 mm, Ill, 1.60-1.62 mm; IV, 0.80-0.92 mm. Pronotum: length 2.16-2.24 mm, width

2.60-2.76 mm. Scutellum: length 1.00-1.04 mm, width 1.00-1.04 mm. Body length

11.80-12.10 mm. Habitus and color similar to male. Body medium-sized, robust, longer

than 11.00 mm; antennal segment | subquadrate, longer than 1.05 mm.

Submacropterous; abdomen broadly oval to strongly dilated; lateral angles of abdomi-

nal segment VII large, apically subtruncated, slightly directed outward, and middle third

straight; abdominal spiracle Ill clearly visible in dorsal view; lateral angles of abdominal

segment Vill large, triangular, apically rounded; abdominal segment IX "U"-shaped, lateral

lobes elongated, far from each other, robust, and the space between them wide opened,

Comments

like in Ch. farinosus with the female abdomen broadly ovate, and posterior border of

male abdominal segment VII U-shaped. In Ch. farinosus, recorded from Chad and Sen-

egal in the Ethiopian Continent, the male has the posterior border of abdominal segment

Vil not as wide opened, and the lateral lobes shorter; the female has the lateral lobes of

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abdominal segment VII truncated, not exposed, and the lateral lobes of abdominal seg-

ment IX shorter and near to each other. In Ch. argillaceus, known from Madagascar and

Mayotte Island, the posterior border of male abdominal segment VIl are widely opened,

and the lateral lobes prominent and expanded; the female has the lateral lobes of ab-

dominal segment Vil elongate, and laterally exposed, and the lateral lobes of abdominal

segment IX elongate, and far from each other.

Distribution

This species, described from Madagascar, was first recorded from Diego Suarez and

Tananarivo (Bote 1935; Garcia Vareia 1913; Linnavuor! 1978; STAL 1865; VOLLENHOVEN

1869). It is also known from Mayotte Island.

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 2; MADacascar [without data] (NRES). New re-

cords. MADacascar : 2 29, Tamatave (IRNB); 1 9, Adivoangy, XI. 1950 (Vaoon) (MNHN);

27 44, 13 92, Rogez [without date] (NMPC}; 6 44, 2 99, Vohémar [without date]

(NMPC]; 14 44, 3 99, Ampanefena [without date] (NMPC); 5 4€, 1 9, Ambanja, Bas

Sambirano, 29.VI.1948 (A. R.) (NMPC); 2 29, Ambodivoniha, around Vohémar [with-

out date] (NMPC); 4 44, Anjouan, 800 m, IX.1958 (Raharizonina) (MNHN, UNAM);

14,19, Boeni, Maevatanana, 1901 (J. Decorse) (MNHN); 1 3, région de Sakarami,

1905 (MNHN); 4 Sd, 6 99, Region South-East, Vallée du Fanjahira, XIl.1901 (CH. At

wauo] (MNHN}; 13, 1 9, île de NossiBé, Helleville, IX. 1933 (ZMAS}; 1 9, région de

l’Androy, Ambovombe, 1901 (J. Decorse) (MNHN); 1 3, Maroantsetra, Ambodivoangy

[without date] (MNHN); 3 44, Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso [without date] (MNHN).

Choerommatus decoratus n. sp.

(Fig. le, f)

Type material.

Holotype 4: Mapacascar SourH: Bekily, VI.1936 (A. Seveic) (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 1 ©, Ambanja [without date] (NMPC); 1 4, Mahitsikakazo,

180 m, 1.1973 (A. Pevrieras) (MNHN); 1 4, Forêt d'Ambre et Maevatanana, 1907

(Cervoni) (UNAM).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin word, decorus, meaning colorfull, refering to the chestnut-orange color.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 0.98 mm; width across eyes 1.40 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.02 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.08 mm, Il, 1.48 mm, Ill, 1.52 mm; IV,

0.92 mm. Pronotum: length 2.32 mm, width 3.00 mm. Scutellum: length 1.08 mm, width

1.22 mm. Body length 11.00 mm. Body medium-sized, narrow, longer than 11.00 mm.

Overall color pale to dark chestnut orange; antennal segment IV shiny orange, basally

dark chesinut orange; hemelytral membrane pale whitish-brown, contrasting with dark

veins; legs dark chestnut orange; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme

pale chestnut orange, adjacent areas dark brown; dorsal abdominal segments shiny

orange; rim of abdominal spiracle white.

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Structure. Antennal segment | subquadrate, elongate, longer than 1.00 mm; antennal

segment Ill longer than Il; ocellar tubercle remarkably raised; scutellum wider than long;

macropterous, reaching or extending beyond the apex of last abdominal segment; abdo-

men narrowly dilated; posterior border of abdominal segment VII widely opened, middle

third semicircular, and lateral lobes exposed, rounded; abdominal spiracle III not visible

in dorsal view.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge simple, not exposed, uniformly rounded.

Paramere: Fig. le, f.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.15 mm; width across eyes 1.44 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.96 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.24 mm, Il, 1.56 mm, Ill, 1.76 mm; IV,

0.94 mm. Pronotum: length 2.40 mm, width 2.80 mm. Scutellum: length 1.16 mm, width

1.20 mm. Body length 13.25 mm. Body medium-sized, elongate, longer than 12 mm.

Color. Similar to male holotype.

Antennal segment | subquadrate, elongate, longer than 1.00 mm; submacropterous,

reaching posterior margin of abdominal segment VIl; abdomen narrowly ovate, dilated;

lateral angles of abdominal segment VII large, directed outward, straight, apically acute;

abdominal spiracle Ill visible in dorsal view; lateral angles of abdominal segment VIll

large, triangular, apically subacute; abdominal segment IX U-shaped, lateral lobes elon-

gate, robust, widely separated.

Variation

1 - Anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme, and adjacent areas pale chest-

nut orange. 2 - Posterior angles of abdominal segments Ill to VII yellow.

Comments

Choerommatus decoratus n. sp. can be distinguished from other described species by

having the ocellar tubercle conspicuously raised, the overall color chestnut orange, lack-

ing farinaceous marks, and body surface densely covered with short to large-sized erect,

bristle-like setae. In the other species, the ocellar tubercle is weakly raised, the overall

color is blackish and densely covered with farinaceous marks, and the body surface is

not densely covered with bristlelike setae.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Choerommatus linnavuorii n. sp.

(Figs 1g, h; 4)

Type material

Holotype ¢: Mapacascar East: District Mananara N, Mont Antampona [without date]

(VADON er Peyrieras) (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar East: 1 3, District Mananara N, Mont Antampona [without date]

(VADON et Pevrieras) (UNAM). Mavacascar: 1 2, East Coast, 1901 (Cx. Auuaup) (MNHN);

1 9, Mahafaly, Lovokampy [without date] (MNHN); 1 4, 3 9, Vohémar [without date]

(NMPC, UNAM); 1 2, Miandrivazo, 1.1943 (J. Herrmann) (NMPC).

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Derivatio nominis

Named for Ruano Linnavuori, distinguished Finnish entomologist.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.04 mm; width across eyes 1.28 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.04 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.40 mm, Il, 1.60 mm, Ill, 1.60 mm; IV,

1.20 mm. Pronotum: length 2.60 mm, width 3.20 mm. Scutellum: length 1.18 mm, width

1.20 mm. Body length 12.52 mm. Body medium-sized, robust, longer than 11.00 mm.

Overall color dark brown; apical half of antennal segment IV dark reddish brown; tarsi

dark reddish orange; hemelytral membrane pale whitish-brown, contrasting with dark

veins; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme and adjacent areas dark

orange; dorsal abdominal segments Ill to VI dark reddish, and VII dark reddish with

posterior margin black; rim of abdominal spiracle dark white.

Structure. Antennal segment | subquadrate, longer than 1.25 mm; ocellar tubercle weak-

ly raised; scutellum wider than long; macropterous, almost reaching the apex of last

abdominal segment; abdomen dilated, broadly ovate; posterior border of abdominal

segment Vil opened, middle third rather deep, lateral lobes roundly prominent; abdomi-

nal spiracle Ill visible in dorsal view.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge simple, not exposed, uniformly rounded.

Paramere: Fig. 1g, h.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.14 mm; width across eyes 1.60 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.18 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.46 mm, Il, 1.84 mm, Ill, 1.80 mm; IV,

1.22 mm. Pronotum: length 2.76 mm, width 3.70 mm. Scutellum: length 1.40 mm, width

1.40 mm. Body medium-sized, robust, longer than 12.00 mm.

Color. Similar to male holotype.

Structure. Antennal segment | subquadrate, longer than 1.25 mm; antennal segment Il

the longest; scutellum equilateral, as long as wide; macropterous, reaching anterior mar-

gin of abdominal segment IX; abdomen broadly ovate, dilated; lateral angles of abdomi-

nal segment VII large, straight, apically rounded, and middle third straight; abdominal

spiracle Ill not visible in dorsal view; lateral angles of abdominal segment VIII large,

triangular, apically rounded; abdominal segment IX U-shaped, lateral lobes elongated,

robust, nearly contiguous, and the space between them narrow.

Variation

1 - Body blackish. 2 - Prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, and abdominal sterna Ill

to V dark hazel orange.

Comments

This species resembles Ch. argillaceus in general appearance, with ocellar tubercle

weakly raised, body rather dull, blackish, and densely covered with farinaceous marks,

and surface not densely covered with silvery, bristlelike setae. However, it is separable

from the latter by the following characters (its opposite characters given in parentheses).

The male of Ch. linnavuori n. sp. has the body length longer than 11 mm (9.5 mm),

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antennal segment | longer than 1.20 mm (1.00 mm, or less), abdomen dilated, broadly

ovate (abdomen narrow, elongately ovate], posterior border of abdominal segment Vil

not widely opened (posterior border of abdominal segment VII widely opened), and for

the macropterous condition (submacropterous). The female is recognized by the macrop-

terous condition (submacropterous), abdomen dilated (abdomen strongly dilated), lateral

angles of abdominal segment VII siraight (lateral angles slightly directed outward), lateral

lobes of abdominal segment IX near to each other, and the space between them narrow

(lateral lobes far from each other, and the space between them wide opened, and ab-

dominal spiracle III not visible in dorsal view (visible in dorsal view).

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Genus Petalocnemis Stal, 1853

Petalocnemis Stal, 1853: 259.

Redescription

Body medium-sized, robust.

Head

Armed with eight or more short and robust tubercles; head dorsally at middle third with

narrow and raised longitudinal carina; armed with one or more rows of irregular stout

tubercles, and basally with one large and stout spine, directed upward and forward;

juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercles protruding, outer border armed with one or two

large and stout tubercles, non contiguous, and the space between them filled by tylus;

antennal segment | thickest, with dense, short spines; antennal segments Il and Ill robust

(less than antennal segment |), cylindrical, with short spines, with apical third narrowly

dilated, and densely tuberculate, and segment IV fusiform, unarmed (Figs 5; 6); antennal

segment Ill the longest, IV the shortest, and Il usually longer than |; preocellar pit deep;

ocelli far from eye; distance between ocelli to eye longer or equal to the interocellar dis-

tance; eyes hemispheric, protuberant; postocular tubercle protuberant; rostrum reaching

posterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Declivent; anterior margin tuberculate; frontal angles obtuse, not exposed;

anterolateral borders obliquely straight, tuberculate; humeral angles strongly exposed

apicad, with outer border truncate (Fig. 5), or rather small, and weakly exposed (Fig. 6);

posterolateral borders obliquely straight, densely crenulate; posterior border straight,

smooth; calli entire, weakly raised, separated at midline by narrow and raised longitu-

dinal carinalike rib; posterior margin with low, irregular transverse ridge; pronotal disk

posteriorly densely tuberculate; middle third of pronotal disk with narrow and raised

longitudinal carina-like rib; mesosternum sulcated; metasternum rectangular, flat, densely

tuberculate; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, short, auriculi-

form; canal wide open, oval, with raised sides; evaporative area well developed.

Legs. Fore and middle femora robust, short, ventrally armed with double row of stout

spines, dorsally with scattered low tubercles, and apically with one large and stout spine,

directed upward, and forward; hind femur strongly incrassate in both sexes, especially

in male, with ridge of blunt tubercles along dorsal surface, and each tubercle armed with

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a spinule, and ventrally with basal half tuberculate, and distal half with ventral surface

emarginate, and armed with one row of strong, stout, and multiple spines; dorsal surface

not emarginate, and armed with four to five stout, large spines; fore tibiae short, robust,

inner and outer margin widely dilated, inner margin unarmed, and outer margin armed

with one row of large and stout tubercles; middle tibiae short, robust, inner margin nar-

rowly dilated, unarmed, and outer margin not dilated, and armed with two rows of stout

tubercles; hind tibiae with outer and inner margins dilated, and variable throughout

the species (Figs 5; 6); undilated portion of hind tibiae densely tuberculate, with spines

along the entire surface.

Scutellum. Wider than long; anterior half depressed, and posterior half raised, and

armed with two rows of small tubercles; apex globosus; scutellar disk with Tshaped

elevation

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate; apical margin obliquely straight, with apical angle not extending beyond

middle third of the hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen. Dilated; connexivum elevated above tergum, with upper margin densely tu-

berculate, with large and stout tubercles; posterior angle of each connexival segment

armed with strong, stout, bifid tubercles; posterior border of abdominal segment VII

in males straight, in females feebly concave; abdominal sterna tuberculate; abdominal

spiracles closest to anterior edge, and far from lateral edge.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge simple, not exposed, variable.

Paramere: Fig. 1k-n.

Female genitalia. Plica U-shaped, narrow, and close to posterior margin of abdomi-

nal sternite VI; fissura well developed, with inner margins overlapping. Genital plates:

gonocoxae | subtriangular, with upper border rounded; paratergite VIII triangular; pa-

ratergite IX rectangular, longer than paratergite VIII; outer border of paratergites VIII and

IX densely tuberculate.

Integument

Body rather dull, and densely covered with short, decumbent to suberect, golden, bristle-

like setae.

Comments

This genus is similar to Acanthocoris, but can be distinguished from it by the features

given in the comments of that genus. Two species are known from Madagascar.

Type species

Acanthocoris pachycera Stal, 1855.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Petalocnemis

1. Corie brun rougeâtre foncé ; moitié basale des tibias postérieurs avec des dilata-

tion foliacées sur les faces inférieure et supérieure, et plus ou moins de mémes lon-

gueur et largeur (Fig. 5) ; angles huméraux fortement proéminents apicalement,

bord externe tronqué (Fig. 5) ; tiers apical de l'article antennaire Ill faiblement

dilaté (Fig. 5)... dilatatus (Garcia Varela) n. comb.

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~ Corie jaune, avec la moitié antérieure et l'angle apical grisétre brun rouge ;

moitié basale des tibias postérieurs non foliacée (Fig. 6) ; angles huméraux plutôt

petits, faiblement proéminents (Fig. 6) ; tiers apical de l'article Ill des antennes

fortement dilaté, obové (Fig. 6) ....2..--.ccceeeereererstereeteees inconditus n. sp.

Key to Malagasy species of Petalocnemis

1. Corium dark reddish brown; basal half of hind tibiae with outer and inner dilation

foliaceous, and more or less same width and same length (Fig. 5); humeral angles

strongly exposed apicad, outer border truncated (Fig. 5); apical third of antennal

segment Ill slightly dilated (Fig. 5) .... dilatatus (Garcia Varela) n. comb.

= Corium yellow with anterior half and apical angle greyish red brown; basal half

of hind tibiae not foliaceous (Fig. 6); humeral angles rather small, weakly exposed

(Fig. 6); apical third of antennal segment Ill strongly dilated, obovate (Fig. 6).....

.. inconditus n. sp.

Petalocnemis dilatatus (Garcia Varela, 1913) n. comb.

(Figs 1m, n; 5)

Acanthocoris dilatatus Garcia Varela, 1913: 27.

Type material

Holotype 2: Manacascar: Diego Suérez [without date] (MNCN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.24 mm; width across eyes 1.48 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.02 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.92 mm, ll, 2.16 mm, Ill, 2.24 mm, IV,

1.38 mm. Pronotum: length 2.54 mm, width across humeral lobes 4.92 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.48 mm, width 1.52 mm. Body length 10.75 mm

Dorsal color, Dark to reddish brown, with yellowish-white longitudinal stripe from apex

to anterior half of pronotum; antennal segment | pale reddish orange, with one or two

dark reddish-brown longitudinal stripes; antennal segments Il and Ill pale reddish orange

with apical third darker, and IV pale yellowish orange; callar area black to dark reddish

brown; scutellum dark reddish brown with yellowishwhite longitudinal stripe in middle

of basal third; hemelytral membrane white, with basal third, and several discoidal spots

scattered on the middle and apical third brown; dorsal abdominal segments shiny pale

orange.

Ventral color. Dark to reddish brown; apex of rostral segment IV black; anterior and

posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme dark yellow; inner dilation of tibiae with large

dark yellow to yellowish-orange discoidal or irregular spots; tarsi pale yellowish orange.

Structure. Apical third of antennal segments Il and Ill slightly dilated, and tuberculate

(Fig. 5); outer margin of antenniferous tubercles with distinct large spine; calli slightly

swollen, and bordered with tubercles; humeral lobes strongly exposed apicad, outer

border truncated, and armed with five large and stout tubercles (Fig. 5); posterolateral

borders of pronotum with large and stout tubercles; hind tibiae foliaceous in basal half,

rather slender to gracile apically; outer dilation lanceolate, sulcate, armed with two

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rows of short tubercles, and more or less the same width as inner dilation; inner dilation

lanceolate, as long as outer dilation, armed with two rows of short tubercles; undilated

portion of hind tibiae densely tuberculate, with spines along the entire surface; base of

scutellar disk strongly concave, apex scarcely swollen; clavus and corium minutely tuber-

culate; connexivum broad, conspicuously tuberculate.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge narrowly produced, uniformly rounded.

Paramere: Fig. 1m, n.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.16 mm; width across eyes 1.42 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.94 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.76 mm, Il, 1.98 mm, Ill, 2.08 mm, IV,

1.18 mm. Pronotum: length 2.56 mm, width across humeral lobes 5.00 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.56 mm, width 1.48 mm. Body length 11.77 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments VIll and IX, and genital plates dark brown to reddish brown.

Comments

This species, originally included in the genus Acanthocoris Amyot et Audinet-Serville, is

here transferred to Petalocnemis by having the apical third of antennal segments Il and Ill

dilated, middle third of head in dorsal view and middle third of pronotal disk with narrow

and raised longitudinal carinalike rib, posterior angles of connexival segments armed

with large, stout, bifid tubercles, and hind tibiae dilated on inner and outer margins.

Petalocnemis dilatatus n. comb. is clearly distinguished by having the outer and inner

margin of hind tibiae at basal half clearly foliaceous, with outer dilation as long as inner

dilation (Fig. 5), and humeral lobes of pronotum strongly exposed apicad, with outer

border truncated and armed with five large, stout tubercles (Fig. 5).

Distribution

This species is endemic to Madagascar.

Specimens examined. MapaGascar: Diego Suarez. Mavacascar: 2 44, Pays Androy,

Ambovombe, XI.1901 (CH. Auuauc) (MNHN); 1 3, Forêt d'Ambre et Maevatanana,

1907 (Cervoni) (MNHN); 6 54, 2 22, Madagascar [without data] (MNHN, NMPC,

UNAM).

Petalocnemis inconditus n. sp.

(Figs 1k, |; 6)

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Province d’Antsiranana, Forêt d'Orangea, 3.6 km, 128°,

SE Ramena, 90 m, 12°15'32"S.49°22'29"E, 22-28.I1.2001 (Fiser, Griswow et al.)

(CASC).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 1 4, 1 2, same data as male holotype (CASC, UNAM); 1 ©,

Province Diego Suarez, Sakalava Beach, 10 m, 12°15’46"S-49°23'51E, VIII.2001

[R. Harin’Hala) (dwarf littoral forest, Malaise trap, across sandy trail) (CASC); 1 9, Prov-

ince de Mahajanga, Parc National d’Ankarafantsika, Forêt de Tsimaloto, 18.3 km, 46°,

NE de Tsaramandroso, 135 m, 16°13'41"'S-46°08'37E, 2-8.IV.2001 (Fisher, Griswow

et al.) (dwarf littoral forest, Malaise trap, across sandy trail) (CASC).

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Derivatio nominis

From the Latin, inconditus, meaning irregular, refering to the irregular tubercles on the

body.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.08 mm; width across eyes 1.32 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.90 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.00 mm, Il, 1.90 mm, Ill, 2.04 mm, IV,

0.98 mm. Pronotum: length 2.08 mm, width across humeral lobes 2.72 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.16 mm, width 1.12 mm. Body length 8.67 mm.

Dorsal color. Head and pronotum greyish red brown, with yellowish-white, longitudinal

stripe from apex of head to posterior third of pronotum; antennal segments | to Ill greyish

red brown, and IV pale yellowish orange; scutellum greyish red brown, with yellowish-

white longitudinal stripe on middle of basal third, and black basally; clavus greyish red

brown; corium yellow with anterior half and apical angle greyish red brown; hemelytral

membrane greyish with inner and outer margin, and veins brown; connexivum greyish

red brown; dorsal abdominal segments Il to VI shiny orange, and VII greyish red brown,

with basal margin shiny orange.

Ventral color. Greyish red brown; apex of rostral segment IV black; tarsi yellow; anterior

and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme dark yellow; rim of abdominal spiracles

black; pleural margin of sterna IV to VII dark orange.

Structure. Antennal segment Il widely dilated apically, tuberculate; apical third of an-

tennal segment Ill strongly dilated, obovate, tuberculate; outer margin of antenniferous

tubercles with short, stout tubercles; pronotal disk tuberculate, with median longitudinal

ridge continuing on scutellum; anterolateral borders of pronotum dentate; humeral lobes

rather small, weakly exposed, not prominent (Fig. 6); posterolateral borders tuberculate;

fore and middle femora strongly tuberculate; hind femur strongly incrassate, coarsely

tuberculate, outer margin strongly expanded apicad; fore and middle tibiae flattened,

with few large teeth on outer margin; hind tibiae basally with inner dilation subtriangular,

apically rounded, and outer dilation restricted to short triangular expansion; apical half

rather gracile, inner and outer margins dentate; base of scutellum slightly concave, apex

scarcely swollen; connexivum broadly visible, minutely tuberculate.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge broad, median plate slightly concave,

exposed, and lateral angles rounded to hemispheric. Paramere: Fig. 1k, I.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.24 mm; width across eyes 1.48 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.02 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.20 mm, Il, 2.36 mm, Ill, 2.44 mm, IV,

1.28 mm. Pronotum: length 2.64 mm, width across humeral lobes 3.60 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.32 mm, width 1.32 mm. Body length 12.20 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Corium with anterior half, and apical angle

greyish red brown, and middle third yellow with three dark brown elongate marks; mid-

dle and hind tibiae with outer and inner margins greyish red brown, tinged with dark

yellowish orange; connexival segments with anterior half dark yellow, and posterior half

greyish red brown.

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Variation

1 - Antennal segment Ill dark yellow, and apically pale brownish orange.

Comments

This species can be distinguished from the other described species of Petalocnemis by

having the corium yellow with anierior half and apical angle greyish red brown, apical

third of antennal segment Ill strongly dilated, obovate and tuberculate (Fig. 6), the basal

half of hind tibiae with inner dilation subtriangular, apically rounded, and the outer

expansion restricted to a small triangular projection, and the humeral lobes rather small

(Fig. 6). In P. dilatatus n. comb., the only other species recorded from Madagascar, the

corium is dark reddish brown, the apical third of antennal segment Ill is feebly dilated

and tuberculate (Fig. 5), the basal half of hind tibia is conspicuously foliaceus and lan-

ceolate at inner and outer margins, and the humeral lobes are strongly exposed apicad,

with outer truncated border (Fig. 5).

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

Genus Pluotenia Brailovsky, 2001

Pluotenia Brailovsky, 2001: 624-625.

Redescription

Body medium-sized, robust.

Head

Tylus and juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercle unarmed, protruding, never contiguous;

antennal segment | robust, thickest, slightly curved outward, non-sulcate or flattened; seg-

ments Il and Ill cylindrical, flattened, IV fusiform; antennal segment Il the longest, Ill the

shortest, and | longer than IV; preocellar pit obliquely deep; eyes globose, protuberant;

postocular tubercle absent; rostrum barely reaching posterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Moderately declivent; frontal angles obtuse, not exposed; humeral angles

produced laterally, ending in a sharp spine; calli entire, not raised, separated at midline

by a short longitudinal furrow; anterior margin smooth; anterolateral borders obliquely

straight, uniformly tuberculate; posterolateral borders sinuous, with outer third dentate,

and inner third smooth; posterior border smooth, weakly convex; posterior margin with

an irregular and low transverse ridge; anterior lobe of pronotal disk smooth, and pos-

terior lobe densely tuberculate; mesosternum weakly convex, not sulcate, and anterior

margin lacking longitudinal furrow; metasternum rectangular, flat: anterior lobe of me-

tathoracic peritreme raised, auriculiform, and perpendiculary bending, posterior lobe

pentalobulate; canal short, semicircular, with raised sides; evaporative area poorly de-

veloped:

Legs. Fore femur robust, ventrally armed with two subdistal spines, dorsally with scattered

short tubercles; middle femur robust, ventrally armed with two subdistal spines, and one

inner row of stout spines, dorsal surface densely tuberculate; hind femur incrassate in

both sexes, especially in male, with ridge of blunt tubercles along dorsal surface, large

subdistal tooth ventrally followed by two irregular rows of spines and tubercles; fore and

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middle tibiae unarmed, sulcate; hind tibia recurved, S-shaped, outer margin sulcate, not

expanded, inner margin slightly expanded, with anterior half finely dentate, posterior

half conspicuously spinose.

Scutellum. Wider than long, flat; apex subacute; lateral margins emarginate.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate; apical margin obliquely straight, with apical angle narrower, extending

beyond middle third of the hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Parallelsided, slightly dilated posteriorly, between segments VI and VII; connexivum

slightly elevated above terga, posterior angle unarmed, outer margin sparsely tubercu-

lose; abdominal sterna conspicuously tuberculose; abdominal spiracle closer to middle

third.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge subacuminate, with deep V-shaped

concavity at middle third; lateral to the midline with conspicuous longitudinal depression.

Female genitalia. Plica U-shaped, narrow, and close to posterior margin of sternite VI;

fissura well developed, inner margins overlapping. Genital plates: gonocoxae | subtri-

angular, upper border rounded; paratergite VIII triangular; paratergite IX rectangular.

Integument

Body rather dull, covered with short decumbent to suberect whitish bristlelike setae; pos-

terior lobe of pronotal disk, propleuron, mesopleuron, metapleuron, and abdominal ster-

na conspicuously tuberculate; head, pronotum, prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum,

scutellum, connexivum, abdominal sterna, and male and female genitalia impunctate;

collar in ventral view, posterior margin of metapleuron, acetabulae, clavus, and corium

finely punctate; collar in dorsal view, calli, and anterior lobe of pronotal disk smooth;

antennal segments and legs with intermixed, short and long, decumbent to suberect whit

ish setae.

Comments

Similar to the genera Acanthocoris and Choerommatus in having the posterior lobe of

pronotal disk coarsely tuberculate, and the humeral angles acute, never obtuse and

rounded. In the genus Pluotenia, the fore and middle tibiae, antennal segment |, tylus,

and the dorsal surface of head are smooth, lacking the tubercles and spines present in

the other two genera. In Pluotenia, the abdomen is parallelsided, and not expanded

laterally as seen in Acanthocoris and Choerommatus in which the connexivum extended

and bent upward

Type species

Pluotenia pulla Brailovsky, 2001.

Pluotenia pulla Brailovsky, 2001

(Fig. 8)

Pluotenia pulla Brailovsky, 2001: 625-626.

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Diego Suarez [without date] (MNCN).

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Paratype ©: Hera Ankazoabo [without date] (MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.57 mm; width across eyes 2.05 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.20 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.70 mm; Il, 3.20 mm; Ill, 2.42 mm; IV,

2.63 mm. Pronotum: length 3.40 mm, width across humeral angles 4.75 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.55 mm, width 1.80 mm. Body length 15.60 mm.

Dorsal color. Head dark chestnut orange with space between ocelli and eyes dull yel-

low, anterior and inner margin of preocellar pit black; inner face of antennal segments

| and Il dark chestnut orange, outer face black; antennal segment Il! black with basal

third yellow, and IV yellow; pronotum dark chestnut orange with tubercles, apex of hu-

meral angle, and posterolateral border shiny reddish brown; scutellum chestnut orange

with lateral margins dull orange, apex yellow; clavus chestnut orange; corium chestnut

orange with veins and irregular spot located close to apical margin yellow; hemelytral

membrane dark ambarine with veins brown to black; connexivum reddish brown with

anterior margin and posterior border yellow; connexival segment VII reddish brown and

only with anterior margin yellow; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange.

Ventral color. Head dark chestnut orange with reddish-brown quadrangular spot lateral

to midline; rostral segments reddish brown with apical joint between segments II and Ill

and Ill and IV yellow; prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum shiny orange; anterior

half of acetabulae reddish brown and posterior half yellow with reddish-brown spots;

propleuron and mesopleuron yellow with reddish- brown irregular stripes; metapleuron

reddish brown with posterior margin yellow; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic

peritreme dull orange; outer face of legs reddish brown, inner face dark chestnut orange;

tubercles shiny orange to dark reddish brown; tibiae with single yellow ring close to

middle third; abdominal sterna yellow with black tubercles; genital capsule yellow and

basally dark brown.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.65 mm; width across eyes 2.15 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.35 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.40 mm, Il, 2.75 mm, Ill, 2.05 mm, IV,

2.10 mm. Pronotum: length 3.80 mm, width across humeral angles 5.50 mm. Scutellum:

length 1.74 mm, width 2.15 mm. Body length 17.50 mm.

Color similar to male.

Connexival segments VIII and IX reddish brown, with anterior and posterior margin yel-

low: dorsal abdominal segment Vill shiny orange with reddish-brown spot on middle

third, and segment IX reddish brown; abdominal sternite VII yellow with dark brown

irregular spots below plica; genital plates yellow.

Variation

1 - Posterior lobe of pronotal disk with median, broad, yellow, longitudinal stripe. 2 -

Dorsal abdominal segment VII dark orange, with brown stripes laterally. 3 - Abdominal

sterna with dark brown reflections.

Comments

This species belongs to the monotypic genus Pluotenia and is clearly distinguished by

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having the humeral angles produced laterally, ending in a sharp spine, and each tibiae

with single yellow ring near the middle third.

Distribution

This species was described from and is known only from Madagascar.

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: Diego Suarez and Hera Ankazoabo. New records.

Mapacascar: 1 ©, Rogez [without date] (NMPC).

Genus Phelaus Stal, 1865

Phelaus Stal, 1865: 49-50.

Redescription

Body large-sized, robust.

Head

Unarmed; tylus and juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercles protruding, unarmed, non

contiguous, and the space between them filled by tylus; antennal segment | thickest;

antennal segment Il weakly flattened at apical third, segment Ill dilated at apical third,

the dilation obovate in outline, and IV fusiform; frons deeply cleft medially; preocellar

pit deep; ocelli close to eye; distance between ocelli to eye shorter than the interocellar

distance; eyes hemispheric, protuberant; postocular tubercle contiguous, not exposed;

rostrum reaching anterior border of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Declivent; anterior margin weakly concave, smooth; frontal angles obtuse,

not exposed; anterolateral borders obliquely straight, uniformly tuberculate; humeral

lobes quadrate, exposed, outer border obtusely rounded; posterolateral borders straight,

smooth; posterior border tiny convex, smooth; calli flat, separated at midline by wider

longitudinal furrow armed with double row of tiny tubercles; posterior margin with low

iransverse ridge.

Mesosternum with median sulcus at anterior portion; mesosternum not sulcated; metaster-

num flat; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, auriculiform, posterior lobe

raised, elongately oval; canal raised, wide open, oval; evaporative area well developed.

legs. Hind coxae widely separated; fore and middle femora robust, ventrally armed

with double row of stout spines, dorsally with low tiny tubercles; hind femur recurved,

strongly incrasssate in both sexes, especially in males, dorsally with double row of stout

spines, and ventrally with stout basal spine, very large expansion near mid point armed

with stout spines, and apically with double row of stout spines; fore and middle tibiae in

both sexes sulcate, apically unarmed; hind tibia with outer surface sulcate, inner surface

flattened, dilated, with triangular expasion near middle third; apical third armed with

one row of short spines.

Scutellum. Wider than long, flat; apex subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate, smooth; apical margin obliquely straight, with apical angle not extending

beyond middle third of hemelytral membrane.

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Abdomen

Dilated; connexivum elevated above terga, with upper margin armed with double row of

tiny tubercles; posterior angle of each connexival segment unarmed; posterior border of

dorsal abdominal segment VII of males, straight, in females slightly concave; abdominal

sterna non tuberculate; abdominal spiracles closest to anterior edge, far from lateral edge.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge quadrate, middle third wide and

straight, lateral angles exposed like short wing expansion. Paramere: Fig. 1i, j.

Female genitalia. Plica U-shaped, narrow, close to posterior margin of abdominal sternite

VI; fissura well developed, inner margins overlapping. Genital plates: Gonocoxae | sub-

triangular, upper border rounded; paratergite VIII triangular; paratergite IX rectangular,

longer than paratergite VIII; outer border of paratergite VIII and IX with tiny tubercules.

Integument

Body rather dull, covered with short decumbent, silvery, bristle-like-setae.

Comments

Like Antanambecoris with the fore and middle tibiae unarmed; antennal segment | and

tylus smooth, lacking tubercles or spines; mesosternum with a median sulcus at anterior

portion, and humeral lobes entire, not angulate. Phelaus is distinguished by having an-

tennal segment Ill apically dilated, obovate in outline; the humeral angles hemispheric,

broad, raised, and directed outward; and the dorsal surface of hind femur tuberculate to

spinate. In Antanambecoris, the antennal segment Ill is uniformly cylindrical; the humeral

angles obtuse, not exposed; and the dorsal surface of hind femur smooth.

The only species included in Phelaus, P. dilaticornis (Signoret), was described based on

a single specimen collected in Madagascar.

Type species

Physomerus dilaticornis Signoret, 1860.

Phelaus dilaticornis (Signoret, 1860)

(Figs li, |; 7

Physomerus dilaticornis Signoret, 1860: 939.

Phelaus dilaticornis (Signoret): STA. 1865: 50.

Type material

Sex not mentioned: Madagascar: Nossi-bé; not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.96 mm; width across eyes 2.28 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.40 mm; length antennal segments: |, 4.56 mm, Il, 4.52 mm, Ill, 3.40 mm, IV,

3.44 mm. Pronotum: length 9.20 mm, width 10.40 mm. Scutellum: length 3.08 mm,

width 4.02 mm. Body length 27.25 mm

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus, and corium reddish black; antennal

segments | to Ill reddish brown, and IV yellow; calli black; hemelytral membrane dark

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brown; connexivum black with upper border castaneus; dorsal abdominal segments II

to V black with shiny orange marks, segment VI shiny orange with lateral margins black,

and VII shiny orange with posterior margin black.

Ventral color. Including rostral segments, legs, and pygophore reddish brown; mesoster-

num darker; hind tibia with outer and inner borders castaneus; anterior and posterior

lobe of metathoracic peritreme yellow.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.52 mm; width across eyes 2.12 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.32 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.88 mm, Il, 3.76 mm, Ill, 3.04 mm; IV,

3.08 mm. Pronotum: length 5.12 mm, width 8.52 mm. Scutellum: length 2.60 mm, width

3.32 mm. Body length 23.64 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male.

Connexival segments Vill and IX black with upper border castaneus; dorsal abdominal

segments VIII and IX black with shiny orange marks; abdominal sterna and genital plates

dark orange.

Variation

1 - Body dorsal and ventrally dark orange. 2 - Connexival segment VII black with anterior

third yellow. 3 - Dorsal abdominal segment VI black.

Comments

This species belonging to the monotypic genus Phelaus is clearly distinguished by having

antennal segment Ill apically dilated, obovate in outline; the humeral angles hemispheric,

broad, raised, and directed outward; and antennal segment IV yellow.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Madagascar. MaaGascar: Nossi-bé, and Diego Suarez (Gar-

cia VarelA 1913; SiGNoreT 1860; Srät 1865).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 3, Marolambo, Province of Vato Mandry, 1.1927

(USNM); 1 3, S. P. Antsalova, Antsingy Res., Nat., 1.1975 (A. Pevrieras) (MNHN); 4 dd,

2 22, Maroantsetra [without date] (MNHN, UNAM); 2 22, S.O. Bas Fiherena, 1911

(E Geay) (MNHN); 1 &, Beloha, dans I'Androy [without date] (MNHN).

TRIBE ANISOSCELIN| AMYOT ET AUDINET-SERVILE, 1843

Head

Conspicuously long, longer than wide; anterior portion always porrect; tylus and juga never

deflexed; antenniferous tubercles not prominent; rostrum extending beyond mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum with distinct collar; femora ventrally spined; hind femur reaching the apex of

abdomen; hind tibiae foliate and expanded dorsal and ventrally; abdomen almost par-

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allel-sided, not dilated laterally, and never spined posterolaterally. Only one genus and

one species, introduced from the Western Hemisphere, are known from Madagascar.

Genus Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (1838): pl. 12, fig. 9.

Redescription

Body small to large sized, elongate.

Head

Longer than wide, usually shorter than length of pronotum, pentagonal, porrect, and

produced forward between bases of antennae; tylus usually blunt, forming a rounded el-

evated ridge, slightly exceeding juga; juga unarmed, thickened; antenniferous tubercles

unarmed; antennal segment | thicker than segments II and III (usually same thickness as

IV), slightly curved; segments Il and Ill cylindrical, IV fusiform; preocellar pit small, nearly

circular; ocelli slightly raised, widely separated, distance between ocelli greater than dis-

tance from ocellus to eye; eyes hemispherical, prominent; postocular tubercle indistinct;

buccula smoothly rounded, short, slightly raised, not extending beyond antenniferous

tubercles; rostral length variable.

Thorax

Pronotum. Trapeziform, wider than long, strongly declivent; disc punctate, slightly rugose

and nontuberculate; collar wide; anterolateral border obliquely straight, smooth to ser-

rate; humeral angles obtuse tu greatly expanded; posterolateral borders sinuous, upper

half dentate, inner half smooth; posterior border almost straight, entire; callar region

barely elevated, raised area between calli with two small tubercles; disk posteriorly with

low median longitudinal carina; prosternum with deep excavation; mesosternum with

shallow longitudinal sulcus; metasternum flat; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme

auriculiform, posterior lobe digitiform, small, subacute.

Legs. Femora with two subapical spines, and one row of ventral acute spines; hind femur

usually incrassate and always spined or tubercled dorsally; fore and middle tibiae cylin-

drical, unarmed, and sulcate; hind tibiae foliate, expanded at inner and outer surfaces.

Scutellum. Triangular, flat, and usually longer than wide; apex subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, extending far from the apex of last abdominal segment; costal

margin emarginate; apical margin weakly sinuous

Abdomen

Connexivum slightly higher than margin of hemelytron at rest; connexival segments not

spined posteroapically; abdominal spiracles IV.VII circular, subequal in distance from

base and apex of each segment, closest to lateral edge.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge variable thought the species

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica wide, rectangular,

transversely straight; gonocoxae | triangular, large, wide, in caudal view opened; pa-

ratergite VIII almost square with spiracle visible; paratergite IX subquadrate, longer than

former paratergite.

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Comments

This genus can be distinguished from all other genera in the tribe based on the following

characters: antennal segment | shorter or subequal to head length, but always longer

than preocular distance; antennal segment Ill not expanded laterally; bucculae not ex-

tending posteriorly past base of antenniferous tubercles; male genital capsule notched

medially; and hind femur usually incrassate and always spined or tuberculated dorsally.

In Narnia, the genus most closely related to Lepfoglossus, antennal segment | is shorter

than length in front of eyes, and rostral segment IV the longest. In Leptoglossus, antennal

segment | is longer than length in front of eyes, and rostral segment | the longest.

The genus Leptoglossus is widely distributed from southern Canada, throughout the Unit.

ed States, México, the Antilles, Central America, and South America, including Chile

and Argentina. Leptoglossus gonagra (Fabricius) and L. occidentalis Heidemann are the

only species of Leptoglossus that occur outside of the Western Hemisphere. Leptoglossus

occidentalis has been recorded in Europe (Italy, Spain and France}, and L. gonagra in

Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and Africa including Madagascar (AUN

1969; BARANOWSKI & SLATER 1986; Bralovsky & Barrera 1998, 2004; Osuna 1984; Pack-

‘AusKAS 1994; Tayior et al. 2001; Tescari 2001).

Type species

Leptoglossus dilaticollis Guérin-Méneville, 1838.

Leptoglossus gonagra (Fabricius, 1775)

(Fig. 9a-c)

Cimex gonagra Fabricius, 1775: 708.

Cimex australis Fabricius, 1775: 708; synonymized by Baranowski & Sister 1986: 21.

Cimex membranaceus Fabricius, 1781: 351; synonymized by Cassis & Gross 2002: 110.

Leptoglossus gonagra (Fabricius): Stat 1868: 51.

Type material

Sex not mentioned: St. Thomas (as insula St. Thomas Americae]; not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 2.95 mm; width across eyes 2.50 mm; interocular distance

1.38 mm, preocular distance 1.75 mm, length antennal segments: 1, 3.38 mm, ll, 4.65 mm,

Ill, 3.60 mm, IV, 4.80 mm. Pronotum: length 3.70 mm, width across humeral lobes 8.50 mm.

Legs: hind tibiae: total length 12.87 mm, length of outer dilation 8.93 mm, length of inner

dilation 6.15 mm. Scutellum: length 2.90 mm, width 2.85 mm. Body length 21.50 mm.

Dorsal color. Head black with three narrow longitudinal stripes dark orange, one at mid-

line, the other two close to eyes; antennal segment | black, Il and Ill black with median

yellowish orange ring, and IV yellow with basal third black; pronotum black with narrow,

arcuate, yellowish-orange transverse fascia; intercallar space black or yellowish orange;

scutellum black with basal angles and apex yellow; clavus black with claval vein dark

reddish; corium black with yellow discoidal spot at middle third of endocorium; heme-

lytral membrane dark with basal angle almost black; connexivum black with anterior

margin yellowish orange; dorsal abdominal segments black.

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Ventral color. Head black with two wide longitudinal stripes yellowish orange lateral to

midline; rostral segments black; thorax black with following areas yellow to yellowish or-

ange: mesosternum, acetabulae, anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme

and two or three discoidal to rectangular spots on propleura, mesopleura and metap-

leura: abdominal sterna black with seven yellow to yellowish orange longitudinal stripes

(occasionally interrupted at intersegmental sutures); pleural margins black with anterior

angle or anterior border yellow; genital capsule black with lateral yellowish marks.

Head. Rostrum reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternite V.

Thorax. Pronotum. Anterolateral borders dentate; posterolateral borders with upper half

dentate, and inner half smooth; humeral angles strongly spinose, produced into sharp

spine, turning laterally and slightly upward. Legs. Hind tibiae. Outer dilation phylliform

with at least two or three shallow emarginations, occupying 75 to 90% of the length of

hind tibiae; inner dilation lanceolate, shorter than outer dilation, occupying 40 to 48%

of the length of hind tibiae.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with deeply rounded median notch; dor-

sal prongs absent (Fig. 1b). Paramere: Fig. 1c.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 3.18 mm; width across eyes 2.67 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.47 mm, preocular distance 1.87 mm, length antennal segments: |, 2.90 mm, Il,

4.40 mm, lll, 3.70 mm, IV, 4.58 mm. Pronotum: length 3.90 mm, width across humeral

lobes 8.12 mm. Legs: hind tibiae: total length 12.24, length of outer dilation 7.80 mm,

length of inner dilation 5.45 mm. Scutellum: length 3.10 mm, width 3.00 mm. Body

length 21.90 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male.

Dorsal abdominal segments VIll and IX, and connexival segments VIII and IX black; geni-

tal plates black with wide longitudinal stripe at gonocoxae |; one irregular spot on outer

faces of paratergites Vill and IX yellow to yellowish orange. Legs. Hind tibiae. Outer dila-

tion phylliform with at least two or three shallow emarginations, occupying 75 to 90% of

the length of hind tibiae; inner dilation lanceolate, shorter than outer dilation, occupying

36 to 44% of the length of hind tibiae.

Variation

1 - Body color black to dark brown, suffused with reddish-brown marks. 2 - Inner angle

of antenniferous tubercles black to yellowish orange. 3 - Clavus and corium dark reddish

brown with yellow discoidal spot at middle third of endocorium. 4 - Female genital plates

yellow to yellowish orange with inner and outer borders black. 5 - Outer dilation of hind

tibiae occupying 75 to 90% of total length of tibiae.

Comments

This is the only known species of Leptoglossus that occurs in Madagascar. It is read-

ily recognized by the presence of the following yellow to yellowish-orange areas that

strongly contrast with the black to dark brown color: narrow arcuate transverse fascia on

pronotal disk; numerous large discoidal spots on the thoracic pleura; seven longitudinal

stripes on abdominal sterna, which occasionally are interrupted at the intersegmental

sutures, if so, the stripes are made up a series of rectangular spots. Also the humeral

angles are strongly spinose, and the outer dilation of hind tibiae is relatively narrow, and

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gradually tapers to almost the end of the tibiae, occupying about 75 to 90% of the total

length of hind tibiae. This occasional pest species L. gonagra (Fabricius) is found in all

zoogeographic regions.

Distribution

Widely distributed from United States, México, the Antilles, Central America, South

America, Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Guinea, Borneo, Java, Timor, Halmahei-

ra, Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Cook

Islands, Tahiti, Malay Archipelago, Africa, New Caledonia, Seychelles Islands, and

Madagascar (AuEN 1969; Biote 1936).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 ©, Antoingy, Maintiranss Forêt, VII.1949 (R. P]

(MNHN)}; 1 3, 1 9, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza, 4.11.1945 (A. R.) (MNHN); 1 2, Mahafa-

ly, 1900 (Geanoies) (MNHN); 3 © 9, Tamatave, Andevorante, 1905 (G. Bover) (MNHN);

1 9, Ambilobe, IV.1951 (R. P) (MNHN); 8 33, 4 29, Diego Suérez, Il.1893 and

VI.1893 (CH. Auvauo) (MNHN, UNAM); 3 , 2 29, Tananarive, 1914 (Warer.or)

(MNHN). Mapacascar South West: 1 4, Plaines de Ranove, 1905 (F. Gear) (MNHN);

1 @, Bas Fiherena, 1911 (F. Geay) (MNHN). Mapacascar SoutH: 1 Bekily [without

date] (A. Sevric) (MNHN).

Tribe DALADERINI STAL, 1873

Head

Quadrate, short, wider than long, bending downward at the antenniferous tubercle lev-

el; antenniferous tubercle protruding downward, almost occupying the intertuberculare

space; antennal segment Ill usually dilated and occasionally spined; tylus not protracted;

juga anteriorly not expanded, never projected as quadrate plates; buccula situated be-

fore antenniferous tubercle or reaching anterior margin of eye; rostrum not extending

beyond abdominal sternite III

Thorax

Hind coxae almost contiguous; fore femur without subapical teeth or with two rows of

ventral spines or occasionally unarmed; hind femur not conspicuously incrassate, usually

slightly robust.

Four genera and nine species are known from Malagasy.

Clé des genres malgaches de Daladerini

1. Article antennaire Il en massue, armé de fortes épines sur le tiers distal (Fig. 10b-

g) ; femurs postérieurs robustes, armés ventralement de deux rangées de grandes

et fortes épines

= Article antennaire Il presque cylindrique sans épine distale (Fig. 10a) ; femurs

postérieurs allongés, minces, légèrement épaissis vers l'apex, avec deux minus-

cules dents parfois indistinctes ventralemen 4:8)

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2. Angles huméraux obtus, arrondis, non proéminents ; segments abdominaux non

élargis latéralement (Fig. 17) .... .. Parabrachytes Distant

= Angles huméraux fortement développés latéralement et antérieurement en lobe

arrondi en forme d’aileron (Fig. 15) ; abdomen fortement et brusquement dilaté

(Fig. 15) Odontorhopala Stal

3. Abdomen fortement élargi au mi

u, à contour rhomboidal (Fig. 16)

Chats n. gen.

= Abdomen non élargi, relativement étroit, à bords latéraux subparalléles (Figs 13;

Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky

Key to Malagasy genera of Daladerini

1. Antennal segment Il clavate, with distal third armed with stout spines (Fig. 10b-g);

hind femur robust, ventrally armed with two rows of large stout, spines ... à

= Antennal segment Il almost cylindrical, without distal spines (Fig. 10a); hind femur

elongate, slender, slightly thickened toward apex, and ventrally with two minute

of indistinct spines nent 5

2. Humeral angles obtuse, rounded, not expanded; abdominal segments not ex-

panded laterally (Fig. 17)... Parabrachytes Distant

— Humeral angles strongly produced laterally and anteriorly into rounded wing-

lobes (Fig. 15); abdomen strongly and abruptly dilated (Fig. 15] ..

" . Odentorhopala Stal

3. Abdomen strongly expanded in ea be al fv oui (Fig. 16) esseesccee

.. Odontocurtus n. gen.

= Abdomen not expanded, relatively narrow, parallelsided (Figs 13; 14)...

Healer ona iis sibs etcetera nl baler eral . Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky

Genus Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky, 2002

Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky, 2002: 112-115.

Redescription

Body medium sized to large, moderately elongate.

Head

Eyes wider than long, subquadrate, dorsally flat; tylus conspicuously deflexed, unarmed,

apically truncated, and shorter than juga; juga produced forward as a strong conical

tubercle, extending anteriorly to tylus and slightly raised in lateral view; vertex with deep

longitudinal groove along midline; antenniferous tubercle large, prominently produced,

wide, separated by distance equal to its own width; sides of head in front of eyes almost

straight; antennal segment | slightly robust, thickest and much longer than head; seg-

ments Il and Ill cylindrical, slender; segment IV fusiform; antennal segment Il longest, |

longer than Il, IV the shortest; ocelli scarcely tuberculate; preocellar pit deep, diagonally

excavated; eyes protruding, hemispherical; postocular tubercle protuberant; buccula

rounded, raised, short, not extending beyond antenniferous tubercle, with short spine

projection anteriorly; rostrum reaching anterior third of abdominal sternite III; mandibular

plate unarmed.

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Thorax

Pronotum. Trapeziform, wider than long, moderately declivent; collar indistinct; ante-

rolateral margins obliquely straight, coarsely nodulose; frontal angles obtuse; humeral

angles produced laterad, directed upward and each margin finely nodulose; posterola-

feral margin sinuate, with upper half nodulose and inner half smooth; posterior margin

smooth, concave; callar region indistinct, transversely flat, separated along midline by

an obscure longitudinal groove; posterior margin with transverse ridge, distinctly raised.

Prosternum with broad medio-longitudinal groove; metasternum entire; anterior lobe of

metathoracic peritreme elevated, reniform, posterior lobe sharp, small.

Legs. Femora slightly incrassate, surface smooth, armed with two small anteapical spines;

tibiae cylindrical, sulcate, unarmed.

Scutellum. Triangular, flat, relation length-width, with two conditions independent of the

sex, longer than wide, or wider than long, and transversely striated; apex short, acute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

with shallow groove; apical margin obliquely straight, with short apical angle almost

reaching middle third of hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Connexival segments higher than margin of hemelytron at rest, not spined posteroapi-

cally; upper margin smooth; posterior third of connexival segments Ill, IV and VII straight,

and posterior third of segments V and VI depressed, concave or diagonally truncated;

abdominal spiracle closer to anterior margin than to posterior margin.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge simple, convex. Parameres: Shaft

robust; anterior lobe convex, posterior lobe short and slender (Fig. 11a, b).

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica triangular, reaching

anterior third of sternite VII; gonocoxae | enlarged dorso-ventrally, in caudal view closed,

in lateral view convex, with upper margin rounded; paratergite VIII triangular, with

spiracle visible but difficult to see; paratergite IX subquadrate, larger than paratergite

Vill. Spermatheca. Distal bulb spherical; sclerotized duct leading from bulb moderately

coiled; chamber elongate with acute lateral spines; distal duct straigth; membranous duct

wide.

Integument

Body surface rather dull, almost glabrous. Dorsal head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus,

corium, propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, abdomen, and exposed parts of genital

segments of both sexes punctate. Ventral head, calli, connexival segments, prosternum,

mesosternum and metasternum impunctate; antenniferous tubercles granulate.

Comments

This genus is related to Parabrachytes in having a relatively narrow, non-expanded

abdomen, and the humeral angles of pronotum not conspicuously expanded into

wing-like lobes. Kerzhnercryptes has the antennal segment Il almost cylindrical with-

out distal spines; the rostrum elongate, slender and reaching abdominal sternite

Ill; each femur slender, and ventrally armed with two small subapical spines; the

humeral angles of the pronotum subacute; and the tibiae longer, and more slender.

Parabrachytes is distinguished by having the antennal segment II distally clavate and

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armed with strong spines; the rostrum short, robust, and not extending beyond the

middle third of mesosternum; the femora is robust and ventrally armed with two rows

of stout spines; the humeral angles are rounded, and obtuse; and the tibiae are short,

and robust.

Rhombolaparus is distinguished by having the abdomen conspicuously dilated, rhomboi

dal, and the humeral angles laterally expanded.

Only one species, K. perinetus Brailovsky, endemic to Madagascar, was previously

known. One new species is added.

Type species

Kerzhnercryptes perinetus Brailovsky, 2002.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Kerzhnercryptes

1. Lobes antérieur et postérieur du péritrème métathoracique noirs ; article | des

antennes sans granule ni tache brun rougeâtre ; articles II et Ill jaunätre avec le

fiers apical noir ; connexivum noir avec le tiers antérieur jaune ..

none elle

— lobes antérieur et postérieur du péritréme métathoracique jaune-créme ; article |

des antennes granuleux et couvert de taches brun rougeâtre ; articles Il et Ill cha-

tain orangé foncé avec des taches brun rougeätre ; connexivum châtain orangé

clair à foncé, avec seulement le tiers de la moitié supérieure jaune ....

couturie:

Key to Malagasy species of Kerzhnercryptes

1. Anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme black; antennal segment |

without granules and reddish-brown spots; antennal segments Il and Ill yellowish

with apical third black; connexivum black with anterior third yellow...

perinetus Brailevely

= Anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme creamy yellow; antennal

segment | granulate and covered with reddish-brown spots; antennal segments Il

and Il! dark chestnut orange with reddish brown spots; connexivum pale to dark

chestnut orange, and with only anterior third at upper half yellow

couturieri n n. sp.

Kerzhnercryptes perinetus Brailovsky, 2002

(Figs 10a; 11a, b; 14)

Kerzhnercryptes perinetus Brailovsky, 2002b: 115

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascak: Province Perinet, Analamasotra, XIl.1930 [without collector]

(ZMAS).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 3 34, 4 99, Province Perinet, Analamasotra, XIl.1930 [with-

out collector] (UNAM, ZMAS); 6 33, 6 99, District Mananara, N. Mont Antampona,

VII.1965 (VADON er Peyrieras) (MNHN, UNAM).

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Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 2.00 mm, width across eyes 2.23 mm, interocular

space 1.30 mm, preocular distance 1.32 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.71 mm,

11, 4.96 mm, Ill, 3.96 mm, IV, 2.91 mm. Pronotum: length 3.78 mm, width across

humeral angles 6.69 mm. Scutellum: length 2.31 mm, width 2.29 mm. Body length

21.10 mm.

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, clavus and corium chestnut orange; antennal segment

| yellow, ll and Ill yellow with apical third black, and IV creamy yellow; scutellum yel-

low with apex chestnut orange and a black basal square near to middle third; corium

with black spots scattered along costal border; hemelytral membrane pale orange

brown; connexival segments black with anterior third or anterior half orange yellow;

dorsal abdominal segments shiny yellowish orange.

Ventral color. Pale yellowish orange with following areas black: apex of rostral seg-

ment IV, anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme, 1 to 3 discoidal

spots on coxae, dense discoidal spots on femora and tibiae, and few scattered spots

on abdominal sterna Ill to VII.

Genitalia. Paramere: Fig. 11a, b.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.12 mm, width across eyes 2.41 mm, interocular

space 1.50 mm, preocular distance 1.44 mm; length antennal segments: |, 5.08 mm,

Il, 5.56 mm, Ill, 4.46 mm, IV, 3.10 mm. Pronotum: length 4.34 mm, width across

humeral angles 7.87 mm. Scutellum: length 2.88 mm, width 2.91 mm. Body length

24.80 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Dorsal abdominal segments Vill and IX, and geni-

tal plates pale yellowish orange.

Comments

Kerzhnercryptes perinetus can be distinguished by the yellow antennal segment | without

reddish-brown spots; antennal segments Il and Ill yellowish with apical third black; and

anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme black.

Distribution

This species is known only from Magacascar. The only previously known record came

from the original description.

Specimens examined. Maoacascar: 1 ©, Province Perinet, Andasibe Park, Perinet Prot.

Area, 19-31.XI.2001 (V. Doun) (EHCA). Mavacascar East: 2 29, District Sambava,

Marojejy, Ambinanitelo, 500 m, XIl.1958 {RaHarZONINA] (MNHN).

Kerzhnercryptes couturieri n. sp.

(Fig. 13)

Type material

Holotype G: Mapacascar East: District Sambave, R. N. XI, Marojeiy, Ambatosoratra,

1700 m, XI.1969 (P. Soca) (MNHN).

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Paratypes: Maacascar East: 3 99, District Sambave, R. N. XII, Marojejy, Beondroka,

1200 m, VI.1960 (P. Soca) (MNHN, UNAM).

Derivatio nominis

Dedicated to Guy Couturier (IRD), distinguished French entomologist.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.94 mm, width across eyes 2.10 mm, interocular space

1.17 mm, preocular distance 1.24 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.21 mm, Il,

4.65 mm, Ill, 3.84 mm, IV, 3.03 mm. Pronotum: length 3.78 mm, width across humeral

angles 5.82 mm. Scutellum: length 2.17 mm, width 2.41 mm. Body length 20.55 mm.

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum and clavus dark chestnut orange; antennal segment | dark

chestnut orange, with reddish-brown spots and armed with creamy yellow granules;

segments Il and Ill dark chestnut orange with reddish-brown spots, and IV dark yellow

with basal third black; corium dark chestnut orange with creamy-yellow irregular spot

at middle third of endocorium, and with the costal border yellow and scattered with

reddish-brown spots; scutellum dark chestnut orange with apex paler and a black basal

square near to middle third; hemelytral membrane pale orange; connexivum pale to dark

chestnut orange with anterior third at upper half yellow; dorsal abdominal segments pale

shiny orange with posterior margin of segment VII darker.

Ventral color. Pale chestnut orange with following areas black: apex of rostral segment

IV, and a discoidal spots scattered on coxae, trochanters, femora, tibiae and abdominal

sterna; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme creamy yellow; pleural

margins of abdominal sterna pale chestnut orange with anterior third yellow.

Structure. Rostrum reaching posterior border of metasternum; humeral angles slightly

produced laterad.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 2.00 mm, width across eyes 2.17 mm, interocular space

1.24 mm, preocular distance 1.26 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.58 mm, Il,

4.85 mm, Ill, 4.02 mm, IV, 2.97 mm. Pronotum: length 3.90 mm, width across humeral

angles 6.75 mm. Scutellum: length 2.62 mm, width 2.69 mm. Body length 22.85 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, and genital plates

pale chestnut orange with reddish-brown spots; dorsal abdominal segment VIII shiny

orange, and IX pale chestnut orange.

Variation

1 - Ventral spines of femur creamy yellow.

Comments

In K. perinetus, the only previously known species, antennal segment | is relatively slen-

der, unarmed, without granules, and without reddish-brown spots; antennal segments Il

and Ill are yellowish with apical third black; the anterior and posterior lobes of metatho-

racic peritreme are black; the connexivum is black with anterior third yellow; and the hu-

meral angles are more expanded (Figs 13; 14). In K. couturieri n. sp., antennal segment

Lis slightly more robust, armed with granules and densely covered with reddish-brown

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spots; antennal segments Il and Ill are dark chestnut orange with reddish-brown spots;

the anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme are creamy yellow; and the

connexivum is pale to dark chestnut orange, and only with upper half yellow.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Genus Odontocurtus n. gen.

Derivatio nominis

The generic name is combination of the Latin word, curtus, meaning short, and the prefix

from the closely related Odontorhopala.

Description

Body medium sized, rather dull, and almost glabrous.

Head

Quadrate, wider than long, dorsally flat; tylus unarmed, apically globose, suddenly

bending downward between antenniferous tubercles, and shorter than juga; juga un-

armed, straight, longer than tylus, extending anteriorly, and apically obtuse; space be-

tween antenniferous tubercles filled by tylus and juga; frons with longitudinal impression

behind tylus; antenniferous tubercles unarmed, protruding, never contiguous; antennae

shorter than body; antennal segment | robust, thickest, granulate, with few small and

obtuse spines; segments Il and Ill cylindrical, apically slightly thickened, and IV fusiform;

antennal segment Il the longest, IV the shortest, and | longer than Ill; ocelli at equal dis-

tance from eyes and from each other; preocellar pit deep; eyes globose, protuberant;

postocular tubercle moderately exposed; mandibular plate absent; neck short; buccula

rectangular, raised, short, not projecting beyond antenniferous tubercles, unarmed, meet-

ing posteriorly and closed; rostrum reaching middle third of metasternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Trapeziform, wider than long, declivent; collar wide; frontal angles obtuse,

not exposed; humeral angles produced laterally into an angulate projection; anterior

border smooth; anterolateral margins obliquely straight, uniformly granulate; posterola-

teral borders sinuous, with upper third granulate, and inner third smooth; posterior bor-

der smooth, straight; calli entire, not raised, separated at midline by short longitudinal

furrow; anterior lobe of pronotal disk with few punctures, and posterior lobe densely

punctate; posterior margin with an irregular transverse ridge; triangular process absent.

Prosternum markedly sunken, with posterior third in front of the area between fore coxae

produced into narrowed acute tubercle; mesosternum convex, with deep median longi-

tudinal groove, and with anterior margin in front of fore coxae produced into two broad

arms; metasternum hexagonal, with shallow and wide middle groove; anterior lobe of

metathoracic peritreme reniform, posterior lobe short, subacute; canal short, wide open,

semicircular, with raised sides; evaporative area weakly developed.

Legs. Femora not distinctly swollen, slightly thickened toward apex; ventrally with two

rows of short and acute spines, and dorsally granulate; tibiae sulcate, unarmed.

Scutellum. Triangular, wider than long, flat, apically subacute, and shorter than clavus;

scutellar disk punctate.

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Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate, barely granulate; apical margin obliquely sinuous, with apical angle almost

reaching the middle third of the hemelytral membrane; clavus and corium densely punctate.

Abdomen

Strongly dilated, specially at segment V; connexivum conspicuously raised above ter-

gum, with upper margin sparsely granulate; connexival segments Ill and IV with posterior

angle unarmed, V subtruncate, VI clearly bifid, and VII obliquely straight, with triangular

projection apically rounded; abdominal spiracle circular, closer to anterior third.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Simple, globose; posteroventral edge entire, transverse-

ly sinuous. Paramere: Fig. 1 le, f.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica narrow, closer to

posterior border of abdominal sternite VI; fissura well developed, with inner margins

overlapping; gonocoxae | exposed, convex, in caudal view closed; paratergite VIll trian-

gular, spiracle visible; paratergite IX subquadrate, longer than paratergite VIII.

Comments

Like Odontorhopala with the abdomen strongly and abruptly dilated. Parabrachytes and

Kerzhnercryptes, the other two previously known Daladerini from Madagascar, have the

abdomen relatively narrow and almost parallel-sided.

In Odontorhopala, the apical third of antennal segment Il is strongly clavate and tuber-

culated, the humeral angles of pronotum strongly produced laterally and anteriorly into

rounded wing-like lobes, the juga barely longer than tylus, the metasternum flat, and

the rostrum reaching anterior or middle third of mesosternum. Odontocurtus n. gen. has

the apical third of antennal segment Il almost cylindrical, not tuberculated, the humeral

angles produced laterally into an angulate projection, the juga longer than tylus, the

metasternum hexagonal, with shallow and wide groove, and the rostrum reaching mid-

dle third of metasternum.

Type species

Odontocurtus consociatus n. gen., n. sp.

(Figs 1 le, f; lé)

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar East: District Mananara-N, Seranambe, VII.1965 (VADON Er

Peyrieras) (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar East: 2 ¢ District Mananara-N, Seranambe, VII.1965

(VADON et Pevrieeas) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 &, District Ivontaka, Maroantsetra, 8 m, Ill. 1958

(Soga, Raharizonina) (MNHN). Mapacascar: 1 4, 1 2, Anbadikala, Riv. Ranomena,

Brickaville, IX.1954 (A. R.) (MNHN); 1 4, environs de Rogez [without date] (NMPC).

Mapacascar Center: 1 3’, Province Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana Nat. Park, Vohiparara

area, 1050 m, 21°1403"S-47°23'09"E, stop # 98-26, 12.IV.1998 (D. H. KavaNAUGH]

(CASC) (collected by beating suspended clusters of dead leaves and twigs at mixed

tropical forest); 1 9, Province Fianarantsoa, Vohiparara Env., 17-18.1X.2002 (I. Jeni)

(NMPC); 1 9, Province Tdamasina, Moramanga Env., 9-12.1.2003 (I. Jeni) (NMPC).

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Derivatio nominis

From the Latin word, consociatus, meaning united.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.88 mm, width across eyes 1.76 mm, interocular

space 1.00 mm, length antennal segments: |, 2.48 mm, Il, 2.96 mm, Ill, 2.32 mm, lV,

1.80 mm. Pronotum: length 3.04 mm, width across humeral angles 5.92 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 1.84 mm, width 2.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 6.60 mm. Body

length 15.15 mm.

Dorsal color. Head and pronotum pale orange; antennal segments | to Ill pale orange,

and IV pale orange with basal third pale reddish; scutellum dark orange, basally with

two black spots lateral to midline, and apically yellow to creamy yellow; clavus and

corium pale orange with punctures darker and veins and apical margin yellowish or-

ange; endocorium with pale brown elongate mark; hemelytral membrane dark ambar-

ine with basal angle and few spots scattered on disk dark brown; connexival segments

dark orange brown with anterior margin of connexival segments Ill, IV, and Vil yellow;

dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange

Ventral color. Dark to pale orange with punctures darker; rostral segments pale orange

with apex of IV black; legs pale orange with spines and granules yellowish orange; an-

terior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme yellow; pleural margins dark orange

brown with anterior third of sterna Ill, IV and Vil yellow; genital capsule dark orange.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.92 mm, width across eyes 1.82 mm, interocular

space 1.08 mm, length antennal segments: |, 2.28 mm, Il, 2.88 mm, Ill, 2.12 mm, IV,

1.72 mm. Pronotum: length 3.36 mm, width across humeral angles 6.64 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 1.88 mm, width 2.32 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 8.50 mm. Body

length 16.68 mm.

Color and habitus similar to male holotype. Connexival segments Vill and IX, and

genital plates pale orange with punctures darker; dorsal abdominal segments VIII and

IX shiny orange to pale orange.

Variation

1 - Anterolateral borders of pronotum yellowish orange. 2 - Scutellar disk basally with

two black discoidal spots and in between a yellow mark. 3 - Femora yellow, suffused

with pale red marks. 4 - Tibiae yellow with pale red marks.

Distribution

The new species is known only from Madagascar.

Genus Odontorhopala Stal, 1873

Odontorhopala Stal, 1873: 55-56.

Redescription

Body medium sized to large, rather dull, and almost glabrous.

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Head

Quadrate, wider than long, dorsally flat, and apex suddenly bending downward be-

tween antenniferous tubercle; tylus unarmed, apically rounded, and laterally scarcely

lower than juga; juga barely longer than tylus, unarmed, globose; space between anten-

niferous tubercles filled by tylus; frons with longitudinal impression behind tylus; anten-

niferous tubercles unarmed, protruding forward, never contiguous; antennae shorter than

total body length; antennal segment | robust, thickest, slightly curved outward, densely

granulate, spinose, and non sulcated or flattened; antennal segment Il cylindrical, gran-

ulate, apically slightly to strongly incrassated, and strongly tuberculated; segment Ill

cylindrical, granulate, apically weakly incrassated, and segment IV fusiform; antennal

segment Ill the shortest, |, Il, and IV subequal, or Il the longest, and | longer than IV, or

| the longest, and Il longer or shorter than IV (Fig. 10b); ocelli near to eyes; preocellar

pit deep; eyes globose, protuberant; postocular tubercle barely exposed; mandibular

plate absent; neck short; buccula rectangular, raised, short, not projecting beyond anten-

niferous tubercles, anteriorly rounded, meeting posteriorly, and closed; rostrum reaching

anterior margin of mesosternum; rostral segment Ill the shortest, | and Il subequal, and

IV shorter than Il.

Thorax

Pronotum. Wider than long, steeply declivent; collar wide; anterior border slightly

concave, smooth; frontal angles obtuse, not exposed; anterolateral borders obliquely

straight, finely dentate; humeral angles foliaceous, broadly expanded into long and

wide anteriorly curving ascending processes, with borders finely dentate; posterolateral

borders sinuous, smooth; posterior border almost straight, smooth; calli entire, not raised,

separated at midline by short longitudinal furrow; triangular process absent; posterior

margin with transverse ridge; pronotal disk densely punctate.

Prosternum markedly sunken, with posterior third in front of the area between fore coxae

produced into subacute tubercle;

Mesosternum convex with median longitudinal groove, with anterior margin in front of

fore coxae produced into triangular projection;

Metasternum flat; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme auriculiform, elongate, poste-

rior lobe short.

Legs. Femora densely granulate, not distinctly swollen, with two rows of strong and acute

ventral spines; hind femora conspicuously robust (less in female); tibiae sulcate, cylindri-

cal, and densely granulate.

Scutellum. Triangular, wider than long or subequal, flat, shorter than clavus, and laterally

emarginate; scutellar disk striate; apex subacute, flat.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate, barely nodulose; apical margin obliquely sinuous, with apical angle nar

row, almost reaching the middle third of the hemelytral membrane; clavus and corium

densely punctate.

Abdomen

Strongly and abruptly dilated, especially on segments IV-V; connexivum conspicuously

raised above tergum, with upper margin barely granulate; posterior angle of connexival

segment Ill unarmed, at IV subacute, elongate, at V and VI clearly bifid, and at VII round-

ed, with triangular projection apically rounded, and near to anterior third; abdominal

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spiracle circular, closer to middle third.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Simple, globose; posteroventral edge entire, transverse-

ly convex. Paramere: Fig. 1 1c, d.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica narrow, near to

posterior margin of abdominal sternite VI; fissura well developed, with inner margin

not overlapping; gonocoxae | exposed, convex, in caudal view closed; paratergite

Vill short, subtriangular, with spiracle visible; paratergite IX foliaceous, larger than

paratergite VIII.

Comments

Odontorhopala is most closely related to Parabrachytes. Both genera are restricted to

Madagascar, and have the apex of antennal segment Il incrassate and tuberculated,

and the femora of both sexes not swollen and ventrally armed with two rows of spines.

Odontorhopala is distinguished by having the humeral angles of the pronotum strongly

foliaceous; the hind femora robust; the abdomen strongly and abruptly dilated espe-

cially at segment IV.V; and the postocular tubercle slightly visible. In Parabrachytes the

humeral angles are weakly prominent; the hind femora moderately robust; the abdo-

men moderately and regularly dilated in both sexes; and the postocular tubercle well

developed.

Rhombolaparus has the abdomen conspicuously dilated and rhomboidal; the humeral

angles are laterally expanded but not produced as large, broadly rounded process; and

the apex of antennal segment Il are not strongly incrassate and tuberculated.

The genus contains a single species, ©. callosa Stal, endemic to Madagascar. On this

contribution one new species is added

Type species

Odontorhopala callosa Stal, 1873.

Clé des espèces malgaches d’Odontorhopala

1. Article Il des antennes entièrement jaune, avec le tiers apical non épaissi et non

tuberculé ; corps parsemé ventralement de quelques taches noires arrondies .....

pallescens n. sp.

= Article Il des antennes jaune avec le tiers apical noir, fortement épaissi et tuber-

culé ; corps densément recouvert ventralement de taches noires arrondies .........

callosa Stal

Key to Malagasy species of Odontorhopala

1. Antennal segment Il entirely yellow; apical third of antennal segment Il not in-

crassate and not strongly tuberculated; body ventrally with some scattered black

discoidal spots ioe pallescens n. sp.

= Antennal segment Il yellow with apical third black; apical third of antennal seg-

ment Il strongly incrassate and tuberculated; body ventrally densely covered with

black discoidal spots callosa Stal, 1873

ne de Madagascar / 94 —nsecto Hemipiera Heteroptera Coreidae 65

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Odonierhopala callosa Stal, 1873

(Figs 10b; 11c, d)

Odontorhopala callosa Stal, 1873: 56.

Odontorhopala bergrothi Distant, 1893: 54 n. syn.

Odontorhopala geminata Bergroth, 1912: 82-83 n. syn

Type material

Holotype ©: Odontorhopala callosa Stal, Mapacascar: [without date] (NHMW).

Holotype 4: Odontorhopala bergrothi Distant, Mabacascar: Fianarantsoa (BMNH).

Holotype ©: Odontorhopala geminata Bergroth, MapaGascar: Forest of Province of East

Perinet; not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 2.30 mm, width across eyes 2.40 mm, interocular

space 1.30 mm, length antennal segments: |, 5.10 mm, Il, 5.10 mm, Ill, 3.20 mm, IV,

4.50 mm. Pronotum: length 4.20 mm, width across humeral angles 11.60 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 2.70 mm, width 2.70 mm, Abdomen: maximum width 11.90 mm. Body

length 23.65 mm.

Dorsal color. Head dark orange, scattered with small black discoidal spots; antennal

segment | yellow with numerous, small black to reddish-brown spots; antennal segment II

yellow with black to reddish-brown spots, and apical third entirely black, segment Ill yel-

low with black to reddish-brown discoidal spots, and IV yellow; pronotum dark orange,

with numerous small black discoidal spots, and large black discoidal spot at middle third

behind calli; scutellum black to reddish brown with apex and irregular spot near mid-

dle third of basal margin dark orange; clavus and corium dark to pale yellow with dark

hazel orange spots; hemelytral membrane dark orange with basal angle black, and disk

suffused with dark brown irregular spots; connexival segments Ill, IV and VII with anterior

half yellow and posterior half dark orange with few small black spots; connexival seg-

ments V and VI dark orange with few small black spots; dorsal abdominal segments pale

yellowish orange, suffused with pale brown irregular marks.

Ventral color. Dark orange with numerous small black spots; rostral segments yellow-

ish orange with reddish-brown to black discoidal spots on segments | to Ill; coxae and

trochanters dark yellowish orange with black spots; femora dark yellowish orange with

mummercuslolnck spo aivinaterblecEmprecsion witiuberclestand cones creciny vel

low; tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish orange; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic

peritreme yellowish orange; rim of abdominal spiracle yellow.

Structure. Antennal segment | with large, robust spines; apical third of antennal segment

Il strongly incrassate and tuberculated.

Genitalia. Paramere: Fig. 1 1c, d.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.20 mm, width across eyes 2.40 mm, interocular space

1.30 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.60 mm, Il, 5.10 mm, Ill, 3.10 mm, IV, 4.50 mm.

Pronotum: length 4.20 mm, width across humeral angles 11.40 mm. Scutellum: length

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2.95 mm, width 3.10 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 13.40 mm. Body length 24.15 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX dark orange, with

scattered black spots; dorsal abdominal segments VIll and IX dark to pale yellowish or-

ange; genital plates dark orange with numerous black spots.

Variation

1 - Anterolateral, posterolateral and posterior borders of pronotum pale yellow. 2 - Con-

nexival segments not clearly bifid. 3 - Dorsal color occasionally black. 4 - Proportions

between measurements of antennal segments | to IV variable through the specimens.

5 - Lateral expansion of the pronotal humeral angles variable through the specimens.

Comments

The different degree in which the lateral expansion of the pronotal angles is developed,

the different proportions between the measurements of antennal segments | to IV, as well

as the proportion between width and length on the scutellum, and the high variation in

dorsal and ventral color are unquestionably intraspecific and for that reason only the

type species of the genus, O. callosa is retained, and ©. bergrothi and O. geminata are

considered as junior synonyms.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. Mapacascar: Province of East Perinet

(BercrotH 1912); Tananarive and Tamatave (Bide 1938); Diego Suarez (Garcia VARELA

1913).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 9, Province Perinet, Analamasotra, XI.1939 [with-

out collector] (ZMAS); 1 ©, Rogez, W of Fanovana, 1934 (Chauvin) (ZMAS]; 1 ©,

Antsiranama, 6.5 km, SSW Befingetra Res., 14°45'S-49°39'E, 875 m, 17-31.X.1994

(B. L. Fi) (CASC); 1.3, 1 9, Marofezy, XIl.1972 [without collector] (MNHN, UNAM);

1 2, 1 ©, District Sambava, R. N. XI, Marojeiy, Ambatosoratra, 1140-1700 m,

X1.1959, x 1960 (P. Soca) (MNHN); 3 29, Province Fianarantsoa, Parc National Rano-

mafana, Bellevue at Talatakely, 945-1130 m, 21°15'99S-47°25'21E, 12.XI.1998,

2-10.1.2002, 24.VI-5.VII.2002 (R. Harin’Hala) (CASC); 1 3, Province Tamatave, Ma-

ramanga Env., 27-30.XI.1996 (I. Jenis) (NMPC); 3 44, 6 29, Environs de Rogez

[without collector] (NMPC); 1 @, Vallée du Mongoro, Env. de Moramanga, 1915 (M.

UncemacH] (MNHN}; 2 99, Province Fanovana, 1906 (Crenn) (MNHN); 2 9g

Province Perinet, Andasibe, Park Perinet Prot. Area, 19-31.XI.2001 (V. Doun) (EHCA);

1 3, Baie d’Antongil, Hiaraka, 500-1000 m, IX.1970 (A. Pevrieras) (MNHN); 1 3, Baie

d'Antongil, Ambohitsitondrona, XI.1951 {J. Vaoon) (MNHNJ; 1 , Province lonenar vel

Reg. de Soabierana, 205) (AmatHiaux) (MNHN); 1 & sBezanozano} 1898 [without col-

lector] (MNHN}; 1 &, Fort Dauphin, 1914 (P. Goosi) (MNHN); 1d, Maroantsetra,

X.1935 (J. Vaon) (MNHN).

ER ne n. sp.

(Fig

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: (collection Nouatier, 1898) [without date] (MNHN).

3: Mavacascar [without date] (UNAM).

Paratype

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Derivatio nominis

The epithet, pallescens, refers to the overall pale color of antennal segments | to IV.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 2.00 mm, width across eyes 2.40 mm, interocular

space 1.20 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.52 mm, ll, 4.30 mm, Ill, 3.00 mm, IV,

4.70 mm. Pronotum: length 4.00 mm, width across humeral angles 10.80 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 2.75 mm, width 2.80 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 11.10 mm. Body

length 23.00 mm.

Dorsal color. Head dark orange; antenniferous tubercles with scattered dark orange

granules; antennal segments | to Ill yellow with reddish brown granules, and IV yellow;

pronotum dark orange, punctures darker and following areas black to dark brown: large

discoidal spot near middle third and behind calli, and anterolateral margins and anterior

margins of humeral angles (anterolateral border yellowish orange); scutellum black to

reddish brown with apex and discoidal spot near the middle third yellow; clavus and

corium dark yellow with dark hazel orange punctures, and elongate pale brown mark at

endocorium; basal half of hemelyiral membrane almost entirely dark brown and poste-

rior half dark yellow and densely suffused with dark brown irregular marks; connexival

segment Ill dark brown with anterior border yellow, segments IV and VII dark brown with

anterior third yellow, V dark brown, and VI dark brown with inner border of anterior mar-

gin yellowish orange; dorsal abdominal segments pale yellowish orange, with posterior

margin of segment VII pale brown.

Ventral color. Dark orange with reddish to dark hazel orange punctures, and few, scat-

tered black granules on abdominal sterna Ill to Vil; rostral segments yellowish orange

with reddish-brown to black discoidal spots on segments | to Ill; coxae and trochanters

yellowish orange with black spots; femur dark yellowish orange with numerous black

spots giving a black impression, with tubercles and spines creamy yellow; tibiae and

tarsi pale yellowish orange; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme yel-

lowish orange; rim of abdominal spiracle yellow.

Structure. Antennal segment | with short and robust spines; antennal segment Il cylindri-

cal, granulate, and apically tuberculated and slightly incrassated.

Female

Unknown.

Comments

In O. pallescens n. sp., the antennal segment Il is entirely yellow and apically tubercu-

lated and slightly incrassate; and the spines of antennal segment | are short and robust.

In ©. callosa, the antennal segment Il is yellow with the apical third black, and apically

strongly tuberculated and incrassate; and the spines of antennal segment | are large and

robust.

Distribution

The new species is known only from Madagascar.

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Genus Parabrachytes Distant, 1879

Parabrachytes Distant, 1879: 213-214.

Redescription

Body medium sized to large, rather dull, and almost glabrous.

Head

Quadrate, wider than long, dorsally flat, and apex suddenly bending downward be-

tween antenniferous tubercles; tylus unarmed, apically globose, barely raised, extending

anteriorly to and laterally scarcely higher than juga; jugum unarmed, globose; space be-

tween antenniferous tubercles filled by tylus; antenniferous tubercles unarmed, protruding

forward, never contiguous; antennae shorter than body; antennal segment | robust, thick-

est, slightly curved outward, densely granulate, and non sulcated or flattened; segment

Il cylindrical, granulate, and apically incrassated and strongly tuberculated; segment Ill

cylindrical, granulate, and apically weakly incrassated; segment IV fusiform; antennal

segment Il the longest, and segments |, Ill and IV subequal (Fig. 10c-g); ocelli close to

eyes; preocellar pit deep; eyes globose, protuberant; postocular tubercle moderately

exposed; mandibular plate absent; neck short; buccula rectangular, raised, short, not

projecting beyond antenniferous tubercles, with small spiny anterior projection, meeting

posteriorly and closed; rostum reaching anterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Trapeziform, wider than long, declivent; collar wide; frontal angles obtuse,

not exposed; humeral angles moderately dilated, somewhat rounded; calli entire, not

raised, separated at midline by short longitudinal furrow; anterior border slightly con-

cave and granulose; anterolateral borders obliquely straight, barely granulose; postero-

lateral borders sinuous, scarcely granulose; posterior border concave, almost smooth;

triangular process absent; posterior margin with an irregular transverse ridge; pronotal

disk densely granulose and punctate.

Prosternum markedly sunken, with posterior third in front of the area between fore coxae

produced into subacute tubercle; mesosternum convex, with median longitudinal groove,

and with anterior margin in front of fore coxae produced into two broad arms.

Metasternum flat; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme reniform, posterior lobe short,

subacute.

Legs. Femora densely granulose, not distinctly swollen, and with two rows of strong and

acute ventral spines; tibiae sulcate and densely granulose.

Scutellum. Triangular, wider than long or as long as wide, flat, shorter than clavus; scutel-

lar disc striate; apex subacute, not elevated; lateral margins emarginate.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of the last abdominal segment; costal mar-

gin emarginate, barely nodulose; apical margin obliquely sinuous to straight, with apical

angle narrow, and almost reaching the middle third of the hemelytral membrane; clavus

and corium densely punctate.

Abdomen

Moderately and evenly dilated on each side; connexival segments elevated, with poste-

rior angle unarmed, and upper margin barely granulose; abdominal spiracle circular,

closer to the middle third.

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Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Simple, globose; posteroventral edge entire, transverse-

ly straight to sinuous. Paramere: Figs 11g, h; 12ah.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica narrow closer to

posterior margin of abdominal sternite VI; fissura well developed, with inner margins not

overlapping; gonocoxae | elongated anteroposteriorly, in caudal view closed, in lateral

view with external face sinuous; paratergite VIII short, triangular, with spiracle visible;

paratergite IX foliaceous, longer than VIII.

Comments

Related to Odontorholapa, both genera are endemic to Madagascar and characterized

by having the apex of antennal segment Il incrassate and tuberculated; the femora of

both sexes not swollen, ventrally armed with two rows of spines. Parabrachytes is distin-

guished by having the humeral angles of the pronotum weakly prominent, the abdomen

moderately and evenly dilated in both sexes, and the postocular tubercle well developed

In Odontorhopala, the humeral angles are produced into strongly foliaceous lobes, the

abdomen is strongly and abruptly dilated specially at segments IV-V, and the postocular

tubercle is barely visible.

The genus contains five species; one new species is added.

Type species

Parabrachytes coloratus Distant, 1879.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Parabrachytes

1. Articles antennaires Il et Ill, tarses, thorax et abdomen, noirs .

= Articles antennaire Il et Ill jaunes, le Il avec des tubercules et le tiers apical noir ;

farses jaunâtre orangé ; thorax et abdomen jamais noirs .

2. Trochanters et femurs noirs ; tête noire dorsalement..... longicornis Garcia Varela

= Trochanters, tiers basal et distal des femurs jaunes ; tête jaune dorsalement .......

. coloratus Distant

3. Longueur totale du corps supérieure à 22 mm ; longueur de l'article antennaire II

supérieure à 4,40 mm 4

= Longueur totale du corps inférieure à 18 mm ; longueur de l'article antennaire Il

inférieure à 3,30 mm...

Tiers apical de l'article antennaire Il remarquablement épaissi en massue et tuber-

culé ; angles huméraux subaigus, dirigés vers le haut........ morondavus Brailovsky

= Tiers apical de l'article antennaire Il légèrement épaissi et tuberculé ; angles hu-

méraux modérément arrondis .... . antsalovus Brailovsky

Bord externe de la corie avec des taches brunes et jaunes alternées ; article an-

tennaire Il! fortement épaissi en massue et tuberculé ; membrane de l'hémélytre

ambrée pâle, avec des taches diffuses brun orange fonc: .. obscurus Distant

= Bord externe de la corie orange pâle ; article antennaire Il légèrement épaissi et

faiblement tuberculé ; membrane de l'hémélyire ambrée sombre .

... Inornatus n. sp.

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Key to Malagasy species of Parabrachytes

1. Antennal segments Il and Ill black; tarsi black; thorax and abdomen black...

= Antennal segments Il and Ill yellow, with tubercles and apical third black; tarsi

yellowish orange; thorax and abdomen never black

2. Trochanters and femora black; head dorsally black........ longicornis Garcia Varela

- Trochanters, and basal and distal third of femora yellow; head dorsally yellow .....

.. coloratus Distant

4.40 mm...

— Total body length shorter than 18.00 mm; antennal segment Il shorter than

3.30 mm cre

4. Apical third of antennal segment Il strongly clavate and tuberculated; humeral

angles subacute, directed upward.….................... morondavus Brailovsky

- Apical third of antennal segment Il tuberculated but not strongly clavate; humeral

angles moderately rounded.... antsalovus Brailovsky

Costal margin of corium with alternating brown and yellow spots; antennal seg-

ment Il strongly clavate and tuberculated; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine

and suffused with dark orange- brown discoidal spots... obscurus Distant

= Costal margin pale orange; antennal segment Il slightly clavate, and weakly tu-

berculated; hemelytral membrane dark ambarine..….............. inornatus n. sp.

Parabrachytes antsalovus Brailovsky, 2002

{Figs 10d; 11g, h; 17)

Parabrachytes antsalovus Brailovsky, 2002a : 97-99.

Type material

Holotype 2: Mapacascar: Ankara-Fankaika, 20.1.1950, A. R. (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar West: 1 4, 3 29, Antsalova, Antsingy Res. Nat., 1.1975 (A. Pey-

RERAS) (MNHN, UNAM)

Redescription

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.80 mm, width across eyes 2.50 mm, interocular

space 1.39 mm, length antennal segments: |, 5.10 mm, Il, 5.50 mm, Ill, 4.40 mm, IV,

4.30 mm. Pronotum: length 5.70 mm, width across humeral angles 9.80 mm. Scutellum:

length 3.20 mm, width 3.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 13.10 mm. Body length

28.10 mm.

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, clavus and corium pale reddish orange; antennal seg-

ment | yellow with black tubercles, Il and Ill yellow with tubercles and apical third yellow,

and IV yellow with basal joint black; antenniferous tubercles black; scutellum black with

lateral margins and apex yellow; costal margin of corium pale brown with reddish-or-

ange spots; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine; connexival segments reddish orange

with anterior margins of segments Il, Ill, and VII yellow; dorsal abdominal segments Il to

Vi black with middle third shiny orange, and segments VII to IX shiny orange.

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Ventral color. Including anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme and genital

plates reddish orange with anterior margin of pleural sterna Il, Ill, and VII pale yellow;

rostral segments yellow with punctures and apex of segment IV black; coxae, trochanters,

femora, and tibiae yellow, with tubercles suffused with black; tarsi yellowish orange; rim

of abdominal spiracle yellow.

Head. Apical third of antennal segment Il tuberculated but not strongly clavate (Fig. 10d).

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.60 mm, width across eyes 2.35 mm, interocular

space 1.35 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.10 mm, Il, 4.80 mm, Ill, 3.90 mm, IV,

4.10 mm. Pronotum: length 4.80 mm, width across humeral angles 8.20 mm. Scutellum:

length 2.70 mm, width 2.90 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 11.00 mm. Body length

24.10 mm.

Color and habitus similar to female, Costal margin of corium reddish orange; connexival

segments reddish orange with anterior margins of segments Il, Ill, VI, and VII yellow;

dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange with black spot at lateral third on segments II

to VI; genital capsule reddish orange.

Genitalia. Paramere: Fig. 11g, h.

Comments

This species is similar in size and habitus to P. longicornis. In P. antsalovus, the pronotum

is reddish orange, antennal segments | to IV yellow with tubercles, distal third of seg-

ments Il and Ill and basal joint of IV black, legs yellow suffused with black, tarsi yellowish

orange, and thorax and abdomen reddish orange. In P longicornis, the pronotum is red.

dish orange with anterior lobe, including the calli black, antennal segments, legs, thorax

and abdomen black to reddish brown, and connexivum black with anterior margin of

segments Il to Vil usually yellow.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. The only previously known record came

from the original description (Braloysky 2002a).

Specimen examined. Mapacascak: 1 2, Isalo Nat. Park, camp Namaza, near Ranohira,

17-18.1.2007 (M. TeyzNa) (PBCC).

Parabrachytes coloratus Distant, 1879

(Figs 10F; 12a, b)

Parabrachytes coloratus Distant, 1879: 214.

Type material

Lectotype ¢: Mapacascar: Antananarivo [without date] (BMNH).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.75 mm, width across eyes 2.40 mm, interocular

space 1.32 mm, length antennal segments: |, 3.40 mm, 1, 4.20 mm, Ill, 3.00 mm, IV,

3.45 mm. Pronotum: length 4.22 mm, width across humeral angles 7.90 mm. Scutellum:

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length 2.50 mm, width 2.60 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 10.30 mm. Body length

22.30 mm.

Dorsal color. Head yellowish orange; postocular tubercle and neck black; antennal seg-

ments | to Ill black with basal joint of | and Il yellowish orange, and IV dark reddish black

with basal and apical joint black; pronotum and scutellum biack; clavus and corium

pale reddish orange; costal margin of corium with anterior half black and posterior half

orange; hemelytral membrane dark brown; connexivum black with anterior margin yel-

lowish orange; dorsal abdominal segments reddish orange, with posterior margin of VII

black.

Ventral color. Head black with anterior third and rostral segments yellowish orange (apex

of segment IV black); thorax including acetabulae and anterior and posterior lobe of

metathoracic peritreme black; legs black with apical third of coxae, basal and apical

margin of femora, and basal third of tibiae yellowish orange; abdominal sterna black

with anterior third of pleural sterna Ill to VII, and rim of abdominal spiracle yellowish

orange; genital capsule black.

Head. Antennal segment Il clavate, and strongly tuberculated (Fig. 10f).

Thorax. Pronotum. Humeral angles moderately exposed, slightly subacute.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge scarcely sinuous. Paramere: Fig. 12a, b.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.83 mm, width across eyes 2.45 mm, interocular

space 1.35 mm, length antennal segments: |, 3.70 mm, Il, 4.28 mm, Ill, 3.50 mm, IV,

3.90 mm. Pronotum: length 4.70 mm, width across humeral angles 8.30 mm. Scutellum:

length 2.70 mm, width 3.00 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 10.70 mm. Body length

24.00 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments Vill and IX, and genital plates black.

Head. Antennal segment Il slightly clavate, and weakly tuberculated.

Comments

This is the only species in the genus Parabrachytes with antennal segments Il and Ill,

scutellum, thorax, abdomen, and tarsi entirely black.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar (Distant 1879; Garcia Varea 1913;

Brattovsky 2002a).

Specimens examined. 1 4, 4 29, Ambohusti Vondroina, 1000 m, [without date] (Va-

DON) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 2, Ambohimitombo, 1874 (MNHN); 2 99, Mandraka,

between Tananarivo and Tamatave, Forêt de Manjavandriana, 1910 (A. Mariiaux)

(MNHN, UNAM); 1 ©, Tananarivo, Lamberton, 1912 (MNHN); 1 4, 2 29, Ambala-

marovandana, 1500-1600 m, 15-25.1.1971 (MNHN); 1 3, 1 2, Diego Suarez [with-

out date] (MNCN). New records. Mapacascar: 2 99, Montagne d’Ambre, Lac Belle

étape, X-XII.1903 [Macauka] (NMPC); 1 9, Province Moramanga, Anosibellody, 1000-

1200 m, 31.1.1993 (G. Dunay, J. JANAk) (NMPC); 1 9, Ranomafana Nat. Park, near

Ranomafana Village, 26-31.1.2007 (M. Teyzna) (PBCC); 1 ©, Province Fianarantsoa,

Ranomafana Nat. Park, Belle Vue at Talatakely, 1020 m, 21°15'99"5-47°25'21"E, 15-

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28.V.2003 (R. Harin’Hata) (CASC); 1 3, Ampijoroa, Ankarafantsika, 1070 m, 1.1957

(R. E) (MNHN); 2 99, Province Diego Suérez, Analamerana, 50 km SE Diego Suérez,

80 m, 1.1959 (A. Roason) (MNHN); 1 ©, Montagne d'Ainore, Les Roussettes, 1100

m, IX.XI.1958 (A. Rosinson) (MNHN); 1 3, Env. de Perinet, Forêt d'Analamazoates,

910 m, XIl.1972 (Pevrieras) (MNHN).

Parabrachytes inornatus n. sp.

(Fig. 12e, f)

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar South: W of Faux-Cap, XII.1951 (R. P) (MNHN).

Paratypes: MaDacascar SourH: 5 44, W of Faux-Cap, XII.1951 (R. P.) (MNHN; UNAM);

1 9, Ambovombe, VI.1939 (Asaoie) (MNHN); 2 3d, Pays Androy, Ambovombe,

XI.1901 (Cx. Auuauo) (MNHN).

Derivatio nominis

Named for the fact that this species, like many others of this genus, does not exhibit any

conspicuous structural features.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.74 mm, width across eyes 1.90 mm, interocular space

1.16 mm, length antennal segments: |, 2.80 mm, Il, 3.20 mm, Ill, 2.52 mm, IV, 1.80 mm.

Pronotum: length 3.34 mm, width across humeral angles 4.88 mm. Scutellum: length

1.88 mm, width 1.96 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 7.08 mm. Body length 16.42 mm.

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, clavus and corium pale orange; tylus, juga and anten-

niferous tubercles with reddish-brown tubercles; antennal segment | yellow with reddish-

brown tubercles, segments Il and Ill yellow with apical third black, and pale reddish-

brown tubercles. sceiterad throughisthe segment-andiIViÿellowiwith: Basal third: pale

orange brown; scutellum black with lateral margins and apex pale orange; hemelytral

membrane dark ambarine; connexivum dark orange with anterior border of segments Ill

and IV yellow; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange.

Ventral color. Head, thorax, abdominal sterna, and genital capsule pale orange; rostral

segments | to Ill yellow with reddish-brown tubercles, and IV yellow with apex black;

mesosternum pale yellowish orange with reddish-brown tubercles; anterior and posterior

lobe of metathoracic peritreme yellow; coxae, trochanters, femora and tibiae yellow with

reddish-brown tubercles; tarsi yellowish orange; rim of abdominal spiracle anteriorly yel-

low and posteriorly black; anterior border of pleural sterna Ill and IV pale yellow.

Head. Antennal segment Il slightly clavate, and weakly tuberculated; antennal segment

Ill weakly clavate.

Thorax. Humeral angles subtruncated, not exposed.

Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge transversely convex, with deep and short longitudi-

nal furrow on middle third.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.64 mm, width across eyes 2.00 mm, interocular space

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1.28 mm, length antennal segments: 1, 3.00 mm, ll, 3.68 mm, Ill, 2.60 mm, IV, 1.96 mm.

Pronotum: length 3.50 mm, width across humeral angles 5.68 mm. Scutellum: length

1.92 mm, width 2.32 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 8.00 mm. Body length 18.06 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Connexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal

abdominal segments Vill and IX, and genital plates pale orange.

Variation

] - Scutellar disk basally with pale orange spot on middle third.

Comments

Parabrachytes inornatus n. sp., and P. obscurus are the smallest species of the genus,

size 18.10 mm or less. In P. inornatus n. sp., the costal margin of corium is entirely pale

orange; antennal segment Il slightly clavate and weakly tuberculated, the hemelyiral

membrane dark ambarine, and connexival segments VI and Vil dark orange. In P. ob-

scurus, the costal margin has alternating brown and yellow spots, antennal segment Il is

strongly clavate and tuberculated, the hemelytral membrane pale ambarine and suffused

with dark orange-brown discoidal spots scattered throught the disk, and connexival seg-

ments VI and VII dark orange red, and usually with the anterior margin yellow.

Distribution

This new species is known only from Madagascar.

Parabrachytes longicornis Garcia Varela, 1913

(Fig. 10c)

Parabrachytes longicornis Garcia Varela, 1913: 20-21.

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Diego Suérez (MNCN).

Redescription

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.00 mm, width across eyes 2.43 mm, interocular

space 1.32 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.10 mm, Il, 4.80 mm, Ill, 3.70 mm, IV,

4.10 mm. Pronotum: length 5.08 mm, width across humeral angles 9.40 mm. Scutellum:

length 3.10 mm, width 3.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 10.34 mm. Body length

25.32 mm.

Dorsal color. Head black with neck dirty yellow; antennal segments | to Ill black and IV

dark reddish brown with basal joint black; pronotum reddish orange with collar, anterior

margin and calli black; scutellum black with lateral margins and apex yellow; clavus and

corium including costal margin reddish orange; hemelytral membrane dark ambarine

with veins darker; connexivum black with anterior margin of segments Il and Ill, and VI

and Vil yellow or anterior margin of segments Il to VIl yellow, and inner margin of seg-

ments IV and V black or dirty orange brown; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange,

except segment IX black.

Ventral color. Black with anterior margin of pleural sterna Il and Ill, and VI and VII yellow

and propleura and abdominal sterna Ill and IV with reddish-orange reflections; rostral

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segments chestnut brown (apex of IV black); mesosternum with longitudinal furrow dirty

yellow; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme, and legs black; rim of

abdominal spiracle anteriorly yellow and posteriorly black.

Thorax. Humeral angles rounded, moderately exposed and slightly directed upward.

Male

Unknown

Comments

Similar to P. coloratus in having antennal segments II and Ill, the thorax, abdomen, and

tarsi black. In P. longicornis, the head and legs are entirely black, and the pronotum

orange red with anterior lobe black. In P. coloratus, the head dorsally, trochanters, basal

and distal third of femora, and basal third of tibiae yellow.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar (Garcia Varia 1913; Bratovsky 2002q).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 ©, Onkarana Plaine de Diego Suarez [without

date] (Vaoon, Peveieras) (MNHN); 1 ©, Contreforts du Tsaratanama Haut. Sambirano,

Vallée de la Besanetrikely, 9-12.XII.1963 (P. Verre) (MNHN). Maacascar: 1 ©, Rogez

[without date] (NMPC]

Parabrachytes morondavus Brailovsky, 2002

(Figs 10e; 12g, h)

Parabrachytes morondavus Brailovsky, 2002a: 99-100.

Type material

Holotype : Mapacascar: Antsalova, Antsingy Res. Nat. 1.1975 (A. Peveras) (MNHN).

Paratypes: Maoacascar: 1 4, Morondava Foret, Sud de Befasy, 1.1956 [R. P) (UNAM);

1 , Antanemora, 300 m, 11.Xil. 1959 (E. S. Ross} (CASC); 1 9, Antsalova, Antsingy

Res. Nat., 1.1975 (A. Pevaieras) (MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.90 mm, width across eyes 2.40 mm, interocular

space 1.40 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.30 mm, Il, 4.60 mm, Ill, 3.60 mm, IV,

3.20 mm. Pronotum: length 4.50 mm, width across humeral angles 8.00 mm. Scutellum:

length 2.80 mm, width 3.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 12.70 mm. Body length

24.00 mm.

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, clavus and corium pale reddish orange; antennal seg-

ments | to Ill yellow with tubercles and distal third black, and IV yellow with basal joint

pale brown; scutellum pale reddish orange with two basal spots lateral to midline black

or dark brown; hemelyiral membrane ambarine with pale brown discoidal spots scat-

tered throught the disk; connexivum reddish orange with black tubercles, and with ante-

rior margins of segments Il, Ill, and VIl and upper anterior margins of V and VI yellow;

dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange.

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Ventral color. Including head, thorax, abdomen, and genital capsule pale reddish or-

ange, with anterior margin of pleural sterna Il, Ill and VII and upper anterior margin of V

and VI yellow; tubercles of abdominal sterna black; rostral segments yellow with apex of

IV black; coxae, trochanters, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellow with black tubercles; ante-

rior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme and rim of abdominal spiracle yellow.

Head. Apex of antennal segment Il remarkably clavate and tuberculated (Fig. 10e]

Thorax. Humeral angles subacute, slightly exposed, and directed upward.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge transversely straight, at middle third with

elongate furrow. Paramere: Fig. 12g, h.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.90 mm, width across eyes 2.40 mm, interocular space

1.40 mm, length antennal segments: |, 4.30 mm, Il, 4.70 mm, Ill, 3.50 mm, IV, 3.10 mm.

Pronotum: length 4.70 mm, width across humeral angles 9.10 mm. Scutellum: length

3.10 mm, width 3.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 13.00 mm. Body length 23.20 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments VIII and IX, and genital plates reddish orange.

Comments

This species is related to P. antsalovus and P. obscurus in having antennal segments Il

and Ill yellow with tubercles and distal third black, pronotum reddish orange and tarsi

yellowish orange. Parabrachytes morondavus is recognized by having the hemelytral

membrane dark with fuscous spots, by the peculiar shape of humeral angles of pronotum,

by having the apical third of antennal segment Il strongly clavate and tuberculated, and

the total body length over 22.00 mm. In P. obscurus, antennal segment Il is tuberculated

but not strongly clavate, and the total body length is shorter than 18.00 mm.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. The only previously known record came

from the original description (Braovsky 2002a)

Specimens examined. Mavacascar: 1 9, Province Diego Suérez, Analamerana, 50 km

SE Diego Suarez, 80 m, 1.1959 (A. Rosinson) (MNHN); 1 3, 1 2, Province Antsalova,

Andobo, Foret Antsingy, 1900 m, Il.1957 (P. Gr (MNHN).

Parabrachytes obscurus Distant, 1879

(Figs 10g; 12c, d)

Parabrachytes obscurus Distant, 1879: 214-215.

Type material

Lectotype 3: Mabacascar: Antananarivo [without date] (BMNH).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.45 mm, width across eyes 1.70 mm, interocular space

1.00 mm, length antennal segments: |, 2.40 mm, Il, 2.40 mm, Ill, 2.05 mm, IV, missing

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Pronotum: length 3.40 mm, width across humeral angles 6.00 mm. Scutellum: length

2.10 mm, width 2.30 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 8.10 mm. Body length 16.92 mm.

Dorsal color. Head pale yellowish orange with pink reflections, and with the tubercles

black to reddish brown; antennal segment | yellow with tubercles suffused with black,

segments Il and Ill yellow with basal joint and distal third black, and IV yellowish orange

with pink reflections; costal margin of corium with alternating brown and yellow spots;

hemelytral membrane pale ambarine with dark orange brown discoidal spots scattered

throught the disk, and with anterior third including basal angle dark orange brown; con-

nexivum dark orange red with tubercles black, and with anterior margin of segments Il,

Ill, and VII yellow or with anterior margin of segments Il to VII yellow; dorsal abdominal

segments shiny orange with posterior margin of VII dark orange.

Ventral color. Dark orange with pink reflections, tubercles black, and following areas

shiny yellow: anterior margin of pleural sterna Il, Ill, and VII, or Il and VII, and rim of

abdominal spiracle; acetabulae, and posterior margin of metasternum dirty yellow with

punctures orange pink; rostral segments dark yellow with tubercles of segments | and Il

and apex of segments Ill and IV black; coxae, trochanters, femora, and tibiae yellow

with tubercles and punctures suffused with black; tarsi shiny yellowish orange; anterior

and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme dark orange to yellow; genital capsule dark

orange.

Thorax. Humeral angles rounded, moderately exposed

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge transversely straight, with short longitudi-

nal furrow at middle third. Paramere: Fig. 12c, d

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.70 mm, width across eyes 2.00 mm, interocular space

1.15 mm, length antennal segments: |, 2.70 mm, Il, 3.20 mm, Ill, 2.60 mm, IV, missing.

Pronotum: length 3.30 mm, width across humeral angles 5.20 mm. Scutellum: length

1.90 mm, width 2.00 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 7.30 mm. Body length 17.32 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX dark orange red;

dorsal abdominal segments VII to IX shiny orange; genital plates dark orange.

Comments

Parabrachytes obscurus can be distinguished from other species by the long, robust

creamy yellow spines on antennal segment |, the costal margin of corium alternating

brown and yellow spots, and the hemelytral membrane ambarine with fuscous discoidal

spots.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar (Distant 1879; Branovsky 2002a).

Mapacascar: 1 2, Dinbohitantely, 1.1956 (MNHN); 2 44, 1 © [without date] (MNHN,

UNAM); 1 4, Ambatolampy [without date] (MNHN); 2 33, 2 99, Andringitra, Forêt

de Vakoana, 2100 m, 2.X1.1949 (MNHN); 1 &, Manjakatompo, XII.1948 (Caruson)

(MNHN); 1 2, Ambovombe, VI.1939 (UNAM). New records. Mapacascar: 1 9, 30 km

SEE of Betroka, 2 km E of Vohitrosa Forest, 1400-1825 m, 17-23.XI.1998 (P. Buursck)

(NMPC); 4 33, 9 99, Antsirabe, |.1953 (Bouver) (MNHN, UNAM); 6 33), 4 99, Man-

anjary, 8-30.1.1940 (M. Agave) (MNHN}; 1 d, Andohahelo, 1500 m [without date] (R.

P) (MNHN); 2 dd, 3 99, Bezanozano, 1898 (MNHN).

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Tige DASYNINI BerGrotH, 1913

Body dull and pale colored, medium to large-sized, relatively broad, nearly parallel.

sided.

Head

Comparatively long, wider than long, shorter than length of pronotum, distinctly pro-

duced and surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus not protracted, apically rounded;

antennal segment | cylindrical, apically slightly expanded, not clavate or dilated; anten-

nal segment IV longer than |; eyes hemispheric, protruding; rostrum slender, reaching or

extending beyond mesosternum.

Thorax

Claval suture not longer than apical corial margin; mesosternum anteriorly not sulcate;

legs slender; fore femora unarmed or with two rows of spines or tubercles ventrally;

male hind femora not distinctly incrassate, reaching middle third of abdomen, and not

attaining the apex of last abdominal segment; hind tibiae sulcate, not expanded or only

expanded ventrally.

Abdomen

Parallel-sided, not dilated laterally; abdominal sterna without lateral discoidal glandular

capsules; abdominal spiracle small, rounded, situated before the middle of sternum and

much closer to middle third of pleural margin.

Only one genus and two species are known to Madagascar.

Genus Madagalaesus Brailovsky, 2007

Madagalaesus Brailovsky, 2007: 847-850.

Redescription

Body nearly parallel-sided.

Head

Wider than long, pentagonal, non-declivent, dorsally flat, and distinctly produced and

surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus unarmed, apically globose, barely raised,

extending anteriorly to and laterally higher than juga; juga unarmed; antenniferous tu-

bercles unarmed, continuous, almost circular, not prominent, widely separated; anten-

nal segment | thicker than succeeding segments, cylindrical, curved outward, apically

slightly expanded, longer than head; antennal segments Il and Ill slender, slightly ex-

panded apically, and flanked by carinae, and segment IV fusiform; antennal segment

IV the longest, III the shortest, and | longer than Il, or antennal segment Il the longest,

Ill the shortest, and IV longer than |; ocelli distant, placed near eyes; ocellar tubercles

barely raised; preocellar pit deep; eyes globose, upper margin located almost at same

level as frontal and vertex area; postocular tubercle indistinct; mandibular plate un-

armed; buccula rectangular, raised, short, entire, not projecting beyond antenniferous

tubercles, meeting posteriorly, and closed; rostrum slender, reaching posterior margin

of metasternum or posterior margin of abdominal sternite Ill; rostral segment | not

extending beyond base of head or reaching anterior margin of prosternum, or reach-

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ing or passing posterior margin of metasternum; rostral segment IV the longest, Ill the

shortest, and | and II subequal.

Thorax

Pronotum. Trapezoidal, wider than long, gradually declivent; collar wide; anterior bor-

der almost straight, smooth; frontal angles barely exposed; anterolateral borders ob-

liquely straight, nodulose; humeral angles thick at base, tapering into strongly large,

acute spine, pointing strongly dorsad, or tapering into medium-sized to stout spine point

ing laterally, slightly laterad, and barely dorsad; posterolateral borders sinuous, outer

third nodulose, inner third smooth; posterior border straight or weakly concave, smooth;

calli indistinct, not raised, with deep submedial longitudinal furrow; triangular process

absent; pronotal disk without longitudinal medial carinae; posterior margin with low

transverse ridge, running between humeral angles.

Prosternum with deep excavation; mesosternum and metasternum entire; anterior margin

of mesosternum in front of the area between fore legs produced into broad, blunt keel.

Legs. Slender, unarmed; fibiae cylindrical, sulcate.

Scutellum. Triangular, longer than wide, flat, apically subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginated; apical margin sinuous with apical angle obtuse, extending beyond middle

third of membrane.

Abdomen

Connexivum raised above tergum, with posterior angle sometimes produced into short,

subacute spine; abdominal sterna without medial furrow; abdominal spiracles circular,

small, closest to anterior border, and remote from upper border of connexivum; abdomi-

nal spiracle Il not visible.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles rounded, and

mesial lobe stout and apically bifid, or mesial lobe short and rounded (Fig. 19a, b).

Paramere: Fig. 19e, f.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite Vil with plica and fissura; plica short, subtriangu-

lar, reaching anterior margin of the sternite, or reduced to small hemispheric elevation;

fissura covering 2/3 to almost the entire length of sternite; gonocoxae | wide, enlarged

anteroposteriorly, in caudal view closed, in lateral view convex; paratergite VIII triangu-

lar, spiracle visible; paratergite IX projected as a broad subquadrate lobe (Fig. 19c, d).

Integument

Body rather dull, almost glabrous; posterior lobe of pronotal disk, clavus and corium

strongly punctated; head, calli, connexivum, prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, ab-

dominal sterna, male genital capsule, and female genital plates not punctate; propleura,

mesopleura, metapleura and acetabulae strongly punctate or with scattered punctures;

scutellum transversely striated, strongly punctate or with scattered punctures; tibiae and

tarsi densely clothed with large, erect, bristlelike setae; antennal segments with tiny se-

tae, not densely adpressed.

Comments

Madagalaesus, like Galaesus, have the postocular tubercle indistinct, antenniferous tuber-

cles unarmed, rostral segment IV the longest, collar wide, femora unarmed, and female

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abdominal sternite Vil with plica and fissura. Madagalaesus, known only from Madagas-

car, is recognized by having the humeral angles projected into large and acute spines,

abdominal sterna Ill to VI yellow to pale yellowish orange, without black anterior margin,

and antennal segments Il and Ill cylindrical, with apical third weakly stout and carinate. In

Galaesus, recorded from the African continent, the humeral angles are obtuse and round-

ed, the abdominal sterna Ill to VI yellow or pale yellowish orange, or reddish orange and

always with the anterior margin black, and antennal segments Il and Ill uniformly carinate,

with apical third cylindrical or strongly expanded, and obovate (Bralovsky 2007).

Type species

Madagalaesus garciai Brailovsky, 2007.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Madagalaesus

1. Face dorsale de la tête jaune orangé pâle avec une mince bande noire médiane,

longitudinale ; pronotum sans bande noire transversale prés de la marge posté-

rieure ; scutellum orange pâle avec deux taches basales noires arrondies ; angles

huméraux étirés en longue pointe remarquablement aiguë ; bord postéroveniral

du pygophore avec un fort lobe médian bifide .... … garciai Brailovsky

— Face dorsale de la tête jaune pâle sans bande noire médiane longitudinale ;

pronotum avec une large bande transverse noire près de la marge postérieure ;

scutellum jaune foncé avec une ponctuation brun rouge ; angles huméraux étirés

en épine de taille moyenne ou robuste, dirigée vers l'extérieur et à peine vers

l'arrière ; bord postéroventral du pygophore avec un petit lobe médian court et

arrondi : 3 . Notios Brailovsky

Key to Malagasy species of Madagalaesus

Head dorsally pale orange yellow with narrow longitudinal black stripe at mi-

dline; pronotal disk without black transverse stripe near to posterior margin; scu-

tellar disk pale orange, basally with two black discoidal spots; humeral angles

tapering into strongly large, acute spine; posteroventral edge of male genital

capsule apically bifid with stout mesial lobe... garciai Brailovsky

— Head dorsally pale yellow without longitudinal black mesial stripe; pronotal disk

with wide transverse black stripe near to posterior margin; scutellum dark yellow

with reddish-brown punctures; humeral angles tapering into medium-sized or stout

spine, pointing laterally and barely posteriad; posteroventral edge of male genital

capsule with mesial lobe short and rounded... . notios Brailovsky

Madagalaesus garciai Brailovsky, 2007

(Figs 19a, df; 21]

Madagalaesus garciai Brailovsky, 2007: 850-853.

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Diego Suarez ? (Légion étrangère), 1903 (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 2 Sd, 1 ©, Hera, Ankazoabo [without date] (MNHN, UNAM);

1 2, Morondava, Forêt Sud de Betasy, 1.1956 (R. P) (MNHN). Mapacascar SourH: 1 ©

(A. Seyeic) [without date] (UNAM).

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Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 2.20 mm; width across eyes 2.28 mm; interocular dis-

tance 1.14 mm; interocellar distance 0.60 mm; length antennal segments: |, 4.33 mm,

1, 3.87 mm, Ill, 3.11 mm, IV, 4.94 mm. Pronotum: length 3.34 mm, width across

humeral angles 6.61 mm. Scutellum: length 2.12 mm; width 1.90 mm. Body length

18.27 mm.

Color. Pale yellowish orange with following areas black: head dorsally with single and

narrow longitudinal stripe on midline, apex of rostral segment IV, anterolateral margins

of pronotum, large discoidal spot on propleura, mesopleura and metapleura, two wide

discoidal spots on basal third of scutellar disk, basal 2/3 of costal margin of corium,

large discoidal spot between abdominal segments VVI, two large discoidal spots on ab-

dominal sterna Ill to V, and one on sterna VI-VII; antennal segment | reddish brown with

apical third black, and IV reddish brown with middle third black; hemelytral membrane

dark brown with basal angle pale yellowish orange.

Structure. Antennal segment IV the longest, Ill the shortest, and | longer than Il; rostrum

reaching posterior margin of metasternum; rostral segment | reaching base of head;

humeral angles tapering into strongly large, acute spine pointing upward; connexivum

with posterior angles produced into short subacute spine; propleura, mesopleura, meta-

pleura, and acetabulae strongly punctate.

Genitalia, Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles rounded, and mesial

lobe stout, apically bifid (Fig. 19a). Paramere: Fig. 19e, F.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.97 mm; width across eyes 2.37 mm; interocular distance

1.32 mm; interocellar distance 0.65 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.42 mm, ll,

3.26 mm, Ill, 2.67 mm, IV, 3.95 mm. Pronotum: length 3.42 mm, width across humeral

angles 6.46 mm, Scutellum: length 2.12 mm; width 1.90 mm. Body length 18.70 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Antennal segment | dark yellow, with basal joint paler;

antennal segments Il and Ill dark yellow with apical third black, and IV dark yellow with

middle third pale brown; connexivum shiny reddish orange, with upper border pale yel-

low; dorsal abdominal segments shiny reddish orange with pale brown discoidal spot

between segments V and VI; genital plates pale yellowish orange.

Genital plates: Plica short, subtriangular, reaching anterior margin of sternite; fissura

covered 2/3 of total sternite length (Fig. 19d).

Variation

1 - Antennal segment | dark orange with basal joint paler. 2 - Antennal segments Mand

Ill dark orange with apical third black. 3 - Antennal segment IV dark orange with middle

third pale brown. 4 - Connexivum and dorsal abdominal segments shiny reddish orange.

5 - Upper border of connexivum pale yellow or shiny reddish orange. 6 - Abdominal

sterna Ill and V with one large black discoidal spot.

Distribution

This species, recently described from Madagascar (Bratovsky 2007), is endemic to that

region. Known only from Madagascar.

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Specimens examined. Mapacascar: Diego Suarez, Hera (Ankazoabo), Morondava, and

Bekily.

Madagalaesus notios Brailovsky, 2007

(Figs 19b-c; 20)

Madagalaesus notios Brailovsky, 2007: 853-855.

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: District Mahajamba, Mahaganga, River Ampatika Env., 10-

12.XI1.1996 (I. Jeans) (NMPC).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 1 4, Bezanozano [without date] (MNHN); 1 2, Ampandran-

dava (A. Seyric) [without date] (UNAM).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.76 mm; width across eyes 2.05 mm; interocular distance

1.09 mm; interocellar distance 0.48 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.49 mm, Il,

4.18 mm, Ill, 2.66 mm, IV, 3.87 mm. Pronotum: length 2.81 mm, width across humeral

angles 5.01 mm. Scutellum: length 1.90 mm; width 1.67 mm. Body length 15.30 mm.

Dorsal color. Head pale yellow; preocular and postocular areas black; antennal segment

| shiny reddish orange, Il and Ill dark orange with apical third black, and IV with basal

half pale orange (basal joint black) and apical half pale brown (apex dark brown);

pronotum pale yellow with anterolateral margins, borders of humeral spine, and wide

transverse stripe near posterior margin black; posterior margin dark yellow with reddish-

brown punctures; scutellum dark yellow with reddish-brown punctures, and apically pale

yellow; clavus dark yellow with reddish-brown punctures; corium dark yellow, costal

margin black (except apical third), with reddish-brown punctures; hemelytral membrane

dark yellowish with basal angle pale brown; connexivum yellow with posterior angle

and inner border black; dorsal abdominal segments Ill to VI shiny reddish orange, and

VII shiny reddish orange with posterior border yellow and black stripe dorsally.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with apex of rostral segment IV, and large discoidal spot on

abdominal sterna IV and V black; coxae and trochanter pale yellow; femora dark yellow

with apex tinged with pale orange marks; tibiae and tarsi shiny reddish orange.

Structure. Antennal segment Il the longest, Ill the shortest, and IV longer than |; rostrum

reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternite Ill; rostral segment | reaching anterior

margin of prosternum; humeral angles tapering into medium-sized or stout spine pointing

laterad, and barely posteriorly and dorsally; connexivum with posterior angles produced

into short subacute spine; propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, and acetabulae with scat-

tered punctures.

Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles rounded, and mesial lobe short

and rounded (Fig. 19b).

Female

Measurements. Head; length 2.05 mm; width across eyes 2.28 mm; interocular distance

1.29 mm; interocellar distance 0.60 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.64 mm, Il,

4.25 mm, Ill, 2.73 mm, IV, 4.02 mm. Pronotum: length 3.26 mm, width across humeral

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angles 6.08 mm. Scutellum: length 2.20 mm; width 2.10 mm. Body length 18.60 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX shiny reddish orange,

with upper border yellow, and inner margin suffused with pale brown marks; dorsal ab-

dominal segments Vill and IX shiny reddish orange; genital plates pale yellow.

Genital plates: Plica reduced to small hemispheric elevation; fissura covering almost the

entire length of sternite (Fig. 19c).

Variation

1 - Humeral spine shorter and robust. 2 - Fore and middle legs with femora, tibiae and

tarsi dark yellow. 3 - Inner margin of connexivum shiny reddish orange.

Comments

Madagalaesus notios is distinguished by having the head dorsally pale yellow without

a longitudinal black stripe, pronotal disk with wide transverse black stripe near the pos

terior margin, and humeral angles tapering into medium-sized or stout spine, pointing

laterally and barely posteriad. In M. garciai, the other previously known species, the

head in dorsal view exhibits a pale yellowish-orange color with a narrow longitudinal

black stripe on middle third, the pronotal disk without black transverse stripe near the

posterior margin, and humeral angles tapering into a remarkably large and acute spine.

Distribution

This species, recently described from Madagascar, is endemic to that region. MaDAGAS-

ca: Mahajamba, Bezanozano, Ampandrandava, Fomboni, and Bekily.

TRIBE GONOCERINI STAL, 1873

Head

Comparative long; preocular region surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus api-

cally rounded, not compressed laterally; rostrum slender, reaching or extending beyond

mesosternum.

Thorax

Legs unarmed; hind femora not incrassate, and not attaining the apex of abdomen;

tibiae sulcate, not expanded; claval suture shorter than apical corial margin; mesopleura

or metapleura or both usually with black discoidal spot;

Abdomen

Paralletsided or slightly expanded; abdominal spiracles circular, small, closer to anterior

border, and remote from upper border of connexivum, or located almost on the middle

of abdominal sterna, and much nearer to the lateral border of pleural margin; distance

between abdominal spiracles and lateral margin of abdomen shorter than distance be-

tween spiracle and anterior margin of each sternite.

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Clé des genres malgaches de Gonocerini

1. Lobe antérieur du péritrème métathoracique réniforme, lobe postérieur plus court,

chacun dirigé latéralement, laissant l’orifice glandulaire largement ouvert ; tête

pentagonale, légèrement inclinée ..

= Lobes antérieur et postérieur du péritrème métathoracique bilobés ou à contours

subcordiforme avec un petit orifice glandulaire ; tête subquadrangulaire, brusque-

ment inclinée ... .….. Cletoscellus n. gen.

Bord externe de la corie lisse, non dentelé ; l'espace entre les coxae postérieures

de 1 à 1,5 fois le diamètre de l'une des coxae ; bord postéroventral du pygo-

phore avec une plaque médiane saillante Plinachtus Stal

— Bord externe de la corie crénelé à denielé ; l'espace entre les coxae postérieures

inférieure à la moitié du diamètre de l'une des coxae ; bord postéroventral du

pygophore sans plaque médiane ..

3. Longueur de la région antéoculaire supérieure à 1 mm ; tête pentagonale ; angles

postérieurs des segments V et VI (connexiyum) armés de petites saillies mousses ;

paratergites Vil réduits, presque cachés par les marges latérales du sternite VII de

l’abdomen ; abdomen arrondi, distinctement plus large que les hémélyires ; front

et vertex avec un profond sillon longitudinal ... .. Cletoliturus n. gen.

— Longueur de la région antéoculaire inférieure à 0,70 mm ; tête subquadrangu-

laire, inclinée obliquement ; angles postérieurs des segments V et VI (connexivum)

non armés ; paratergites VIII triangulaires et bien développés ; abdomen à côtés

parallèles, non distinctement plus large que les hémélytres ; front avec un profond

.…. Cletus Stal

sillon longitudinal, parfois présent sur le vertex

Key to Malagasy genera of Gonocerini

1. Anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme reniform, posterior lobe shorter, each

directed laterally, leaving the scent gland orifice exposed; head pentagonal, mo-

derately bent downward….

- Anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme bilobed or subcordate

in outline, with the scent gland orifice small; head subquadrate, abruptly bent

downward .... .. Cletoscellus n. gen.

2. Costal margin of the corium smooth, unserrate; space between each hind coxae

1 to 1.5 times the diameter of one coxae; posteroventral edge of male genital

capsule with prominent medial plate . Plinachtus Stal

= Costal margin of the corium crenulate to serrate; space between each hind coxae

less than 0.5 times the diameter of one coxae; posteroventral edge of male geni-

tal capsule without median plate....

3 Preocular length longer than 1.00 mm; head pentagonal; posterior angles of

connexival segments V and VI armed with short obtuse projection; paratergite VIII

reduced, almost hidden by the lateral margins of abdominal sternite VII; abdomen

rounded, distinctly broader than the hemelytra; frons and vertex with deep longi-

tudinal sulcus ... Cletoliturus n. gen.

_ Head smaller; preocular length shorter than 0.70 mm; head subquadrate, mo-

deratelly bent down; posterior angles of connexival segments V and VI unar-

med; paratergite Vill triangular, and well developed; abdomen parallel-sided,

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not distinctly broader than hemelytra; frons with deep longitudinal sulcus, faint

on the vertex ... . Cletus Stal

Genus Cletus Stal, 1859

Cletus Stal, 1859a: 236.

Redescription

Body almost parallel-sided.

Head

Wider than long, shorter than length of pronotum, pentagonal, moderatelly bending, dor-

sally flat, distinctly produced and surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus unarmed,

apically globose or flat, barely raised, extending anteriorly to and laterally higher than

juga; juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercles unarmed, borders entire, continuous, almost

circular, not prominent, widely separated; preocular length shorter than 0.70 mm; an-

tennal segment | thicker than segments Il and Ill, and barely thicker than IV, cylindrical,

curved laterally, longer than head, and granulate; antennal segments Il and Ill slender,

cylindrical, and IV fusiform; antennal segment | always longer than IV; length of antennal

segments variable through the species; ocelli close to eyes, on an hypothetical line lo-

cated slightly behind posterior margin of eyes; ocellar tubercle weakly raised; preocellar

pit deep; eyes globose, upper margin located almost at same level of frons and vertex;

postocular tubercle conspicuous; middle third of frons with deep longitudinal sulcus; ver-

tex without longitudinal sulcus; mandibular plate unarmed; buccula rectangular, raised,

short, entire with more or less anterior free angle, not projecting beyond antenniferous

tubercles, meeting posteriorly and closed; rostrum reaching anterior or posterior third of

metasternum; rostral segment | reaching the base of the head, or extending to the ante-

rior border of prosternum; rostral segment Ill the shortest, IV shorter than |, and Il longest

or subequal to |.

Thorax

Pronotum. Wider than long, trapeziform, declivent; collar wide; anterior border almost

straight, smooth; frontal angles not exposed; anterolateral borders obliquely straight,

crenulate to serrulate; humeral angles thick at base, with the projection variable through-

out the species; posterolateral borders sinuous, outer third crenulate to serrulate, inner

third smooth; posterior border straight; calli indistinct, not raised, with deep submedial

longitudinal furrow; triangular process absent; pronotal disk without medial carina; pos-

terior margin with low transverse ridge running between humeral angles. Prosternum

with deep excavation; mesosternum feebly sulcate; metasternum deeply sulcate; anterior

margin of mesosternum in front of the area between fore legs produced into broad and

blunt keel; distance between procoxae, and mesocoxae two times the diameter of pro-

coxae; distance between mesocoxae and metacoxae almost equal or less than diameter

of mesocoxae; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, reniform, posterior lobe

raised, shorter, and each directed laterally; scent gland orifice wide open; evaporative

area poorly developed.

legs. Unarmed; space between each hind coxae reduced, coxae almost contiguous,

separated by less than half the diameter of one coxae; hind femora not attaining the

apex of abdomen; tibiae terete, sulcate.

Scutellum. Wider than long, triangular, flat, apically subacute.

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Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment or extending

slightly beyond the abdomen; costal margin emarginated, almost parallel-sided, basal

half crenulate, and posterior half entire; apical margin sinuous; apical angle obtuse, not

reaching middle third of hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Weakly dilated at connexival segments IV-V; connexivum distinctly raised above tergum

with posterior angles unarmed, not produced into short spines; upper margin of connexi-

vum crenulate; abdominal sterna without medial furrow; abdominal spiracles circular,

small, closer to anterior border, and remote from upper border of connexivum; abdomi-

nal spiracle II not visible.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge variable through the species.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica reduced, occupying

the anterior border of the sternite, and barely concave; fissura covers 2/3 or more of

the total length of the sternite; gonocoxae | wide, enlarged antero-posteriorly, in caudal

view closed, in lateral view convex, entire; paratergite VIII triangular, small, with visible

spiracle; paratergite IX broad, subquadrate.

Integument

Body surface dull, almost glabrous. Head, collar, posterior lobe of pronotal disk, clavus,

corium, acetabulae, propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, connexival segments ILIV, and

anterior and posterior margins of V strongly punctate; scutellar disk transversely wrinkled

and strongly punctate; calli, male genital capsule, and gonocoxae | with less dense punc-

tation; middle third of ventral head, prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum smooth;

abdominal sterna finely punctate; femora and tibiae usually granulate.

Comments

Cletus, like Cletomorpha, has the anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme reniform, the

posterior lobe shorter, each directed laterally, and the scent gland orifice widely opened.

In Cletomorpha, the vertex has a deep longitudinal sulcus, the head elongate, with the

preocular length longer than 1.00 mm, the posterior angles of connexival segments IV

to VI or V and VI armed with a short and obtuse projection, the abdomen more rounded

at each side, and distinctly broader than the hemelytra, and paratergite VII reduced,

almost hidden by the lateral margins of abdominal sternite VII. In Cletus, the frons has a

deep longitudinal sulcus, and the vertex lacks a sulcus, the head smaller, conspicuously

bending, with the preocular length shorter than 0.70 mm, the connexival segments al-

ways unarmed, the abdomen parallel-sided, never expanded, and not distinctly broader

than hemelytra, and paratergite Vill triangular, exposed, and well developed.

Type species

Cimex trigonus Thunberg, 1783.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Cletus

1. Bord apical de la corie avec une ou deux petites taches rondes blanchätre ou

ivoire, ou avec une bande transverse arrondie blanchätre ou ivoire ...

— Bord apical de la corie sans tache blanchätre ou ivoire, ronde ou transverse ..... 5

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2. Bord apical de la corie avec une bande transverse distincte blanchätre ou

ivoire... ... pronus Bergroth

_ Bord apical de la corie avec une ou deux petites taches arrondies blanchätre ou

ivoire...

3. Pronotum distinctement bicolore, avec un contraste marqué entre le lobe antérieur

pâle et le lobe postérieur foncé ; mésopleure avec une grande tache noire arron-

die sess poikilus n. sp

~ Couleurs des lobes antérieur et postérieur du pronotum non contrastées ; méso-

pleure avec ou sans minuscule tache ronde brun clair à noir ....

4. Angles huméraux obtus et mousses, ou effilés en une courte épine aig

(Fig. 25a} ; face dorsale orange pâle ; petite espèce n'atteignant pas 8,4 mm;

coxae orange pâle dépourvues de tache noire arrondie ; moitié antérieure du

bord externe de la corie jaune pâle clavatus (Signoret}

= Angles huméraux du pronotum fortement proéminents, étirés, se terminant dis-

tinctement en pointe (Fig. 24b) ; couleur de la face dorsale brun rouge brillant ;

grande espèce dépassant 9,5 mm de long ; coxae jaunatre orangé avec des

taches noires arrondies ; moitié antérieure du bord externe de la corie brun rou-

geatre.. ... presignus n. sp.

5. Connexivum des segments IV.V entièrement bun clair 4 foncé ; bord postéroventral

du pygophore avec un lobe médian étroit, saillant et quadrangulaire (Fig. 27) ;

couleurs respectives des lobes antérieur et postérieur du pronotum non brusque-

ment contrastées .... . ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer)

= Connexivum des segments IV.V jaune avec la marge antérieure ou postérieure,

ou les deux marges, brun clair à foncé ; bord postéroventral du pygophore d'une

autre forme (Fig. 27c, e) ; couleurs respectives des lobes antérieur et postérieur

du pronotum nettement et brusquement contrastée ....

6. Connexivum du segment IV jaune avec la marge postérieure brun clair ; connexi-

yum du segment V brun clair avec une tache centrale irrégulière jaunêtre ; lon-

gueur de l’article | des antennes supérieure à 1,40 mm ; longueur de la tête

supérieure à 1,20 mm .... . incultus n. sp.

= Connexivum des segments IV. jaune pâle avec le bord antérieur et la marge

postérieure brun foncé à clair ; longueur de l'article | des antennes inférieure à

1,25 mm ; longueur de la tête inférieur à 1,15 mm ........... capensis (Westwood)

Key to Malagasy species of Cletus

Apical edge of corium with one or two small whitish to ivory discoidal spots, or

with distinct transverse whitish to ivory discoidal stripe ..

= Apical edge of corium without rounded or transverse whitish to ivory spots or

stripes...

2. Apical margin of corium with distinct transverse whitish to ivory

stripe ... . pronus Bergroth

= Apical edge of corium with one or two small whitish to ivory discoidal spots........ 3

3. Pronotal disk distinctly bicoloured, with sharp contrast between the pale ante-

rior lobe, and the dark posterior lobe; mesopleura with large black discoidal

poikilus n. sp.

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— Colours of anterior and posterior lobes of pronotal disk not contrasting with each

other; mesopleura without or with tiny black to pale brown discoidal spot............ 4

4. Humeral angles obtuse and blunt, or tapering into short acute spine (Fig. 25a);

dorsal color pale orange; small species less than 8.4 mm long; coxae pale orange

lacking a black discoidal spot; anterior half of costal margin of corium pale yel-

... clavatus (Signore!)

- Humeral angles of pronotum strongly produced, elongate, ending in a distinct

sharp spine (Fig. 24b); dorsal color shiny reddish brown; large species, longer

than 9.5 mm; coxae yellowish orange with black discoidal spots; anterior half of

costal margin of corium reddish brown...... .… presignus n. sp.

5. Connexival segments IVV entirely dark to pale brown; posteroventral edge of

male genital capsule with mesial lobe narrowed, protruding, and quadrate

(Fig. 27)); colours of anterior and posterior lobes of pronotal disk not sharply

contrasting with each other .... ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer)

— Connexival segments IV-V yellow with anterior or posterior margin or both dark

to pale brown; posteroventral edge of male genital capsule with other shape

(Fig. 27c, e] colours of anterior and posterior lobes of pronotal disk clearly and

sharply contrasted

Gé

Connexival segment IV yellow with posterior margin pale brown; connexival seg-

ment V pale brown with yellowish centraland irregular spot; length of antennal

segment | longer than 1.40 mm; head longer than 1.20 mm.......... incultus n. sp.

— Connexival segments IV-V pale yellow with anterior border and posterior margin

dark to pale brown; antennal segment | shorter than 1.25 mm; head shorter than

. capensis (Westwood)

Cletus incultus n. sp.

(Figs 22e; 25e, f; 26c; 27c; 28e, f; 36)

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascak: Prov. d'Analalava, Maromandia, 1923 (R. Decary) (MNHN).

1.9, same data as holotype (MNHN, UNAM).

Paratypes: 3 G

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin, incultus, for uncultivated, refering to the relatively non-distinct nature of

the species.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.20 mm; width across eyes 1.48 mm; interocular

space 0.82 mm; preocular distance 0.58 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.44 mm,

1, 1.56 mm, Ill,1.40 mm, IV, 1.28 mm. Pronotum: length 1.88 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 3.60 mm. Scutellum: length 1.04 mm, width

1.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.04 mm. Body length 7.73 mm.

Dorsal color, Head and anterior lobe of pronotal disk pale yellow with granules and

narrow longitudinal black to reddish brown stripe behind eyes; antennal segments | to Ill

pale yellowish orange, and IV dark brownish orange with basal joint and apex paler;

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posterior lobe or pronotal disk pale brownish yellow, clearly contrasting with anterior

lobe, with black to reddish brown punctures; scutellum dark yellow, punctures black to

reddish brown, and apex pale yellow; clavus and corium dark yellow, densely suffused

with pink marks, punctures black to reddish brown, and anterior half of costal margin of

corium pale yellow; hemelytral membrane translucient with basal angle dark brown; con-

nexival segment Ill yellow with inner margin pale brown, IV yellow with posterior margin

pale brown, V pale brown with yellowish irregular central spot, and VI and VII yellow

with anterior and posterior margins pale yellow; dorsal abdominal segments II to VI dark

orange, and VII dark orange, and laterally black.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with following areas black: apex of rostral segment IV, scat-

tered punctures on propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, and abdominal sterna, six rows

of discoidal spots on abdominal sterna Ill to VII, and broad spot on abdominal sternite

Il; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme yellow; coxae yellow with two

black discoidal spots; trochanter yellow; femora and tibiae yellow with some pale brown

discoidal spots; tarsi yellowish orange.

Structure. Antennal segment | narrow at base, gradually incrassate to the apex, granu-

lose; antennal segments Il and Ill slender, cylindrical; antennal segment Il the longest, IV

the shortest, and | longer than Ill (Fig. 22e]; rostrum reaching middle third of metaster-

num. Thorax. Pronotum. Humeral angles tapering into medium size spine, directed later-

ally and slightly posterior (Fig. 25e, f). Legs. Femora and tibiae densely granulose.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight, without

expansions, mesally relatively elongate, with mesial lobe wide and apically rounded

(Fig. 27c). Paramere: Fig. 28e, f.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.22 mm; width across eyes 1.52 mm; interocular

space 0.88 mm; preocular distance 0.69 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.60 mm,

IL 1.68 mm, Ill, 1.44 mm, IV, 1.32 mm. Pronotum: length 2.16 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.40 mm. Scutellum: length 1.32 mm, width

1.50 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.28 mm. Body length 9.25 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIIIIX dark yellow with inner

margin dark yellowish orange; dorsal abdominal segments VIIHX dark yellow; genital

plates pale yellow (Fig. 26c). Humeral spines large and acute, directed outward and

slightly backward (Fig. 25e, f).

Variation

1 - Antennal segments IH! shiny reddish orange. 2 - Claval and corial veins pink. 3 -

Humeral angles of pronotum tapering into short and stout to large spine directed laterad

and slightly posterior.

Comments

This species resembles C. affinis in having the color of the anterior lobe of pronotal disk

clearly contrasting with the color of posterior lobe. In C. incultus n. sp., the propleura,

mesopleura and metapleura lack a black discoidal spot; the abdominal sternite II has a

broad black spot; the abdominal sterna Ill to Vil have six rows of black discoidal spots;

the anterior half of costal margin of corium narrowly yellow and impunctate; the humeral

angles tapering into short stout spine directed laterad and slightly posterior (Fig. 25e, f);

and the peculiar shape of the posteroventral edge of male genital capsule (Fig. 27c).

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Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842)

(Figs 22g; 24f; 251; 27e; 28c, d; 33; 34)

Coreus capensis Westwood, 1842: 23.

Cletus capensis (Westwood): Sta 1873: 78.

Gonocerus caffer Stal, 1855: 31 n. syn.

Gonocerus varius Dallas, 1852: 496 n. syn.

Type material

Type & Cletus caffer: South Arrica: Caffraria (NRES).

Holotype 4 Cletus capensis (Westwood): SoutH Arrica: Promont. Bon Spei (Cape of

Good Hope] (OXUM).

Type S Cletus varius: South Arrica: Cape of Good Hope (BMNH).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.06-1.10 mm; width across eyes 1.44-1.48 mm; interocu-

lar space 0.76-0.82 mm; preocular distance 0.56-0.60 mm; length antennal segments:

1, 1.04 -1.24 mm, Il, 1.40-1.60 mm, Ill, 1.28-1.44 mm, IV, 1.12-1.22 mm. Pronotum:

length 1.80-1.82 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 3.24-

3.72 mm. Scutellum: length 1.12-1.16 mm, width 1.22-1.24 mm. Abdomen: maximum

width 2.88-2.96 mm. Body length 8.05-8.20 mm.

Dorsal color, Head pale yellow with punctures and narrow black longitudinal stripe

behind eyes; antennal segments | to Ill pale yellowish orange, and IV pale brownish

orange, with basal joint shiny dark orange; anterior lobe of pronotal disk pale yellow,

scattered with black punctures; outer margin of calli with coarse punctures, anastomos-

ing on blackish areas; posterior lobe of pronotal disk pale brown with reddish brown to

black punctures; upper third of posterolateral margin of pronotum pale yellow; scutellum,

clavus and corium pale yellow with black to reddish-brown punctures; apex of scutellum,

and anterior half of costal margin of corium pale yellow; clavus and corial veins, and

apical margin of corium plain yellow or yellow with irregular pink markings; hemelytral

membrane pale ambarine with basal angle and veins darker; apical edge of corium

lacking an ivory discoidal spot; connexival segments Ill to VII pale yellow with anterior

border and posterior margin pale to dark brown; dorsal abdominal segments Il to VI

shiny orange, and VII shiny orange and laterally black.

Ventral color. Head, thorax, abdominal sterna, and genital capsule pale yellow with

punctures reddish brown to black, and eventually with pink marks; rostral segment | pale

yellow with black punctures, and segments Il to IV pale yellow (apex of IV black); ante-

rior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme pale yellow; coxae pale yellow with

punctures and two discoidal black spots; trochanter pale yellow; femora and tibiae pale

yellow with granules and several minute discoidal reddish brown to black spots; tarsi

dark orange; abdominal sterna with six rows of small reddish-brown to black discoidal

spots; middle third of abdominal sterna VI and VII densely black; anterior angle of pleu-

ral margin black; abdominal spiracle yellow.

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Structure. Antennal segment | narrow at base, gradually incrassate to the apex, granu-

lose (Fig. 22g); antennal segments II and Ill slender, cylindrical; antennal segment Il the

longest, Il longer than |, and | longer or subequal than IV; rostrum reaching anterior third

of metasternum. Thorax. Pronotum. Humeral angles of variable shape, tapering into short

stout spine or medium-sized acute spine directed laterad (Fig. 25i) or sometimes blunt

(Fig. 249). Legs. Femora and tibiae densely granulose.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight, without dis-

tinct expansions, mesally wide, with mesial lobe wider, large, occupying almost the en-

fire space of the capsule, and apically barely sinuate and concave (Fig. 27e). Paramere:

Fig. 28c, d.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.06-1.12 mm; width across eyes 1.48-1.52 mm; interocu-

lar space 0.60-0.82 mm; preocular distance 0.62-0.78 mm; length antennal segments:

1, 1.10 -1.24 mm, Il, 1.44-1.54 mm, Ill, 1.30-1.40 mm, IV, 1.06-1.20 mm. Pronotum:

length 1.76-1.92 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 3.48-

3.96 mm. Scutellum: length 1.12-1.24 mm, width 1.34-1.42 mm. Abdomen: maximum

width 3.20-3.24 mm. Body length 8.09-8.80 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX black with upper

margin yellow; dorsal abdominal segments VII and IX black with shiny orange longitudi-

nal siripe on middle third; genital plates pale yellow with minute reddish-brown to black

discoidal spots and pink marks.

Variation

A large series of specimens from Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Republic of Congo,

and South Africa, was examined and showed considerable variability in the shape of the

humeral angles of the pronotum (phenotypic variation) (Figs 24f; 25i). Each form is con-

nected by intermediates, and since the male and female genitalia are similar, they are

undoubtedly conspecific. For this reason C. caffer (Stal) and C. varius (Dallas) are con-

sidered synonyms of C. capensis (Westwood). The type of each species was examined.

Comments

This species is diagnosed mostly on the basis of the shape of the humeral angles of the

pronotum, the shape of the posteroventral edge of male genital capsule (Fig. 27e), and

the color of the connexivum.

In C. capensis, the humeral angles taper into a short, stout spine or medium-sized acute

spine directed outward (Figs 24f; 25i), and the connexival segments Ill to VII are pale

yellow with anterior and posterior margin black. In C. ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer),

the humeral angles taper into strongly large or medium-sized wide projection, directed

outward, upward, and slightly backward (Fig. 24d), and the connexival segment Ill is

pale yellow, IV and V pale yellow and densely punctate with reddish-brown to black

punctures, and VI and VII pale yellow with reddish-brown to black punctures restricted to

anterior and posterior border.

Distribution

This species was recorded from Madagascar, Malawi (Nyasaland), South Africa, South

West Africa, Zaire, and Zimbabwe (Salisbury) (Dauas 1852; Distant 1902; Hesse 1925;

Linnavuor: 1978; ScHOUTEDEN 1938; STAL 1858, 1865).

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Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 2 44, S.O. Plaines de Fiherena, 1905 (F. Geay}

(MNHN); 1 2, Forêt Tanala, Région d'Ikongo, Ankarimbelo, 1901 (Ch. Auuauo) (MNHN);

1 4,499, 1930 [without data] (Sicaro) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 2, Baie d'Antongil [without

date] (Mocauerys) (MNHN). Mapacascar: without data.

Cletus clavatus (Signoret, 1860)

(Figs 22h; 24g; 27h; 33)

Gonocerus clavatus Signoret, 1860: 943.

Cletus clavatus (Signoret): Stal 1865: 76.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.06-1.08 mm; width across eyes 1.28-1.40 mm; interocu-

lar space 0.76-0.80 mm; preocular distance 0.60-0.70 mm; length antennal segments:

1, 1.04- 1.16 mm, Il, 1.44-1.68 mm, Ill, 1.44-1.70 mm, IV, 0.96-1.08 mm. Pronotum:

length 1.64-1.92 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 2.40-

3.28 mm. Scutellum: length 0.96-1.04 mm, width 1.08-1.10 mm. Abdomen: maximum

width 2.88-3.00 mm. Body length 7.42-8.28 mm.

Dorsal color. Pale orange with scattered black punctures near eyes, and around ocelli;

antennal segments | to Ill pale orange, and IV pale brownish orange; apex of scutellum,

and anterior half of costal margin pale yellow; apical edge of corium with distinct whitish

to ivory discoidal spot; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine.

Ventral color. Pale orange with following areas black to pale brown: apex of rostral seg-

ment IV, small discoidal spot on propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura, and six rows of

small discoidal spots on abdominal sterna.

Structure. Antennal segment | uniformly wider, granulate; antennal segments II and Ill

barely robust, cylindrical; antennal segment IV the shortest, Il and Ill subequal, and |

shorter than Il (Fig. 22h); rostrum reaching anterior third of metasternum. Thorax. Pro-

notum. Humeral angles obtuse and blunt (Fig. 24g) or tapering into short, acute spine,

directed laterad. Legs. Femora and tibiae minutely granulose.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight, without

distinct expansions; mesally wide with mesial lobe wider, large, occupying almost the

entire space of the capsule; apically rounded (Fig. 27h).

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.06-1.09 mm; width across eyes 1.36-1.40 mm; interocu-

lar space 0.64-0.76 mm; preocular distance 0.62-0.68 mm; length antennal segments:

|, 1.16 -1.24 mm, Il, 1.48-1.64 mm, Ill, 1.48-1.60 mm, IV, 0.96-1.05 mm. Pronotum:

length 1.76-1.84 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 2.44-

3.24 mm. Scutellum: length 1.12-1.20 mm, width 1.18-1.30 mm. Abdomen: maximum

width 3.18-3.24 mm. Body length 8.06-8.60 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX, abdominal segments

Vill and IX, and genital plates pale orange.

Comments

Small species, shorter than 8.4 mm, apical edge of corium with distinct ivory discoidal

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spot, coxae pale orange lacking a black discoidal spot, humeral angles of pronotum

obtuse, and blunt (Fig. 24g}, rostral segment | and legs entirely pale orange, and pro-

pleura, mesopleura, and metapleura with minute, black to pale brown discoidal spot.

Distribution

This species was recorded from Comoro Archipelago (Mayotte) and Madagascar (St

Gnoret 1860; StAL 1865; Waker 1871).

Specimens examined. MADAGASCAR: without data. Mapacascar: 1 3, 1 Q, Forêt d'Ambre

et Maevatanana, 1907 (Cervon] (MNHN}; 1 ©, Tongobory, 12.11.1953 (A. R]

(MNHN); 1 9, Isoanala, Ill.1937 (Sevric) (MNHN); 1 &, Reg. de Sakarami, 1906 (M.

ve Rorsciito) (UNAM); 1 3, Prov. d’Analalava, Maromandia, 1923 (Decry) (UNAM);

1 9, Majunga, IV (UNAM).

Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842)

(Figs 23e; 24d; 26d; 27); 28g, h; 37)

Gonocerus ochraceus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842: 7-8.

Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer): STAL 1865: 77-78.

Cletus fuscescens Walker, 1871: 190-191 n. syn.

Cletus borealis Blôte, 1935: 204-205 n. syn.

Cletus madagascariensis Blôte, 1935: 206 n. syn.

Type material

Holotype 3 Cletus borealis Bléte: Ervtraca: Bahr el Abiad, 1934 (Sraupincer) (RMNH).

Holotype 3 Cletus fuscescens Walker: West Africa: came from an unspecified locality

(BMNH).

Holotype ¢ Cletus madagascariensis Blôte: Mabacascak: Tananarivo, 1934 (STAUDINGER)

(RMNH).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.25-1.28 mm; width across eyes 1.48-1.54 mm; interocu-

lar space 0.86-0.88 mm; preocular distance 0.70-0.74 mm; length antennal segments:

1, 1.74 -1.84 mm, Il, 2.08-2.12 mm, Ill, 1.64-1.68 mm, IV, 1.52-1.56 mm. Pronotum:

length 2.20-2.24 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 4.50-

4.56 mm. Scutellum: length 1.28-1.32 mm, width 1.38-1.44 mm. Abdomen: maximum

width 3.28-3.30 mm. Body length 8.72-8.94 mm.

Dorsal color. Head pale yellow, with narrow black longitudinal stripe behind eyes; an-

fennal segments | to Ill pale yellow and IV dark yellowish orange with base and apex

paler; anterior half of pronotum pale yellow, with reddish brown to black punctures

forming indistinct markings; posterior half of pronotum dark yellowish orange not sharply

contrasting with the anterior lobe, with reddish brown to black punctures, and humeral

spines shiny dark orange; scutellum, clavus and corium dark yellow with punctures red-

dish brown to black; apex of scutellum, and anterior half of costal margin of corium

narrowly pale yellow; apical edge of corium lacking an ivory discoidal spot; hemelytral

membrane pale gray to pale ambarine with basal angle and veins darker; connexival

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segment Ill pale yellow, IV and V pale to dark brown, densely punctate with reddish

brown to black punctures, and VI and Vil pale yellow with reddish brown to black pune-

tures restricted to the anterior and posterior borders; dorsal abdominal segments Il to VI

pale yellow, and VII pale yellow with two elongate paramedial black spots.

Ventral color. Pale yellow, with scattered, irregular blackish spots on head, rostral seg-

ment |, propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura; anterior and posterior lobes of metatho-

racic peritreme yellow; coxae yellow with two black discoidal spots; trochanter yellow;

femora and tibiae yellow with granules and several minute reddish-brown to black spots;

tarsi dark yellow; abdominal sterna with six rows of small reddish-brown to black discoi-

dal spots, and few scattered black punctures; abdominal spiracle yellow.

Structure. Antennal segment | gradually incrassate to the apex, granulose; antennal

segments Il and Ill slender, cylindrical; antennal segment Il the longest, IV the shortest,

and | longer or equal than Ill (Fig. 23e); rostrum reaching middle third of metasternum.

Thorax. Pronotum. Humeral angles of variable shape, tapering into remarkably large

or medium-sized, wide projection, directed outward, upward, and slightly backward

(Fig. 24d). Legs. Femora and tibiae densely granulate.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight to sinuous,

without expansions; mesally narrowed with the mesial lobe short, protruding, quadrate,

apically truncate or rounded, and with low longitudinal sulcus on middle third (sometimes

difficult to see] (Fig. 27)). Paramere: Fig. 28g, h.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.18-1.24 mm; width across eyes 1.46-1.52 mm; interocu-

lar space 0.84-0.86 mm; preocular distance 0.62-0.64 mm; length antennal segments:

1, 1.48 -1.52 mm, Il, 1.79-1.88 mm, Ill, 1.48-1.52 mm, IV, 1.40-1.44 mm. Pronotum:

length 2.08- 2.12 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 4.30-

4.36 mm. Scutellum: length 1.12-1.16 mm, width 1.25-1.32 mm. Abdomen: maximum

width 3.22-3.28 mm. Body length 8.36-8.70 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX, and dorsal abdomi-

nal segments VIII and IX yellowish orange; genital plates pale yellow (Fig. 26d).

Variation

A large series of specimens from Angola, Botswana, Comoro island, Kenya, Madagas-

car, Namibia, Zaire, South Africa, and Tanzania showed considerable variability in

the shape of the humeral angles of the pronotum (phenotypic variation) (Figs 24d; 37).

The two extreme forms are connected by intermediates, and since the male and female

genitalia are similar, they are undoubtedly conspecific; for this reason C. borealis Bléte,

C. fuscenscens (Walker), and C. madagascariensis Bléte are here considered synonyms

of C. ochraceus (Westwood). The type of each species was examined.

The body also exhibits considerable color variation throughout the specimens examined: 1,

antennal segments Il and I! pale yellow tinged with red to reddish orange marks, or entirely

yellowish orange; 2, antennal segment IV shiny orange with apex pale yellow; 3, ocellar

tubercle black or pale yellow; 4, rostral segment | entirely pale yellow; 5, endocorium, co-

rial veins, and apical margin and apical angle of corium tinged with pink to reddish marks;

6, propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura with or lacking a single black discoidal spot; 7,

posterior border of metc-acetabulae with outer third pale yellow and inner third black; 8,

tarsi shiny orange; 9, dorsal abdominal segment VII entirely pale yellow.

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Comments

A unique feature which inmediatly distinguishes C. ocraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer) is the

color of the connexivum: connexival segment Ill is pale yellow, IV and V pale yellow and

densely punctate with reddish-brown to black punctures, and VI and VII pale yellow with

reddish-brown to black punctures restricted to anterior and posterior lobes.

Distribution

This species was recorded from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi

(Nyosaland}, Mauricius, South Africa, South West Africa, South West Arabia, Sudan,

and Zaire (Biot 1935; Distant 1902; Garcia Vareta 1913; HerricH-ScHacrFer 1842; Hesse

1925; Lnnavuor 1978; SCHOUTEDEN 1938; STAL 1865; Waixer 1871).

Mapacascar: Diego Suarez, and Tananarive.

Specimens examined. MADAGASCAR: 1 8, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza, 7.1.1948 (A. R.)

(MNHN); 1 &, Baie d’Antongil [without date] (A. Mocaueeys] (MNHN); 1 O. Plaines

d'Ambolisatra, 1905 (F. Gear) (MNHN); 7.33, 4 99, 1930 (MNHN); 1 9, Région

d’Antsirabe, 1912 (A. Maraux] (MNHN); 1 3, Anisingy, 63 km East Maintirano Foret,

VIL1949 (R. P) (MNHN]; 1 9, Bekily, Région Sud de l'Isle, VI.1936 (A. Seva) (NHN);

2 48, 1 , Montagne d’Ambre, 1140 m, XIl.1948 [R. P) (MNHN); 1 2, Nord District

d/Ambanja, Nord de Beangona-Ambery, Vallée d’Aniremabe, 400 m, .1964 (P. Soca)

(MNHN); 1 3, 1 9, Ampefy, ltasy, 1.1939 (ZMAS); 1 4, Mahajamba District, Maha-

jamba Env., 1-10.XI1.1996 (I. Janis) (NMPC- Z. Jindra ex coll.); 1 4, 1 2, Andasibe, Park

Perinet (Protect Area), 19-31.XI1.2001 (V. Dou) (EHCA); 1 3, 1 @, environs de Rogez

[without date] (NMPC); 2 46, 4 92, Vohémar [without date] (NMPC, UNAM); 1 2, Am-

panefena [without date] (NMPC); 1 4, Nanghoa, ltasy, Il.1930 (ZMAS]; 1 2, Ampety,

itasy, 1.1930 (ZMAS); 1 ©, Ranomafana, 90 km E Fianarantsoa, 1-5.XI.1949 (L. KaNTNes)

(NMPC); 2 33, 1 2, Ambohimahasoa, N. W. von Fianarantsoa, 1195 m, 21°06'18"S-

47°13'03"E, 2.XI.2003 (U. Gôuner] (ZMHB); 1 3, 2.5 km NE von Anara, SW von Larint-

sena, c. 975 m, NN Buschtal, 21°51'03"S-46°50'34"E, 6.X1.2003 (U. Géuner) (ZMHB).

Glen poils n. sp.

(Figs 22F 25d: 26b; 27b; 28, |; 38)

Type material

Holotype ¢: Mapacascar: Tongobory, 12.IV.1953 (A. R.) (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 1 3', Anjahantelo, près Amboasary, Ill.1969 (VADON et PEYRIERAS)

(UNAM); 1 ©, S. O. Plaines de Fiherena, 1905 (F. Geay) (MNHN); 2 € Analavelona,

1320 m [without date] (MNHN); 1 &, 1 9, Fiherenana, 27.Il.1953 (A. R.) (MNHN,

UNAM); 1.3, 1 9, Mangely bei Ifaty, 27 km N. Toliara, 7 m, NN sek. Trockenwald, a-d,

kuste, 23°07/32"S-43°36'47E, 9-10.XI.2003 (U. Gouner) (ZMHB).

Derivatio nominis

From the Greek, Poikilus, meaning spotted, refering to its variegated appearance.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.10 mm; width across eyes 1.34 mm; interocular

space 0.72 mm; preocular distance 0.56 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.24 mm,

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1, 1.60 mm, IIl,1.46 mm, IV, 1.08 mm. Pronotum: length 1.68 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 3.40 mm. Scutellum: length 0.96 mm, width

1.12 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 2.35 mm. Body length 7.60 mm.

Dorsal color. Pale to dark yellow, with punctures, and narrow black to reddish-brown

longitudinal stripe behind eyes; antennal segments | to Ill dark yellow with reddish-brown

granules, and IV brownish orange with basal joint paler; apex of scutellum yellow; an-

terior half of costal margin of corium impunctate, and narrowly yellow; apical edge of

corium with distinct whitish to ivory callose discoidal spot; hemelytral membrane pale

ambarine with basal angle and veins darker; connexival segments Ill to VI pale yellow

with upper margin on posterior third brown, and VII pale yellow with posterior third al-

most entirely brown; dorsal abdominal segments brown to dark brownish orange.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with punctures pale orange; following areas reddish brown to

black: apex of rostral segment IV, single discoidal spot on metapleura, broad and elon-

gate spot on abdominal sternite Il, and six rows of discoidal spots on abdominal sterna

Ill to Vil; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme yellow; coxae yellow

with two black discoidal spots; trochanters yellow; femora and tibiae pale yellow with

granules and small discoidal brown spots; tarsi yellow.

Structure. Antennal segment | slightly narrow at base, gradually incrassate to the apex,

granulose; antennal segments II and Ill slender, cylindrical; antennal segment Il the long-

est, IV the shortest, and Ill longer than | (Fig. 22f); rostrum reaching anterior third of

metasternum. Thorax. Pronotum. Humeral angles tapering into stout medium-sized spine,

directed laterad, upward and slightly forward (Fig. 25d). Legs. Femora and tibiae granu-

late.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight, without dis-

tinct expansions; mesally wide with mesial lobe wider, large, occupying almost the entire

space of the capsule; apically rounded (Fig. 27b). Paramere: Fig. 28i, j.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.04 mm; width across eyes 1.38 mm; interocular space

0.76 mm; preocular distance 0.64 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.32 mm, Il,

1.62 mm, Ill, 1.44 mm, IV, 1.10 mm. Pronotum: length 1.92 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 3.60 mm. Scutellum: length 1.08 mm, width

1.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 2.72 mm. Body length 8.25 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Connexival segments VIII and IX dark brown-

ish orange, with upper margin yellow; dorsal abdominal segments VIII and IX dark

brownish orahge).genital/plates’yellow:

Variation

1 - Apical edge of corium with the whitish or ivory callose spot inconspicuous. 2 - Hind

tibiae with two incomplete pale brown rings. 3 - Connexival segments Ill to VII entirely

yellow, or pale yellow with posterior third brown. 4 - Connexival segment V brown with

anterior border yellow. 5 - Abdominal sterna Ill to VII with six rows of minute or broad,

pale brown to black discoidal spots.

Comments

Related to C. clavatus (Signoret) and C. presignus n. sp. here described, each recorded

from Madagascar and characterized by having on the apical margin of the corium one

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or two small whitish to ivory discoidal spots. The pronotal disk of C. poikilus n. sp. is

clearly bicolored, with the anterior lobe paler than the posterior lobe, the mesopleura has

a large black discoidal spot, and the humeral angles tapering into short stout medium

sized spine, directed outward, upward, and slightly forward (Fig. 25d). On the other two

species, the general color of anterior and posterior lobe of pronotal disk are not contrast.

ing with each other, the mesopleura without or with tiny black to pale brown discoidal

spot, and the humeral angles distinct (Fig. 24b, g)-

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

Cletus presignus n. sp.

(Figs 23d; 24b]

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Perinet, Sahamaloto, 13-17.1.1949 (CacHan) (MNHN).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin Presignus, meaning distinguished or illustrious, refering to the conspicuous

appearance of this species.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.20 mm; width across eyes 1.48 mm; interocular

space 0.88 mm; preocular distance 0.74 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.80 mm,

I, 1.68 mm, Ill, 1.40 mm, IV, 1.64 mm. Pronotum: length 2.28 mm, width across

humeral angles including the humeral spine 5.48 mm. Scutellum: length 1.32 mm,

width 1.40 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.48 mm. Body length 10.00 mm.

Dorsal color. Shiny reddish orange with following areas black: narrow longitudinal

stripe behind eyes, punctures, and humeral spine; antennal segments | to IV shiny

reddish orange; apex of scutellum yellow; apical edge of corium with whitish to

ivory callose discoidal spot; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine, veins darker; con-

nexival segments Il to VI and IX shiny reddish orange with scattered black punctures,

and VILVIII shiny reddish orange coarsely punctuate with punctures anastomosing on

blackish areas; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange.

Ventral color. Pale yellow, punctures black to reddish brown, and following areas

suffused with shiny reddish orange: lateral margins of head, rostral segments (apex

of IV black), outer margin of propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura, pleural margin

of abdominal sterna Ill to Vil, and upper margin of paratergite VIII and IX; anterior

and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme yellow; coxae shiny orange with two

black discoidal spots; trochanters shiny orange; femora and tibiae shiny orange with

small pale brown discoidal marks; tarsi pale shiny reddish orange; abdominal sterna

with six rows of black discoidal spots; abdominal sternite Il with broad, elongate

black spot.

Structure. Antennal segment | uniformly wide; antennal segments Il and Ill slender,

cylindrical; antennal segment | the longest, Ill the shortest, and Il longer than IV

(Fig. 23d); rostrum reaching anterior third of metasternum. Thorax. Pronotum. Humer-

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al angles very strongly produced, elongate, ending in a distinct sharp spine, directed

laterally and conspicuously upward (Fig. 24b). Legs. Femora and tibiae granulate.

Female

Unknown.

Comments

Like C. clavatus with the apical margin of the corium with one or two small, whitish

to ivory discoidal spots, and the color of anterior and posterior lobes of pronotal disk

not contrasting with each other. In C. presignus n. sp., the humeral angles of the pro-

notum are strongly produced, ending in a sharp spine (Fig. 24b), the coxae have two

black discoidal spots, dorsally the body is shiny reddish orange, and the total body

length more than 9.5 mm. Cletus clavatus has the humeral angles obtuse or slightly

acute (Fig. 24g), the coxae unicolored, without black discoidal spots, dorsally the

body pale orange, and the total body length less than 8.4 mm.

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar.

Cletus pronus Bergroth, 1914

[Figs 23c; 24e; 27g; 29a, b; 39)

Cletus pronus Bergroth, 1914: 454-455.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.06 mm; width across eyes 1.48 mm; interocular space

0.80 mm; preocular distance 0.60 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.72 mm, Il,

2.04 mm, Ill, 1.64 mm, IV, 1.52 mm. Pronotum: length 2.08 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.96 mm. Scutellum: length 1.24 mm, width

1.36 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.20 mm. Body length 8.50 mm.

Dorsal color, Head yellow, with punctures and narrow longitudinal stripe behind eyes

black to reddish brown; antennal segments | to Ill yellow, and IV reddish orange with

basal joint and apex dark yellow; anterior lobe of pronotal disk yellow with punctures

reddish brown to dark orange; posterior lobe of pronotal disk dark yellow, clearly con-

trasted with anterior lobe, with punctures reddish brown, and humeral spine black; scutel-

lum, clavus, and corium pale to dark yellow, suffused with pink marks, and reddish

brown punctures; apex of scutellum, and anterior half of costal margin of corium pale

yellow; apical edge of corium with a distinct transverse whitish callose band from base

of medio-apical angle to or near the costal margin; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine,

with veins darker, and basal angle pale brown; connexival segment Ill yellow, IV yellow

with posterior margin pale brown, V pale brown, VI yellow with anterior and posterior

borders pale brown, and VII yellow with anterior border pale brown; dorsal abdominal

segments Il to VI shiny yellowish orange, and VII shiny yellowish orange, with black

lateral margins.

Ventral color. Pale yellow; following areas black to reddish brown: apex of rostral seg-

ment IV, scattered punctures on propleura, mesopleura, and melapleura, broad spot

on abdominal sternite Il, and six rows of discoidal spots on abdominal sterna Ill to Vl;

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anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme yellow; coxae yellow with two

black discoidal spots; trochanters yellow; femora and tibiae yellow with few granules

and discoidal spots pale brown; tarsi yellow.

Structure. Antennal segment | slender, conspicuously large, incrassate to the apex, granu-

lose; Il and Ill slender, cylindrical; antennal segment Il the longest, IV the shortest, and |

longer or subequal than Ill (Fig. 23c}; rostrum reaching anterior third of metasternum. Tho-

fax. Pronotum. Humeral angles prominent, ending in a distinct sharp spine, conspicuously

elongate, directed laterad and upward (Fig. 24e]. Legs. Femora and fibiae granulose.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight, without ex-

pansions; mesally narrowed, with mesial lobe protruding, quadrate; apically truncated;

middle third with low longitudinal sulcus (Fig. 27g). Paramere: Fig. 29a, b.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.22 mm; width across eyes 1.56 mm; interocular space

0.86 mm; preocular distance 0.70 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.60 mm, Il,

1.84 mm, Ill, 1.60 mm, IV, 1.48 mm. Pronotum: length 2.24 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 5.46 mm. Scutellum: length 1.38 mm, width

1.44 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.40 mm. Body length 9.58 mm

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX dark yellow; dorsal

abdominal segments VIll and IX dark yellowish orange; genital plates yellow.

Variation

1 -Ventral color pale yellowish orange. 2 - Apex of scutellum yellowish orange. 3 -Tibiae

entirely yellow. 4 - Connexival segment V dark brown, and VI dark brown with posterior

margin dark yellow.

Comments

Cletus pronus was described from Malawi (Nyasoland: Fort Mangoche, and Chikala

Boma}, later recorded from British East Africa (Mulange) (Bote 1935), and from Zaire

(Linnavuorl 1978). Linnavuort (1978) described the subspecies C. pronus simplex from

Chad and Sudan. Cletus pronus is here recorded for the first time to Madagascar, and

is the only known species from that region with a distinct, transverse whitish to ivory

callose band on the apical edge of the corium. On the other known Malagasy species,

the apical edge of corium lacks a band or there are only one or two small whitish or

ivory discoidal spots. Additional characters to recognize this species are: humeral an-

gles of pronotum, prominent, ending in a distinct sharp spine, conspicuously elongate

(Fig. 24e), and the shape of the posteroventral edge of male genital capsule (Fig. 279).

Cletus ochraceus has the same pattern of color at connexival segments Ill to VII, and

similar shape of the male genital capsule, but is readily distinguished from C. pronus by

having on the mesopleura and occasionally on the propleura and metapleura a distinct

black discoidal spot (absent in C. pronus), and the apical edge of the corium lack a

transverse whitish to ivory band. The humeral angles of each species are quite different

(Fig. 24d, el.

Distribution

Originaly described from Malawi (Nyasaland), and later recorded from Chad, Sudan,

and Zaire (BercrotH 1914; Biote 1935; LNNAvUOR! 1978; SCHOUTEDEN 1938). This is the

first record from Madagascar.

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Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 4,2 29, Maroantsetra, Andalaka, Il.1945 (Asavie)

(MNHN, UNAM); 1 3, Ifasy, Ambilobe, VI.1954 (E. R.) (MNHN); 1 4, Ambodivoniho,

Env. de Vohémar [without date] (NMPC).

Cletoscellus n. gen.

Derivatio nominis

Named for its similarity in appearance to the genus Cletus; masculine.

Description

Body ovoid, laterally expanded.

Head

Wider than long, shorter than length of pronotum, subquadrate and abruptly bent down,

or pentagonal and gradually bending, dorsally flat, barely produced forward between

bases of antennae; tylus unarmed, apically globose, weakly raised, extending anteri-

orly to and laterally higher than juga; juga unarmed; antenniferous tubercles widely

separated, with outer and inner borders armed, or only with outer border armed; outer

border with single acute spine, clearly reaches base of antennal segment |; inner border

with two bifid spines, reaching base of antennal segment |; preocular length shorter than

0.70 mm; antennal segment | thicker than segments II and Ill, narrow at base, gradually

incrassate to the apex, curved outward, short or equal than total length of head, club-

shaped, and granulose; antennal segments Il and Ill slender, cylindrical, and IV fusiform

and barely thicker than |; antennal segment Ill the longest, IV the shortest, and II longer

than |; ocelli close to eyes, on an hypothetical line located slightly behind posterior

margin of eyes; ocellar tubercle weakly raised; preocellar pit deep; eyes globose, upper

margin located almost at same level of frons and vertex; postocular tubercle conspicuous;

middle third of frons with deep longitudinal sulcus; vertex lacks a longitudinal sulcus;

mandibular plate unarmed; buccula rectangular, raised, short, entire with more or less

anterior free angle, not projecting beyond antenniferous tubercles, meeting posteriorly

and closed; rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum, or anterior to middle

third of metasternum; rostral segment Ill the shortest, | the longest, and Il longer than IV.

Thorax

Pronotum. Wider than long, trapeziform, declivent; collar wide; anterior border almost

straight, smooth; frontal angles not exposed; anterolateral borders obliquely straight,

crenulate to serrulate; humeral angles thick at base, tapering into stout large spine direct-

ed laterally and posteriorly; posterolateral borders with outer third vertical and straight,

crenulated to serrulated, and inner third obliquely straight, smooth; posterior border

straight; calli indistinct, not raised, with deep submedial longitudinal furrow; triangular

process absent; pronotal disk without medial carina; posterior margin with low trans-

verse ridge, between humeral angles (Fig. 25g).

Prosternum with deep excavation; mesosternum feebly sulcate; metasternum deeply sul-

cate; anterior margin of mesosternum in front of the area between fore legs produced

into broad and blunt keel; distance between procoxae, and mesocoxae two times the

diameter of procoxae; distance between mesocoxae and metacoxae equal or less than

diameter of mesocoxae; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme raised,

globose, almost same sized, close together; scent gland orifice small, rounded ; evapora-

tive area poorly developed.

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legs. Unarmed; space between each hind coxae reduced, coxae almost contiguous

separated by less than half the diameter of one coxae; hind femora not attaining the

apex of abdomen; tibiae terete, sulcated.

Scutellum, Wider than long, triangular, flat, apically subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate, with anterior half straight, crenulate, and posterior half clearly laterally ex-

panded, smooth; apical margin sinuous; apical angle obtuse, not reaching middle third

of hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Laterally considerable expanded; connexivum distinctly raised above tergum with pos:

terior angles of connexival segments IV-VI produced into short obtuse projections; upper

margin of connexivum crenulate; abdominal sterna without medial furrow; abdominal

spiracles circular, small, closer to anterior border, and remote from upper border of con-

nexivum; abdominal spiracle II not visible.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with lateral angles straight, without

expansions; mesally wider, with mesial lobe wide, large, occupying almost the entire

space of the capsule, or mesally wider, with mesial lobe clearly bulging, and laterally

straight (Fig. 274, i).

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica reduced, occupying

the anterior border of the sternite, and feebly concave; fissura covers 2/3 or more of

the total length of the sternite; gonocoxae | wide, enlarged antero-posteriorly, in caudal

view closed, in lateral view convex, entire; paratergite VIII triangular small, with visible

spiracle; paratergite IX broad, subquadrate.

Integument

Body surface dull, almost glabrous. Head, collar, pronotal disk including the calli, cla-

vus, corium, acetabulae, propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, prosternum, mesosternum,

metasternum, and connexivum strongly punctate; scutellar disk transversely wrinkled and

strongly punctate; abdominal sterna, male genital capsule, and gonocoxae | finely punc-

tate; femora and tibiae granulose.

Comments

Cletoscellus n. gen. appears to be closely related to Cletus, particularly due to the head wider

than long, dorsally flat, frons with deep longitudinal sulcus, vertex without sulcus, preocular

length shorter than than 0.70 mm, calli indistinct, not raised, legs unarmed, and scutellum

wider than long, Cleloscellus n. gen. can be distinguished by having the body ovoid; the

head subquadrate, abruptly bent down; the antenniferous tubercle with outer and inner bor-

ders armed or only the outer border armed; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peri-

treme globose, almost equal in size; scent gland orifice small; abdomen laterally expanded;

and posterior angles of connexival segments V and VI projected into short obtuse projections.

In Cletus, the body is clearly parallelsided; the head pentagonal, gradually bent; antennifer-

ous tubercle unarmed; metathoracic peritreme with anterior lobe reniform, and posterior lobe

shorter, each directed laterally, leaving the scent gland orifice wide open; the connexival

segments V and VI unarmed; and abdomen not laterally expanded.

Cletomorpha resembles Cletoscellus n. gen. in having the abdomen laterally expanded,

and the connexival segments V and VI projected into short obtuse projections. In Cleto-

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morpha the vertex has a deep longitudinal sulcus; the head elongate with the length of

preocular region longer than 0.95 mm; the metathoracic peritreme with anterior lobe

reniform, and posterior lobe shorter, each directed laterally, leaving the scent gland ori-

fice wide opened; and paratergite Vill reduced, almost hidden by the lateral margin of

abdominal sternite VII (Figs 23a; 24a, c; 26e; 27f; 28a, b). In Cletoscellus n. gen., the

vertex lacks a longitudinal sulcus; the head is shorter, with the length of preocular region

shorter than 0.70 mm; the anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme glo-

bose, with the scent gland orifice small; and paratergite Vill not conspicuously reduced

and hidden by abdominal sternite VII (Figs 22a-d; 23f; 25b, c, g; 27a; 29c.

Type species

Cletomorpha spinijugis Bergroth, 1905.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Cletoscellus n. gen.

1. Bord interne des tubercules antenniféres armé de deux épines bifides (Fig. 32) ;

article antennaire Ill plus long que les autres ; bord postéroventral du pygophore

avec un lobe médian grand et large occupant presque toute la place (Fig. 27i) .

spinijugis (Bergroth) n. comb.

= Bord interne des tubercules antenniféres non armé ; article antennaire II plus long

que les autres ; bord postéroventral du pygophore avec un lobe médian globu-

1EUX (FIN 270) ee eee delectabilis n. gen., n. sp.

Key to Malagasy species of Cletoscellus n. gen.

1. Inner border of antenniferous tubercles armed with two bifid spines (Fig. 32);

antennal segment Ill the longest; posteroventral edge of male genital capsule with

median lobe wide, large, occupying almost the entire space (Fig. 27i) ........-....

Aiea iar AEM a spinijugis (Bergroth) n. comb.

— Inner border of antenniferous tubercles unarmed; antennal segment Il the longest;

posteroveniral edge of male genital capsule with mesial lobe bulging (Fig. 276) .....

5 . delectabilis n. gen., n. sp.

Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905) n. comb.

Esp je Sie 96, hea

Cletomorpha spinijugis Bergroth, 1905: 370-371.

Type material

Type 2: MavaGascar: Nossi-bé: not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 0.92 mm; width across eyes 1.12 mm; interocular space

0.64 mm; preocular distance 0.52 mm; length antennal segments: |, 0.92 mm, Il,

1.26 mm, Ill, 1.28 mm, IV, 0.74 mm. Pronotum: length 1.40 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 2.60 mm. Scutellum: length 0.80 mm, width

0.96 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.00 mm. Body length 6.48 mm.

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Dorsal color, General color dark yellowish orange with punctures shiny dark orange;

anterolateral margins of pronotum, apex of scutellum, and anterior half of costal margin

of corium pale to dark yellow; antennal segments | 10 Ill pale yellowish orange, and IV

dark brownish orange with basal joint lighter; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine with

basal angle and veins darker; connexival segments Ill and IV dark yellowish orange

with upper margin pale yellow, and segments V to Vil dark yellowish orange with upper

margin and broad longitudinal stripe close to the anterior margin pale yellow; dorsal

abdominal segments II to VI shiny yellowish orange, and VII pale brown with lateral

margin shiny yellowish orange.

Ventral color. General color pale yellow with reddish-brown to dark orange punctures;

rostral segment | pale yellow with reddish-brown to dark orange punctures; apex of

rostral segment IV black to dark brown; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peri-

treme yellow; coxae pale yellow with punctures and two pale brown to reddish-brown

discoidal spots; trochanters pale yellow; femora and tibiae pale yellow with granules

and several minute discoidal spots reddish brown to black; tarsi dark yellow; abdominal

sterna with six rows of small to broad reddish-brown to pale brown discoidal spots.

Structure. Antenniferous tubercles with outer and inner borders armed; outer border with

single acute spine, and inner border with two bifid spines, reaching base of antennal

segment | (Fig. 22a); antennal segment Ill the longest (Fig. 22d); rostrum reaching ante-

rior or middle third of metasternum.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with mesial lobe wide, large, occupying

almost the entire space; apically rounded (Fig. 27i). Paramere: Fig. 29e,

Female

Measurements. Head: length 0.98 mm; width across eyes 1.24 mm; interocular space

0.70 mm; preocular distance 0.54 mm; length antennal segments: |, 0.94 mm, Il,

1.30 mm, Ill, 1.34 mm, IV, 0.76 mm. Pronotum: length 1.52 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 2.92 mm. Scutellum: length 0.98 mm, width

1.16 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.52 mm. Body length 7.37 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIll and IX pale brown to dark

yellowish orange with upper margin and narrow longitudinal stripe close to the anterior

margin pale yellow; dorsal abdominal segment Vill dark brown with pale yellow central

stripe, and IX dark brown; genital plates yellow.

Comments

This species is recognized by having the inner borders of antenniferous tubercles armed

with two bifid spines, reaching the base of antennal segment |, the antennal segment Ill

the longest, and the shape of the posteroventral edge of male genital capsule (Fig. 27).

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar (BercrotH 1905). Mapacascar: Nossi-Bé.

Seveic) (MNHN, UNAM); 2.32, 1 9, Morondava, Forêt sud de Befasy, 1.1956 (R. P)

(MNHN); 1 9, Station agricole du Bas Mangoky [without date] (MNHN); 1.9, Prov.

d’Analalava, Maromandia, 1923 (R. Decay) (MNHN).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 2 33, 1 ©, Rég. Sud de l'île, Bekily, 1.1932 (A.

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Cletoscellus delectabilis n. gen., n. sp.

(Figs 22b, c; 234; 25b, c: 27a; 29c, d; 31)

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Rogez [without date] (NMPC).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 3 3, 2 29, Rogez [without date] (NMPC, UNAM); 8 GG,

9 99, Vohémar [without date] (NMPC, UNAM); 1 9, Ampanefena [without date]

(NMPC); 2 22, Ambanja [without date] (NMPC); 1 &, La Mandraka, 4.XII.1946 (R.

P) (MNHN); 1 ©, Ranomafana, lfanadiana [without date] (MNHN); 1 9, Rég. sud de

l'île, Bekily, 1.1932 (A. Sevric) (MNHN); 1 3, Dist., Mananara, N. Seranambe, VII.1965

(VADON et Peyrieras) (MNHN).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin, delectabilis, meaning agreable, pleasant.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.10 mm; width across eyes 1.32 mm; interocular

space 0.68 mm; preocular distance 0.60 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.56 mm,

Il, 1.80 mm, Ill,1.36 mm, IV, 1.20 mm. Pronotum: length 1.60 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 3.36 mm. Scutellum: length 1.00 mm, width

1.04 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.04 mm. Body length 7.60 mm.

Dorsal color. Dark orange, punctures reddish brown, and following areas black: narrow

longitudinal stripe behind eyes, and outer margin of calli; antennal segment | pale yel-

lowish orange, with reddish- brown granules, segments Il and Il pale yellowish orange,

and IV dark reddish brown with apex dark yellowish orange; apex of scutellum yellow;

anterior half of costal margin of corium narrowly yellow; anterolateral border, humeral

spine, and outer margin of posterolateral margin of pronotum pale yellow; hemelytral

membrane pale ambarine with basal angle and veins darker; connexival segments Ill to

V dark brown, punctures reddish brown, and anterior and posterior border pale yellow;

segments VI and Vil with anterior half pale yellow (anterior border dark brown}, and

posterior half dark brown; dorsal abdominal segments dark orange.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with following areas reddish brown to black: apex of rostral

segment IV, punctures of thorax, and midline of abdominal sterna Ill to VII; anterior and

posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme pale yellow; coxae yellow, with punctures and

two discoidal spots black; trochanters yellow; femora yellow with granules and discoidal

spots dark reddish brown; tibiae yellow with three pale brown rings; tarsi yellow; middle

third of abdominal sternite II with large, elongate black spot; abdominal sternites V to VII

with one row of black discoidal spots.

Structure. Head nearly pentagonal, gradually bent down; antenniferous tubercles widely

separated, with outer border armed with short single acute spine barely reaching base

of antennal segment |, and inner border unarmed; antennal segment Il the longest, IV

the shortest, and | longer than Ill (Figs 22b, c; 238; postocular tubercle slightly exposed;

rostrum reaching posterior third of mesosternum.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge mesally wider; mesial lobe clearly bulg-

ing, and laterally straight (Fig. 27a). Paramere: Fig. 29c, d.

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Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.20 mm; width across eyes 1.38 mm; interocular

space 0.80 mm; preocular distance 0.66 mm; length antennal segments: 1, 1.56 mm,

Il, 1.74 mm, Il,1.52 mm, IV, 1.18 mm. Pronotum: length 1.76 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 3.62 mm. Scutellum: length 1.16 mm, width

1.24 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 3.68 mm. Body length 8.20 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX yellow; dorsal ab-

dominal segments VIII and IX dark orange to black; genital plates yellow, with scattered

black punctures.

Variation

1 - Apical joint of antennal segments Il and Ill reddish brown to black. 2 - Antennal seg-

ment IV black with basal and apical joint castaneous orange. 3 - Tibiae scattered with

reddish-brown granules. 4 - Outer border of antenniferous tubercles unarmed.

Comments

Very similar to Cletoscellus spinijugis n. comb. (in general habitus and coloration). Cleto-

scellus delectabilis n. gen., n. sp. is distinguished by having the inner border of the anten-

niferous tubercles unarmed, antennal segment Il longer than the other segments, and by

the shape of the posteroventral edge of the male genital capsule (Figs 22b; 27a). In C.

spinijugis n. comb., the inner border of antenniferous tubercles is armed with two bifid

spines, and the antennal segment Ill is the longest (Figs 22a; 271).

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

Cletoliturus n. gen.

Derivatio nominis

Named for its similarity of appearance to the genus Cletus; masculine.

Description

Body ovoid, laterally expanded.

Head

Wider than long, shorter than length of pronotum, pentagonal, elongate, bending, dorsally

flat, and conspicuously surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus unarmed, apically

globose, barely raised, extending anteriorly to and laterally higher than juga; juga un-

armed; preocular length longer than 1.00 mm; antenniferous tubercles armed with short

spine on outer border, or unarmed, continuous, almost circular, not prominent, and widely

separated; antennal segment | thicker than segments Il and Ill, and barely thicker than IV,

narrow at base, gradually incrassate to the apex, curved outward, longer than head, and

granulose; antennal segments II and Ill slender, cylindrical, and IV fusiform; length of an-

fennal segments variable through the species; ocelli close to eyes, on an hypothetical line

located slightly behind posterior margin of eyes; ocellar tubercle weakly raised; preocellar

pit deep; eyes globose, upper margin located almost at same level of frons and vertex;

postocular tubercle conspicuous; middle third of frons, and vertex with deep longitudinal

sulcus; mandibular plate unarmed; buceula rectangular, raised, short, entire with more or

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less anterior free angle, not projecting beyond antenniferous tubercles, meeting posteriorly

and closed; rostrum reaching anterior or posterior third of metasternum; rostral segment |

reaching the base of the head, or extending to the anterior border of prosternum; rostral

segment Ill the shortest, IV shorter than I, and Il longest or subequal to |

Thorax

Pronotum. Wider than long, trapeziform, declivent; collar wide; anterior border almost

straight, smooth; frontal angles not exposed; anterolateral borders obliquely straight,

crenulate to serrulate; humeral angles thick at base, with the projection variable through-

out the species; posterolateral borders sinuous, outer third crenulated to serrulated, inner

third smooth; posterior border straight; calli indistinct, not raised, with deep submedial

longitudinal furrow; triangular process absent; pronotal disk without medial carina; pos-

terior margin with low transverse ridge, between humeral angles.

Prosternum with deep excavation; mesosternum feebly sulcate; metasternum deeply sul-

cate; anterior margin of mesosternum in front of the area between fore legs produced into

broad and blunt keel; distance between procoxae, and mesocoxae twice the diameter

of procoxae; distance between mesocoxae and mefacoxae equal or less than diameter

of mesocoxae; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, reniform, posterior lobe

raised, shorter, and each directed laterally; scent gland orifice widely open; evaporative

area poorly developed.

Legs. Unarmed; space between each hind coxae reduced; coxae almost contiguous,

separated by less than half diameter of one coxae; hind femora not attaining the apex

of abdomen; tibiae terete, sulcate.

Scutellum. Wider than long, triangular, flat, apically subacute.

Hemelyira. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment or extending

slightly beyond the abdomen; costal margin emarginated, almost parallel-sided, basal

half crenulated, and posterior half entire; apical margin sinuous; apical angle obtuse, not

reaching middle third of hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

laterally expanded; connexivum distinctly raised above tergum; posterior angles of con-

nexival segments IV to VI or V to VI produced into short spines; upper margin of connexi-

vum crenulate; abdominal sterna without medial furrow; abdominal spiracles circular,

small, closer to anterior border, and remote from upper border of connexivum; abdomi-

nal spiracle II not visible.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule. Posteroventral edge with broad and large tongue-

shaped median lobe (Fig. 27d).

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica reduced, occupying

the anterior border of the sternite, and barely concave; fissura covers 2/3 or more of the

total length of the sternite; gonocoxae | wide, enlarged antero-posteriorly, in caudal view

closed, in lateral view convex, entire; paratergite Vill conspicuously reduced, almost

hidden by outer margin of abdominal sternite VII, spiracle visible; paratergite IX broad,

subquadrate (Fig. 26a).

Integument

Body surface dull, almost glabrous. Head, collar, posterior lobe of pronotal disk, clavus,

corium, acetabulae, propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, connexival segments IIHV, and

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anterior and posterior margins of V strongly punctate; scutellar disk transversely wrinkled

and strongly punctate; calli, male genital capsule, and female genitalia with puncta-

tion sparse; middle third of head ventrally, prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum

smooth; abdominal sterna finely punctate; femora and tibiae usually granulose.

Comments

This genus resembles Cletus by having the anterior lobe of the metathoracic peritreme

reniform, the posterior lobe shorter, each directed laterally, and leaving the scent gland

orifice widely open. In Cletoliturus n. gen. the frons and vertex have a deep longitudinal

sulcus, the head elongate, with the preocular length longer than 1.00 mm, the posterior

angles of connexival segments IV to VI or V and VI armed with short and obtuse projec-

tions, the abdomen more rounded on each side, and distinctly broader than the heme-

lytra, and paratergite VIII reduced, almost hidden by the lateral margins of abdominal

sternite VII (Fig. 26a). In Cletus, the frons has a deep longitudinal sulcus, and the vertex

usually lacks a sulcus, the head is smaller, abruptly bent down, with the preocular length

shorter than 0.70 mm, the connexival segments always unarmed, the abdomen parallel-

sided, never expanded, and not distinctly broader than hemelyira, and paratergite VIII

triangular, exposed, and well developed (Fig. 26b, c).

Type species

Gonocerus lituripennis Stal, 1855.

Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal, 1855) n. comb.

[Figs 23b; 25h; 26a; 27d; 30)

Gonocerus lituripennis Stal, 1855: 30.

Gonocerus lineatus Signoret, 1860: 942-943. Synonymized by STA. 1865: 80.

Cletus decoratus Distant, 1902: 249. Synonymized by BercrotH 1913: 153.

Cletomorpha sjoestedti Schouteden, 1912: 53 n. syn.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.58 mm; width across eyes 1.72 mm; interocular space

1,08 mm; preocular distance 1.06 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.87 mm, Il

2.64 mm, Ill, 1.90 mm, IV mm, 2.04. Pronotum: length 2.36 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.24 mm. Scutellum: length 1.48 mm, with

1.60 mm, Abdomen: maximum width 3.72 mm. Body length 11.12 mm.

Dorsal color, Head pale yellow with broad pale brown longitudinal stripe bordering the me-

dial yellow stripe; punctures, and narrow longitudinal stripe behind eyes reddish brown; an-

tennal segments | to IV orange; anterior lobe of pronotal disk dark yellow, punctures reddish

brown, and anterolateral margins a distinct inverted-T shaped median pale yellow figure;

posterior lobe of pronotal disk pale brown, clearly contrasting with the anterior lobe, with

punctures reddish brown, and inner third of posterolateral border and posterior border yel-

low; scutellum pale yellow, with broad pale brown longitudinal stripe bordering the medial

yellowish stripe, punctures reddish brown; clavus and corium pale brown, punctures reddish

brown, and following areas pale yellow: claval and corial veins, apical margin, and anterior

half of costal margin of corium; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine, with basal angle dark-

er; connexival segment I yellow, IV yellow with posterior margin dark brown, V dark brown,

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VI yellow with anterior border dark brown, and VII yellow with inner margin dark brown;

dorsal abdominal segments Il to VI dark yellow and Vil dark orange, and laterally darker.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with apex of rostral segment IV and scattered punctures through-

out black to reddish brown; propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura with transverse pale

yellowish white line; mesopleura and metapleura with single large black discoidal spot;

anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme pale yellow; coxae pale yellow

with two black discoidal spots; trochanters pale yellow; fore femora pale yellow with

granules reddish brown; middle and hind femora pale yellow with granules and one row

of ventral discoidal reddish brown spots; tibiae pale yellow with reddish-brown granules;

tarsi yellow; abdominal sterna with 10 rows of small to medium-sized black to reddish-

brown discoidal spots, as well as few scattered punctures.

Structure. Body almost parallelsided. Head. Antenniferous tubercles widely separated with

outer border armed with short subacute spine; antennal segment | narrow at base, gradually

incrassate to the apex, granulose (Fig. 23b); antennal segment Il the longest, Ill the shortest,

and | equal than IV; rostrum reaching posterior third of mesosternum, or anterior third of

metasternum. Thorax. Pronotum. Humeral angles thick at base, with the projection short,

stout, directed slightly laterad (Fig. 25h); distance between procoxae and mesocoxae 2.5

times the diameter of procoxa; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, reniform,

posterior lobe raised, shorter, and each directed laterally; scent gland orifice widely open;

evaporative area poorly developed. Abdomen. Posterior angle of connexival segments V-VI

produced into short obtuse projections. Integument. Head, pronotal disk including the calli,

clavus, corium, acetabulae, propleura, mesopleura, metapleura, connexival segments IIl-lV,

and anterior and posterior margins of V strongly punctate; head ventrally and near middle

third, male genital capsule, female genital plates, and abdominal sterna finely punctate;

prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum almost smooth; femora and tibiae densely granulose.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with broad large tongue-shaped

median lobe; lateral lobes blunt, not exposed; apically rounded (Fig. 27d).

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.62 mm; width across eyes 1.84 mm; interocular space

1.16 mm; preocular distance 1.08 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.80 mm, Il,

2.62 mm, Ill, 1.84 mm, IV mm, 1.96. Pronotum: length 2.52 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.68 mm. Scutellum: length 1.68 mm, width

1.84 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 4.40 mm. Body length 11.90 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX dark to pale orange,

with upper margin yellow; dorsal abdominal segment VII dark orange, and IX pale yel-

low with punctures reddish brown; genital plates pale yellow with few reddish brown

punctures on gonocoxae |.

Variation

1 - Corial veins with pink marks. 2 - Outer half of apical margin of corium black, and

inner half yellow. 3 - Ventral face of middle femora with two rows of reddish-brown dis-

coidal spots. 4 - Posterior border of connexival segment VI dark brown.

Comments

Cletoliturus lituripennis n. comb. was originally placed in the gonocerini genus Gonocer-

us, later transferred to Cletus, then to Cletomorpha, and in this contribution as a new

genus to accommodate this peculiar species.

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Cletoliturus lituripennis n. comb. is easily distinguished by having the antenniferous tu-

bercles widely separated with the outer border unarmed or armed with a short, suba-

cute spine; the antennal segment | pale orange to pale yellowish orange and lacking

reddish-brown to black granules; the middle third of the anterior lobe of the pronotal

disk with pale yellowish, invertedT figure; the humeral angles thick at base, with the

projection short and stout (Fig. 25h); the posterior angles of connexival segments V and

VI produced into short obtuse projections, the connexival segment V dark brown; the

propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura with a transverse, pale yellowish-white line; the

abdominal sterna with 10 rows of black discoidal spots, and the posteroventral edge of

male genital capsule with a large, tongue-shaped expansion (Fig. 27d).

Distribution

Described from South Africa, and later recorded from Comoro Archipelago (Mayotte),

Madagascar, Malawi (Nyasaland), South West Arabia, South West Africa, Tanzania,

Zaire, and Zimbabwe (Salisbury, Mashonaland) (Distant 1902; Hesse 1925; LINNAVUORI

1978; ScHouTEDEN 1938; SIGNORET 1860; Srä 1855, 1865; WALKER 1871).

Specimens examined. Mapacascak: without specific distribution. Mapacascar: 1 d, Diego

Suarez, 2.V.1893 (CH. Auuauo] (MNHN); 1 6,299, S. O. Plaines de Fiherena, 1905

(E. Geav) (MNHN); 1 &, Forêt d'Ambre et Maevatanana, 1907 [Cervoni) (MNHN).

Plinachtus Stäl, 1859

Plinachtus Stal, 1859b: 470.

Redescription

Body almost parallel-sided.

Head

Wider than long, or as longer as wide, shorter than length of pronotum, pentagonal,

gradually bending down, dorsally flat, vertex slightly elevated behind the eyes, elon-

gated and surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus unarmed, apically globose

or flat, barely raised, extending anteriorly to and laterally higher than juga; juga

unarmed; preocular length more than 1.00 mm; antenniferous tubercles widely sepa-

rated, almost circular, not prominent, unarmed, borders entire, continuous; antennal

segment | thicker than segments Il and lll, and slightly thicker than IV, base slender,

gradually incrassate to the apex, curved outward, longer than head, and granulose;

antennal segment Il slender, cylindrical, slightly broader apically; antennal segment

Ill slender, cylindrical, apical third slightly broader, or with narrowly elliptical dilation

or clearly obovate; antennal segment IV fusiform; antennal segment Il the longest, Ill

the shortest, and | longer than IV; ocelli close to eyes, on an hypothetical line located

slightly behind posterior margin of eyes; ocellar tubercle weakly raised; preocellar pit

deep; eyes globose, upper margin located almost at same level of frons and vertex;

postocular tubercle conspicuous; middle third of frons with deep longitudinal sulcus;

vertex without longitudinal sulcus; mandibular plate unarmed; buccula rectangular,

raised, short, entire with more or less anterior free angle, not projecting beyond anten-

niferous tubercles, meeting posteriorly and closed; rostrum reaching posterior third of

metasternum or middle third of abdominal sternite Ill; rostral segment | reaching the

base of head, or extending to the anterior border of prosternum; rostral segment Ill the

shortest, IV shorter than I, and Il longest or subequal to |.

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Thorax

Pronotum. Wider than long, trapeziform, declivent; collar not clearly defined; anterior

border almost straight, smooth; frontal angles not exposed; anterolateral borders ob-

liquely straight, crenulated to serrulated; humeral angles thick at base, with the projection

variable throughout the species; posterolateral borders sinuous, outer third crenulated to

serrulated, inner third smooth; posterior border straight; calli indistinct, not raised, with

deep submedial longitudinal furrow; triangular process absent; pronotal disk without

medial caring; posterior margin with low transverse ridge, between humeral angles.

Prosternum with deep excavation; mesosternum feebly sulcate; metasternum deeply sul-

cate; anterior margin of mesosternum in front of the area between fore legs produced

into broad and blunt keel; distance between procoxae, and mesocoxae two times the

diameter of procoxae; distance between mesocoxae and metacoxae almost equal or less

than diameter of mesocoxae; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, reniform,

posterior lobe raised, shorter, and each directed laterally; scent gland orifice widely

open; evaporative area poorly developed.

Legs. Unarmed; distance between each hind coxae 1 or 1.5 times the diameter of one

coxae; hind femora not attaining the apex of abdomen; tibiae terete, sulcate.

Scutellum. Wider than long, triangular, flat, apically subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment or extending

slightly beyond the abdomen; costal margin emarginated, almost parallel-sided, entire;

apical margin sinuous; apical angle obtuse, not reaching middle third of hemelytral

membrane.

Abdomen

Weakly dilated at connexival segments IV.V; connexivum distinctly raised above tergum

with posterior angles unarmed, not produced into short spines; upper margin of connexi-

vum weakly crenulated or entire; abdominal sterna without medial furrow; abdominal

spiracles circular, small, closer to anterior border, and remote from upper border of con-

Recon obdominalepiraclel nojvicible:

Male genitalia. Genital capsule. Posteroventral edge with prominent medial lobe, bor-

dered on each side by symmetrical shoulders; the medial lobe is differentiated in two

symmetrical secondary lobes located laterally with a medial tiny concavity or open V-

shaped or U-shaped indentation between them.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VIl with plica and fissura; plica reduced, occupying

the anterior border of the sternite, and barely concave; fissura covers 2/3 or more of the

total length of the sternite; gonocoxae | quadrate, smaller than paratergite IX, in caudal

view closed, in lateral view weakly convex, entire; paratergite VIII triangular small, with

visible spiracle; paratergite IX broad, subquadrate, wider than gonocoxae |.

Integument

Body surface dull, almost glabrous. Head, collar, posterior lobe of pronotal disk, clavus,

corium, acetabulae, propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura strongly punctate; scutellar

disk transversely wrinkled and strongly punctate; calli, male genital capsule, and gono-

coxae | with punctation less dense; middle third of head ventrally, prosternum, mesoster-

num, metasternum, and connexival segments smooth; abdominal sterna finely punctate;

femora and tibiae usually not granulose.

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Comments

The genus Plinachtus is characterized by having the vertex slightly elevated behind the

eyes, the head clearly elongated in front of the antenniferous tubercles, antennal seg-

ment Ill apically slightly broad, or with narrowly elliptical dilation, or clearly obovate,

the costal margin of the corium smooth and unserrated, the space between each hind

coxae 1 to 1.5 times the diameter of one coxa, the upper border of connexivum smooth

or weakly crenulated, and the posteroventral edge of male genital capsule with promi-

nent medial plate. In Cletus, the vertex is not raised above the eyes, the head abruptly

bent down, less elongate in front of the antenniferous tubercles, antennal segment Ill

uniformly slender, cylindrical, the costal margin of the corium crenulated, the space

between hind coxae less than 0.5 times the diameter of one coxae, the upper border

of connexivum crenulate, and the posteroventral edge of male genital capsule simple,

without median plate.

Type species

Plinachtus falcatus Distant, 1892.

Clé des espèces malgaches de Plinachtus

1. Tiers postérieur de l'article antennaire Ill, noir ; marge postérieure de la région

pleurale des sternites II à IV, noire

— Tiers postérieur de l'article antennaire Ill rougedtre orangé ou jaune ; marge pos:

férieure de la région pleurale des sternites Il à IV, jaune ...

2. Articles Il à IV du rostre, noirs ; tiers postérieur de l'article antennaire Il, rou-

gedtre ; moitié basale du bord externe de la corie, noire ; stigmates abdominaux

jaunes . scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera

= Articles Il à IV du rostre, jaunes (sauf l'apex du IV noir) ; tiers postérieur de l'article

antennaire Il, noir ; moitié basale du bord externe de la corie, jaune ; stigmates

abdominaux, noirs . vermiculus Brailoysky et Barrera

3. Sternite abdominal V avec une tache noire arrondie ; angles huméraux du prono-

tum aplatis et relativement étroit à la base......... madagascariensis (Kiritshenko)

L Sternite abdominal V sans tache noire arrondie ; angles huméraux du pronotum

large à la base .... contortus Brailovsky et Barrera

Key to Malagasy species of Plinachtus

Distal third of antennal segment Ill black; posterior margins of pleural abdominal

sterna Il to IV blak

— Distal third of antennal segment Ill reddish orange or yellow; posterior margins of

pleural abdominal sterna Il to IV yellow

Rostral segments Il to IV black; distal third of antennal segment Il reddish; basal

half of costal margin of corium black; abdominal spiracles yellow... a

… scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera

— Rostral segments Il to IV yellow (apex of IV black); distal third of antennal segment

Il black; basal half of costal margin of corium yellow; abdominal spiracles black

. vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera

112 Horry BRALOVSKY ALEROWTZ SR

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3. Abdominal sternite V with black discoidal spot; humeral angles of pronotum flat-

tened, and relatively thin at base .. madagascariensis (Kiritshenko)

- Abdominal sternite V without black discoidal spot; humeral angles of pronotum

not flattened, thick at base ......... ... contortus Brailovsky et Barrera

Plinachtus contortus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2006

Plinachtus contortus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2006: 37-39.

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Ambanja [without data] (NMPC).

Paratypes: MADAGASCAR: 1 ©, Tulear Province, St. Augustine S. L., 29.lII.1968 (K. M. G.

et P. D.) (BMNH); 4 dd, 7 99, 1930 (Sicaro) [without data] [MNHN, UNAM).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.70 mm; width across eyes 1.75 mm; interocular space

0.97 mm; preocular distance 1.10 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.50 mm, Il,

3.15 mm, Ill, 2.00 mm, IV, 2.10 mm. Pronotum: length 2.60 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.10 mm. Scutellum: length 1.20 mm, width

1.40 mm. Body length 12.40 mm.

Dorsal color. Shiny orange with the following areas black: head with two longitudinal

stripes running between eye and ocellus, ocellar tubercle, space between antenniferous

tubercle and eye, inner face of postocular tubercle, anterolateral margins of pronotum,

humeral projections, middle third of anterior lobe of pronotal disk, lateral area of upper

third of posterior lobe of pronotal disk, and apex of scutellum; antennal segments | to

Ill shiny orange, IV dull orange suffused with brown, with basal and apical thirds pale

yellowish orange; humeral expansion reddish orange; anterior half of costal margin of

corium pale yellow; basal quarter to half of costal margin bordered medially by a brown-

ish-black stripe; hemelytral membrane pale translucient yellow, basal angle darker; con-

nexivum pale yellow; abdominal segments shiny yellowish orange.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with large black discoidal spot on metapleura; rostral segment |

pale yellow, Il and Ill shiny orange, IV shiny orange with apex black; coxae, trochanters,

and femora pale yellow; tibiae pale yellow with distal half shiny orange; tarsi shiny orange.

Structure. Rostrum reaching posterior margin of metasternum. Humeral angles thick at

base, slightly exposed, and apically truncated.

Genital capsule: posteroventral border laterally differentiated into prominent asymmetri-

cal arms; inner arms covered by large, stout, dark orange setaelike hairs; middle third

with stout short lobe.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.72 mm; width across eyes 1.72 mm; interocular space

0.97 mm; preocular distance 1.08 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.25 mm, Il

2.70 mm, Ill, 1.87 mm, IV, 1.72 mm. Pronotum: length 2.60 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.05 mm, Scutellum: length 1.30 mm, width

1.60 mm. Body length 11.85 mm.

REEL) seca Hemiptera Heteroptera

Coreidae 113

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Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIll and IX pale yellow, posterior

margins shiny orange; dorsal abdominal segments Vill to IX shiny yellowish orange,

lateral margins black; genital plates yellow.

Comments

This species belongs to the dubiusgroup characterized by having the posterior third of

antennal segment Ill yellow or reddish orange (never black); the abdominal sternite V

lacks a black discoidal spot; the abdominal sterna without black spots surrounding the

spiracles; the humeral angles of pronotum are thick at base, and tapering into sharp or

truncate apical spine; and the male genital capsule usually with prominent lateral arms

(VAN ReeNeN 1981). Plinachtus contornus has the humeral angles almost blunt, never

ending as sharp spine; ventrally pale yellow with only one large black discoidal spot

on the mesopleuron; head dorsally with two black longitudinal stripes running between

eye and ocellus; the anterolateral margins of pronotum black to dark brown; and the

posteroventral edge of male genital capsule laterally differentiated into prominent asym-

metrical arms, and the inner arms covered with large, stout, dark orange setae-like hairs.

In P. schoutedeni, recorded from South Africa, the anterolateral margins of the pronotum

are pale yellow to pale yellowish orange, and the posteroventral edge of male genital

capsule has a median lobe more or less rectangular, its lateral angles short, and the

external shoulders conical without setae-like hairs.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. MADAGASCAR: Ambanja, Ampasimpolaka,

Andrahomana, and St. Augustine (Brauovsky & Barrera 2006).

Plinachtus madagascariensis (Kiritshenko, 1916)

(Figs 29, j; 40]

Gonocerus madagascariensis Kiritshenko, 1916: 7273.

Plinachtus madagascariensis (Kiritshenko); Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002: 193.

Type material

Holotype 2: MabaGascar: Toliara Province, Fort Dauphin, 1899 (Sikora) (ZMAS).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.78 mm; width across eyes 1.82 mm; interocular space

1.02 mm; preocular distance 1.04 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.44 mm, Il,

3.16 mm, Ill, 2.16 mm, IV, 2.02 mm. Pronotum: length 2.64 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.04 mm. Scutellum: length 1.36 mm, width

1.58 mm. Body length 12.82 mm.

Dorsal color. Pale yellowish orange with the following areas black: head with two lon-

gitudinal stripes, ocellar tubercle, space between antenniferous tubercles and eye, inner

face of postocular tubercle, anterolateral margin of pronotum, humeral projections, and

apex of scutellum; antennal segments | and Il pale yellowish orange, Il pale yellowish

orange with apical third darker, and IV pale brown with apical third yellowish orange;

clavus pale yellowish orange, punctures dark orange; corium pale yellowish orange,

tinged with reddish at apical third, punctures dark orange; hemelytral membrane pale

114 Harry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWNZ NS

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ambarine, translucient; connexivum pale yellow; abdominal segments pale yellow, suf-

fused with pale reddish orange marks, and posterior margin with black irregular spots

on lateral third.

Ventral color. Overall color including rostral segments (apex of IV black}, legs and ante-

rior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme pale yellow; mesopleura, metapleura,

and abdominal sternite V with black discoidal spots.

Structure. Antennal segment Ill with narrowly elliptical dilation; rostrum reaching middle

third of mesosternum. Humeral angles thin at base, with the spine relatively short, slen-

der, acute, pointing strongly upward and less forward.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with lateral arms wide, stout, gently coni-

cal, with large but not deep U-shaped mesial concavity; outer shoulders relatively small.

Paramere: Fig. 29i, j.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.94 mm; width across eyes 2.04 mm; interocular space

1.16 mm; preocular distance 1.22 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.64 mm, Il,

3.20 mm, Ill, 2.08 mm, IV, 1.96 mm. Pronotum: length 3.12 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 4.52 mm. Scutellum: length 1.68 mm, width

1.80 mm. Body length 14.50 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX pale yellow; dorsal

abdominal segments VIll and IX pale yellowsih orange and laterally black; genital plates

pale yellow. Antennal segment Ill with narrowly elliptical dilation.

Variation

1 - Anterolateral margins of pronotum black, bordered inside with pale reddish marks.

2 - Connexivum pale reddish orange. 3 - Lateral margins of abdominal sterna Ill to VI

entirely pale reddish orange.

Comments

This species is included in the falcatusgroup recognizable by having the posterior third

of antennal segment Ill reddish orange to orange yellow, never black; the humeral an-

gles of pronotum thin at the base with the spine relatively short and pointing strongly

upward and less forward; the abdominal sternite V has a black discoidal spot; and the

abdominal spiracles and the posterior margin of lateral abdominal sterna Il to IV yellow,

without black marks (VAN REENEN 1981). Like P. falcatus with a black spot on both sides

of each of mesopleura and metapleura, and antennal segment IV shorter than Ill. In

P. falcatus, recorded from Namibia, Zaire, South Africa and Zimbabwe, the black spots

on the mesopleura and metapleura are smaller, and the apical third of antennal segment

Ill almost cylindrical. In P. madagascariensis, endemic to Madagascar, the black spot on

mesopleura and metapleura are large, and the antennal segment Ill has a narrow ellipti-

cal dilation on the apical third.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. MapaGascar: Fort Dauphin, and St. Augus-

tine (KiritsHENKO 1916; Branovsy & Barrerd 2002).

Specimens examined. Maoacascar: 1 3, Plaines d’Ambolisatra, 1905 [without data]

(FE Gear] (MNHN); 1 9, Plaines de Ranobe, 1905 [without data] (F. Geay) (MNHN);

SERRE] insocia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 115

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1 9, Plateau Mahafaly, env. d'Ankalirano, 17.1.1974 (A. Pevaieras et P. Vierre) (MNHN);

1 9, Maroantsetra, Ambodivoangy, X.1951 U. Vavon) (UNAM); 2 33, 1 9, S.E. de

Tranomaro, Androatsabo, 400 m, XI.1971 (Pevaieras) (MNHN).

Plinachtus scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002

(Fig. 29h)

Plinachtus scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002: 193-196.

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: 1930 [without data] (Sicaro) (MNHN).

Paratype: 1 2, same data as holotype (UNAM).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.95 mm; width across eyes 2.20 mm; interocular space

1.15 mm; preocular distance 1.20 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.65 mm, Il

4.50 mm, Ill, 2.75 mm, IV, missing. Pronotum: length 2.80 mm, width across humeral an-

gles including the humeral spine 5.10 mm. Scutellum: length 1.65 mm, width 1.80 mm.

Body length 14.30 mm.

Dorsal color. Shiny to dark orange with the following areas black: head with two lon-

gitudinal paramedian stripes obliquely directed, short stripe running between eye and

antenniferous tubercle, postc-ular tubercle, anterolateral margin of pronotum including

humeral angles and the spine, basal discoidal spot on midline and close to the anterior

border of pronotal disk, apex of scutellum, and basal half of costal margin of corium; an-

tennal segment | shiny reddish, and basally black, segment Il shiny reddish, and Ill with

basal half shiny reddish and distal half black (IV missing); hemelytral membrane pale

yellow with basal angle darker; connexivum shiny dark orange, with posterior margin

black; abdominal segments shiny dark orange.

Ventral color. Shiny yellow, with the following areas black: large discoidal spot on meso-

pleura and metapleura, and posterior margin of lateral abdominal sterna Il to VI; ros-

tral segment | yellow, Il to IV black; coxae shiny yellow; trochanters shiny yellow with

dark brown diffuse reflections; femora and tarsi dark reddish brown; tibiae dark reddish

brown with apical third almost black.

Structure. Rostrum reaching middle third of abdominal sternite Ill. Humeral angles thick

at base, tapering into large spine pointing strongly upward, slightly outward, but not

forward.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with median lobe more or less rectangu-

lar, not wider than body of pygophore, differentiated into lateral arms, with prominent

U-shaped mesial concavity, and strongly pointed outside; shoulders absent. Paramere:

Fig. 29h.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.00 mm; width across eyes 2.25 mm; interocular space

1.25 mm; preocular distance 1.25 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.35 mm, ll,

4.30 mm, Ill, 2.65 mm, IV, missing. Pronotum: length 2.70 mm, width across humeral an-

gles including the humeral spine 5.05 mm. Scutellum: length 1.60 mm, width 1.85 mm.

116 Harry BRALOVSKY ALPeROwTZ ISSN

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Body length 15.20 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX black with anterior

border shiny dark orange; abdominal segment VIII shiny dark orange, and IX black with

anterior margin shiny dark orange; genital plates shiny yellow. Antennal segment Ill with

basal half cylindrical and slender, and distal half broadly obovate, with inner and outer

face dilated.

Comments

This species belongs to the pungens-group characterized by having the distal third of

antennal segment Ill black; the abdominal sterna with black spots surrounding the spira-

cles or at least with two to five black spots on the lateral abdominal sterna; and the

posteroventral edge of male genital capsule without shoulders [Van REENEN 1981). Plin-

achtus scitulus is recognized by having the rostral segments Il to IV black, the connexival

segments yellow with posterior margin black, the anterior margin of pronotal disk with a

black discoidal spot on the middle third; the humeral angles black; and the posterior third

of antennal segment Ill of the female cylindrical on the basal half, and broadly obovate

on the distal half. In P pungens, widely distributed throughout Kenya, Ruanda, Uganda,

Zambia and South Africa, the rostral segments Il to IV are yellow (apex of IV black}, the

connexival segments uniformly yellow, and the anterior margin of pronotal disk lacks a

black discoidal spot.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. Mapacascar: without data (Braltovsky &

Barrera 2002).

Plinachtus vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002

(Figs 29g; 41)

Plinachtus vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002: 196-198.

Type material

Holotype ¢: Mapacascar: Antsiranana Province, Diego Suérez, 1893 (CH. Auvauo)

(MNHN).

Paratypes: 4 same data as male holotype (MNHN, UNAM). New records. Maba-

Gascar: 1 ©, Antsirabe, 1.1953 (Bouver) (MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.90 mm; width across eyes 2.00 mm; interocular space

1.10 mm; preocular distance 1.15 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.50 mm, Il,

4.20 mm, Ill, 2.75 mm, IV, 3.05 mm. Pronotum: length 2.50 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 6.90 mm. Scutellum: length 1.60 mm, width

1.75 mm. Body length 13.65 mm.

Dorsal color. Overall color pale ochraceous with the following areas black: head with

two longitudinal stripes running between eye and ocelli, ocellar tubercle, space between

antenniferous tubercle and eye, inner face of postocular tubercle, anterolateral margin

of pronotum, spine of humeral angle, and apex of scutellum; antennal segment | reddish,

OEE PA! insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 117

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segment Il pale ochraceous with distal third black, III with basal half pale ochraceous

and distal half black, and IV dark brown with basal and distal third dark orange; basal

half of costal margin of corium pale yellow; hemelyiral membrane pale ambarine with

basal angle darker; connexival segments Ill to VI yellow with posterior margin black, and

Vil yellow with inner margin yellow; dorsal abdominal segments shiny yellowish orange;

punctures black to dark brown on a pale ochraceous background.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with the following areas black: large discoidal spot on meso-

pleura and metapleura, abdominal spiracle, and posterior margin of lateral abdominal

sterna Il to VI; rostral segments yellow (apex of IV black); coxae and trochanters yellow;

femora dark brown with basal third yellow; tibiae dark orange with apical third dark

brown; tarsi dark reddish brown.

Structure. Rostrum reaching posterior margin of metasternum. Humeral angles thick at

base, tapering into remarkably large and acute spine, pointing strongly upward and

slightly backward.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with median lobe rectangular, not wider

than body of pygophore, and lateral arms truncated without deep medial concavity,

shoulders absent. Paramere: Fig. 29g.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.15 mm; width across eyes 2.25 mm; interocular space

1.20 mm; preocular distance 1.37 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.50 mm, Il,

4,05 mm, Ill, 2.70 mm, IV, 3.05 mm. Pronotum: length 2.85 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 8.80 mm. Scutellum: length 1.80 mm, width

2.15 mm. Body length 16.37 mm

Habitus and color similar to male. Distal third of antennal segment Ill slightly expanded

on outer face. Connexival segments VIII and IX yellow with inner face black; abdominal

segment Vill yellowish orange with lateral margins black, and IX almost black; genital

plates yellow.

Comments

This species also belongs to the pungens-group, and is characterized by having the

rostral segments Il to IV yellow (apex of IV black]; the distal third of antennal segments Il

and Ill black; the humeral spine strongly large and acute, directed upward, outward, and

slightly backward; the anterior border of pronotal disk without a black discoidal spot;

the posterior lobe of pronotal disk with a broad impunctate line running medio-longitu-

dinally; and the black posterior margins of lateral abdominal sterna Il to IV (Braiovsky

& BarrerA 2002). In P. pungens, the humeral spine is shorter, pointing upward, outward

and slightly forward; the posterior lobe of pronotal disk with a vague impunctate and ir-

regular line running medio-longitudinally; and the posterior margins of lateral abdominal

sterna Il to VI yellow to orange.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. Mapacascar: Diego Suarez (Brallovsky &

Barrera 2002).

118 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ DS

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Tribe Hydarini Stal, 1873

Body dull colored, small to medium-sized.

Head

Wider than long, anterior portion porrect, surpassing the antenniferous tubercles; tylus

not compressed; antenniferous tubercles not prominent; antennae usually cylindrical, if

triangular in cross section then antennal segment IV shorter than Ill; antennal segment |

apically clavate; postocular tubercle indistinct; rostrum slender, extending beyond mes-

osternum.

Thorax

Fore femora unarmed; hind femora on both sexes not incrassate, apically slightly thick-

ened, and not reaching abdominal apex; hind tibiae cylindrical, not expanded, and not

sulcate dorsally; claval commissure not longer than apical corial margin.

Abdomen

Usually not dilated; abdominal sternites without lateral discoidal glandular capsules.

Two genera, one subgenus and three species are known to Madagascar.

Clé des genres et sous-genres malgaches d’Hydarini

1. Marge apicale de la corie sinusoidale ; article | des antennes plus long que les

autres ; article IV fusiforme, allongé ; corps allongé, robuste ........ Hydara Dallas

= Marge apicale de la corie rectiligne et oblique; article Ill des antennes plus long

que les autres ; article IV court, claviforme ; corps allongé, étroit à bords paral-

lèles Corduba (Acanthocorduba) Linnavuori

Key to Malagasy genera and subgenera of Hydarini

1. Apical border of corium at outer third strongly concave; antennal segment | the

longest; antennal segment IV fusiform, elongate; body elongate, robust........

Hydara Dallas

~ Apical border of corium obliquely straight; antennal segment Ill the longest; an-

tennal segment IV short, clavate; body elongate, narrowed, parallel-sided ...

Corduba (Acanthocorduba) Mt

Corduba (Acanthocorduba) Linnavuori, 1978

Corduba Stal, 1862: 20.

Corduba (Acanthocorduba) Linnavuori, 1978: 33.

Redescription

Body elongated, narrow, broadening distinctly caudad.

Head

Subquadrate, without spines, wider than long across eyes, anterior portion moderately

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produced, not abruptly bent downwards; tylus protruding, unarmed; juga swollen; anten-

niferous tubercle with short external expansion; antennal segment | long, slender, cylin-

drical, apically clavate; antennal segment Ill the longest, IV the shortest, and | longer than

Il: buccula rounded, short, elevated, not projected beyond the posterior margin of eyes;

rostrum reaching posterior border of metasternum; rostral segment | reaching posterior

gular region, distant from prosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Trapezoidal, wider than long, moderately declivent; anterolateral margins

straight, crenulated; posterolateral margins rounded, smooth; posterior margin concave

in middle third; humeral angles with straight, long spine, directed obliquely backwards;

anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme elongated, apically globose, posterior lobe short.

Legs. Slender, unarmed; apex of femora moderately thickened.

Scutellum. Triangular, longer than wide, apically subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching apex of last abdominal segments; costal margin ser-

rate; apical margin slightly sinuous.

Abdomen

Connexival segments with upper border crenate.

Male genitalia, Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with middle lobe broad, globose

and exposed, and lateral lobes short, flat (Fig. 42b).

Female genitalia. Posterior angle of abdominal segment Vill long, acute; abdominal

segment IX longer than broad, with posterior margin clearly bifid; gonocoxae | short, ob-

liquely directed, with external surface entire; paratergite VIII triangular, spiracle visible;

paratergite IX longer, rectangular (Fig. 41¢).

Integument

Head, pronotum, scutellum, thorax, and abdominal sterna granulose; pronotum, scutel-

lum, clavus, and corium densely and coarsely punctate.

Comments

Linnavuori (1978) described the subgenus Acanthocorduba to include C. (A.) echinops

(Chad, Ethiopia, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Yemen), C. (A.) maynei (Zaire), and

C. {A} umbrina (Sudan), leaving C. (C.] macra (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Si-

erra Leone) as the only species in the nominate subgenus Corduba (Corduba). Brallovsky

& OxrecA LEON (1998) added two new species C. [A] spiculata from Tanzania, and

C. (A) baniana from Madagascar, later Braiovsky (1998) described C. (A.) lurida from

Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and Moutet (2004) C. (A.) streitoi from

Burkina Faso.

Corduba, like Hydara, has antennal segment | slender, cylindrical and apically clavate.

In Corduba the apical border of corium is obliquely straight to slightly sinuous, the body

elongate, narrowed and parallel-sided, antennal segment IV short, and the posterior

border of abdominal segment IX of female concave or bifid. In Hydara, the apical border

of corium has the posterior third conspicuously concave, the body elongated and robust,

antennal segment IV longer, fusiform, and posterior border of abdominal segment IX of

female truncated.

120 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROW!'Z =

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Only one species, C. (A.) baniana, is known from Madagascar.

Type species

Corduba macra Stal, 1862.

Corduba (Acanthocorduba) baniana Bras et Ortega Leén, 1998

(Fig. 420

Corduba (Acanthocorduba) baniana Brailovsky et Ortega-leon, 1998: 29.32.

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar South West: Banian, Ankazoabo, 22°18'S-44°31'E, 70 m,

14.VI.1957 (R. Anorea) (AMNH).

Paratypes: Mabacascar SoutH West: 1 4, 2 29, same data as holotype (AMNH, BMNH,

UNAM).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head length 0.84 mm; width across eyes 0.96 mm; interocular distance

0.58 mm; interocellar distance 0.32 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.94 mm, Il,

1.12 mm, Ill, 3.26 mm, IV, 0.96 mm. Pronotum: length 1.28 mm, width across humeral

angles (without spine) 1.32 mm. Scutellum: length 0.70 mm; width 0.50 mm. Body

length 7.12 mm.

Color. Including antennal segments | to Ill, and rostral segments | to IV (apex of IV black)

pale yellow; antennal segment IV reddish brown with apex yellow; anterolateral margins

of pronotum, apical angle of corium, anterior third of connexival segments V and VI, and

anterior and posterior angles of VII pale brown; hemelytral membrane translucient, with

basal veins darker; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange, with pale yellow spots

irregularly distributed.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 0.90 mm; width across eyes 0.98 mm; interocular distance

0.60 mm; interocellar distance 0.34 mm; length antennal segments: |, 2.76 mm, Il,

1.04 mm, Ill, 3.08 mm, IV, 0.84 mm. Pronotum: length 1.26 mm, width across humeral

angles (without spine) 1.44 mm. Scutellum: length 0.76 mm; width 0.48 mm. Body

length 7.92 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

This species is very similar in general habitus and color to C. (A.) umbrina, including

the unarmed head and tylus. In C. (A.) baniana, however, antennal segments | and Ill

are longer (I, 2.76-2.94 mm, Ill, 3.08-3.26 mm); antennal segment Il is shorter (1.04-

1.12 mm); the humeral spine projected into a long and slender spine; and connexival

segments V to VII having a pale brown spot, not darker as in C. (A.) umbrina. In the later,

antennal segments | and Ill are shorter (|, 2.58 mm, Ill, 3.04 mm); antennal segment Il

longer (1.28 mm); and humeral spine shorter.

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Distribution

This species, recently described from Madagascar, is endemic to that region (Bralovsky

& OrrecA LEON 1998). Maoacascar South West: Banian (Ankazoabo}.

Genus Hydara Dallas, 1852

Hydara Dallas, 1852: 492-493.

Redescription

Body elongated, relatively robust, broadening distinctly caudad.

Head

Subquadrate, wider than long across eyes, unarmed, anteriorly slightly produced, not abrupt

ly bent downwards; tylus protruding, apically rounded; juga swollen; antenniferous tubercle

with short external plate; antennal segment | long, slender, cylindrical, densely granulose,

apically clavate; antennal segments Il and Ill slender, cylindrical, and IV short, fusiform; an-

tennal segment | the longest, IV the shortest, and Ill longer than Il; ocelli distant, placed near

eyes; buccula short, rounded, not extending beyond antenniferous tubercle; rostrum reaching

posterior margin of metasternum; rostral segment | reaching anterior margin of prosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Trapezoidal, wider than long, moderately declivent; collar broad; anterola-

teral margins obliquely straight, crenulated; posterolateral margins sinuous, outer third

crenulated, inner third smooth or finely crenulate; posterior margin slightly concave,

smooth; humeral angles with medium-sized spine directed obliquely backwards or with

large and acute spine directed laterally and weakly backwards

Legs. Slender, unarmed; femora apically clavate.

Scutellum. Triangular, longer than wide, apically subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching or extending beyond the apex of last abdominal

segment (male), or reaching anterior margin of abdominal segment IX (female).

Abdomen

Connexivum with upper border crenate.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with middle lobe broad, globose,

slightly raised, and enclosed by two short subquadrate arms, or with middle lobe broad,

short, weakly raised, and enclosed by two large subglobose arms.

Female genitalia. Gonocoxae | enlarged antero-posteriorly, opened in caudal view, api-

cally rounded, with outer margin weakly convex or straight; paratergite VIII triangular,

spiracle visible; paratergite IX projected as a broad and large subquadrate lobe, con-

spicuously longer than paratergite VIII.

Integument

Body surface glabrous. Head, antennal segments | to Ill, anterior and anterolateral mar-

gins of pronotum, femora, tibiae, and pleural margins of abdominal sterna Ill to VII

densely granulate; pronotum behind calli strongly punctate, each puncture small; scutel-

lum moderately punctate, each puncture large; prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum,

connexivum, and abdominal sterna impunctate.

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Comments

The genus Hydara includes three species, H. kmenti Brailovsky recorded from Madagas-

car, H. nigrofasaciata Garcia Varela recorded from Cameroon, and Spanish Guinea,

and H. tenuicornis (Westwood) widely distributed throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, includ-

ing Madagascar (Bra1ovskv 2006).

The relationship between Hydara and Corduba was discussed in the treatment of the latter.

Type species

Coreus tenvicornis Westwood, 1842.

Clé des espèces malgaches d’Hydara

1. Articles antennaires | à Ill, femurs et tibias, jaundtre pâle marqué de noir ; épines

humérales du pronotum courtes, obliques, dirigées vers l'arrière .

... kmenti Brailovsky

- Articles antennaires | à Ill, fémurs et tibias entièrement jaundtre pale à orangé

pale ; épines humérales du pronotum longues, droites, légèrement dirigées vers

l'arrière .... tenuicornis (Westwood)

Key to Malagasy species of Hydara

1. Antennal segments | to Ill pale yellowish with black marks; femora and tibiae pale

yellowish with black marks; humeral spine of pronotum short, directed obliquely

backwards … _kmenti Brailovsky

— Antennal segments | to Ill entirely pale yellowish to pale yellowish orange, without

black marks; femora and tibiae entirely pale yellowish to pale yellowish orange;

humeral spine of pronotum large, directed laterally and slightly backwards........

PESTS Ne) ene cai, OO ir. fenuicornis (Westwood)

Hydara kmenti Brailovsky, 2006

[Figs 43b, d, f; 44]

Hydara kmenti Brailovsky, 2006: 16-18.

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Ampanefena [without date] (NMPC).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 3 33, 2 99, same data as holotype (NMPC, UNAM); 1 ©,

Diego Suarez, 1893 (Cx. AuvAuD) (MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.20 mm; width across eyes 1.36 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.82 mm; interocellar distance 0.54 mm; length antennal segments: |, 4.48 mm,

1, 2.68 mm, Ill, 3.96 mm, IV, 2.00 mm. Pronotum: length 2.28 mm, maximal width of

posterior lobe including humeral spine 3.04 mm. Scutellum: length 1.48 mm; width

1.04 mm. Body length 11.65 mm.

Dorsal color, Dark orange; antennal segment | dark orange with granules and apex

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almost entirely dark brown; antennal segments Il and Ill dark yellow with dark brown

granules; antennal segment IV dark castaneus orange, apex pale yellowish orange;

posterior angle of claval commissure black; hemelyiral membrane pale ambarine; dorsal

abdominal segments shiny orange with yellowish marks.

Ventral color. Pale yellow with small black discoidal spot on mesopleura, and ab-

dominal sterna Ill to Vil; coxae pale yellow; trochanters pale yellow scattered with

dark brown spots; femora pale yellow with granules and apices almost entirely dark

brown; tibiae pale yellow with granules, apices and two or three incomplete dark

brown rings; tarsi with basal and middle segments yellow, apices castaneus orange,

and apical segment castaneus orange; genital capsule pale yellow with dark brown

irregular marks.

Structure. Pronotum. Humeral angles with medium-sized spine directed obliquely back-

wards (Fig. 43b). Genital capsule: posteroventral edge with middle lobe broad, globose,

and enclosed by two short subquadrate arms (Fig. 43d).

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.18 mm; width across eyes 1.38 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.88 mm; interocellar distance 0.54 mm; length antennal segments: |, 4.60 mm,

1, 2.72 mm, Ill, 3.96 mm, IV, 1.93 mm. Pronotum: length 2.14 mm, maximal width of

posterior lobe including humeral spine 3.16 mm. Scutellum: length 1.60 mm; width

1,20 mm. Body length 12.20 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, and dorsal abdomi.

nal segments Vill and IX yellowish orange; genital plates pale yellow. Genital plates:

Fig. 43.

Variation

1 - Anterior third of anterolateral margins of pronotum pale dark brown. 2 - Granules of

head, anterior and anterolateral margins of pronotum, and pleural margins of abdominal

sterna Ill to VII yellowish white. 3 - Connexivum yellow. 4 - Upper margin of connexival

segments IV and V with black diffuse marks.

Comments

Hydara kmenti is easily distinguished by having the antennal segments | to Ill, and the

femora and tibiae pale yellowish with black to dark brown marks, the propleura and

mesopleura lack a black discoidal spot, and the humeral spine of pronotum is shorter

and directed obliquely backwards. In H. tenuicornis, antennal segments | to Ill, and the

femora and tibiae are entirely pale yellowish to pale yellowish orange, the propleura

and mesopleura each has a small black discoidal spot, and the humeral spine is large,

and directed laterally and slightly backwards. In H. nigrofasciata Garcia Varela, the

posterior margin of the pronotal disk has a wide transverse black stripe absent, in the

previously mentioned species.

Distribution

This species recently described from Madagascar, is endemic to that region [BrALOVSkY

2006). Mapacascar: Ampanefena, Ambodivoniho (Env. de Vohémar), Vohémar, Rogez,

Ambanja, Diego Suérez, Ambilobe, Ampijoroa and Tsaramandroso.

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Hydara tenuicornis (Westwood, 1842)

(Figs 43a, c, e, gi; 45)

Coreus tenuicornis Westwood, 1842: 24.

Hydara tenuicornis (Westwood): Dauas 1852: 493.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.10 mm; width across eyes 1.28 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.80 mm; interocellar distance 0.48 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.80 mm,

11, 2.48 mm, Ill, 3.44 mm, IV, 1.80 mm. Pronotum: length 1.84 mm, maximal width of

posterior lobe including humeral spine 3.80 mm. Scutellum: length 1.40 mm; width

1.04 mm. Body length 11.60 mm.

Color. Pale yellow to pale yellowish orange with small black discoidal spot on prop-

leura, mesopleura, metapleura, and abdominal sterna Ill to Vil; antennal segment IV

dark brown, apically pale yellow; apex of rostral segment IV black to dark brown; ante-

rolateral margins of pronotal disk including the humeral spine brown; apical margin of

corium creamy yellow; punctures of pronotum, scutellum, clavus and corium castaneus

oronges-granulesicreamy. yellow!

Structure. Pronotum. Humeral angles with large and acute spine directed laterally and

slightly backwards (Fig. 43a}.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge with middle lobe broad, short, weakly

raised, and enclosed by two large subglobose arms (Fig. 43c). Paramere: Fig. 43g, h.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.14 mm; width across eyes 1.36 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.84 mm; interocellar distance 0.52 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.40 mm,

Il, 2.28 mm, Ill, 3.16 mm, IV, 1.72 mm. Pronotum: length 1.88 mm, maximal width of

posterior lobe including humeral spine 3.56 mm. Scutellum: length 1.40 mm; width

1.12 mm. Body length 11.95 mm.

Color and habitus similar to male. Genital plates: Fig. 43e.

Variation

1 - Antennal segments | to Ill with shiny reddish reflections. 2 - Apex of clavus black.

3 -Corial veins reddish pink. 4 - Apical angle of corium pale yellow to pale reddish pink.

5 - Apex of femora with shiny reddish reflections.

Comments

The relationship with H. kmenti the other Malagasy species was discussed in the latter.

Distribution

This is the most widely distributed species in the genus. According to the extensive

material examined, it is distributed through Botswana, Cameroon, Central African

Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Liberia,

Madagascar, Mauritius Island, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles Is-

lands, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spanish Guinea, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, and

Zambia (Braovsky 2006).

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Mapacasca: Vohémar, Ampanefena, Ambanja, Ambilobe, Baie d’Antongil, Antanambe,

Vallée du Fanjahira, Nosy-Komba, Maevatanana, and Ifasy.

+ 6 Ad, 10 99, Baie d'Antongil [without date]

22, Antanambe [without date] (A. Mocauerys)

Specimens examined. MApacasc.

(A. Mocauerys) (MNHN); 5 3)

(MNHN, UNAM).

Tribe LATIMBIN! STAL, 1859

Head

Quadrate, short, wider than long, bending downward at the level of the antenniferous

tubercles; antenniferous tubercles protruding forward, occupying almost the intertuber-

cular space; antennal segment | strongly long, slender, and always longer than Il; juga

expanded anteriorly as a quadrate plate, projected below the antenniferous tubercles,

with inner borders contiguous or subcontiguous; buccula short, not extending beyond

antenniferous tubercles; rostrum wide, short, not extending beyond mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotal disk with narrow, impunctate and somewhat callose pale median longitudinal

stripe; prosternum flat, not excavated.

Genus Latimbus Stal, 1859

Latimbus Stal, 1859b: 466.

Redescription

Body medium-sized, relatively slender.

Head

Quadrate, wider than long across eyes, bending downward at the level of antenniferous

tubercles; tylus blunt, not raised, and not extending past juga; juga anteriorly expanded

like quadrate plate, projected below the antenniferous tubercles, with inner borders con-

tiguous or subcontiguous, and surrounding the antennal bases; antenniferous tubercles

protruding forward, occupying almost the intertubercular space, with outer angle lobuli-

form; posttylar depression with single sulcus; antennal segment | much longer than head,

slighter thicker than succeding segments, and slightly curving; antennal segments I! and

Ill cylindrical, and IV fusiform; antennal segment | the longest, Ill the shortest, and Il

subequal to IV; preocellar pit deep; ocelli not elevated; eyes hemispherical, protuberant;

postocular tubercle absent; buccula unarmed, short, not projecting beyond antenniferous

tubercles; rostrum reaching middle third of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Wider than long, trapeziform, gradually declivent; anterolateral borders ob-

liquely straight or sinuous, with few tiny teeths; humeral angles subacute (Fig. 46g), or

rounded and obtuse (Fig. 46e]; posterolateral borders sinuous, entire; posterior border

entire, straight; triangular process short, acute; calli flat; pronotal disk posteriorly with

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low median longitudinal carina; prosternum flat; mesosternum barely rounded, without

longitudinal groove; anterior margin of mesosternum at middle third with short plate

projected between fore coxae; posterior margin of mesosternum at middle third bilobed;

metasternum slightly convex, entire; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme raised, reni-

form, posterior lobe small, subacute

Legs. Male. Femora ventrally armed with two rows of acute spines, the subapical spines

the longest (genus Latimbus), or unarmed or with only two tiny subapical spines (genus

Ptyctus). Female. Femora unarmed, or with fore and middle femora armed with two tiny

or large subapical spines. Tibiae of both sexes sulcate, and unarmed.

Scutellum. Triangular, flat, in males usually as long as wide, in females usually wider than

long; apex subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate; apical margin sinuous.

Abdomen

Connexivum higher than margin of hemelytron at rest; posterior angle of each connexival

segments unarmed; abdominal spiracle close to anterior border.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: posteroventral edge sinuous, with lateral angles round-

ed (Fig. 46)), or straight, with lateral angles convex (Fig. 461).

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite Vil entire, without plica or fissura, and with posterior

margin V-shaped (Latimbus), or with plica and fissura (Ptyctus); gonocoxae | enlarged an-

teroposteriorly, in caudal view closed, in lateral view raised, convex; paratergite VIII trian-

gular, short, with spiracle visible; paratergite IX subquadrate, longer than paratergite VIII.

Integument

Surface mostly glabrous; pronotum, clavus, corium, propleura, mesopleura, metapleura,

acetabulae, abdominal sterna, male genital capsule, and female genital plates strongly

punctated; head dorsally, and connexivum minutely or densely punctated; head ventrally,

prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum smooth; scutellum transversely striated, and

punctated; antennal segments and legs minutely granulose, covered with long and erect

bristle-like hairs.

Comments

The tribe Latimbini, represented by two genera Latimbus and Ptyctus, is widespread in the

Ethiopian region and has not been recorded from Madagascar (BLote 1936; ScHouTEDEN

1938; Linnavuor 1971). In the material studied four new species belonging to Latimbus

were dicovered.

In Latimbus the jugum anteriorly are expanded as a quadrate plates, projected below

the antenniferous tubercles, with the inner borders contiguous or subcontiguous and cross

above the tylus, which is partially covered; antennal segment | is longer and slender, the

body not dorsoventrally depressed; abdominal sternite VII of female entire, without plica

or fissura, and the male fore femora ventrally armed with two rows of spines, the subapi-

cal spines the largest. In Ptyctus, the juga anteriorly are expanded as a quadrate plate,

projected below the antenniferous tubercles, restricted to that area, with the inner borders

not contiguous, and leaving the tylus free; antennal segment | is usually short and stout, the

body generally dorsoventrally depressed, abdominal sternite VII of female with plica and

fissura, and the fore femora of male unarmed, or with two tiny subapical spines.

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Type species

Latimbus armipes Stal, 1859.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Latimbus

1. Pro, méso- et métapleures avec une petite tache noire arrondie ; face dorsale

principalement orange ; angles huméraux obtus, arrondis (Fig. 46 3

refulgens n. sp.

L Pro, méso, et métapleures dépourvus de tache noire arrondie ; face dorsale

jamais orangée ; angles huméraux saillants, subaigus, dirigés vers l'extérieur

(Fig. 6e, gh] … :

Bord des stigmates abdominaux brun rougedtre ; marges latérales antérieures du

pronotum nettement crénelées (Fig. 46g) .... stereus n. sp.

_ Bord des stigmates abdominaux jaune ; marges latérales antérieures du prono:

tum pourvues de minuscules dents .... 3

3. Article antennaire IV jaune orangé foncé, teinté de taches arrondies brun rou-

geâtre ; angles huméraux nettement proéminents et dirigés vers le haut (Fig. 46h) ;

apex des angles huméraux noir ; tergites abdominaux Ill à VI noirs . FRS

saphisus n. sp.

= Article antennaire IV bicolore, orange foncé noisette avec le tiers basal jaune

pale ; angles huméraux subaigus, non dirigés vers le haut (Fig. 46e) ; apex des

angles huméraux jaune ; tergites abdominaux Ill à VI jaune pâle marqués de

taches dispersées brun clair naevillus n. sp.

Key to Malagasy species of Latimbus

1. Propleura, mesopleura and metapleura with a small black discoidal spot; dorsal

color mostly orange; humeral angles obtuse, rounded (Fig. 46h...

refulgens n. sp.

— Propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura lacking a black discoidal spot; dorsal

color never orange; humeral angles produced into subacute expansion, directed

laterally (Fig. 46e, g-h) 2

2. Rim of abdominal spiracle reddish brown; anterolateral borders of pronotum

clearly crenulate (Fig. 46g) .... stereus n. sp.

= Rim of abdominal spiracle yellow; anterolateral borders of pronotum minutely

serrate i Hate) BeOS

3. Antennal segment IV dark yellowish orange, tinged with reddish-brown discoidal

spots; humeral angles clearly expanded and directed upward; apex of humeral

angles black; abdominal segments Ill to VI dorsally black... saphisus n. sp.

— Antennal segmentlV bicolor, dark orange hazel with basal third pale yellow; humeral

angles subacute, flat, and not directed upward; apex of humeral angles yellow; ab-

dominal segments Ill to VI dorsally pale yellow, scattered with pale brown marks

.. naevillus n. sp.

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Latimbus refulgens n. sp.

(Figs 46F, j, m, n: 47)

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso [without date] (MNHN).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 2 3, Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso [without date] (MNHN,

UNAM); 1 2, Ambodimanga, Région de Majunga [without date] (MNHN); 1 3, Majun-

ga, S.., 25.113.IIl. 1968 (K. M. Gucaro] (BMNH]; 1 ©, Mahajanga Prov., Mahajamba

Riv., Ampatoko Eny., 10-12.Xll.1996 (I. Jens} (ex. collection Z. Jindra) (NMPC); 1 3,

Anjiro Env, 1.1966 (ex. collection Z. Jindra) (NMPC); 1 ©, Sakaraha, Zombitsy, 11-12.

IV.1956 (MNHN); 1 ©, Antsingy de Bekopaka Forêt, VII.1949 (MNHN); 2 3d, 2 99,

Forêt de Zombitsy, near Sakaraha, 650 m, 16.XII.1959 (E. S. Ross) (CASC, UNAM);

1 9, Province d’Antsiranana, 7 km N of Joffreville, 360 m, dry forest, malaise trap,

12°20'S-49°15’E, 6-20.III.2001 (R. Harinnoia) (CASC).

Derivatio nominis

The name refers to the unusually shiny coloration of this species.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.12 mm; width across eyes 1.67 mm; interocular

space 0.97 mm; preocular distance 0.67 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.80 mm,

11, 2.85 mm, Ill, 2.65 mm, IV, 2.70 mm. Pronotum: length 2.65 mm, width across

humeral angles 4.00 mm. Scutellum: length 1.60 mm, width 1.60 mm. Body length

13.27 mm.

Dorsal color. Mostly orange; anterolateral margins of pronotum, and upper border of

connexival segments Ill to VI reddish brown; antennal segments | to Ill shiny orange,

and IV pale yellowish orange, with apical third darker; hemelytral membrane yellow,

translucent; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange

Ventral color. Pale yellowish orange, with following areas black to reddish brown:

apex of rostral segment IV, and one small discoidal spot at propleura, mesopleura,

and metapleura; legs shiny orange, except the yellowish orange coxae; rim of ab-

dominalispiracles yellows

Structure. Juga anteriorly expanded, inner borders contiguous; humeral angles

rounded, obtuse (Fig. 46f); femur armed ventrally with two rows of spines, the sub-

apical spines longest.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge weakly sinuous, lateral angles round-

ed (Fig. 46)). Paramere: Fig. 46m, n.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.25 mm; width across eyes 1.80 mm; interocular space

1.05 mm; preocular distance 0.70 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.85 mm, ll,

2.95 mm, Ill, 2.70 mm, IV, 2.75 mm. Pronotum: length 3.40 mm, width across humeral

angles 4.60 mm. Scutellum: length 1.95 mm, width 2.00 mm. Body length 15.40 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Connexival segments VIII and IX, and dorsal

abdominal segments Vill and IX shiny orange; genital plates pale yellowish orange.

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Structure. Femora unarmed, or fore and middle femora ventrally armed with two large

or tiny subapical spines.

Variation

1 - Dorsal color mostly orange with more or less extensive yellowish orange marks.

2 - Upper border of connexivum shiny orange.

Comments

This species can be distinguished from the other described species of Latimbus by having

the dorsal surface mostly orange; the propleura, mesopleura and metapleura with one

small, black, discoidal spot; the humeral angles rounded, obtuse (Fig. 46f); the hemely-

tral membrane yellow, translucent, and the rim of abdominal spiracle yellow.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Latimbus stereus n. sp.

(fig dbs ako) ol

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar East: Mananara Dist., N Mont Antampona, VII.1965 (VaDon

er Peyrieras) (MNHN).

Paratypes: MaDaGascar EAST: , Mananara Dist., N Mont Antampona, VII.1965

(VaDoN er Peyrieras) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 ¢, 2 99, Mananara Dist., N Seranambe,

VIL1965 (VADON er Pevrieras} (MNHN). Maoacascar: 1 ©, Maroantsetra, Antakotako,

100 m, 15.11.1949 (Vaoon) (MNHN); 1 3, Ambila, Ill.1951 (A. R.) (MNHN); 2 2°

Baie d'Antongil [without date] (A. Mocauerys) (ex. coll. Noualhier 1898] (MNHN); 1 4,

Bezanozano [without date] (ex. coll. Noualhier 1898) (MNHN); 3 44, 6 29, Mada-

gascar [without data] (ex. coll. Noualhier 1898] (MNHN, UNAM); 1.3, Madagascar S.

E., 1926 (R. Decary] (MNHN); 1 ©, Madagascar [without data] (NMPC); 8 3d, 8 22

Perinet, Analamazotra, XI-XIl.1930 and 12-20.XI.1930 (UNAM, ZMAS); 2 € ies

Fanovana, 25 km W Perinet, 10.11.1934 (Rosinson) (ZMAS); 1 ©, Ambontoaka, 450 m,

4-14.1.1934 (ZMAS); 2 Perinet, 26.11.1935, 4.Ill.1935 (ZMAS); 2 2°, Environs de

Rogez [without date] (N }; 1 3, Vohémar [without date] (NMPC).

Derivatio nominis

From the Greek, steros, meaning robust, refering to the solid build of this species.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.20 mm; width across eyes 1.82 mm; interocular space

0.97 mm; preocular distance 0.72 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.70 mm, Il,

2.65 mm, Ill, 2.60 mm, IV, 3.00 mm. Pronotum: length 2.60 mm, width across humeral

angles 4.50 mm. Scutellum: length 1.65 mm, width 1.65 mm. Body length 13.24 mm.

Dorsal color. Head dark orange; antennal segments | to Ill dark yellow, granules

reddish brown, and segment IV dark reddish brown with basal third dark yellow

(Fig. 46b]; anterior lobe of pronotal disk dark orange, posterior lobe dark yellow,

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and each with reddish-brown punctures; pronotal disk with narrow, pale, median lon-

gitudinal stripe; scutellum, clavus and corium dark yellow, punctures reddish brown;

apex of scutellum pale yellow; middle third of endocorium with yellowish-white ir-

regular spot; hemelytral membrane dark brown; connexival segments Ill to VII with

anterior half dark yellow, posterior half pale brown, and upper border dark reddish

brown; dorsal abdominal segments shiny yellowish orange, with posterior margin of

VII dark brown.

Ventral color. Mostly yellowish orange, with apex of rostral segment IV and rim of ab-

dominal spiracles reddish brown; legs dark orange hazel, and coxae yellowish orange;

pleural abdominal sterna with anterior half yellow and posterior half reddish brown.

Structure. Juga anteriorly expanded, inner borders contiguous; humeral angles produced

into subacute expansion directed outward, and slightly upward; anterolateral borders of

pronotum clearly crenulate (Fig. 46g); femora armed ventrally with two rows of spines,

the subapical spines longest.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge sinuous, lateral angles convex (Fig. 46k).

Paramere: Fig. 460, p.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.30 mm; width across eyes 1.90 mm; interocular space

1.05 mm; preocular distance 0.75 mm; length antennal segments: |, 4.05 mm, Il,

3.00 mm, Ill, 2.80 mm, IV, 3.35 mm. Pronotum: length 3.45 mm, width across humeral

angles 5.35 mm. Scutellum: length 1.95 mm, width 2.00 mm. Body length 15.72 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Connexival segments Ill to VI dark brown,

with upper border of anterior third yellow, segment VII dull orange with upper border on

anterior third yellow, and on posterior third brown, and segments Vill and IX dull orange;

dorsal abdominal segments Ill to IX shiny yellowish orange; genital plates yellowish or-

ange, punctures pale brown.

Variation

1 - Pronotal disk with the narrow, impunctate, pale median longitudinal stripe hard to

see. 2 - Ventrally yellowish orange, punctures pale brown, and some brownish scattered

marks.

Comments

Easily separable from others members of Latimbus by having the humeral angles pro-

duced into subacute expansions directed laterally (Fig. 46g), the anterolateral borders

of pronotum clearly crenulate, the hemelytral membrane dark brown, the propleura,

mesopleura, and metapleura without black discoidal spots, the rim of abdominal spira-

cle reddish brown, and the connexival segments Ill to Vil bicolorous. In L. refulgens n.

sp., previously described, the humeral angles are rounded and not exposed (Fig. 461,

the anterolateral borders of the pronotum minutely serrate, the propleura, mesopleura

and metapleura with one small and black discoidal spot, the rim of abdominal spiracle

yellow, the hemelytral membrane yellow and translucent, and the connexival segments

orange and not bicolorous.

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

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Latimbus naevillus n. sp.

(Fig. 46e, i)

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso [without date] (MNHN).

3 99, Ambilobe, IV.1951, 1.1952 (R. P) (MNHN,

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 2

UNAM).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin, naevus, meaning mark, and the diminutive suffix, illus, refering to the

smaller spots on the body.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.07 mm; width across eyes 1.67 mm; interocular space

0.90 mm; preocular distance 0.65 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.75 mm, Il

2.85 mm, Ill, 2.50 mm, IV, 2.90 mm. Pronotum: length 2.55 mm, width across humeral

angles 3.65 mm. Scutellum: length 1.45 mm, width 1.45 mm. Body length 12.16 mm.

Dorsal color. Dark yellow, punctures orange hazel; antennal segments | to Ill dark yel-

low, granules reddish brown, and segment IV dark hazel with basal third pale yellow;

pronotal disk with narrow, impunctate, pale median longitudinal stripe; anterolateral and

posterolateral borders, and posterior border of pronotum pale yellow; apex of scutellum

pale yellow; middle third of endocorium with yellowish white irregular spot; costal and

apical margin pale yellow; hemelytral membrane pale brown; connexivum pale yellow

with posterior border of segments V and VI pale brown; dorsal abdominal segments pale

yellow with scattered pale brown marks.

Ventral color. Pale yellowish orange, tinged with pale reddish spots; punctures dark

hazel; apex of rostral segment IV reddish brown; anterior and posterior lobe of metatho-

racic peritreme, and rim of abdominal spiracles pale yellow; legs pale yellowish orange;

genital capsule dark orange, punctures reddish brown.

Structure. Juga anteriorly expanded, inner borders contiguous; humeral angles produced

into subacute expansions, directed laterally (Fig. 46e); anterolateral borders of pronotum

minutely serrrate; femora ventrally armed with two rows of large spines.

Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge sinuous, lateral angles convex (Fig. 46i).

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.15 mm; width across eyes 1.75 mm; interocular space

0.97 mm; preocular distance 0.67 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.95 mm, ll,

2.85 mm, Ill, 2.50 mm, IV, 2.90 mm. Pronotum: length 3.00 mm, width across humeral

angles 4.25 mm. Scutellum: length 1.67 mm, width 1.75 mm. Body length 14.16 mm

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Connexival segments IIHV, and VIHX pale

yollwpeandev.Viipalewellow:stffusediwithipalesbrewnrmarksstdorsdlrabdominaleseg:

ments IIl-V pale yellow, and VHX dark brown; genital plates pale yellow, punctures red-

dish brown to orange hazel. Structure. Femora ventrally armed with two short and acute

anteapical spines (hind femora sometimes unarmed]

132 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWZ IS

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Comments

like L. stereus n. sp., previously described with antennal segment IV bicolorous, the hu-

meral angles produced into subacute expansions directed laterally (Fig. 46e), and the

middle third of endocorium with yellowish-white irregular spot. In L. naevillus n. sp., the

male femora are ventrally armed with two rows of long and acute spines, and the rim of

the abdominal spiracles are yellow, as well as connexival segments Ill to V. In L. stereus

n. sp., the male femora are ventrally armed with two rows of acute spines, both only the

subapical spines are longer, the rims of the abdominal spiracles are reddish brown, and

connexival segments Ill to V are bicolorous.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Latimbus saphisus n. sp.

(Fig. 46a, h, |)

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Madagascar, 1930 (Sicaro) (MNHN).

Paratype: Mapacascar: 1 4, Madagascar, 1930 [without data] (Sicaro) (UNAM).

Derivatio nominis

From the Greek, saphis, meaning distinct, refering to the peculiar delimited color pattern

on the humeral angles of the pronotum.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.40 mm; width across eyes 1.72 mm; interocular space

0.97 mm; preocular distance 0.72 mm; length antennal segments: |, 3.85 mm, ll,

2.90 mm, Ill, 2.55 mm, IV, 2.70 mm. Pronotum: length 2.50 mm, width across humeral

angles 4.15 mm. Scutellum: length 1.45 mm, width 1.60 mm. Body length 13.12 mm

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus and corium dark yellowish orange, with

hazel to pale reddish brown punctures; antennal segments | to Ill dark yellow, granules

reddish brown, and IV dark yellowish orange tinged with reddish brown discoidal spots

(Fig. 46a); pronotal disk with narrow, impunctate, pale median longitudinal stripe; apex

of humeral angles black; apex of scutellum yellowish white; middle third of endocorium

with yellowish-white irregular spot; hemelytral membrane pale brown; connexival seg-

ments Ill to V dark yellow, VI dark yellow with posterior half on upper margin black, and

VII with anterior half dark yellow, and posterior half black; dorsal abdominal segments

black with posterior margin of VII dark yellow.

Ventral color. Head, propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura dark yellowish orange

with hazel to reddish brown punctures; rostral segments dark yellow (apex of IV

reddish brown); prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, and anterior and posterior

lobes of metathoracic peritreme pale yellow; mesosternum and metasternum later-

ally pale brown; legs dark yellow; abdominal sterna Ill to VI dark yellowish orange,

with wide paramedian orange hazel longitudinal stripe; abdominal sternite VII, and

genital capsule dark brown; pleural margin of abdominal sterna Ill to VI dark yellow-

ish orange, VI dark yellowish orange with posterior border dark brown, and VII with

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anterior half dark yellowish orange and posterior half dark brown; rim of abdominal

spiracles yellow.

Structure. Juga anteriorly expanded, inner borders contiguous; anterolateral borders of

pronotum minutely serrated; humeral angles produced into subacute expansion, directed

outward and upward (Fig. 46h); femora armed ventrally with two rows of spines, the

subapical spines the longest.

Genital capsule. Posteroventral edge weakly sinuous, lateral angles rounded (Fig. 461).

Female

Unknown.

Comments

This new species is similar to L. naevillus n. sp., and L. stereus n. sp. by having the hu-

meral angles produced into subacute expansion, directed laterally (Fig. 46h), and the

middle third of the endocorium with a yellowish-white irregular spot.

In L. saphisus n. sp., the apex of humeral angles is black, the dorsal abdominal segments

black with posterior margin of Vil dark yellow, the antennal segment IV dark yellowish

orange tinged with reddish-brown discoidal spots, and the abdominal sternite VII and male

genital capsule dark brown. In the other two species, the apex of humeral angles is yellow,

the dorsal abdominal segments shiny yellowish orange with posterior margin of VII dark

brown or pale yellow suffused with pale brown marks, the antennal segment IV clearly

bicolorous, and the abdominal sternite VII and male genital capsule yellowish orange.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Tribe Mictini Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843

Body large to very large, usually over 20 mm.

Head

Quadrate to subquadrate, short, wider than long, apex strongly bending downward at

the antenniferous tubercles; antenniferous tubercles protruding forward, almost occupy-

ing the intertubercular space; tylus not protracted; juga anteriorly not expanded; buccula

short, situated before or reaching anterior margin of eye; rostrum wide, short, not extend-

ing beyond mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum steeply declivent, and very often with wing-like lateral expansions; hind coxa

relatively separated, space between each coxae 1 to 1.5 times the diameter of one

coxa; all femora usually at least slightly incrassate; male and female fore femora ventrally

armed with one or hwo sharp, subapical, spines; hind femora very incrassate on male,

more slender on female, and usually spinose or dentate; hind tibiae sometimes dilated

ventrally and dorsally; abdominal sterna of male, rarely of female, sometimes armed

medially and or laterally with tubercles or spines.

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Abdomen

Abdominal spiracles circular, closest to anterior edge, and far from lateral edge.

Features in common of the Mictine genera from Madagascar

Head

Antenniferous tubercles unarmed, situated fairly close together, projecting anteriorly to

tylus; antennae shorter than body; antennal segment | stouter than segments Il to IV; seg-

ments Il and Ill cylindrical, robust, and IV robustly fusiform; posttylar sulcus deeply cleft

medially; preocellar pit well developed; ocelli not raised, close to eyes; eyes protuber-

ant, hemispheric; postocular tubercle not evident; buccula uniformly rounded, elevated,

unarmed.

Thorax

Pronotum wider than long; posterior border straight, smooth; callar region flat, not clearly

differentiated; posterior margin with transversal ridge. Prosternum with deep concavity;

mesosternum anteriorly tuberculate between fore coxa; anterior lobe of metathoracic per-

itreme reniform, posterior lobe small, subacute; metathoracic scent gland orifice placed

relatively laterally.

Legs. Fore and middle femora in both sexes robust, ventrally armed with two broad sub-

apical spines; dorsal surface smooth

Scutellum. Triangular, flat, wider than long, transversely striated; apex subacute.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; costal margin

emarginate; apical margin sinuous; apical angle almost reaching the middle third of

hemelytral membrane.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule simple; posteroventral edge usually entire.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica raised, sharply an-

gular to rounded; fissura short; gonocoxae | enlarged anteroposteriorly; paratergite VIII

with spiracle visible; paratergite IX subquadrate.

Clé des genres malgaches de Mictini

1. Face ventrale de l'abdomen du mâle pourvue d'une forte protubérance formée

par les sternites Il et Ill .... ... Dianomictis O'Shea

= Face ventrale de l'abdomen du mâle dépourvue de forte protubérance formée

par les sternites Il et Ill ....

2. Fémur postérieur du mâle avec une dilatation médiane triangulaire et anguleuse

très évidente (moins évidente chez la femelle) ; tibia postérieur de la femelle dilaté

sur la face inférieure mais non sur la face supérieure .. Anoplocnemis Stl

= Fémur postérieur du mâle sans dilatation médiane triangulaire ; tibia postérieur,

de la femelle dilaté sur les faces inférieure et supérieure …

3. Sternites abdominaux Ill et IV formant à leur jonction une remarquable protubé-

rance bifide ; tibia postérieur du mâle dilaté sur les faces supérieure et inférieure

... Mygdonia Stäl

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= Sternites abdominaux Ill et IV formant à leur jonction une petite protubérance

bifide distincte ; tibia postérieur du mâle avec la face supérieure non dilatée mais

sulciforme, et la face inférieure dilatée............... .. Elasmocniella n. gen.

Key to Malagasy genera of Mictini

1. Male abdominal sterna armed with large median tubercle formed by sternites Il

and Ill. . Dianomictis O'Shea

- Male Asari sterna not armed with large median sdberce formed by sternites

Il and Ill

2. Male hind femora with conspicuously large and sharply angular triangular dila-

tion near mid point (less in female); female hind tibiae dilated at inner but not at

.. Anoplocnemis Stal

outer surface

— Male hind femora without sharply ee en dilation near mid point; female hind

tibiae dilated at inner and outer surface

3. Junction between abdominal sternite Ill and IV raised into a strongly bifid, lates

tubercle; male hind tibia dilated dorsal and ventrally... . Mygdonia Stäl

— Junction between abdominal sternite Ill and IV gently raised into a distinct bifid

tubercle; male hind tibiae with dorsal surface sulcated and not dilated, and inner

surface dilated Elasmocniella n. gen.

Genus Anoplocnemis Stal, 1873

Anoplocnemis Stal, 1873: 39.

Redescription

Body medium to large sized.

Head

Quadrate; ratios of antennal segments variable, usually antennal segment | the long-

est, or subequal or shorter than IV, Ill the shortest, and II shorter than IV; buccula not

projecting beyond antenniferous tubercles; rostrum reaching middle third of mesos-

ternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Narrowed anteriorly, and weakly or conspicuously diverging posteriorly;

frontal angles rounded or with tiny spine projection; collar not distinctly differen-

tiated; anterolateral margins obliquely straight, slightly nodulose; humeral angles

varying from rounded and not produced laterally, to armed with a narrow, sharp,

lateraly produced spine; posterolateral margins with outer half finely nodulose, and

inner half smooth. Mesosternum and metasternum flat, non-sulcate.

Legs. Hind trochanters armed or unarmed with blunt subapical teeth; male hind

femora varying from markedly to extremely incrassate, strongly recurved or not,

sometimes ventrally armed with small basal spine, and very large sharply angular,

triangular dilation, near mid point, and sometimes armed with small teeth or denticles

on ventral and dorsal surfaces; female hind femora varying from slightly and rather

gracile to markedly incrassate [less than males), ventrally armed with two broad

subapical spines, and one or two rows of stout teeth or denticles, and sometimes

136 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWTZ A

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ventrally armed with a small basal spine; fore and middle tibiae in both sexes slightly

flattened, sulcate, apically unarmed; male hind tibiae with outer surface sulcate,

and inner surface flattened to markedly dilated; apex with one or two apical spines;

female hind tibiae with outer surface sulcate, and inner surface flattened to slightly

dilated (less than male); apex unarmed or with one short stout spine.

Abdomen

Connexivum slightly elevated, with posterior angles unarmed, and upper border

with two rows of short denticles; male abdominal sterna varying from unarmed,

or with posterior margin of abdominal sternite Ill produced posteriorly into sternite

IV, forming a ventral abdominal tubercle; female abdominal sterna unarmed, or

with posterior margin of abdominal sternite Ill flat, and produced posteriorly into

sternite IV.

Male genitalia, Posteroventral edge entire.

Female genitalia. Gonocoxae | in caudal view closed; paratergite VIll subtriangular,

slightly shorter than paratergite IX.

Integument

Surface covered with decumbent to suberect silver to golden yellow pubescence.

Comments

Anoplocnemis is the largest and most widespread mictine genus with around 60 spe-

cies occurring from South Africa, through the Ethiopian Region to Yemen, and from

India to Southeast Asia and north to Korea and Japan (O'SHEA 1980). Five of them

(A. brevicornis, A. brevicrus, A. distincta, A. luctuosa, and A. madagascariensis)

have been previously reported from Madagascar. In this contribution, one new spe-

cies is added.

The species are very variable morphologically and much of the variation may be al-

lometric; however, the stout antennae, the shape of the humeral angles, the develop-

ment of male the hind femora and male hind tibiae, and the presence or absence of

tubercles on the abdominal sterna define the species concept. Species with spines on

the humeral angles are all large (22-33 mm), with more pronounced incrassate hind

femora in both sexes (A. distincta, A. luctuosa, A. madagascariensis).

Species with humeral angles rounded, obtuse, are all medium-sized (18-20 mm), with

less pronounced incrassate femora (A. brevicornis and A. brevicrus). Primarily males

are decisive for the fixation of the species.

Anoplocnemis resembles Mygdonia in size, shape and color, but is easily distin-

guished because the hind tibiae of Mygdonia are dilated on the inner and outer

surface in both sexes, the male hind femora are not strongly recurved, and without

sharply triangular projection at mid point, and male abdominal sternite III with lat-

eral tubercles; whereas in Anoplocnemis only the inner surface of the hind tibiae is

dilated, the male hind femora strongly recurved with strongly triangular projection at

mid point, and male abdominal sternite III without lateral tubercles or bulges.

Type species

Cimex curvipes Fabricius, 1781.

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Clé des espèces malgaches d’Anoplocnemis

1. Grande espèce, dépassant 24 mm de long ; fémur postérieur du mâle courbe et

fortement épaissi, avec à sa base, ventralement, une forte épine, courte ou longue

(Fig. 49e] .. 2

_ Petite espèce, n'atteignant pas 20 mm de long ; fémur postérieur du mâle beau-

coup plus gracile, non recourbé, et sans épine robuste à sa base . eels)

2. Couleur générale orange pâle terne .. distincta (Brancsik)

= Couleur générale noir à brun noirâtre ….. €

Articles antennaires | à Ill noirs . curvipes (Fabricius)

= Articles antennaires | à Ill orange brillant... 4

Angles huméraux peu saillants, se terminant en courte pointe dirigée vers l'arrière

et non vers le haut (Fig. 48d) ; longueur de l'article antennaire | supérieure à

6 mm ; largeur maximale entre les angles huméraux inférieure à 11 mm ...........

luctuosa (Stal)

— Angles huméraux sailllants, se terminant en une grande pointe nettement dirigée

en arrière et vers le haut (Fig. 48e) ; longueur de l'article antennaire | inférieure

à 6,8 mm ; largeur maximale entre les angles huméraux supérieure à 12 mm

.….madagascariensis (Signoret)

Pro, méso- et métapleure avec une bande tomenteuse longitudinale jaunêtre

clair ; angles huméraux arrondis, non saillants (Fig. 48b) ; chez le mâle, protubé-

rance médiane des sternites abdominaux Ill et IV faiblement proéminente .

. consociatus n. sp.

L Pro: méso- et métapleure sans bande tomenteuse longitudinale jaunatre ; angles

huméraux arrondis, faiblement saillants, tronqués (Fig. 48a) ; chez le male, pro-

tubérance médiane des sternites Ill and IV fortement proéminente ....

Tiers apical des fémurs et des tibias noir ; marges antéro-latérales du pronotum

noires ... ... brevicrus Bergroth

= Tiers apical des fémurs et des tibias châtain orangé à orange rougedtre sombre ;

marges antéro-latérales du pronotum châtain orangé à orange rougeâtre

sombre . … brevicornis Bergroth

Key to Malagasy species of Anoplocnemis

1. Larger species, length over 24 mm; male hind femora strongly incrassate, and

recurved; male hind femora ventrally with a small or elongate stout basal spine ...... 2

— Smaller species, length less than 20 mm; male hind femora considerably more

gracile, not recurved; male hind femora ventrally without a stout basal spine ...... 5

2. General color pale dull orange... ... distincta (Brancsik)

= General color black to blackish brown... 3

3. Antennal segments | to Ill black... curvipes (Fabricius)

= Antennal segments I to Ill shiny orange ……...

4. Humeral angles basally not broadly expanded, tapering into short spine directed

outward, backward, and not upward (Fig. 48d); total length of antennal segment

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I less than 6 mm; maximum width across humeral angles shorter than 11 mm.

ah luctuosa (Stal)

— Humeral angles broadly expanded at base, tapering into large spine directed

outward, and clearly upward and backward (Fig. 48e]; total length of antennal

segment | longer than 6.8 mm; maximum width across humeral angles longer

than 12 mm madagascariensis (Signoret)

5. Propleura, mesopleura and metapleura, with a longitudinal stripe of pale yel-

lowish tomentum; humeral angles rounded, not exposed (Fig. 48b]; male median

hump of abdominal sternite Ill and IV only faintly elevated ....... consociatus n. sp.

— Propleura, mesopleura and metapleura without a longitudinal stripe of pale yel-

lowish tomentum; humeral angles rounded, slightly exposed, truncate (Fig. 48a);

male median hump of abdominal sternite Ill and IV strongly raised 6

6. Apical third of femora and tibiae black; anterolateral margins of pronotum black

.. brevicrus Bergroth

- Apical third of femora and tibiae chestnut orange to dark reddish orange; antero-

lateral margins of pronotum chestnut orange to dark reddish orange...

brevicornis Bergroth

Anoplocnemis brevicornis PSone 1910

Figs 49a; 50a; 51a; 52a; 53a, b; 54a, b)

Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910: 231.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.37 mm; width across eyes 1.95 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 3.10 mm, Il, 2.65 mm, Ill, 2.15 mm, IV, 3.10 mm. Pronotum: length 3.90 mm,

width across humeral angles 6.00 mm. Scutellum: length 2.15 mm, width 2.25 mm.

Body length 17.90 mm. Body medium-sized, length 16 to 20 mm,

Body parallel-sided, relatively slender, and covered with short, decumbent to suberect

goldy pubescence. Overall color pale chestnut orange to dark reddish orange; antennal

segments | to Ill shiny orange, and IV yellowish orange with basal joint dark orange;

apex of scutellum yellow; hemelyiral membrane pale brown; apex of rostral segment IV

black; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme and adjacent areas pale

yellow; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange, scattered with black marks.

Structure. Humeral angles bluntly rounded, slightly exposed, and truncate; hind femora

moderately incrassate, gradually broadening, non-curved, ventrally without basal spine,

and with low subtriangular to convex spinous expansion near mid point; hind tibiae grac-

ile, inner face weakly dilated, and spinous (Fig. 49a); with a distinctly raised median

hump between abdominal sterna Ill and IV, occuping the basal third of sternite IV (Figs

50a; 51a; 54b).

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Fig. 52a. Paramere: Fig. 53a, b.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.26 mm; width across eyes 2.15 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 3.10 mm, Il, 2.40 mm, Ill, 2.12 mm, IV, 3.15 mm. Pronotum: length 3.90 mm,

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width across humeral angles 6.25 mm. Scutellum: length 2.37 mm, width 2.55 mm.

Body length 19.85 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Hind femora relatively gracile (less than male), gradu-

ally broadening, non-curved, apically with a couple of strong subapical spines on ventral

surface, as well as a low convex spinous expansion near mid point; inner face of hind

tibiae weakly dilated, and uniformly spinous.

Variation

1 - Dorsal abdominal segments entirely shiny orange or entirely black with posterior

margin of segment VII shiny orange.

Comments

Similar to A. brevicrus, with total body length less than 22 mm, the general color chestnut

orange to dark reddish orange, and the abdominal sternites Ill to IV armed with strongly

raised median hump. Anoplocnemis brevicornis is recognized by having the anterola-

teral margins of pronotum, and the apex of femora and tibiae chesnut orange to dark

reddish orange, and not black like in A. brevicrus.

Distribution

This species described from Madagascar is endemic to that region (Bercrot 1910;

O'SHEA 1980).

Specimens examined. MADAGASCAR: without data. Mapacascar: 1 ©, Fanovana, 25 km

W Perinet, 10.11.1934 (RosiNson) (UNAM); 1 3, Perinet, Sahamoloto, 13-17.1.1949

(UNAM); 1 &, Fort Dauphin, VII.1948 (MNHN); 1 9, Tananarive [without date]

(MNHN); 1 9, Forêt Tanala, Rég. de Ranomafana, between Savondro and Andrano-

mafana, 1901 (CH. Auuauo) (MNHN); 1 9, Fianarantsoa Prov., Ranomafana National

Park, Talatakely area, 900 m, 21°14.3S-47°26'E, 22.1V.1 998 (J. S. ScHweikut) (CASC);

1 4, 1 9, Environs de Rogez (NMPC); 1 3, 1 9, Ambontoaka, 450 m, 4-14.1.1934

(ZMAS).

Anoplocnemis brevicrus Berre 1910

(Figs 48a; 50b; 51b; 52b; 53c, d)

Anoplocnemis brevicrus Bergroth, 1910: 231.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.50 mm; width across eyes 2.05 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 3.40 mm, Il, 2.95 mm, Ill, 2.45 mm, IV, 3.35 mm. Pronotum: length 4.00 mm,

width across humeral angles 6.25 mm. Scutellum: length 2.50 mm, width 2.77 mm.

Body length 19.05 mm. Body medium-sized, length 18 to 20 mm,

Body parallel-sided, relatively slender, and covered with dense, short, decumbent to

suberect yellowish pubescence. Overall color chestnut orange to dark orange; anten-

nal segments | to lll shiny orange, and IV pale yellowish orange, with basal joint dark

orange; anterolateral margins of pronotum, apex of rostral segment IV, outer margin of

coxae, outer face of trochanters, apical third of femora, apical third of fore tibiae, apex

of middle tibiae, apex of hind tibiae (except lateral margins entirely dark orange], and

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basal tarsi black; apex of scutellum yellow; hemelytral membrane pale brown; anterior

and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme and adjacent areas pale yellow.

Structure. Humeral angles bluntly rounded, slightly exposed, and truncate (Fig. 48a);

hind femora moderatly incrassate, gradually broadening, non-curved, ventrally without

basal spine, and with low subtriangular to convex spinous expansion near mid point; in-

ner face of hind tibiae spinous, and narrowed dilated; abdominal sterna with a distinctly

raised median hump between sternite Ill and IV, occupying the basal third of sternite IV

(Figs 50b; 51b).

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Fig. 52b. Paramere: Fig. 53c, d.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.55 mm; width across eyes 2.10 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 2.95 mm, Il, 2.70 mm, Ill, 2.25 mm, IV, 3.15 mm. Pronotum: length 4.30 mm,

width across humeral angles 6.35 mm. Scutellum: length 2.30 mm, width 2.60 mm.

Body length 19.80 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments VIII and IX, and genital plates dark orange.

Structure. Hind femur relatively gracile (less than males), gradually broadening apically,

non-curved, with a couple of strong subapical spines on ventral surface, as well as low

convex spinous expansion near mid point; inner face of hind tibiae narrowly dilated,

and uniformly spinous; abdominal sterna with posterior margin of sternite Ill flat, and

produced posteriorly into sternite IV.

Variation

1 - Apical joint of antennal segment Ill dark brown. 2 - Hind tibiae dark orange with

apical third black. 3 - Tarsi black. 4 - Dorsal abdominal segments black or shiny orange

except segment VII black, with posterior margin shiny orange.

Comments

This species is similar to A. brevicornis but can be distinguished by having the apex of

femora and tibiae black, not pale chestnut orange to dark reddish orange.

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar (BercrotH 1910; O'SHEA 1980).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: without data. Mapacascar: 3 9, Andasibe, Park

Perinet, Protect area, 19-31.XI1.2001 (V. Doun) (EHCA, UNAM); 1 3, East of District

Mananara, N Mont Antampona, VII.1965 (VADON er Pevrieras) (UNAM); 1 G, East

of Mangindrano Res., Apec de l’Ambohimirahavary, 1800 m, VII.1971 (P. Soca)

(MNHN); 2 99, Perinet Forêt, 4.111.1950 (MNHN); 1 ®, East of District Mananara,

N Seranambe, VII.1965 (VADon er Pevrieras) (MNHN); 1 ©, Perinet, Sahamalota,

13.1.1917 (MNHN); 1 ©, Andringitra, Forêt de Vakoana, 2100 m, 2.1X.1949 (A.

R) (MNHN); 3 32, 1 9, Antasinave, 1.1953 (Bouver) (MNHN); 1 d, Ankaratra,

1.1952 (MNHN}; 1 3, Nosivole, R. N. (MNHN); 4 44, 3 99, Tananarive [without

date] (MNHN, UNAM); 2 99, Maroantsetra (MNHN); 1 2, Ranomafana, lfanadana

(MNHN); 1 &, Tananarive, 1.IL-XII (ZMAS); 1 3, Forêt Tanala, Région d'Ikongo, Vinan-

itelo, 1901 (CH. Auuauo) (UNAM).

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Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp.

(Figs 48b; 50c; 51c; 52c; 53e, À]

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Madagascar, XII.1953 (Bown) (MNHN)

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 1g, 3 99, Madagascar, XI.1953 (Bown) (MNHN, UNAM);

1 9, 20 km S of Betroka, 750 m, 10.XI.1959 (E. S. Ross) (CASC).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin consociatus, meaning united.

Description

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.35 mm; width across eyes 2.05 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 3.50 mm, Il, 3.05 mm, IIHV broken. Pronotum: length 4.50 mm, width across

humeral angles 5.95 mm. Scutellum: length 2.50 mm, width 2.45 mm. Body length

19.90 mm. Body medium-sized, length 19 to 20 mm.

Body parallelsided, and covered by short decumbent to suberect goldy to yellowish pu-

bescence. Overall color dark orange; antennal segments | fo Il shiny orange, and IV pale

yellowish orange; apex of scutellum yellow; hemelyiral membrane pale brown; dorsal

Gbdominal segments shiny orange with scatered black marks; anterior and posterior

lobe of metathoracic peritreme, and adjacent areas pale yellowish orange; propleura,

mesopleura and metapleura with a longitudinal stripe of pale golden yellowish tomentum.

Structure. Humeral angles rounded, not exposed (Fig. 48b); hind femora moderately

incrassate, gradually broadening, non-curved, ventrally without basal spine, and with

low convex, spinous expansion near mid point; inner face of hind tibiae spinous, and

narrowly dilated. Abdomen. Abdominal sterna Ill and IV with small elevation (Figs 50c;

51].

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Fig. 52c. Paramere: Fig. 53c, d.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.40 mm; width across eyes 2.05 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 3.45 mm, Il, 3.00 mm, Ill, 2.30 mm, IV, 3.75 mm. Pronotum: length 4.45 mm,

width across humeral angles 5.75 mm. Scutellum: length 2.75 mm, width 2.60 mm.

Body length 20.00 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments Vill and IX, and genital plates pale orange.

Structure. Hind femora moderately incrassate (less than males), gradually broadening,

non-curved, apically with a couple of strong spines on ventral surface, as well as low

convex spinous expansion near mid point; inner face of hind tibiae narrowly dilated,

and uniformly spinous.

Comments

like A. brevicornis and A. brevicrus, the humeral angles are obtuse, without a spine, the

total body length less than 22 mm, the body color orange to chestnut orange or reddish

orange, never black, and male hind femora never strongly incrassate and recurved.

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The male abdominal sterna Ill and IV of A. brevicornis and A. brevicrus have a strong

raised hump, and the humeral angles are obtuse and slightly exposed (Figs 48a; 50a, b;

51a, b). In A. consociatus n. sp., the abdominal sterna Ill and IV have a small elevation

(Figs 50c; 51c), the humeral angles are obtuse, and not exposed (Fig. 48b), and the

propleura, mesopleura and metapleura have a longitudinal stripe of pale goldy yellow-

ish tomentum, absent on the other two species.

Anoplocnemis gracilicornis can be distinguished from it by having antennal segment |

longer than 4.00 mm in each sex, the pronotal disk covered by golden, yellowish, erect

setae, and the male abdominal sternite Ill and IV with a strongly raised hump. In A. con-

sociatus n. sp., antennal segment | on each sex is shorter than 3.60 mm. and the pronotal

disk lacks golden, yellow setae.

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

unc plocnens curvipes (Fabricius, 1781)

(Figs 48c, h; 49e; 50d; 51d; 52d; 53g, h)

Cimex curvipes Fabricius, 1781: 351.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.70 mm; width across eyes 2.50 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 4.80 mm, Il, 4.05 mm, lll, 3.35 mm, IV, 5.15 mm. Pronotum: length 6.15 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 10.00 mm. Scutellum: length

3.30 mm, width 3.50 mm. Body length 27.20 mm. Body large sized, length 26 to

28 mm, parallel-sided, and robust.

Overall color black, suffused with dark reddish brown at clavus and corium; antennal

segments | to Ill black, and IV shiny yellowish orange; apex of scutellum dark yellow;

hemelytral membrane dark brown, with basal angle darker; abdominal sternites entirely

shiny orange orblockwithilaieralimargins shinyieiareorareel

Structure. Humeral angle not broadly expanded at base, tapering into short to medium

sized acute spine, directed laterally, and sometimes outward and forward (Fig. 48c, h);

hind femora strongly incrassate, recurved, ventrally with elongate and stout basal spine,

and a very large sharply triangular expansion near mid point; inner face of hind tibiae

slightly dilated (Fig. 49e); abdominal sterna entire, without median hump (Figs 50d; 51d).

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Fig. 52d. Paramere: Fig. 53g, h.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.05 mm; width across eyes 2.60 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 4.80 mm, ll, 4.05 mm, Ill, 3.55 mm, IV, 5.40 mm. Pronotum: length 5.85 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 10.90 mm. Scutellum: length

3.50 mm, width 4.00 mm. Body length 27.60 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Hind femora relatively gracile (less incrassate than

on male), gradually broadening, with a couple of strong spines on ventral surface; inner

face of hind tibiae slighily dilated.

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Comments

This species belongs to a group within the genus Anoplocnemis, which includes A. luc-

tuosa and A. madagascariensis, all of them black species, and total body length greater

than 25 mm. Anoplocnemis curvipes can be recognized by having the antennal seg-

ments | to Ill black and the humeral angles tapering into a short, acute spine directed lat-

erally or laterally and forward (Fig. 48c, h). In the other two species, antennal segments

Ito lll are shiny orange and the humeral angles taper into a large or medium, sized spine

directed laterally and backward (Fig. 48d, e).

Distribution

This is one of the most common and widespread species, recorded throughout the Ethio-

pian Region, Madagascar, Seychelles, and Yemen (O'SHEA 1980; SicNoret 1860).

Specimens examined. MADAGASCAR: without data. Mapacascar: 1

21.1953 (Bouver) (MNHN).

1 9, Antsirabe,

Anoplocnemis distincta (Brancsik, 1893)

(Fig. 53i, j)

Mictis distincta Brancsik, 1893: 249.

Anoplocnemis distincta (Brancsik}: BERGROTH 1894b: 547.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.90 mm; width across eyes 2.50 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 5.80 mm, Il, 4.50 mm, Ill, 3.80 mm, IV, 5.25 mm. Pronotum: length 6.00 mm, width

across humeral angles including the humeral spine 10.55 mm. Scutellum: length 3.10 mm,

width 3.30 mm. Body length 26.80 mm. Body large above 24 mm, parallelsided, robust.

Overall color pale dull orange; antennal segments | to Ill pale dull orange, and IV yellow

with basal joint dull orange; humeral angles suffused with dark reddish brown; apex of

scutellum yellow; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme and adjacent

areas yellowish white; hemelytral membrane dark brown with basal angle darker; con-

nexivum dull orange; dorsal abdominal segments black with scars of scent glands on

IVV and V-VI yellow.

Structure. Humeral angles broadly expanded at base, tapering into large acute spine,

directed outward, upward and backward; hind femora with large, elongated and stout

basal spine; abdominal sterna entire, without elevated median hump; inner face of hind

tibiae narrowly dilated.

Genitalia. Paramere: Fig. 53i, j

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.00 mm; width across eyes 2.60 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 5.55 mm, Il, 4.35 mm, Ill, 3.65 mm, IV, 5.35 mm. Pronotum: length 6.04 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 11.14 mm. Scutellum: length

3.55 mm, width 3.78 mm. Body length 27.30 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Ill to IX dull orange; dorsal ab-

dominal segments like male or light brown with scars of scent glands on IVV and V-VI

yellow; genital plates orange; tibiae orange or apically suffused with black.

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Comments

The general body plan resembles A. madagascariensis. Anoplocnemis distincta is slight

ly smaller, ranging from 24 to 28 mm (versus 30 to 33 mm}, the overall color is dull to

pale orange (versus black}, and the length of antennal segments | to IV distinctly shorter.

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar (Bercrom 1894b; Brancsk 1893; O'SHEA 1980)

Specimens examined. MabaGascar: without date. Mapacascar: 1 9, Bemokotay, Ant

sirabe, VIL1951 (DerrcH} (MNHN); 2 99, La Dakoa [without date] (R. G. Carma)

(MNHN); 1 3, Mahambo, VII.1962 (P. Mawzy) (MNHN); 1 3, Mahafaly, Côte Tulear,

1899 (G. Anoivies) (MNHN); 1 d, Tamatave Province, 3.3 km N Ambabasoratra,

30.VII.1962 (E. D. Cas#ar) (UNAM); 1 2, Sambava Province, Marojejy, Ambinan-

itelo, 500 m, XII.1958 (RaHaRIZONINA) (MNHN); 1 ©, Toliara Province, Parc Nat. de

Tsimanampetsotsa, Forét du Bemanateza, 20.7 km, 81°E Efoetse, SE Beheloka, 90 m,

23°51'32''S-43°52'50"E, at light, 22-26.III.2002 (FisHer er Griswotn) (CASC); 1 3,

Toliara Province, on Plateau, 30 m, 23°00'17"S-43°42'22"E, 26.II-8V.2003 (Griswoun)

(CASC); 1 4, Toliara Province, Parc Nat. de Tsimanampetsotsa, Mitoho Cave, 6.4 km,

77° ENE Efoetse, 17.4 km S Beheloka, 40 m, 24°02'50'’S-43°45'11E, 18-22.11.2002

{Fisher er Griswotp) (CASC).

Anoplocnemis luctuosa (Stal, 1865)

[Figs 48d; 52e]

Mictis luctuosa Stal, 1865: 27.

Anoplocnemis luctuosa (Stal): Stat 1873: 47.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.60 mm; width across eyes 2.64 mm; length antennal

segments: |, 5.70 mm, Il to IV broken. Pronotum: length 5.47 mm, width across hu-

meral angles including the humeral spine 10.60 mm. Scutellum: length 3.04 mm, width

3.18 mm. Body length 26.50 mm. Body large, above 25 mm, parallelsided, and robust.

Overall color black suffused with dark reddish-brown at calli, clavus, corium, and lat

eral margins of abdominal sterna Ill to VIl; antennal segments | shiny orange {Il to IV

broken) (on the male leciotype examined, antennal segments | to lll are shiny orange,

and IV black with basal joint shiny orange); anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic

peritreme, and adjacent areas pale yellowish orange; apex of scutellum dark yellow;

hemelytral membrane dark brown with basal angle darker.

Structure. Humeral angles not broadly expanded at the base, tapering into short spine,

directed outward, not upward, and clearly backward (Fig. 48d); hind femora strongly

incrassate, recurved, ventrally with small, stout basal spine, and a very large and sharply

triangular expansion near mid point; inner face of hind tibiae slightly dilated.

Genital capsule: Fig. 52e.

Female

Not available.

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Comments

This species is very similar in general habitus and color, including antennal segments | to

Ill shiny orange, to A. madagascariensis, but it is separable from the latter in having the

humeral angles not broadly expanded at the base, and tapering into short spine directed

outward, clearly backward, and not upward (Fig. 48d). In A. madagascariensis, the hu-

meral angles are broadly expanded at the base and tapering into a large spine directed

outward, clearly upward, and backward (Fig. 48e].

Distribution

Previous to this contribution only known from Madagascar (O'SHEA 1980; StAL 1865).

Mapacascar: without data. Lectotype: 4, ManaGascar: without data (NRES)

Specimens examined. New records. MapaGascar: 1 3, Mayotte, Combani, II.1956

(A. R.) (MNHN).

Anoplocnemis madagascariensis (Signoret, 1860)

(Figs 48e; 52f; 53k, |; 55)

Mictis madagascariensis Signoret, 1860: 938-939.

Anoplocnemis madagascariensis (Signoret): Sta 1873: 47.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.92 mm; width across eyes 2.90 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 7.45 mm, Il, 5.72 mm, Ill, 4.50 mm, IV, 6.50 mm. Pronotum: length 7.00 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 12.70 mm. Scutellum: length

3.70 mm, width 4.00 mm. Body length 33.00 mm. Body large, length 29 to 34 mm,

parallelsided, and robust.

Overall color black suffused with reddish brown on pronotum, clavus, corium, and ab-

dominal sterna; antennal segments | to IV, anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic

peritreme, and adjacent areas shiny orange; tarsi reddish brown; apex of scutellum yel-

low; hemelytral membrane dark brown with basal angle darker.

Structure. Humeral angles broadly at base, tapering into large spine directed out-

ward, upward, and clearly backward (Fig. 48e]; male hind femora strongly incras-

sate, recurved, ventrally with small and stout basal spine, and very large and sharply

triangular expansion near mid point; inner face of hind tibiae with medium-sized

expansion.

Genitalia. Genital capsule: Fig. 52f. Paramere: Fig. 53k, |.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.84 mm; width across eyes 2.73 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 6.90 mm, ll, 5.18 mm, Ill, 4.20 mm, IV, 6.60 mm. Pronotum: length 6.73 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 14.08 mm. Scutellum: length

4.20 mm, width 4.38 mm. Body length 30.00.

Habitus and color similar to male. Hind femora relatively gracile, gradually broaden-

ing, with a couple of strong spines on ventral surface; inner face of hind tibiae slightly

dilated.

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Comments

In size (longer than 25 mm), general shape and color similar to A. curvipes. Distinguished

from the latter by having antennal segments | to Ill shiny orange, and the humeral angles

broadly expanded at the base, and tapering into large spine (Fig. 48e]. In A. curvipes,

antennal segments | to Ill are black, and the humeral angles not broadly expanded at the

base, and taper into short acute spine (Fig. 48c, h).

Distribution

This is the most common and widespread species of Anoplocnemis in Madagascar.

Mapacascar: Nossi-bé (Brancsik 1893; O'SHEA 1980; SicNoreT 1860).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 3 44, 1 ©, Plateau Mahafaly, env. d’Ankalirano,

17.1.1974 (A. Pevrieras et P. Vierte) (MNHN); 1 3, 4 99, District d’Ambanja, N de Beang-

ona-Ambevy, Vallée d’Antremabe, 4000 m, 11.1964 (P. Soca) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 ©,

Morondava, Mahavo [without date] RASE 1 4, Betsimisaraka du Centre, Fauchere,

1910 (Nicous et Movreau) (MNAN); ike cie 1907 (MNHN); 1 2, Moheli, Ill.

1960 (R. Lecranc) (MNHN); 1 &, Baie d’ Aneel je Mocoverrs) (MNHN); 6 3d, 6 99,

Diego Sudrez, 1939-1941 MINN, UNAM); 3 dd, 3 99, Antsirave, 2.1.1953 (Bouvet)

(MNHN)}; 3 32, 2 29, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza, X.1962 (P. Maizy) (MNHNJ; 1 3, Be-

tioky, XI.1970 (A. S. BAACHOWSK} (MNHN); 3 3d, 3 22, Ampijoroa, Tsaromandrosa

[without date) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 ©, Hera, Ankazoabo [without date] (MNHN); 1 €

2, Tsivory, 1906 (FaucHee) (MNHN); 1 ¢, Prov. de Fenerive, Région de Soanierana, nee

(A MarHiaux) (MNHN); 1 3, 1 ©, Prov. de Tulear, Androke, 1913 (Gaupron) NN 1

Q, Reg. de Tamatave, Andevorante et Beforona, 1905 (C. Bove) [MNHNI: 3 dd, 1 @

Tananarive, 3 mi W, 6.1.1971 (H. V. Dat) (CASC); 1 2, 1 9, Tulear Prov., oes No.

ture Reserve, 16 km E Sakaraha, 825 m, 23°88'22"'S.06°70'44"E, 13.XI1.1999 (M. E.

Irwin et E. |. ScHuncer) (CASC); 1 2, Fianarantsoa Prov., Ranomafana, 655 m, 12.IV.1998

(M. E. Irwin ef E. |. Scunce*] (CASC]; 1 2, Toliara Prov., 16 km E Sakaraha, Zombitse Na-

ture Reserve, 22°53'S44°42'E, 825 m, 20.IV.1998 (M. E. Irwin et E. 1. ScHuncer) (CASC);

1 4, Toliara Prov., Forêt de Mahavelo, Isantoria river, 24°45’30"S-46°09'26"E, 110 m,

28.1-1.11.2002 (Fisher et Griswou) (CASC); 1 3, Tulear Prov., 1 km N of Andranovelona,

hand net, lush Ravine, 03°44'23"S-06°70'44E, 13.X11.1999 (M. E. Irwin et E. I. ScHUN-

ce] (CASC); 2 33, 2 99, Tananarive, 1.XLXIl. 1925 (ZMAS}; 1 3, Tulear Prov., Betioky,

275 m, 14.11.1968 (K. M. G.) (BMNH); 1 4, 1 ©, Ranomafana env., 90 km E of Fian-

arantsona, 1-5.XI1.1999 (F. ef L. Kanres) (NMPC]; 3 4, 1 ©, Ampanefena [without date]

(NMPC); 2 33, 1 2, Vohémar [without date] (NMPC); 5 4, 1 9, lfanidiana [without

date] (NMPC); 1 @, Antsiranana Prov., Ankarana, Ambondromifehy, 5-6.XIl.1996 (I. Jeni)

(NMPC); 1 3, Tamatave Prov., Ambodinifody, 26.XII.1996 (I. Jens] (NMPC); 9 TOO:

Madagascar [without data] (NMPC, UNAM).

Genus Dianomictis O’Shea, 1980

Dianomictis O'Shea, 1980: 308-310.

Redescription

Body large, broad.

Head

Antennal segment | the longest, Ill the shortest, and IV longer than Il; buccula reaching

anterior margin of eye; rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum.

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Thorax

Pronotum. Narrowed anteriorly, and diverging posteriorly to form prominent humeral

expansions; frontal angles with tiny spinouse projection; collar not clearly demarcated;

anterolateral margins sharply concave, uniformly spinouse, with short and stout spines;

humeral angles produced laterally into broad, winglike sharp expansion, apically sub-

acute; posterolateral margins with outer half serrate, and inner half smooth (Fig. 48f, g).

Mesosternum and metasternum flat, non-sulcate.

Legs. Male hind femora conspicuously incrassate, subbasally curved, armed ventrally

with two broad subapical spines, and one row of strong and stout short spines, and

dorsally with one row of small tubercles; fore and middle tibiae in both sexes cylindrical,

robust, sulcate, apically unarmed; male hind tibia with outer surface sulcate, apically

provided with an stout spine, and inner surface dilated, armed with one row of short and

broad denticles, and near mid-point strongly expanded on a triangular acute dilation;

female hind femora incrassate (less than males), subbasally not curved, armed ventrally

with two broad subapical spines, and one row of tiny denticles, and dorsally almost

smooth; female hind tibiae with outer surface sulcate, apically unarmed, and inner sur-

face flattened, slightly dilated (Fig. 49c, d).

Abdomen

Male. Abdominal sterna armed with large, stout median tubercle, formed from sternite Il

and Ill; posterior margin of abdominal sternite IV with two small tubercles near middle;

lateral margins of abdominal sterna smooth; connexival segments slightly elevated, with

posterior angles armed with two short and stout tubercles (Figs 50f; 51e; 5éb).

Male genitalia, Genital capsule: Fig. 52g. Paramere: Fig. 53m, n. Posteroventral edge

entire.

Female. Abdominal sterna unarmed; connexival segments unarmed.

Female genitalia. Gonocoxae | in caudal view closed; paratergite VIll quadrate, slightly

longer than paratergite IX.

Integument

Surface covered with decumbent to suberect silver and golden yellowish pubescence.

Comments

The large and stout median tubercle at the juncture of abdominal sterna Il and Ill (absent

in females) is unique, and coupled with the unarmed hind trochanters and the expanded

humeral angles, serves to separate this genus from Anoplocnemis.

Dianomictis, endemic to Madagascar, is represented by only one species, D. expansa.

Type species

Mictis expansa Distant, 1879.

Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879)

(Figs 48f, g; 49c, d; S0f 51e; 52g; 53m, n; 560, b}

Mictis expansa Distant, 1879: 212-213.

Dianomictis expansa (Distant): O'SHEA 1980: 310.

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Type material

Lectotype 3: Mapacascar: Antananarivo [without date] (BMNH).

Paratype 2: Mapacascar: Antananarivo [without date] (BMNH).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.75 mm; width across eyes 2.72 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 7.50 mm, ll, 4.73 mm, Ill, 3.95 mm, IV, 5.45 mm. Pronotum: length 5.75 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 14.10 mm. Scutellum: length

3.45 mm, width 3.80 mm. Body length 27.30 mm.

Dorsal color. Head black with antenniferous tubercles and postocular area yellow; anten-

nal segments | to Ill shiny orange, and IV black with basal joint shiny orange; pronotum

reddish orange with anterior margin including the calli black; scutellum reddish orange

with apex yellowish white; clavus black with outer margin reddish orange; corium red-

dish orange with 2/3 of basal costal margin black; hemelytral membrane brown with

basal angle darker; connexivum and dorsal abdominal segments black.

Ventral color. Head black with buccula and middle third yellow; rostral segments black;

propleura, mesopleura, and metapleura reddish orange with acetabulae black; pros-

ternum, and mesosternum black, and metasternum and anterior and posterior lobes of

metathoracic peritreme reddish orange; coxae black with upper margin yellow; fore

trochanters black with basal margin yellow; middle, hind trochanters and tibiae black;

femora reddish orange with apical third black; tarsi yellow; abdominal sterna reddish

orange with following areas black: median hump of sterna Il and Ill, pleural margins

of sterna Ill to Vil, middle third of posterior margin of sternite IV, small discoidal spot at

mid point of sternite VI, posterior margin of sternite VII, and genital capsule; abdominal

spiracle yellow with or without thin black halo.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.10 mm; width across eyes 2.68 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 6.00 mm, Il, 4.10 mm, Ill, 3.47 mm, IV, 4.83 mm. Pronotum: length 6.25 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 13.10 mm. Scutellum: length

3.05 mm, width 3.75 mm. Body length 26.85.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments VIII and IX, and dorsal ab-

dominal segments VIII and IX black; abdominal sterna reddish orange, with middle third,

pleural margins, and posterior margin of each sternite black; abdominal spiracle yellow

with or without thin black halo; genital plates black with outer margin of gonocoxae |

reddish orange.

Distribution

This species described from Madagascar is endemic to the region (Distant 1879; O'SHEA

1980).

Maoacascar: Antananarivo.

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 4, Tananarive, Mahamasina, VIl.1932 (ZMAS);

1 9, Mandraka, XI.1934 (ZMAS); 1 ©, Mandraka, 1.1953 (MNHN); 1 ©, Tamatave

Prov., 7 km N Didy, 24.IX.1962 (E. D. Caskar) (USNM); 4 92, Ambanja (NMPC); 1 ?,

Perinet, 7.X1.1959 (E. S. Ross] (CASC); 1.3, 1 2, Andringitra Centre Plateau, Andohari-

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ana, 2000-2100 m, 10.XI.1970 (Madagascar Centre Mission, CNRS) (MNHN); 1d,

1 , Andringitra East, Ambalamarovandana, 1500-1600 m, 15-25.1.1971 (FDHMA

Madagascar Centre Mission, CNRS] (MNHN); 1, East of Mangindrano Res., Opec de

l’Ambohimirahavavy, Ambinanitel, Bemafo, 1800 m, VII.1971 (M. P. Soca) (MNHN);

2 99, Manankazo Station, km 130 route Majanga, 6.111948 (MNHN); 1d, 2 &

Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana Nat., Park, Talatakely, Trail FF, 915-1000 m, 4-20.XI.1998

(V. F. Lee et K. Rigaroo) (CASC, UNAM); 1 4, 1 9, Fianarantsoa Prov., Manombo Special

Reserve, 20 km SSW Farafangana, X.1999 (M. Irwinc et E. I. Scxunceer) (CASC); 1 à,

Tenerive Prov., Région de Soanierana, 1905 (A. MatHiau) (MNHN); 2 22, Mahitsikazo,

Ambodikakazo, 28.VIII.1951 (J. Dietrich) (UNAM); 1 3, 1 9, Ambatofitorahana, km

303 Route de Mananjary [without date] (MNHN).

Elasmocniella n. gen.

Derivatio nominis

The generic name refering to the close relation with the genus Elasmocnema.

Description

Body large, elongate, length shorter than 25 mm.

Head

Quadrate, apically strongly bent downward at the antenniferous tubercles; antennal seg-

ment | the longest, Ill the shortest, and IV longer than II; buccula reaching anterior margin

of eye; rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Narrowed anteriorly, diverging posteriorly; collar distinctly differentiated;

frontal angles obtuse, not produced; anterolateral margins obliquely straight, weakly

concave, nodulose; humeral angles produced laterally into wingllike relatively narrowed

lobes; posterolateral margins with outer half finely nodulose, and inner half smooth

(Fig. 48); mesosternum and metasternum flat, non sulcate.

Legs. Hind trochanters in both sexes unarmed; male hind femora gradually incrassate,

subbasally gently curved, ventrally armed with single and broad subapical spine, and

two rows of tiny denticles or nodular expansions; female hind femora gradually in-

crassate (less than males), subbasally gently curved, ventrally with two subapical spines,

and one row of tiny denticles; fore and middle tibiae in both sexes cylindrical, robust,

sulcate, apically unarmed; male hind tibiae with outer surface sulcate, inner surface

dilated, sharply angulate with triangular expansion near mid point, and distal spine on

dorsal surface larger and similar-sized to ventral spine; female hind tibiae with outer and

inner surfaces dilated, apically unarmed (Fig. 49b).

Abdomen

Male. Connexivum slightly raised, posterior angle unarmed, and upper margin with two

rows of short nodules; junction between abdominal sterna Ill and IV slightly raised into

distinct bifid tubercle (Fig. 57b).

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Posteroventral edge straight, laterally rounded.

Female. Connexivum slightly raised; posterior angle of connexival segments IV to VI

armed with two short and stout tubercles or bulges; abdominal sterna unarmed.

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Female genitalia. Gonocoxae | in caudal view open; paratergite VIII triangular, shorter

than paratergite IX.

Integument

Body surface covered with decumbent to suberect silvery pubescence.

Comments

Elasmocniella n. gen., like Elasmocnema, with male hind femora gradually incrassate,

subbasally gently curved, without sharply angular triangular projection near mid-point;

male hind tibiae dilated ventrally but not dorsally, with ventral expansion sharply an-

gular, like triangular expansion near mid point; abdominal sternite Ill with two ventral

spines close together, and almost forming a single tubercle, and abdominal sterna lack-

ings lateral tubercles or bulges. In Elasmocnema, recorded from Cameroon, the humeral

angles are rounded and the rostrum rather short, not reaching mesosternum. In Elasmoc-

niella n. gen., endemic to Madagascar, the humeral angles clearly produced laterally

into wing-like narrowed lobes and rostrum reaching posterior margin of mesosternum. In

Mygdonia, the male hind tibiae are dilated dorsally and ventrally, the junction between

abdominal sternite Ill and IV is produced into a distinct, bifid, large tubercle, and ab-

dominal sternite III with small lateral tubercles (sometimes absent or hard to see).

Type species

Elasmocniella gloriosus n. gen., n. sp.

Elasmocniella gloriosus n. Gh bee

(Figs 48); 49b; 57a, b)

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Baie d'Antongil [without date] (A. Mocauerys) (MNHN).

Baie d’Antongil [without date] (A. Mocauerys) (MNHN).

Derivatio nominis

Referring to the attractive appearance of this species.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 1.85 mm; width across eyes 2.35 mm; length antennal

segments: mutilated. Pronotum: length 4.15 mm, width across humeral angles including

the humeral spine 9.80 mm. Scutellum: length 2.40 mm, width 2.60 mm. Body length

21.40.

Overall color reddish brown; postocular area pale yellow; hemelytral membrane dark

brown; dorsal abdominal segments black, posterior margin of Vil reddish brown, and

scars on IV-V and V-VI dark yellow; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peri-

treme and adjacent areas yellow to pale orange.

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 1.80 mm; width across eyes 2.45 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 4.70 mm, Il, 3.90 mm, Ill, 3.20 mm, IV, 4.45 mm. Pronotum: length 4.65 mm,

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width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 10.70 mm. Scutellum: length

2.90 mm, width 3.20 mm. Body length 23.90.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Antennal segments | to IV shiny orange; con-

nexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal abdominal segments VIll and IX, and genital plates

black.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Mygdonia Stal, 1865

Mygdonia Stal, 1865: 16-17.

Redescription

Body large, stout, elongate-rectangular.

Head

Quadrate; antennal segment | subequal to IV, Ill the shortest, and Il shorter than | and IV;

buccula not projected beyond antenniferous tubercle; rostrum reaching middle third of

mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Narrowed anteriorly, and diverging posteriorly; disk granulose and rugulose;

frontal angles produced forward as acute and elongate conical lobes; collar narrow;

anterolateral margins obliquely straight, slightly nodulose; humeral angles transversely

broad, laterally produced, subacute to obtuse and rounded; posterolateral margins with

outer half slightly nodulose, and inner half smooth (Fig. 48i).

Mesosternum slightly sulcate; metasternum flat, non-sulcate.

Scutellum. Transversely and irregularly rugulose.

Legs. Male hind femora gradually incrassate, subbasally curved, ventrally armed with

two rows of tiny denticles, or nodular expansions, lacking one or two broad subapical

spines; female hind femora incrassate (less than males), subbasally slightly curved, ven-

trally with one broad subapical spine, and two rows of tiny denticles; fore and middle

tibiae in both sexes cylindrical, robust, sulcate, apically unarmed; male hind tibia dilated

on each side; inner dilation with very large and sharp triangular expansion near mid-

point; outer dilation narrow; outer and inner surfaces apically with broad spine; female

hind tibiae with outer and inner surfaces dilated, and apically unarmed (Fig. 49, g).

Hemelytra. Clavus and corium thickly and finely punctate.

Abdomen

Male. Connexivum slightly elevated; connexival segments IV to VI with posterior angle

armed with two short, and stout tubercles; junction between abdominal sternite III and

IV produced into a distinct bifid, large tubercle; abdominal sternite Ill with small lateral

tubercles (Figs 50e; 51f).

Male genitalia. Posteroventral edge almost straight; laterally convex with shallow median

sulcus (Fig. 52h]. Paramere: Fig. 530, p.

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Female. Connexivum slightly elevated; connexival segments IV to VI with posterior angles

armed with two short, stout tubercles; abdominal sterna unarmed.

Female genitalia. Gonocoxae in caudal view opened; paratergite Vill subtriangular,

shorter than paratergite IX.

Integument

Surface covered with decumbent to suberect silver and golden yellowish pubescence.

Comments

Mygdonia is most similar in general aspect to Anoplocnemis, but it can be distinguished

from the latter by having the hind tibiae dilated on each side, and the male hind femora

gradually incrassate, not strongly recurved, and without a sharp triangular projection

near the mid point. In Anoplocnemis the hind tibiae is only dilated on the inner surface,

and the male hind femora strongly incrassate, and recurved, with a conspicuous triangu-

lar projection near the mid-point.

Type species

Mictis tuberculosus Signoret, 1851.

Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879

[Figs 481; 49, g; 50e; 51f; 52h; 580, p; 58)

Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879: 211-212.

Type material

Lectotype d: Mapacascar: Antananarivo [without date] (BMNH).

Paratype 2: Mapacascar: Antananarivo [without date] (BMNH).

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.75-1.85 mm; width across eyes 2.45-2.62 mm; length

antennal segments: |, 5.90-6.30 mm, Il, 4.95-5.05 mm, Ill, 3.75-3.80 mm, IV, 5.65-

5.95 mm. Pronotum: length 4.60-6.25 mm, width across humeral angles including the

humeral spine 8.50-11.05 mm. Scutellum: length 3.00-3.50 mm, width 3.10-3.95 mm

Body length 24.80-30.60 mm

Overall color black; clavus, corium, and abdominal sterna suffused with reddish brown;

antennal segments | to Ill shiny orange, and IV dull orange; antenniferous tubercles hazel

orange; postocular space with an elongate yellow mark; anterior and posterior lobes of

metathoracic peritreme yellow; legs black with distal third of tibiae and tarsi shiny hazel or-

ange; apex of scutellum yellow; hemelytral membrane dark brown, with basal angle black.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.80-2.05 mm; width across eyes 2.58-2.65 mm; length

antennal segments: |, 5.35-6.10 mm, Il, 4.15-4.85 mm, Ill, 3.35-4.00 mm, IV, 5.00-

6.25 mm. Pronotum: length 6.00-6.18 mm, width across humeral angles including the

humeral spine 11.40-13.85 mm. Scutellum: length 3.50-3.75 mm, width 3.90-4.05 mm.

Body length 28.47-31.00 mm.

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Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments Vill and IX, and genital plates black; posterior margin near middle third of

abdominal sternite VII, and basal third of gonocoxae | shiny orange.

Variation

1 - Pronotal disk suffused or not with reddish-brown marks. 2 - Hemelyiral membrane pale

brown with basal angle darker. 3 - Connexivum shiny reddish brown to hazel orange.

4- Dorsal abdominal segments with scent glands scars on IV.V, and V-VI hazel orange

5 Abdominal sterna shiny reddish orange. 6 - Femora with ventral surface dark reddish

brown, and dorsally pale reddish. 7 - Gonocoxae | entirely black

Comments

Mygdonia tuberculosa, widespread in the continental portion of Africa, is the other only

previously known species included on the genus Mygdonia. lt is distinguished by having

a broad and conspicuous tubercles on the posterior pronotal lobe, clavus, and corium;

the anterolateral margins of pronotum with large and stout spines; the male junction

between abdominal sternite Ill and IV produced with small and narrow raised median

hump, and the inner expansion of male hind tibiae subtriangular, and shorter than in

M. elongata, which is endemic to Madagascar, on which the male junction between

abdominal sternite Ill and IV is produced into a distinct bifid and large median tubercle,

the anterolateral margins of pronotum without large and stout spines, and the pronotal

disk, clavus and corium without broad tubercles.

Distribution

This species described from Madagascar in endemic to that region (Distant 1879;

O'SHEA 1980).

Mapacascar: Antananarivo.

Manjari, 1650 m, 26.X-3.XI.1970 (MNHN); 1 €, 1 9, Perinet, Analamasotra Prov.,

20.XI1.1930 (MNHN); 1 3, Andringitra East, Ambala, Marovandana, 1500-1600 m,

Revenala, VIII.1949 (A. R.) (MNHN); 1 4, Chaînes Anosyennes, Massif Nord, Moyenne

1200 m, XII.1960 (P. Soca) (MNHN); 6 33, 5 29, Andohahelo, 1800 m, | 1954 (R.

P) (MNHN, UNAM); 1 3, 2 29, Baie d'Antongil, Anandrivola, X.1970 (A. Viurrs)

Nosy, Mangabe, 14.X.1970 (A. Viwers) (MNHN); 1 4,1 9, Sahafanjana, Manambate

{Anobe] [without date] (MNHN); 1 2, Ambila, Ill.1951 (A. R.) (MNHN); 1d, lvohibe,

Forêt Cold, XI.1950 (A. R,) (MNHN); 2 44, Hera, Ankazoabo [without date] (MNHN,

UNAM); 1 2, Région de Tamatave, Andevorante et Beforona, 1905 (G. Bouer) (MNHN);

na Prov., 7 km SE of Andasibe National Park, headquarters, 1050 m, 18°57'S-48°07'E,

9-23.1V.2001 (R. Harin’Ho1) (CASC]; 1 9, Fianarantsoa Prov., Manombo Special Re-

serve, 20 km SSW Farafangana,60 m, X.1999 (M. E, Irwin et E. |. Schuncer) (CASC); 1

m, 24.XII.1999 (M. E. Irwin et H. H. Rasoionpaao] (CASC); 1 9, Fianarantsoa Prov.,

Ranomafana National Park, Talatakely area, 900 m, 21°14'S-47°25'E, 7.1V.1998 (J.

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Maromandia, 1200 m, 14°18/325-47°54'52"E, 11-16.III.2002 (Fiser et Griswotp)

Tribe Petascelini Stal, 1873

Body large to very large, usually over 20 mm.

Head

Subquadrate, short, wider than long, bent downward at the antenniferous tubercles;

antenniferous tubercles protruding forward, almost occupying the intertubercular space;

tylus not protracted; juga anteriorly not expended; buccula short, situated before anterior

margin of eye; rostrum wide, short, not extending beyond mesosternum.

Thorax

Hind coxae conspicuously separated, space between each coxae 3 to 3.5 times the

diameter of one coxa; fore femora ventrally armed with two large and stout subapical

projections; hind femora incrassate, usually spinose or dentate; hind tibiae only dilated

at inner surface.

Abdomen

Abdominal spiracle rather large, transversely elliptical, located close to anterior margin

of the sternite.

Genus Oxypristis Signoret, 1860

Oxypristis Signoret, 1860: 937

Redescription

Body large, broad, not depressed.

Head

Subquadrate, wider than long, apex strongly bent downward at the antenniferous tuber-

cles; antenniferous tubercles protruding, unarmed; posttylar sulcus deeply cleff medially;

antennae shorter than body; antennal segment | stouter than segments Il to IV; antennal

segment Il cylindrical, robust, segment Ill dilated, dilation symmetrical, obovate in out

line, not notched apically, and segment IV fusiform, relatively slender; antennal segment

| the longest, III the shortest, and IV longer than Il; ocelli not raised, close to eyes; eyes

elongate, not protuberant; postocular tubercle forming contiguous curve with eyes; buc-

cula uniformly quadrate to rounded, short, elevated, not projecting beyond antenniferous

tubercles; rostrum short, not extending beyond posterior margin of mesosternum.

Thorax

Pronotum. Steeply declivent, wider than long, narrowed anteriorly, and diverging posteri-

orly to form a prominent spinose humerus; frontal angles marked by two or more spinose

projection; collar not clearly demarcated; anterolateral margins sharply concave, re-

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markably spinose, each spinelike projection apically acute; humeral angles produced

laterally, forming winglike projections, varying throughout the genus; posterolateral mar-

gins with outer half roughly serrate to nodulose, and inner half smooth; posterior margin

straight and smooth; callar region flat, not clearly differentiated; posterior lobe of prono-

tal disc with shallow median longitudinal sulcus.

Prosternum deeply concave; mesosternum and metasternum flat, non-sulcate; mesoster-

num anteriorly tuberculate between fore coxae; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme

elongate, slender, and posterior lobe small, subacute.

Legs. Intermetaxocal space wide open (Fig. 60h); fore and middle femora robust, ven-

trally armed with two broad subapical spines; dorsal surface smooth, scarcely undulate;

hind femora incrassate, much more so in males, ventrally armed with two broad subapi-

cal spines, and two rows of strong denticles, and dorsally smooth, and scarcely undulate;

hind femora in males provided with inner strongly developed and broad spine (female

lacking that strong spine); fore and middle tibiae cylindrical, robust, sulcate, and apically

with tiny spine; hind tibiae with outer surface sulcate, gently curved, not dilated, and

unarmed, and inner surface dilated, armed with one row of short and broad denticles,

and basally remarkably expanded on a triangular dilation.

Scutellum. Wider than long, triangular, flat, and apically subacute; basal third trans-

versely elevated.

Hemelytra. Macropterous, reaching or extending beyond the apex of the last abdomi

nal segment; apical margin sinuous; costal margin emarginated; apical angle relatively

short, not reaching the middle third of the hemelytral membrane.

Abdomen

Broad, conspicuously dilated, widest point at segments IIHV, much wider than hemelytra,

with outer side strongly convex; connexivum elevated, upper surface with two rows of

short and broad denticles, and posterior angles unarmed; abdominal spiracle large,

transversely oblongate-oval, elliptical and closer to anterior edge, and far from lateral

edge of the sternite (Fig. 60g).

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Simple; posteroventral edge entire, weakly convex.

Parameres: Fig. 60af.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with plica and fissura; plica short, quadrate,

with lateral expansions obliquely directed; fissura overlapping; gonocoxae | enlarged

anteroposteriorly, in caudal view closed, in lateral view with outer face entire; parater-

gite VIII triangular, longer than paratergite IX, with spiracle visible; paratergite IX sub-

quadrate.

Integument

Surface densely covered with decumbent to suberect silver to golden yellowish pubes-

cence.

Comments

This is the only known genus of the tribe Petascelini recorded from Madagascar. It is

easily distinguished by having the humeral angles of pronotum strongly produced, the

anterolateral borders of pronotum sharply concave and conspicuously spinose, and each

spine-like projection apically acute (Fig. 60h), and antennal segment Ill dilated. The spe-

cies of Oxypristis are notably uniform in appearance, and the most reliable differences

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between species are found in the humeral angles, and the development of the dilated

portion of antennal segment Ill

The genus Oxypristis, endemic to Madagascar was erected by Sicnoret (1860) to in-

clude one species O. leroyi, and later Biote (1938) added the second species O. modes-

tus. In this contribution two new species are described.

Type species

Oxypristis leroyi Signoret, 1860.

Clé des espéces malgaches d’Oxypristis

1. Angles huméraux projetés vers l'avant, quadrangulaires (Fig. 59h) ; longueur

totale du corps inférieure à 27 mm modestus Blôte

= Angles huméraux projetés vers l'avant, triangulaires (Fig. 59g), ou remarquable-

ment allongés (Fig. 59e] ; longueur totale du corps supérieure à 29 mm es... 2

2. Angles huméraux projetés vers l'avant, triangulaires (Fig. 59g) ; longueur de l'article an-

tennaire | inférieure à 7 mm ; longueur de l'article antennaire IV inférieure à 6,10 mm ;

longueur maximale du disque du pronotum inférieure à 7,80 mm ...... augurium n. sp.

— Angles huméraux remarquablement projetés vers l'avant (Fig. 594) : longueur de

l'article antennaire | supérieure à 7,70 mm ; longueur de l'article antennaire IV

supérieure à 7,00 mm ; longueur maximale du disque du pronotum supérieure à

8,20 mm ....

3. Dilatation de l'article antennaire III plus large (Fig. 59a) ; angles huméraux remar-

quablement projetés et nettement dirigés vers l'extérieur et le haut (Fig. 59e) .....

conspicuus n. sp.

= Dilatation de l'article antennaire Ill relativement étroite (Fig. 59b) ; angles humé-

raux remarquablement projetés, dirigés vers l'extérieur et à peine vers le haut

(Fig. 598 .... leroyi Signoret

Key to Malagasy species of Oxypristis

1. Humeral angles produced medially, quadrate (Fig. 59h): tolal body lengih less

than 27 mm he modestus Bléte

— Humeral angles produced medially, triangular (Fig. 59g), or remarkably elongate

(Fig. 59e); total body length over 29 mm....

2. Humeral angles produced medially, triangular (Fig. 59g); antennal segment |

shorter than 7.00 mm; antennal segment IV shorter than 6.10 mm; maximum

length of pronotal disk shorter than 7.80 mm... augurium n. sp

— Humeral angles strongly produced (Fig. 59f); antennal segment | longer than

7.70 mm; antennal segment IV longer than 7.00 mm; maximum length of prono-

tal disk longer than 8.20 mm...

3. Dilation of antennal segment Ill wider (Fig. 59a); humeral angles strongly pro-

duced, and conspicuously directed outward and upward (Fig. 59e) «

A RSR EE conspicuus n. sp.

= Dilation of antennal segment Ill relatively narrowed (Fig. 59b); humeral angles less

strongly produces, directed outward, and scarcely upward (Fig. 59f)... leroyi Signoret

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Oxypristis augurium n. sp.

hes 59c, 600 d; 62)

Type material

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 5 dd, 6 99, Vohibory, 21.V.1941 (M. Asani) (MNHN,

UNAM); 2 33, 1 2, Betioky [without date] (M. Aaaoie) (MNHN); 1 9, Pays Mahafaly,

(BMNH).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin, augurium, meaning premonition or sign, refering to the characteristic

shape of pronotum in this species.

Description

Female holotype

Measurements. Head: length 2.30 mm; width across eyes 2.90 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 6.90 mm, Il, 5.25 mm, Ill, 4.60 mm, IV, 6.00 mm. Pronotum: length

7.75 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 17.00 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 3.60 mm, width 4.20 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 16.80 mm. Body

length 29.80 mm.

Color. Overall color reddish brown; antennal segment | and Il shiny orange, Ill with basal

half shiny orange and distal half dark brownish orange, and IV pale yellowish orange;

hemelytral membrane dark brownish hazel; connexivum reddish brown, with scattered

small black discoidal spots, and tinged with dark brownish orange marks; upper border

of connexivum black; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange, suffused with black scat-

tered marks; rostral segments reddish brown (apex of IV black}; anterior and posterior

lobes of metathoracic peritreme and adjacent areas pale orange (anterior lobe with dark

brown mark}; legs reddish brown: tibiae with black longitudinal stripe; abdominal sterna

Ill to VII reddish brown, laterally with small black discoidal spot, and at middle third with

black narrow longitudinal stripe; genital plates reddish brown.

Structure. Distal third of antennal segment Ill wide (Fig. 59c); humeral angles medially

produced, triangular, narrowed, directed outward, apically acute, and slightly turned

backward (Fig. 59g).

Male paratype

Measurements. Head: length 2.40 mm; width across eyes 2.80 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 5.86 mm, Il, 4.80 mm, Ill, 4.10 mm, IV, 5.40 mm. Pronotum: length

7.80 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 17.10 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 3.70 mm, width 4.50 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 16.22 mm. Body

length 31.10 mm.

Habitus andicolor similar to: female holotype: Dorsal abdominal <Sqnene”=niny orange

with posterior margin of VII dark brown; genital plates reddish brown.

Genitalia. Paramere: Fig. 60c, d

Variation

1- Antennal segments | and II pale reddish brown. 2 - Antennal segment Ill pale brownish

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orange with basal joint orange. 3 - Antennal segment IV shiny orange. 4 - Clavus and

corium dark reddish.

Comments

from Madagascar. Oxypristis augurium n. sp. is separable from the latter by having

the humeral angles of the pronotum medially produced, triangular, narrowed, directed

outward, apically acute and slightly turned backward (Fig. 59g}, the length of anten-

nal segment | shorter than 7 mm, and the length of antennal segment IV shorter than

6.10 mm in both sexes. In O. leroyi, the humeral angles are conspicuously produced,

directed outward, and scarcely upward (Fig. 59f), and the length of antennal segments

land IV over 7 mm.

In O. modestus recorded from Madagascar, the total body length is less than 27 mm,

the humeral angles medially produced and quadrate (Fig. 59h), and the total length of

antennal segments | and IV less than 6.10.

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

Oxypristis conspicuus n. sp.

ue (Fig. 59h, e) F

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: 1939 [without data] (Sicaro) (MNHN).

2-6.XIl.1996 (1. Jenis) (NMPC) (ex collection Z. Jindra).

Derivatio nominis

From the Latin, conspicuus, meaning distinguished, outstanding, refering to the remark-

able shape of pronotum.

Description

Male holotype

Measurements. Head: length 2.35 mm; width across eyes 2.85 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 9.50 mm, Il, 7.45 mm, Ill, 6.10 mm, IV, 8.40 mm. Pronotum: length

8.90 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 22.50 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 4.32 mm, width 5.08 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 20.14 mm. Body

length 37.80 mm.

Color. Overall color reddish brown, with following areas black: anterolateral (including

the spines), posterolateral, and posterior margin of pronotum, claval veins, costal border

of corium, upper margin of connexivum, scutellum, apex of rostral segment IV, posterior

margin of trochanters, inner and outer margin of tibiae, upper margin of metapleura,

small discoidal spots at connexivum, and abdominal sterna, and narrow longitudinal

stripe at middle third of abdominal sterna; antennal segments | and Il reddish brown,

Ill with basal half reddish brown, and distally black, and IV shiny orange; corial veins

darker; hemelytral membrane dark brownish hazel; anterior and posterior lobes of me-

tathoracic peritreme, and adjacent areas pale yellowish white.

COURERP Gear = Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 159)

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Structure. Distal third of antennal segment Ill wide (Fig. 59a); humeral angles remark-

ably produced, triangular, directed outward, conspicuously upward, apically acute, and

slightly turned backward (Fig. 59e).

Female paratype

Measurements. Head: length 2.40 mm; width across eyes 3.10 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 8.50 mm, Il, 6.40 mm, Ill, 5.60 mm, IV, 7.50 mm. Pronotum: length

9.00 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 22.30 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 4.10 mm, width 5.08 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 20.22 mm. Body

length 37.80 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male holotype. Connexival segments shiny reddish orange,

with upper margin black; dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange; genital plates shiny

orange with outer margin of paratergites VIII and IX black.

Comments

This new species is very similar in general habitus and body size (larger species over

angles strongly produced, and conspicuously directed upward (Fig. 59e), the distal third

of antennal segment Ill wider (Fig. 59a), and antennal segment | and II reddish brown. In

third of antennal segment Ill is relatively narrowed (Fig. 59b), and antennal segments |

and Il are yellowish orange.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar.

Oxypristis leroyi Signoret, 1860

Me [Figs 59b, t 600 b, g, hy

Oxypristis leroyi Signoret, 1860: 937.

Type material

4: Mapacascar: no locality given. Not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 2.20 mm; width across eyes 2.80 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 8.80 mm, Il, 6.70 mm, Ill, 5.50 mm, IV, 7.40 mm. Pronotum: length

9.15 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 20.70 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 4.00 mm, width 4.70 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 20.10 mm. Body

length 33.00 mm.

Color. Overall color reddish brown; head yellowish orange; antennal segments |, Il, and

IV yellowish orange, and Ill with basal half yellowish orange, and distal half (includ-

ing the dilated portion) pale brown; hemelytral membrane dark yellowish brown; con-

nexivum reddish brown with upper border darker, and tinged with small black discoidal

spots; dorsal abdominal segments dark reddish brown suffused with shiny orange marks;

rostral segments reddish brown (apex of IV black]; legs reddish brown; tarsi dark yellow:

ish orange; anterior and posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme pale yellowish orange

160 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWNZ DS

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(anterior lobe with dark brown mark); abdominal sterna Ill to VII laterally with small black

discoidal spots.

Structure. Distal third of antennal segment Ill dilated, obovate in outline, its greatest width

1.5 mm (Fig. 59b); humeral angles conspicuously produced, triangular, narrowed, di-

rected outward, scarcely upward, apically acute and slightly turned backward (Fig. 59f.

Genitalia, Paramere: Fig. 60a, b.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 2.25 mm; width across eyes 2.70 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 7.90 mm, Il, 6.10 mm, Il, 5.40 mm, IV, 7.14 mm. Pronotum: length

8.40 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 19.80 mm. Scutel-

lum: length 4.10 mm, width 5.00 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 19.20 mm. Body

length 34.00 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male. Connexival segments Vill and IX, dorsal abdominal

segments Vill and IX, and genital plates reddish brown

Variation

1- Antennal segments |, Il, and IV pale yellow. 2 - Basal half of antennal segment Ill pale

yellow and distal half brown. 3 - Dorsal abdominal segments shiny orange.

Comments

Oxypristis leroyi, the type species of the genus, is easily recognized by having the

humeral angles conspicuously expanded, triangular, and apically acute (Fig. 59f), and

the head and antennal segments |, Il, and IV pale yellowish orange. Specimens of large

size, over 32 mm

Distribution

This species described from Madagascar is endemic to that region. Mapacascar: Nossi-

bé, and Vohémar (BiOte 1938; Brancsik 1893; SicNoret 1860; STAL 1865).

voangy, R. Maroantsetra, X.1951 (J. Vaoon) (MNHN); 1 3, Diego Sudrez [without date]

(MNCN); 3 44, 1 9, without data (BMNH, MNHN, UNAM).

Oxypristis modestus Blôte, 1938

(Figs 59d, h; 60e, f; 61]

Oxypristis modestus Blôte, 1938: 285.

Type material

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.50 mm; width across eyes 2.10 mm; length anten-

nal segments: |, 5.30 mm, ll, 4.40 mm, Ill, 3.70 mm, IV, 5.00 mm. Pronotum: length

5.50 mm, width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 11.60 mm.

EEA) nsecio Hemipiera Heteropiera Coreidae 161

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Scutellum: length 2.90 mm, width 3.45 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 13.50 mm.

Body length 25.00 mm.

Color. Overall color reddish brown; antennal segments | and Il with inner face dark

orange, Ill with basal half reddish brown with inner face dark orange, and distal half

including the dilation dark brown, and IV shiny orange; hemelytral membrane dark

yellowish brown; connexivum reddish brown with small black discoidal spots; dorsal

abdominal segments shiny orange with brown irregular marks; rostral segments reddish

brown (apex of IV black); legs reddish brown; apical third of tibiae black; anterior and

posterior lobes of metathoracic peritreme pale yellowish white to pale yellowish orange;

abdominal sterna Ill fo Vi laterally with small black discoidal spots, and on middle third

with narrow and diffuse black longitudinal stripe.

Structure. Distal third of antennal segment Ill narrower, obovate in outline, and its great-

est width 1.0 mm on males, and 1.2 mm on females (Fig. 59d); humeral angles medially

produced, quadrate, broad, directed outward, apically straight, and subacute (Fig. 59h).

Genitalia. Paramere: Fig. 60e, f.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.83 mm; width across eyes 2.50 mm; length antennal seg-

ments: |, 5.60 mm, ll, 4.40 mm, Ill, 3.80 mm, IV, 5.30 mm. Pronotum: length 6.20 mm,

width across humeral angles including the humeral spine 13.20 mm. Scutellum: length

3,00 mm, width 3.50 mm. Abdomen: maximum width 13.70 mm. Body length 27.00 mm.

Habitus and color similar to male.

Variation

1 - Antennal segments | to Ill shiny orange. 2 - Head, pronotum, and scutellum shiny or-

ange. 3 - Clavus and corium reddish brown with shiny yellowish-hazel marks. 4 - Upper

margin of connexivum reddish brown to black. 5 - Legs shiny orange. 6 - Anterior margin

of metapleura black to dark brown. 7 - Humeral angles shorter and more rounded.

Comments

is an smaller species 25.00 to 27.00 mm, with the humeral angles medially produced

and quadrate (Fig. 59h), the head reddish brown, antennal segments | and Il reddish

brown with inner face dark orange, and the total length of antennal segment IV less than

6 mm in both sexes. Oxypristis leroyi is a larger species, longer than 32.00 mm, the

humeral angles more strongly expanded and triangular (Fig. 594), the head, and anten-

nal segments | and II pale yellowish orange, and the total length of antennal segment IV

over 7 mm.

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar (BTE 1938). Manacascar: Tamatave.

Specimens examined. New records. Mapacascar: 2 92, Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso

[without date] (MNHN, UNAM); 1 4, 1 2, Majunga, 1899 (G. Geanowoier) (MNHN);

1 3, 1 9, Sakaraha, Lambomakandro, and Zombitsy [without date] (P. Griveau)

(MNHN); 2.43, 2 99, Hera, Ankazoabo [without date] (MNHN, UNAM); 1d, Tulear

Prov., Zombitse Nature Reserve, 16 km E Sakaraha, 22°88'23"S-44°70'06"E, 825 m,

16.X11.1999 (M. E. Irwin et E. ScHUNGER) (CASC).

162 Harry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWTZ SN

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TRIBE PHYLLOMORHINI STAL, 1873

Head. Comparatively long; anterior portion porrect, surpassing the antenniferous tu-

bercles; antennal segments and legs slender and partially spinose; tylus not protracted;

antenniferous tubercles not prominent; rostrum slender, reaching or extending beyond

mesosternum.

Thorax

Lateral margin of pronotum and connexival segments foliated to lobated, with long,

narrow, acute spines; mesosternum sulcated; apical angle of corium conspicuously elon-

gate, and narrowly produced.

Genus Craspedum Rambur, 1839

Craspedum Rambur, 1839: 138-139.

Redescription

Body foliate.

Head

longer than wide, almost parallel-sided, convex above, specially in middle, distinctly

produced in front of antenniferous tubercles, and shorter than total length of pronotum;

dorsally with dense and long spines, with spines elongate, acute, and directed upward

and forward or backward; ventrally unarmed, except by one elongate, acute spine

between buccula and base of antennal segment |; antenniferous tubercles widely sepa-

rated, with outer border armed with single acute spine, clearly reaching the base of an-

tennal segment |; antennae shorter than total body length; antennal segment | moderately

thickened, strongly longly spinose, the long spines curved; antennal segments II and Ill

slender, cylindrical, unarmed, and IV fusiform, unarmed; antennal segment Ill the long-

est, IV the shortest, and II shorter than |; preocellar pit deep; ocelli slightly raised, close

to eyes; buccula rectangular, raised, short, upper border crenulated, anterior angle free,

projecting beyond antenniferous tubercles, and posterior third opened; rostrum reaching

posterior margin of metasternum.

Thorax

Pronotum wider than long, widely and irregularly expanded on each side, its margins

with long spines, the anterior angles produced forward beyond the anterior margin of

eyes, the lateral margins sinuous, and the posterior angles truncately rounded; anterior

border slightly concave, smooth; posterior border almost straight, spinose; collar present;

calli weakly raised, spinose, with deep submedial longitudinal furrow; pronotal disk

armed with large and acute spines, and well demarcated, and reticulated veins:like lines.

Prosternum feebly excavated; mesosternum deeply sulcate; metasternum straight; pro-

pleura, mesopleura, and metapleura unarmed; metathoracic peritreme raised, small, not

bilobed; scent gland opening wide; evaporative area moderately developed.

Legs. Coxae armed with one or two large acute spines; trochanters armed with two

or three large to medium-sized acute spines; femora strongly spinose, the long spines

curved; tibiae non sulcate, unarmed, except for one large and acute spine near the basal

Madagascar / 94]

ecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 163

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joint; tarsi unarmed; distance between procoxae and mesocoxae less than two times the

diameter of procoxae; distance between mesocoxae and metacoxae less than one time

the diameter of mesocoxae; distance between procoxae, mesocoxae, and metacoxae

less than one time the diameter of each coxae.

Scutellum. Wider than long, subtriangular, apically rounded; scutellar disk armed with

six large, acute spines; apical margin weakly excavated.

Hemelyira. Macropterous, reaching the apex of last abdominal segment; clavus and

corium unarmed; costal margin emarginated.

Abdomen

Laterally expanded, forming four prominent lobes, their margins with long spines, and

surface with reticulate veins-like lines; basal lobe the shortest, sublobate on three rounded

expansions; second and third lobes prominent, wing-shaped, and distal lobe subquad-

rate, ampliated, and posteriorly truncate; abdominal sterna unarmed, except the middle

third of abdominal sterna Ill to VI which have a double row of large, acute spines;

abdominal spiracle circular, small, closer to anterior border, and remote from upper

border of connexivum; abdominal spiracle II not visible; abdominal sternite Ill uniformly

developed, and IV to VII folded at midline.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule: Simple; posteroventral edge with small, shallow “V"-

shaped concavity; lateral angles obliquely straight. Paramere: Fig. 63b, c.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII folded, opened at midline; gonocoxae | rectan-

gular, enlarged antero-posteriorly, folded at midline; paratergite VIII not visible; parater-

gite IX subquadrate, folded ut midline.

Comments

Pephricus Amyot et AudinetServille, 1843 is distinguished from Craspedum Rambur by

having the apical lobes of the abdomen narrowed, and clearly wide open, in Craspe-

dum they are subquadrate, ampliated, and close together. Craspedum includes seven

species, only one of which, C. madagascariense is recorded for Madagascar.

Type species

Syromastes phyllomorphum Latreille, 1829.

Craspedum madagascariense (Coquerel, 1848)

(Fig. 63a-c)

Phyllomorpha madagascariensis Coquerel, 1848: 185.

Craspedum madagascariense (Coquerel): Stat 1873: 81.

Type material

Type (sex not mentioned): Nort West of MapaGascar: Baie de Passandava [île de Ma-

moukou). Not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements. Head: length 1.30 mm; width across eyes 1.06 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0.55 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.69 mm, Il, 1.58 mm, Ill, 2.21 mm, IV,

164 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWIZ D

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0.97 mm. Pronotum: length 1.50 mm, maximum width including the pronotal lobes

4.10 mm. Scutellum: length 0.43 mm, width 0.60 mm. Body length 9.12 mm

Dorsal color. Head yellowish white with median creamy-white longitudinal stripe, and

with scattered pale brown marks; antennal segment | yellowish white with two or three

incomplete pale brown longitudinal stripes; antennal segments II to IV castaneus; pro-

notal disk yellowish white with dark to pale brown marks at calli and at posterior half;

anterior half of pronotal disk with cremy white longitudinal stripe; scutellum, clavus,

and corium yellowish white, with paler reticulations and dark brown marks scattered

through; hemelytral membrane translucent; abdomen yellowish white, with scattered

pale to dark brown discoidal spots; posterior margin of dorsal abdominal segment V

with narrow dark brown transverse fascia; abdominal lobes suffused with pale to dark

brown reticulat.

Ventral color. Head yellowish white with creamy-white, longitudinal stripe and pale

brown spots; rostral segments yellowish castaneus; thorax yellowish white; mesopleura

and metapleura with single, black irregular spot; coxae, trochanters, tibiae, and tarsi

yellowish white, and femora yellowish white with two or three incomplete pale brown

longitudinal stripes; abdominal sterna yellowish white, strongly suffused with pale to dark

brown spots.

Female

Measurements. Head: length 1.30 mm; width across eyes 1.17 mm; interocular dis-

tance 0. 56 mm; length antennal segments: |, 1.58 mm, Il, 1.40 mm, Ill, 1.98 mm,

IV, 0.84 mm. Pronotum: length 1.58 mm, maximum width including the pronotal lobes

3.52 mm. Scutellum: length 0.46 mm, width 0.70 mm. Body length 9.08. mm.

Habitus and color similar to male.

Genital plates yellowish white, strongly suffused with pale to dark brown spots

Variation

1 - Head dorsally with anterior half yellowish white, and posterior half black. 2 - Head

ventrally yellowish white with two broad dark brown longitudinal stripes. 3 - Thorax and

abdominal sterna yellowish white, strongly suffused with dark brown areas, and several

compacted discoidal spots.

Comments

In color and habitus this species is allied to C. phyllomorpha recorded from Namibia,

Senegal, South Africa and Zambia. Craspedum madagascariense, endemic to Mada-

gascar, differs in having the apices of antennal segments Il and Ill unarmed, the head

ventrally unarmed, except for one large acute spine located between the buccula and

the base of antennal segment |, the thorax unarmed, the abdominal sterna unarmed

except by the double rows of large and acute spines on middle third of abdominal

sternites Ill to VI, and the posteroventral edge of the male genital capsule with small

V-shaped concavity.

In C. phyllomorpha the apices of antennal segments Il'and Ill have a crown of short

spines, the head ventrally, as well as the thorax, abdominal sterna, male genital capsule,

and female genital plates densely spinose, and the posteroventral edge of male genital

capsule entire.

LCCC) insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 165

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Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar. Mapacascar: without formal records (Coaueret 1848; SIGNORET

1860; STA 1865).

Specimens examined. Mavacascar: 1 2, Nossi-Bé, 5.VII.1900 (CH. Auvauo) (MNHN);

3-4,VII.1901 (CH. Auvauo] (MNHN); 16 33, 16 29, Ambodimanga, Majunga [without

date] (MNHN); 16 Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso [without date] (MNHN,

UNAM); 1 9, Morondava, Forêt Sud de Befasy, 1.1956 (R. PJ (MNHN); 1 3, 1 9,

(Marin) (MNHN); 3 33, 3 22, Région du Sud-Est, Vallée du Fanjahira, Isaka, XII.1901

(CH. Auvauo) (MNHN); 2 33, 5 99, Fort Dauphin, 1903 (Cot. BiouptaT), 15.X.1900

U. Decorse) (MNHN); 2 Sakaraha, Lambomakandroso [without date] (F. Griveaup)

(MNHN); 1 3, Ambanja (NMPC); 1 3, Ambodivoniho, env. de Vohémar [without date]

(NMPC); 2 Ampanefena [without date] (NMPC); 1 4, 5 29, Vohémar [without

date] (NMPC); 1 4, 2 29, Rogez [without date] (NMPC]; 1 2, Tamatave District, An-

darive Env., 17-30.XI.2001 (J. Horak) (NMPC); 2 44, 4 99, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza,

28.1X.1932 (ZMAS); 3 22, 2.5 km NE von Anara, SW von Larintsena, 975 m, NN Bus-

chtal, 21°51'03’S-46°50'34E, 6.XI.2003 (U. Gôuner] (ZMHB); 1 9, Ifaty, c. 25 km N

von Toliara, NN Saline Sek, Trockenwald, 7 m, 23°08'31’’S-43°36'57E, 11.X1.2003

(U. Gouner) (ZMHB); 3 64, 2 22, Tananarive [without date] (ZSMC).

SuBFAMILY PSEUDOPHLOEINAE STAL, 1867

The Pseudophloeinae can be distinguished by having the tibiae cylindrical without dorsal

sulcus; lack of median dorsal impression on the head; the prominent and gently declivent

tylus and juga; the prominent posterior angles of the abdominal segment VII on both sexes;

paratergite VIll without functional spiracle; and by the structure of the scent gland auricle, in

which the peritreme has a dorsal ridge entire or gently bilobed, not Y-shaped. The subfam-

ily includes 28 genera and aproximatly 166 species distributed in all geographical areas

except non+ropical Australia (DowNG 1978, 1986; SCHUH & Siarer 1995).

DounG (1978, 1979, 1986) revised the tribes Clavigrallini and Pseudophloeini, and

described or redescribed all the species, including the measurements, color pattern,

general morphology, and genitalic structures of both sexes. In this treatment concerning

the Malagasy coreids, | have not found any reason to modify Dolling’s taxonomic work.

Therefore | will briefly comment on the diagnostic features of each species, and their

Malagasy distribution.

Clé des tribus malgaches de Pseudophloeinae

1. Base du fémur postérieur sans petit tubercule près du trochanter ; disque scutel-

laire convexe ; pygophore non bi-émarginé postérieurement........... Clavigrallini

— Base du fémur postérieur avec un petit tubercule près du trochanter ; disque scu-

tellaire plat ou presque plat ; pygophore bi-émarginé postérieurement...

Pseudophloeini

166 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ SE

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Key fo Malagasy tribes of Pseudophloeinae

1. Base of hind femora without small tubercle near trochanter; scutellar disk convex;

male genital capsule not biemarginate posteriorly Clavigrallini

— Base of hind femora with small tubercle near trochanter; scutellar disk flat or al-

most flat; male genital capsule biemarginate posteriorly........ Pseudophloeini

TRIBE CLAVIGRALUN! STAL, 1873

Scutellum convex; hind femora without tubercle at the base on its posterior face and close

to the apex of trochanter; antennal segment II equalling or exceeding the length of Il;

posterior border of male genital capsule not emarginate posteriorly.

Small to medium sized (length usually less than 11 mm), generally spiny outline, and the

characteristically spined, clavate hind femora; hind femora without tubercle at the base

on its posterior face and close to the apex of the trochanter.

Head

Short to moderately elongate; antennae inserted at sides of head just above an imagi-

nary line joining centre of eye to apex of tylus; antennal segments | to Ill elongate and IV

usually fusiform; midline of frons with a pair of deep, narrow, parallel, longitudinal pits;

ocelli raised on prominent tubercles; preocellar pit usually small and indistinct; buccula

short, almost semicircular, rarely angular; rostrum moderately long, reaching to but not

beyond metasternum; rostral segment Ill always the shortest.

Thorax

Pronotum usually hexagonal, width of anterior margin approximately half the width

of posterior margin; posterolateral angles slightly to strongly prominent; posterior

margin almost straight or slightly concave in front of scutellum. Mesosternum and

metasternum shallowly, longitudinally sulcate throughout; metathoracic peritreme

orifice situated laterally and surrounded by a small evaporative area. All femora

clavate, especially the hind pair, which lack a basal tubercle; fore and middle

femora with one or more small spines on ventral surface near apex; hind femora

with a row of spines on ventral surface, typically with two major spines with some

smaller spines, and usually with tubercles or granules between them. Scutellum

with disk convex, often strongly so, with midline depressed and flanked by a row

of granules. Hemelytron narrow, apex of corium distinctly produced along costal

margin (Dounc 1986).

The tribe Clavigrallini, distributed on the Old World, includes four genera and 63

species, the majority of the species restricted to the Ethiopian Region and adjacent

islands, and few are present in the Oriental Region from Pakistan and Sri-Lanka to

China and Java.

Previously, only two genera and eight species were known from Malagasy. In this

contribution, one genus and two species are added, raising the total number to

three genera and 10 species.

CEA Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 167

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Clé des genres malgaches de Clavigrallini

1. Présence d’une épine dressée de chaque côté de la tête, au-dessus de la base du

l’antennifère ; pronotum sans grande épine ni tubercule sur le disque ou près des

marges latérales … Oncaspidia Stal

= Absence d'épine de chaque côté de la tête, au-dessus de la base de l'antenni-

fère ; pronotum avec une paire de grands tubercules sublatéraux derrière les calli,

ou avec des tubercules en demi-cercle sur le disque .............. Clavigralla Spinola

Key to Malagasy genera of Clavigrallini

1. Side of head bearing an erect spine above base of antennifer; pronotum without

large spines or tubercles on disk or near lateral margins... . Oncaspidia Stal

— Side of head without spine above base of antennifer; pronotum with a pair of

large tubercles sublaterally behind calli or a semicircle of tubercles on disc…….

… Clavigralla Spinola

Genus Clavigralla Spinola, 1837

Clavigralla Spinola, 1837: 200.

Redescription

Body small to medium sized, oblong, and robust (rarely somewhat depressed); connexi-

vum broadest in middle; aspect slightly or strongly spinose

Head

Side of head without spine in front of eye; head between one half and three-quarters

as long as pronotum; antenniferous tubercles weakly to strongly divergent; process at

outer apical angle of antennifer short and porrect, or broad and strongly deflexed with

its apex in contact with maxillary plate; antennal segment | or IV the longest, Il or Ill the

shortest; bucculae occupying about one-third of length of ventral midline of head; rostrum

reaching metasternum.

Thorax

Pronotum strongly to very strongly declivent anteriorly; posterolateral angles weakly to very

strongly produced, each bearing apically a slender spine; pronotal disk frequently with tu-

bercles and spines, never with a group of four stout, blunt tubercles in middle, usually with a

stout, blunt tubercle or spine close to lateral margin about half way between posterolateral

and anterolateral angles, and often with a more or less regular, anteriorly concave semicircle

of spines or tubercles posterior to this pair; posterior margin in front of scutellum straight;

triangular process marked by a short spine; pubescence variable throught the species.

Mesosternum and metasternum broadly sulcate in midline; metathoracic peritreme with

dorsal ridge entire and shortly reniform or bilobed.

Legs. Fore and middle femora without or with one or two small subapical spines on

ventral side; hind femora with two or three major subapical spines beneath, some small

tubercles or spines or granules between them and a terminal series of four spines.

Scutellum. Equilateral or slightly longer than its basal width; disk flat to strongly convex

midline impressed in convex forms.

168 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWTZ SE

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Hemelytra. Macropterous; corium with apex scarcely to distinctly produced, reaching

posteriorly to laterotergite V or VI at rest.

Abdomen

Posterolateral angles of sternites Ill to VII usually prominent, often strongly and spinously

produced or weakly prominent.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule with lip narrow or broad, filling or not the posterior

emargination of the capsule; tongue entire or apically bifid or trifid.

Female genitalia. Tergum IX usually in horizontal plane, rarely apically deflexed; sper

matheca with bulb narrowly lunate; duct looped fo strongly convoluted (Dou 1979).

Comments

This genus is related to Clavigralloides by having the side of head without spine above

base of antennifer, and with large tubercles on the pronotal disk or sublaterally; if with-

out pronotal tubercles, then the pubescene of anterior two-thirds of pronotum strikingly

different in colour and texture from that of posterior third. In Clavigralloides, the pro-

notal disk has a group of four large tubercles and its distribution includes the Oriental

Region eastward to New Guinea and northern tropical Australia. In Clavigralla, the

pronotal disk has a pair of large tubercles sublaterally behind level of calli or a semi-

circle of tubercles on disk, but never with a group of four large tubercles. Clavigralla

is recorded from Africa, with few species in the Oriental Region eastward to China

and Java.

Clavigralla is represented by 63 species, and previously, only seven were known from

Madagascar. In this contribution one species recorded from the African Continent is

added to Malagasy.

Type species

Clavigralla gibbosa Spinola, 1837.

Clé des espéces malgaches de Clavigralla

1. Tubercule antennifére avec un processus apical externe court, rectiligne vers

l'avant (groupe tuberculicollis) tuberculicollis |Reuter)

- Tubercule antennifére avec un processus apical externe recourbé vers le bas........ 2

2. Pubescence de la partie antérieure déclive du pronotum presque semblable en

couleur et texture à celle de la partie postérieure ; épine humérale du pronotum

fortement développée (groupe elongata) …

— Pubescence de la partie antérieure déclive du pronotum différant sensiblement en

couleur et texture de celle de la partie postérieure ; épine humérale du pronotum

en général moins développée (groupe fomentosicollis)

3. Épines des angles postérieurs des sternites abdominaux longues, presque perpen-

diculaires aux marges latérales de l‘abdomen ; scutellum dépourvu de pubescence

longue et dressée ; disque du scutellum légèrement à modérément convexe …

- Épines des angles postérieurs des sternites abdominaux plus courtes, en général

distinctement dirigées vers l'arrière ; scutellum avec au moins quelques longues

soies dressées ; disque du scutellum fortement convexe ......

LEA) insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 169

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4. Longueur de l'article antennaire | inférieure à 1,4 fois la largeur de la tête, yeux

compris ; épines humérales et abdominales robustes . asterix Dolling

— Longueur de l'article antennaire | supérieure à 1,4 fois la largeur de la tête, yeux com-

pris ; épines humérales et abdominales plus effilées . madagascariensis Dolling

Scutellum modérément convexe et fortement tuberculé ....... ankatsoensis Dolling

= Scutellum fortement convexe et faiblement tuberculé . elongata Signoret

Membrane de I’hémélytre uniformément envahie de coloration brune, sauf la cel-

lule basale non colorée ; pygophore avec une languette apicalement trifide ;

pubescence sur le pronotum en arrière des épines humérales : une bande sombre

presque entièrement divisée médio-longitudinalement par une étroite bande pâle

en « V » (sous-groupe tomentosicollis) … .. annulipes Signoret

= Membrane de l'hémélytre en grande partie non colorée ou très faiblement d'un blanc

laiteux, avec une à cinq taches brunes ou noires entre les nervures longitudinales

lorsqu'elles émergent des cellules basales ; languette du pygophore jamais trifide ...... 71

7. Pygophore avec une étroite languette triangulaire non bifide ; épine humérale du

pronotum moins proéminente (spiniscutis-subgroup) ... .. pusilla Dolling

= Pygophore avec une languette apicalement bifide, chaque lobe en lamelle recour-

bée à l'apex latéralement ; épine humérale du pronotum fortement proéminente

(sous-groupe wittei) .... . wittei (Schouteden)

Key to Malagasy species of Clavigralla

Antennifer tubercle with outer apical process short, porrect (tuberculicollis-

group). . tuberculicollis (Reuter)

— Antennifer tubercle with outer apical process long, deflexed... 2

2. Pubescence of anterior declivent part of pronotum of almost uniform color and

texture with that of posterior part; posterolateral angles of pronotum strongly pro-

duced (elongata-group)...

— Pubescence of anterior declivent part cf pronotum differing naked in color

and texture from that of posterior part; poser angles of pronotum usually

slightly prominent (tomentosicollis-group) ..

3. Spines of posterolateral angles of abdominal sternites long, hes perpendicular

abigralmara ines acdeman ecuiellomiwihout longerect pubescence: eve

disk moderately to slightly convex ....

— Spines of posterolateral angles of abdominal sternites shorter, usually distinctly

deflected posteriad; scutellum with at least some long, erect pubescence; scutellar

disk strongly convex

4. Antennal segment | shorter than 1.4 times width of head including eyes; produced

posterolateral angles of pronotum and of abdominal sternites stouter

. asterix Dolling

— Antennal segment | longer than 1.4 times width of head including eyes; produced

posterolateral angles of pronotum and of abdominal sternites more slender

. madagascariensis Dolling

5. Scutellum moderately convex and strongly tuberculate ankatsoensis Dolling

= Scutellum strongly convex with less prominent tuberculation . elongata Signoret

170 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWI'Z VS

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6. Disk of hemelytral membrane evenly suffused with brown coloration, except for

colourless basal cells; male genital capsule with tongue apically irfd: band of

dark pubescence on pronotum posterior to posterolateral angles almost comple.

tely divided into hwo by a narrow “Vshaped”, median longitudinal band of pale

pubescence (tomentosicollis-subgroup) annulipes Signoret

~ Disk of hemelytral membrane largely colourless or very faintly milky white, with

one to five brown or piceous spots between bases of longitudinal veins where

these emerge from basal cells; tongue of male genital capsule never trifid.

7. Male genital capsule with tongue narrowly triangular, apically entire; posterolate-

ral angles of the pronotum less prominent (spiniscutis-subgroup) . D

48 he . pusilla Dolling

— Male genital capsule with tongue apically bifid, each lobe laminar, and externally

and apically deflexed; posterolateral angles of the pronotum strongly prominent

(wittei-subgroup) wittei (Schouteden)

Clavigralla ankatsoensis Dolling, 1979

Clavigralla ankatsoensis Dolling, 1979: 31.

Type material

Holotype ?: Mapacascar: Ankatso, Il.1921 (R. Decary) (MNHN).

Redescription

Female

Measurements: see Downs (1979).

Color. Overall color reddish brown; hemelytral membrane whitish with yellowish-brown

veins.

Structure. Elongate-oblong, aspect spinose.

Head about as long as wide; antenniferous tubercles moderately divergent, with apical

process long, deflexed.

Thorax. Pronotum strongly declivent; disk typically with an often irregular semicircle

of about six large and stout spine-like tubercles, the anterior pair close to mid point;

posterolateral angles strongly produced, elevated, and directed slightly forward, each

ending in a slender, very gently and acute spine; pubescence of pronotal disk almost

uniform; dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme entire, reniform. Legs. Fore and middle

femora each with a single, moderate sized subapical spine ventrally; hind femora with

three major spines, three or four minor spines between them, and an apical series of

four spines; hind tibiae almost straight. Scutellum. Moderately convex, with two lateral

rows of prominent tubercles; disk with at least some long, erect pubescence. Heme-

lytra. Corium with apex narrowly produced, at rest reaching anterior or middle third

of connexival segment VI.

Abdomen. Posterolateral angles of abdominal sternites Ill to VII produced into spines

which stand almost perpendicular to lateral margin of abdomen, and usually deflected

posteriad.

See AL) Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 171

Source : MNHN, Paris

Male

Unknown.

Comments

Belonging to the elongatagroup and related to C. asterix and C. madagascariensis

by having the scutellum convex, elevated above level of posterior margin of pronotum

when viewed in profile; the pubescence of anterior, declivent part of pronotum of almost

uniform color and texture with that of posterior horizontal part; and posterolateral angles

of pronotum strongly produced, passing gradually into posterolateral spines. In C. an-

katsoensis, the spines at posterolateral angles of abdominal sternites are shorter, usually

distinctly deflected posteriad, and the scutellar disk has at least some long, erect pubes-

cence. In the other two species, the spines at the posterolateral angles of abdominal

sternites are long, almost perpendicular to lateral margins of abdomen, and the scutellar

disk without long, erect pubescence.

In C. elongata, the scutellum is strongly convex with two rows of weak tubercles lateral

to midline and pubescence of the scutellar disk conspicuously dense. In C. ankatsoensis,

the scutellum is moderately convex, with two lateral rows of prominent tubercles, and the

scutellar disk with some long erect pubescence.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. The only known record is from the original

description.

Clavigralla annulipes Signoret, 1860

(Fig. 64)

Clavigralla annulipes Signoret, 1860: 943-944.

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Douinc (1979).

Color and pilosity. Antennal segment | entirely brown; area of brown pubescence of pos-

terior lobe of pronotum almost completely divided into two triangular areas by a band

of pale, silvery hairs extending posteriorly from declivent area along raised midline of

posterior lobe and enclosing a tuft of erect, brown hairs between the apices of the two

lateral triangles; scutellar disk with erect, slightly tomentose, pale golden to silvery pubes-

cence; tibiae without median brown ring, or ring present but faint; hemelytral membrane

evenly suffused with brown except for colourless basal cells.

Structure. Body robust, oblong.

Head anteriorly declivent at an angle of about 45° to the vertical; antenniferous tubercles

scarcely divergent, with apical process broad, deflexed.

Thorax. Pronotum strongly declivent, with a pair of short, blunt, sublateral tubercles;

posterolateral angles not prominent, each bearing a short slightly posteriorly directed

spine; pronotal disk with few, short, blunt, projecting tubercles; posterior lobe with a low

transverse keel in middle, bisected by a more prominent longitudinal keel; pubescence

of anterior part of pronotum differing markedly in color and texture from that of posterior

172 Harry BRAILOVSKY AuPEROWITZ VSSSS

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part; dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme entire. Legs. Fore and middle femora each

with a single, moderate sized, subapical spine ventrally; hind femora with two major

spines, four to five minor spines between them and an apical series of four to five spines;

hind tibiae distinctly arcuate in basal third. Scutellum. Moderately convex, midline de-

pressed, and apex slightly produced. Hemelyira. Corium with apex slightly produced, at

rest reaching posteriorly to level between connexival segments V and VI.

Abdomen. Posterolateral angles of sterna Ill to Vil with short, subacute, slightly prominent

spine directed backwards,

Genital capsule. Lip filling posterior emargination; tongue trifid

Female

Measurements: see Doutinc (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Within the fomentosicollissubgroup this species seems to be more closely allied to C. cur-

vipes, and C. simillima by reason of the distinctly curved hind tibiae, the hemelyiral mem-

brane with disk evenly suffused with pale to median brown coloration, and patterns of

pronotal pubescence. Clavigralla annulipes, endemic to Madagascar, differs by its large

size (greater than 8.5 mm}, and hind tibiae weakly arcuate at base. The other two spe-

cies are only known from Continental Africa, the total body length is less than 8.5 mm,

and the hind tibiae are strongly arcuate at base.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar, MADAGASCAR: Région Sud de l'île, Bekily;

Ampandrandava; Région du Sud, Andrahomana (Douce 1979).

5 3d, 6 99, Tananarive, Ill.1933 (ZMAS); 2 33, 1 9, Tananarive, Mahamasina,

VII.1932 (ZMAS); 2 2 29, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza [without date] (ZMAS).

Clavigralla asterix Dolling, 1979

(Fig. 65]

Clavigralla asterix Dolling, 1979: 33-34

Type material

Holotype 4: Mapacascar: Ambohimitombo, 1894 (Forsvi#-Maor] (BMNH).

Paratypes: 1 4, 1 2, MavaGascar: Ambohimitombo, 1894 (ForsytH-Maior) (BMNH).

New records. Mapacascar: 1 3, Forêt d'Ambohitatntely, 21-23.XI1.1947 (UNAM).

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Douinc (1979).

Color. Overall color greyish yellow; hemelytral membrane whitish with veins yellowish

golden.

See CAL) = nsecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 178

Source : MNHN, Paris

Structure. Elongate-oblong, aspect spinose.

Head about as long as wide; antenniferous tubercles moderately divergent, with apical

process long, deflexed.

Thorax. Pronotum strongly declivent; pronotal disk typically with an often irregular semi

circle of about six large spine-like tubercles, the anterior pair situated close to mid-point

of lateral margins; posterolateral angles produced into long, very broadly based, lateral-

ly directed spines; pubescence of pronotum almost uniform; dorsal ridge of metathoracic

peritreme entire, reniform. Legs. Fore and middle femora each with a single, moderate

sized, subapical spine ventrally; hind femora with two major spines, four to six minor

spines between then, and an apical series of four spines; hind tibiae very weakly curved

at base. Scutellum. Moderately convex, without outstanding spines or tubercles lateral to

midline; disk without long erect pubescence. Hemelytra. Corium with apex at rest reach-

ing basal half of connexival segment VI.

Abdomen. Posterolateral angles of sterna Ill to VII produced into long, broadly based

spines, perpendicular to abdominal margin.

Genital capsule. Lip narrowly rounded; tongue acutely pointed, entire.

Female

Measurements: see Doin (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Resembles C. madagascariensis in most of the features by which it differs from C. elon-

gata; readily distinguished from all its relatives (elongata-group) by the stouter aspect of

the posterolateral angles of pronotum and the abdominal sternites. In C. madagascarien-

sis the posterolateral angles are more slender.

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar. MapaGascar: Ambohimitombo (Downs 1979).

Clavigralla elongata Signoret, 1860

(Fig. 66)

Clavigralla elongata Signoret, 1860: 944-945.

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Downe (1979).

Color. Overall color greyish yellow to reddish brown; hemelytral membrane whitish with

veins yellowish golden.

Structure. Elongate-oblong, spinose aspect.

Head

About as long as wide; antenniferous tubercles moderately divergent, with apical proc-

ess long, deflexed.

174 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ VS

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Thorax

Pronotum strongly declivent; disk typically with an often irregular semicircle of about six

large, spine-like tubercles, the anterior pair situated close to mid-point of lateral mar-

gins; posterolateral angles strongly produced, elevated, and directed slightly forward,

each ending in a slender, very gently and acute spine; pubescence of pronotum almost

uniform; dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme entire, reniform. Legs. Fore and middle

femora each with a single, moderate sized, subapical spine ventrally: hind femora with

two major spines, four minor spines between them, and an apical series of four spines;

hind tibiae almost straight. Scutellum. Strongly convex, without outstanding spines or

tubercles lateral to middle line; disk densely pubescent. Hemelyira. Corium with apex

narrowly produced, at rest reaching middle or posterior third of connexival segment VI.

Abdomen

Posterolateral angles of abdominal sterna Ill to VII with slender spine directed obliquely

posteriad. Genital capsule. Lip narrowly rounded; tongue acutely pointed, entire.

Female

Measurements: see Dounc (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Belongs to the elongata-group, and like C. shadabi, recorded from West and Central

Africa, has the scutellum strongly convex, the tubercles weakly prominent, and tibiae

without dark median ring. In €. elongata the semicircle of spines on pronotal disk has

the first two pairs of similar size, and in C. shadabi the anterior pair is considerable more

prominent than the pair behind them

Distribution

Widespread throughout African Continent, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Mau

ritius, Principe, Réunion, Rodriguez, SGo Tomé, Seychelles, Yemen, and Madagascar.

Absent from the mainland of West Africa (Downs 1979).

Mapacascar: Lac Alaotra, Centre Fermede Nanisana, Baie d'Antongil, Fénérive,

Soaniérana, Diego Suérez, Andrahomana, Bekily, Amparafaravola (E of Lake Alaotra),

Antanambé, and Plaines d’Ambolisatra (Downs 1979).

Specimens examined. Mavacascar: 1 4, Sambava, P. K. 42, route Voheman, II.1968

(Peveieras/Vapon) (MNHN); Marojejy, Res. Nat. Int. XII, Anjanaharibe N, 1750 m,

(UNAM); 3 33, 1 2, Tananarive, Ill.1933 (ZMAS); 1 3, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza,

IV.1935 (ZMAS); 1 9, Tsinjoarivo, 40 km N Ambatolampy, 21.11.1932 (ZMAS); 1 4,

Fort Dauphin, 1899 (Sikora) (ZMAS); 1 9, Antananarivo, Manankazo Env., 20-22.

X1.1996 (1. Jens) INMPC}; 1 9, Rogez [without date] (NMPC]. Mapacascar East: 1 2,

District Mananara, N. Antanambe, VII (VADON et Peyrieras) (MNHN).

Clavigralla madagascariensis Dolling, 1979

(Fig. 67)

Clavigralla madagascariensis Dolling, 1979: 31-33.

MC PEE AL —insecie: Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 175

Source : MNHN, Paris

Type material

Holotype 3: Mapacascar: Antalaha, XIl.1935 (VAooN) (MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Douinc (1979).

Color. Overall color greyish yellow; hemelytral membrane whitish with veins yellowish

golden.

Structure. Elongate-oblong, aspect spinose.

Head

About as long as wide; antenniferous tubercles moderately divergent, with apical proc-

ess long, deflexed.

Thorax

Pronotum strongly declivent; disk typically with an often irregular semicircle of about

six large spine-like tubercles, the anterior pair situated close to mid-point of lateral mar-

gins; posterolateral angles strongly produced, elevated, and directed slightly forward,

each ending in a slender, very gentle and acute spine; pubescence of pronotum almost

uniform; dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme entire, reniform. Legs. Fore and middle

femora each with a single, moderate sized subapical spine ventrally; hind femora with

two major spines, four to six minor spines between them, and an apical series of four

spines; hind tibiae almost straight. Scutellum. Moderately to slightly convex, without

outstanding spines or tubercles lateral to midline, and depressed in midline; disk without

long erect pubescence. Hemelytra. Corium with apex at rest reaching middle third of

connexival segment VI. :

Abdomen

Posterolateral angles of abdominal sterna Ill to VII drawn out into long spines, the spines

almost perpendicular to abdominal margin, and rather slender. Genital capsule. Lip nar-

rowly rounded; tongue acutely pointed, entire.

Female

Measurements: see Douinc (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Differs from C. elongata in having longer pronotal posterolateral spines, in the arrange-

ment of spines on pronotal disk, in having the scutellum moderately convex without long

erect pubescence, and in the spines at the connexival segments of the abdominal sterna

which are almost perpendicular. In C. elongata the spines of the connexival segments are

deflected posteriorly, and the scutellum is strongly convex, with long, erect pubescence.

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar. Mapacascar: Antalaha, Tananarive and Fampanambo

(Downe 1979).

Specimens examined. New records. MADAGASCAR: 7

22, Perinet, XI.1930,

176 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ =

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1.1935, 22.11.1935, 4.11935, 1.1932, 11.1932, XI.1932 (Rosinson) (UNAM,

ZMAS); 1 3, Tsinjoarivo, 40 km N Ambatolampy, 21.11.1932 (ZMAS); 3 99, Am-

bontoaka, 450 m, 4-14. 11.1934 (ZMAS); 2 29, Province Manjakatompo, Ambat-

olampy, 6.111.1932 (ZMAS); 2 99, Province Perinet, Analamasotra, XIl.1930 (ZMAS);

[without date] (NMPC). Mapacascar East: 2 3, District Mananara, N Seranambe,

VIL.1965 (Pevricras et Vavon) (MNHN).

Clavigralla pusilla Dolling, 1979

Figs 68; 69)

Clavigralla pusilla Dolling, 1979: 56.57.

Type material

Holotype d: Maoacascar: Tulear Province, Betioky, 275m, 15.11.1968 (KM.G, er PD)

(BMNH).

Paratypes: Mapacascar: 1 4, Région du Sud, Andrahomana, VIl.1901 (CH. Auvauo)

(MNHN); 1 3, Région Sud de l'île, Bekily, VI.1936 (A. Sevag] (MNHN}; 1 &, Belumbe,

1900 (Faigmaire) (MNHN).

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Dowie (1979).

Color. Ground color pinkish brown, suffused with yellowish marks. Head with black

granules, laterally and ventrally almost entirely black and stramineous bucculae: anten-

nae stramineous, suffused with pink; legs yellowish with black patches and reddish,

brown marks; tibiae usually with basal and apical reddish-brown rings; clavus and co-

rium yellowish, suffused with pinkish brown especially on veins and on apical one-third

of corium; granules black; hemelytral membrane colourless except for a row of black

spots between bases of longitudinal veins parallel to apical margin of corium, and black

marks on two veins where they enter membrane from corium.

Structure. Small, and rather slender.

Head

With antenniferous tubercles almost parallel, with apical process deflexed.

Thorax

Pronotum strongly declivent; centre of posterior lobe with a short longitudinal ridge in-

tersecting a similar transverse one; spines of posterolateral angles long, acute, laterally

directed, straight or gently upcurved; posterolateral angles just anterior to base of each

spine with a pair of short, stout spines; pair of sublateral spines of disk very prominent;

pubescence of anterior part of pronotum differing markedly in color and texture from

that of posterior part; dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme entire, reniform. Legs. Fore

and middle femora each with a single, moderate sized, subapical spines ventrally; hind

femora with two major spines, four minor spines between them, and an apical series of

four spines; hind tibiae gently curved near base. Scutellum. Moderately convex, midline

slightly depressed; apex slightly produced. Hemelytra. Corium narrow, its apex slightly

produced, at rest reaching suture between connexival segments V and VI.

Madagascar / 94 insects Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 177

Source : MNHN, Paris

Abdomen

Abdominal sterna Ill to VII with posterolateral angles produced into strong and large

spines.

Genital capsule: lip rounded, filling posterior emargination; tongue entire, narrowly tri-

angular.

Female

Measurements: see Douinc (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Like C. annulipes, belongs to the tomentosicollis-group and differs in the smaller size, less

than 7.00 mm, the body rather slender, the hind tibiae less strongly curved, the pigmen-

tation of the hemelytral membrane, the tongue of male genital capsule entire, and by

having at the posterolateral angles of pronotum just anterior to base of each spine a pair

of short stout spines, which are absent in C. annulipes, a species larger than 9.00 mm,

with the tongue of male genital capsule apically trifid.

Distribution

This species is known only from Madagascar. The only previously record came from the

original description. Mapacascak: Tulear Province (Betioky); Région Sud de l'île Bekily;

Région du Sud (Andrahomana, Ambovombé, and Androy, between Antanimora and

Ifokata); Belumbe (Downs 1979).

Mavacascar: 4 33, 5 29, Tananarive, Tsimbazaza, 28.1X.1932, IV.1935 (UNAM,

Eny., 30.1.1935 (L. Misko] (NMPC); 2 33, 1 2, Province Mahajanga, Mahavauy River,

6.2 km, 145°SE Mitsinjo, 20 m, 16°03'06/S-04°54'30"E, 1-5.XI.2002 (Fisher et Gris-

wotp) (CASC).

Clavigralla tuberculicollis (Reuter), 1887

(Fig. 70)

Acanthomia tuberculicollis Reuter, 1887: 90.

Clavigralla tuberculicollis (Reuter): Downe 1979: 12.

Type material

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Douinc (1979).

Color. Overall color dark brown to black; antennae pale brown with yellowish rings hard

to see; legs black with followings areas yellowish: basal and apical half of each femora,

two broad rings on each tibiae, and tarsi; clavus and corium brown; apex of corium

black with small cream spots, and apical margin of corium cream with black spots.

Structure. Robust, connexivum broad.

178 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWZ OS

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Head with antenniferous tubercles strongly declivent, with outer apical process short,

porrect.

directed spine; dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme bilobed. Legs. Fore and middle

femora each with a single, strong, subapical spine ventrally; hind femora subapically

with a larger major spine, before them rather small spine and after a terminal series of

four spines decreasing in length towards apex; hind tibiae almost straight. Scutellum.

Strongly convex; disk densely pubescent, with a pair of prominent tubercles lateral te

midline. Hemelytra. Corium at rest reaching level of suture between connexival segments

V and VI.

Abdomen. Abdominal sterna Ill to VII with posterolateral angles produced into broad

triangular teeth. Genital capsule: lip small, not filling posterior emargination; tongue long

and narrowly triangular.

Female

Measurements: see Downe (1 979)

Habitus and color similar to male

Comments

It is the only Clavigralla species belonging to the tuberculicollisgroup recorded from

Madagascar, and characterized by having a short, non-deflexed process at the apex of

the antenniferous tubercles, and the dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme bilobed. In

the other Malagasy species, the antenniferous tubercles have a long and deflexed apical

process, and the dorsal ridge of metathoracic peritreme entire.

Distribution

So far known only from Madagscar. Mapacascar: Diego Suarez; Région du Sud (Andra-

homana and Ambovombe); Région du Sud de l'île (Bekily); and Bezanozano (Dounc

1979).

Specimens examined. Mapacascar: 1 4, Anjouan, M'Remani, 800 m, IX.1958 (Rana-

Suarez, 1939 (J. J. Primor) (MNHN); 2 33, 1 9, Ambodivoniho, env. de Vohémar

[without date] (NMPC); 2 63, 3 29, Ampanefena [without date] (NMPC, UNAM); 6

d'Antremabe, 400 m, l.1964 (P. Soca) (MNHN); 1.3, 3 29, Ambanja [without date]

(NMPC).

Clavigralla wittei (Schouteden), 1938

(Figs 71; 72)

Acanthomia wittei Schouteden, 1938: 291-292.

Clavigralla wittei (Schouteden): Downe 1979: 74.

MEE) Insecta Hemiptera Heteropiera Coreidae 179

Source : MNHN, Paris

Type material

Lectotype : Zaire, Stanleyville (= Kisangani), V.1926, on Schotia (Lt. J. GHesquière)

(MRAC).

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see DouNG (1979).

Color. Ground color dark yellowish suffused with dark brown marks and pink spots;

coxae, trochanters, and femora dark yellowish and usually mottled with brown or black

markings; tibiae with brown irregular rings; hemelytral membrane milky hyaline with

two to four discrete brown spots between bases of longitudinal veins; bases of two veins

where they enter membrane from corium brown.

Structure. Small and rather slender.

Head with antenniferous tubercles slightly divergent.

Thorax. Pronotum strongly declivent; posterolateral angles prominent with the spine slen-

der, curved slightly upwards and forward, usually long; margins of pronotum behind

spines with a few prominent tubercles; pubescence of anterior part of pronotum differ-

ing markedly in color and texture from that of posterior part. Legs. Fore femora without

subapical spines beneath or rarely with a single, very small one; middle femora usually

with a single, small, subapical spine ventrally (sometimes absent); hind femora with

2 to 4 small spines between the two major spines; hind tibiae almost straight. Scutel-

lum. Strongly convex. Hemelra. Corium with apex distinctly produced, at rest reaching

middle third of connexival segment VI.

Abdomen. Abdominal sterna Ill to VII with posterolateral angles produced into short,

triangular spines.

Genital capsule: lip short; tongue deeply bifid, each half of tongue laminar, distinctly

deflexed apically and laterally.

Female

Measurements: see Dotunc (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Clavigralla wittei, like C. annulipes and C. pusilla, belongs to the tomentosicollis-group

by having the apical process of the antenniferous tubercles clearly deflexed, and the

pubescence of anterior part of pronotum differing markedly in color and texture from

that of posterior part. Clavigralla annulipes belongs to the tomentosicollis-subgroup by

having the disk of the hemelytral membrane evenly suffused with brown coloration, ex-

cept for colourless basal cells, and the tongue of male genital capsule is clearly trifid. In

the other two species the disk of the hemelytral membrane is largely colourless or very

faintly milky white, with one to five brown or black spots between bases of longitudinal

veins where these emerge from basal cells, and the tongue of male genital capsule is

never trifid. Clavigralla pusilla is included in the spiniscutis-subgroup by having the

tongue of male genital capsule apically entire, and C. wittei in the wittei-subgroup by

having the tongue apically bifid.

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Additionally the posterolateral angles of the pronotum are more Prominent in C. wittei

than in any other members of the fomentosicollis-group, and the hemelytral membrane

has a very distinct spots on the disk,

Distribution

Widespread in Africa, recorded from Botswana, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mala-

wi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Downs

1979). This is the first record in Madagascar.

Specimens examined. Maacascar: 1.3, 1 9, Ampety, ltasy, 1.1930 (ZMAS); 1 8,29

Nanghoa, lasy, HI.1939 (UNAM, ZMAS); 7 44, 5 09, Tananarive, VEVII.1932,

II.1933 (UNAM, ZMAS); 3.33, 1 9, Fort Dauphin, 1899 (Sikora) (UNAM, ZMAS);

785 m, NN Feuchtwiese, 22°33'50"S-45°23'34"E, 7.x1.2003 (U. Géuver) (ZMHB).

Genus Oncaspidia Stal, 1873

Oncaspidia Stäl, 1873: 81, 83.

Redescription

Body medium sized, robust.

Head

Side of head in front of each side just above base of antenniferous tubercles with an erect,

slender, and curved spine; antenniferous tubercles with outer apical process porrect; anten-

nal segment | the longest, Ill the shortest, and IV shorter than Il; rostrum reaching the metaster-

num; bucculae small, occupying about onethird of length of ventral midline of head.

Thorax

Pronotum strongly declivent; posterolateral angles produced, directed outward; pronotal

disk without large tubercles or spines; triangular process short.

Mesosternum and metasternum longitudinally sulcate along midline; dorsal ridge of me-

tathoracic peritreme entire, not bilobed,

legs. Fore and middle femora each with 0-1 subapical spine beneath: hind femora with

‘wo major spines and a terminal series of short ones; hind femora without basal tubercle;

tibiae not arcuate basally.

Scutellum. Convex with a pair of small knobs at base.

Hemelytra. Corium with apex slightly produced, at rest reaching the basal third of con-

nexival segment VI.

Abdomen

Abdominal sterna Ill to VII with posterolateral angles prominent.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule closed posteriorly; lip distinctly produced and pouched;

tongue triangular; parameres obliquely capitate (Doux 1979).

Comments

Only one species is known in this genus and is for the first time recorded from

Madagascar. Distinguished from other genera of the tribe Clavigrallini by having

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the side of head above base of antenniferous tubercles bearing an erect spine, and

pronotum without large spines or tubercles on pronotal disk or near lateral margins.

In Clavigralla, the other Clavigrallini genus recorded from Malagasy, the side of

head lacks the spine, and the pronotum is adornment with large tubercles on disk

and sublaterally.

Type species

Clavigralla pilosicollis Stal, 1855.

Oncaspidia pilosicollis (Stal, 1855)

(Fig. 73)

Clavigralla pilosicollis Stal, 1855: 31.

Clavigralla similis Signoret, 1860: 944. Synonymy by Stat 1866: 107.

Type material

Redescription

Male

Measurement: see Douinc (1979).

Color. Ground color light brownish yellow with following areas black: ocellar tu-

bercles, anterior midline of pronotum, posterolateral spines of pronotum, base of

scutellum, ventral surface of head, spots on coxae, centre of abdominal sterna II

and Ill, and parts of dorsal abdominal segments; antennal segments | to Ill (except

apices), bases of femora, tibiae (except basal, apical and sometimes median ring),

parts of tarsi, connexival segment VI, and abdominal segment VII yellow; clavus

and basal half of corium yellowish, with few spots on anterior veins brown; apical

half of corium suffused with pale and dark brown; hemelytral membrane colourless,

hyaline.

Female

Measurement: see Downe (1979).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

A distinctive species, recorded for the first time to Madagascar.

Distribution

Widely distributed in tropical and Southern Africa throughout Cameroon, Ghana,

Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zanzibar and

Zimbabwe. This is the first record of this species from Madagascar.

Specimens examined. Maoacascar: 1 3, Tananarive, Nanisana, 1.1932 (ZMAS);

1 9, Betioky, XII.1932 (Seveic) (UNAM).

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Tribe PSEUDOPHIOEINI Stal, 1873

Scutellum flat or almost flat; hind femora with tubercle at the base on the posterior face

and close to the apex of trochanter; hind tibiae not or slightly shorter than hind femora;

antennal segment II shorter than Ill; male genital capsule biemarginate posteriorly with

the emargination filled by the apices of the parameres (DouNG 1986).

The tribe Pseudophlosini distributed on the Old and New World, includes 24 genera

and 104 species, and only one genus and one species are recorded from Madagascar.

Genus Mevanidea Reuter, 1883

Mevanidea Reuter, 1883: 11-12.

Redescription

Body not depressed, connexivum moderately expanded; head and pronotum conspicu-

ously spinose.

Head

Slightly shorter than pronotum, dorsally with several, long, spinelike tubercles; eyes

small, prominent; antenniferous tubercles moderately divergent, external apical process

Porrect and directed slightly downwards; antennal segment | strongly clavate, bearing

numerous spinelike tubercles; antennal segments | and IV subequal in length, and Il

subequal to or slightly longer than |, and Ill the longest; bucculae occupying about one-

quarter of ventral midline; rostrum reaching the metasternum.

Thorax

Pronotum strongly declivent; posterolateral angles slightly produced, the spines arising

abruptly from them, directed laterally and slightly anteriorly; Posterior margin straight or

slightly convex; triangular process well developed; mesosternum deeply sulcate through-

out; metasternum sulcate; metathoracic peritreme with its dorsal tidge simple or bilobed.

Legs. Fore and middle femora with two rows of tubercles and granules beneath; hind

femora with basal tubercle and ventrally with three major subapical spines, and usually

three minor spines between the largest ones and an apical series of four; hind tibiae

short, and conspicuously curved near base.

Scutellum. Equilateral, slightly convex, its apical one-third conspicuously swollen.

Hemelyira. Hemelytral membrane of forewing translucent, with some darker markings

along veins.

Abdomen

Sterna Ill to VI with posterolateral angles produced into broad, triangular spines; lateral

margins of sterna granulose.

Comments

Distinguished from other Pseudophloeini genera by a combination of the following char-

acters: hind femora with tubercle adjacent to base of trochanters, antennal segment |

strongly clavate with many long spines and tubercles, antennal segment Il more than half

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as long as segment Ill, triangular process of pronotum, elongate, slender, and projecting

backwards over bases of clavus, head dorsally and pronotum laterally with long spines,

and apex of scutellum swollen.

Two species are recognized in the genus, and only one recorded from Malagasy.

Type species

Mevanidea granulifera Reuter, 1883.

Mevanidea spiniceps (Signoret, 1860)

(Fig. 74)

Clavigralla spiniceps Signoret, 1860: 944.

Mevanidea spiniceps (Signoret): Douc 1986: 190.

Type material

Lectotype 2: MapaGascar: no locality given (NHMW). Not examined.

Redescription

Male

Measurements: see Dowinc (1986).

Color. Overall color dark to pale brown, suffused with yellowish areas; hemelytral mem-

brane translucent, with some darker marking along veins and sometimes with dark am-

ber shading area between veins, but never with an opaque spot; apex of scutellum

creamy yellow; connexival segments Ill to V largely darker, with pale band anteriorly,

and VI and VII largely pale.

Female

Measurements: see Dowinc (1986).

Habitus and color similar to male.

Comments

Mevanidea hystrix, the other known species of this genus, is widespread in Sub-Saharan

Africa, and recognized by having on the hemelytral membrane an irregular, opaque,

black or dark brown spot occupying about half of its area. Mevanidea spiniceps en-

demic to Madagascar, has the hemelytral membrane translucent, without black or dark

brown spot near middle third

Distribution

Known only from Madagascar.

Mapacascar: Tulear Province, Tongobory; Baie de Baly, Plateau de Soalala, Fort Dau-

phin, Ivondro, Vallée du Fanjahira, Isaka; Nossi-Bé, Forêt de Loukoubé, Sahambava,

and Fianarantsoa (DouunG 1986; SiGNoRET 1860).

Specimens examined. MapaGascar: 1 4, 2 99, Ambodimanga, Majunga [without

date] (MNHN, UNAM); 1 9, Perinet, 1.1934 [Ronson) (ZMAS); 1 9, Tananarive, Na-

Mahajanga Province, Mahavavy River, 6.2 km 145° SE Mitsinjo, 20 m, 16°03’06S-

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45°54'30"E, 1-5.XI.2002 (Fisher, Griswoww et al.) (CASC); 1 &, Mahajanga Prov-

ince, Mahajanga Riv., Ampatika Env., 10-12.XI.1996 Il. Jens) (NMPC); 1 3, Rogez

[without date] (NMPC); 1 3, Ampijoroa, Tsaramandroso [without date] (UNAM); 1 9,

Ampijoroa, Ankarafantsika, 1.1957 (R. E.) (UNAM). Manacascar Nort: 2 €

trict d'Ambanja de Beangona-Ambevy, Vallée d’Antremabe, 400 m, Il.1964 (P. Soca)

(MNHN). Mapacascak East: 1 2, Marojejy, Res. Nat, Int. XIl, Anjanaharibe N, 1750 m,

11.1960 (P. Soca) (MNHN).

Incertae sedis, genus and species inquirenda

Rhombolaparus tardigradus Bergroth, 1906

BercrotH description (1906) is very general and does not contain sufficient informa:

tion or figures to distinguish this genus or the only included species, Rhombolaparus

tardigradus, from other Malagasy Coreidae. In addition, there is no mention of the type

depository by Bercrom (1906) and | have been unable to locate his specimens after

searching most of the European and American museums likely to contain type material of

this species. Without being able to study Bergroth’s original specimens, it is impossible

to be certain of the identity of his genus and species, and as a consequence the genus

and species remain incertae sedis and inquirenda.

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1869. - Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses dépendances, d'après les

découvertes de François P. L. Pollen et D. C. Van Dam Ouvrage dédié à S. M. Guillaume

Ill, Roi des Pays-Bas. 5° partie, 1° Livraison, Insectes: 14.

Water F.

1871. - Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the

British Museum. Part IV. British Museum, London, 211 p.

Wesrwoop J. ©.

1842. — A catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F W. Hope, M. A., with

short latin descriptions of the new species, Part Il. J. C. Bridgewater, London, 26 p.

COUEREPEET MEAL Insecic: Hemiptera Heteropiera Coreidae 191

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Fig. 1: Parameres:

a, b, Acanthocoris tibialis Signoret, 1860;

¢, d, Choerommatus argillaceus Stal, 1865;

e, f, Choerommatus decoratus n. sp.;

g, h, Choerommatus linnavuori n. sp.;

i, j, Phelaus dilaticornis (Signoret, 1860);

k, |, Petalocnemis inconditus n. sp.;

m, n, Petalocnemis dilatatus (Garcia Varela, 1913).

192 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ SE

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AIT

Fig. 2: Dorsal view of Acanthocoris tibialis Signoret, 1860.

Scale: 2 mm.

CET PE EPAZT seco Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 193

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il Pise oo

Fig. 3: Dorsal view of Antanambecoris pronotalis Brailovsky, 2001.

Scale: 2 mm.

194 Horry BRALOVSKY ALEROW TZ SNS

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BIBL

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Las

Fig. 4: Dorsal view of Choerommatus linnavuorii n. sp.

Scale: 2 mm.

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Fig. 5: Dorsal view of Petalocnemis dilatatus (Garcia Varela, 1913) n. comb.

Scale: 2 mm.

196 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ ESS a

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Fig. 6: Dorsal view of Petalocnemis inconditus n. sp.

Scale: 2 mm.

COIEREREES PAL eco Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 1197

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 7: Dorsal view of Phelaus dilaticornis (Signoret, 1860).

Scale: 5 mm.

198 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWIZ DS

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Fig. 8: Dorsal view of Pluotenia pulla Brailovsky, 2001.

Scale: 2 mm.

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199

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Fig. 9: Leptoglossus gonagra (F., 1775):

a, dorsal view;

b, male genital capsule in caudal view;

¢, paramere.

200 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWIZ SSSR

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 10: Antennae:

a, Kerzhnercryptes perinetus Brailovsky, 2002;

b, Odontorhopala callosa Stal, 1873;

¢, Parabrachytes longicornis Garcia Varela, 1913;

d, Parabrachytes antsalovus Brailovsky, 2002;

e, Parabrachytes morondavus Brailovsky, 2002;

f, Parabrachytes coloratus Distant, 1879;

g, Parabrachytes obscurus Distant, 1879.

COTEREPEET MAL] insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 201

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Fig. 11: Parameres: a, b, Kerzhnercryptes perinetus Brailovsky, 2002; ¢, d, Odontorhopala

callosa Stal, 1873; e, f, Odontocurtus consociatus n. sp.; g, h, Parabrachytes antsalovus

Brailovsky, 2002.

Fig. 12: Parameres: a, b, Parabrachytes coloratus Distant, 1879; c, d, Parabrachytes

obscurus Distant, 1879; e, f, Parabrachytes inornatus n. Sp; g, h, Parabrachytes

morondavus Brailovsky, 2002.

202 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWNZ DS

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Fig. 13: Dorsal view of Kerzhnercryptes couturierin. sp.

Scale: 3 mm.

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Fig. 14: Dorsal view of Kerzhnercryptes perinetus Brailovsky, 2002.

Scale: 2 mm.

204 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWTZ OS

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Fig. 15: Dorsal view of Odontorhopala pallescens n. sp.

Scale: 4 mm.

de Madagascar / 94 nsecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 205

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Fig. 16: Dorsal view of Odontocurtus consociatus n. sp.

Scale: 2 mm.

206

Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWZ MS

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Fig. 17: Dorsal view of Parabrachytes antsalovus Brailovsky, 2002.

Scale: 1 mm,

CRPPERPATT (eco Hemipiero Heteroptera Coreidoe 207

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208

fl lue os

Fig. 18: Dorsal view of Parabrachytes inornatus n. sp.

cale: 3 mm.

Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ

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Fig. 19: Madagalaesus spp.: eB

a, b, male genital capsule in caudal view:

a, M. garciai Brailovsky, 2007; b, M. notios Brailovsky, 2007;

c, d, female genital plates:

¢, M. notios Brailovsky, 2007; d, M. garciai Brailovsky, 2007;

e, f, parameres: M, garciai Brailovsky, 2007.

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Fig. 20: Dorsal view of Madagalaesus notios Brailovsky, 2007.

Scale: 2 mm.

210 Harry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWTZ as

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 21: Dorsal view of Madagalaesus garciai Brailovsky, 2007.

Scale: 3 mm.

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me.

Fig. 22: a-c, head: a, b, dorsal view:

a, Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905); b, Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.;

c, lateral view of Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.;

d-h, antennae:

d, Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905); e, Cletus incultus n. sp.;

f, Cletus poikilus n. sp.; g, Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842);

h, Cletus clavatus (Signoret, 1860).

212 Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWNZ DS

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Fig. 23: Antennae:

a, Cletomorpha nyasana Bergroth, 1914;

b, Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal, 1855);

¢, Cletus pronus (Bergroth, 1914);

d, Cletus presignus n. sp.;

e, Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842);

f, Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.

CREEP) Insecta Hemiptera Heteropiera Coreidoe 213

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Fig. 24: Pronotum:

a, Cletomorpha nyasana Bergroth, 1914 (female);

b, Cletus presignus n. sp.;

¢, Cletomorpha nyasana Bergroth, 1914 (male);

d, Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842);

e, Cletus pronus n. sp.;

£, Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842);

g, Cletus clavatus (Signoret, 1860).

214 Horry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWTZ as

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 25: Pronotum:

a, Cletus clavatus (Signoret, 1860);

b, ¢, Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.;

d, Cletus poikilus n. 5

e, f, Cletus incultus n. sp.;

9, Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905);

h, Cletoliturus liturizennis (Stal, 1855);

i, Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842).

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Fig. 26: Female genital plates:

a, Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal, 1855);

b, Cletus poikilus n. sp.;

¢, Cletus incultus n. sp.;

d, Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842);

e, Cletomorpha nyasana Bergroth, 1914.

216 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ zee

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 27: Male genital capsule in caudal view:

a, Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.;

b, Cletus poikilus n. sp.;

c, Cletus incultus n. sp.;

d, Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal, 1855);

e, Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842);

f, Cletomorpha nyasana Bergroth, 1914;

g, Cletus pronus n. sp.;

h, Cletus clavatus (Signoret, 1860);

i, Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905);

j, Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1842).

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 28: Parameres: a, b, Cletomorpha nyasana Bergroth, 1914; ¢, d, Cletus capensis

(Westwood, 1842); e, f, Cletus incultus n. sp.; g, h, Cletus ochraceus (Hertich-Schaeffer,

1842); i, j, Cletus poikilus n. sp.

Fig. 29: Parameres: a, b, Cletus pronus n. sp.; ¢, d, Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.;

ef, Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905); g, Plinachtus vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera,

2002; h, Plinachtus scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002; i, j, Plinachtus madagascariensis

(Kiritshenko, 1916).

218 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ aaa

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 30: Dorsal view of Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal, 1855).

Scale: 2 mm.

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Fig. 31: Dorsal view of Cletoscellus delectabilis n. sp.

‘ale: 1 mm.

220 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ Eu

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 32: Dorsal view of Cletoscellus spinijugis (Bergroth, 1905) n. comb.

Scale: 1 mm.

SEREE EEE) secte Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidoe 221

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Fig. 33: Dorsal view of Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842).

Scale: 2 mm.

222 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWZ SSSR

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 34: Dorsal view of Cletus capensis (Westwood, 1842).

Scale: 2 mm.

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Fig. 35: Dorsal view of Cletus clavatus (Signoret, 1860).

Scale: 1 mi

224 Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWZ DS

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 36: Dorsal view of Cletus incultus n. sp.

Scale: 2 mm.

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Fig. 37: Dorsal view of Cletus ochraceus (Herrich-Schaetfer, 1842).

Scale: 2 mm.

226 Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWTZ Ea

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Fig. 38: Dorsal view of Cletus poikilus n. sp.

Scale: 2 mm.

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Fig. 39: Dorsal view of Cletus pronus (Bergroth, 1914).

Scale: 2 mm.

228 Horry BRALOVSKY Aro SSSR

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 40: Dorsal view of Plinachtus madagascariensis (Kiritshenko, 1916).

Scale: 1 mm.

SEE EEA) insects Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 229

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Fig. 41: Dorsal view of Plinachtus vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera, 2002.

Scale: 1 mm.

230 Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWIZ SES

Source : MNHN, Paris

es"

Aes

Fig. 42: Corduba (Acanthocorduba) baniana Brailovsky et Ortega Leén, 1998:

a, dorsal view;

b, male genital capsule in caudal view;

¢, female genital plates.

SST EPC == insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 231

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Fig. 43: Hydara spp.:

a, c,e, gi, H. tenuicornis (Westwood, 1842):

a, pronotum; c, male genital capsule in caudal view;

e, female genital plates; g-h, paramere;

i, thorax in ventral view (arrow point out the intermetacoxal space);

b, d, f, H. kmenti Brailovsky, 1842:

b, pronotum; d, male genital capsule; f, female genital plates.

232 Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROW!Z SES

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 44: Dorsal view of Hydara kmenti Brailovsky, 2006.

Scale: 2 mm.

CTP EEA insect: Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 233

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Fig. 45: Dorsal view of Hydara tenuicornis (Westwood, 1842).

Scale: 2 mm.

234 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ SR

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 46: Latimbus spp.:

a; b, antennees.a, i caphseanice hk Dore sp;

c, d, head of L. stereus n. sp.: c, dorsal view; d, ventral view;

e-h, pronotum: e, L. naevillus n. sp.; f, L. refulgens n. sp.; g, L. stereus n. sp.; h, L. saphisus n. sp.;

il, male genital capsule in caudal view:

i, L. naevillus n. sp; j, L. refulgens n. sp.; k, L. stereus n. sp.; , L. saphisus n. sp.;

m-p, parameres: m, n, L. refulgens n. sp.; 0, p, L. stereus n. sp.

LETEPTRETAZT 5200 Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 235

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Fig. 47: Dorsal view of Latimbus refulgens n. sp.

Scale: 2 mm.

236 Horry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWNZ a

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 48: Pronotum:

a; Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910;

b, Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp.;

¢, h, Anoplocnemis curvipes (Fabricius, 1781);

d, Anoplocnemis luctuosa (Stal, 1865);

e, Anoplocnemis madagascariensis (Signoret, 1860);

£, g, Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879);

i, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879;

i, Elasmocniella gloriosus n. sp.

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Fig. 49: Hind leg:

a, Anoplocnemis brevicornis (Bergroth, 1910);

b, Elasmocniella gloriosus n. sp.;

€; d, Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879): c, female; d, male;

e, Anoplocnemis curvipes (F., 1781);

£, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879 (female);

9g, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879 (male).

238 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ ER

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 50: Abdomen in lateral view:

a, Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910;

b, Anoplocnemis brevicrus Bergroth, 1910;

c, Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp.;

d, Anoplocnemis curvipes (F., 1781);

e, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879;

f, Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879).

LEE Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 239

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Fig. 51: Three first segments of abdomen in ventral view:

a, Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910;

b, Anoplocnemis brevicrus Bergroth, 1910;

¢, Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp.;

d, Anoplocnemis curvipes (F., 1781);

e, Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879);

f, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879.

240 Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWHZ SSSR

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 52: Male genital capsule in caudal view:

a, Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910;

b, Anoplocnemis brevicrus Bergroth, 1910;

¢, Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp.;

d, Anoplocnemis curvipes (F., 1781);

e, Anoplocnemis luctuosa (Stal, 1865);

f, Anoplocnemis madagascariensis (Signoret, 1860);

g, Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879);

h, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879.

COREE A! Insecta Hemiptera Heteropiera Coreidae 241

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Fig. 53: Parameres:

a, b, Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910;

¢, d, Anoplocnemis brevicrus Bergroth, 1910;

e, f, Anoplocnemis consociatus n. sp.;

g, h, Anoplocnemis curvipes (F., 1781);

i, j, Anoplocnemis distincta (Brancsik, 1893);

k, |, Anoplocnemis madagascariensis (Signoret, 1860);

m, n, Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879);

0, p, Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879.

242 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ RS

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 54: Anoplocnemis brevicornis Bergroth, 1910:

a, dorsal view (male);

b, abdomen in lateral view.

Scales: 1 mm.

COLEPPFEREMWEZT Insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 243

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Fig. 55: Dorsal view of Anoplocnemis madagascariensis (Signoret, 1860) (male).

Scale: 2 mm.

244 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ EE

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 56: Dianomictis expansa (Distant, 1879):

a, dorsal view (male);

b, abdomen in lateral view.

Scale: 1 mm.

CETERA Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 245

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 57: Elasmocniella gloriosus n. sp.:

a, dorsal view (male);

b, abdomen in lateral view.

Scales: 1 mm.

246 Horry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWTZ a

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 58: Dorsal view of Mygdonia elongata Distant, 1879 (male).

Scale: 3 mm.

UCC EEL Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidoe 247

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248

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Fig. 59: Antennae (a-d) and pronotum in dorsal view (e-h}:

a, Oxypristis conspicuus n. sp.;

b, Oxypristis leroyi Signoret, 1860;

¢, Oxypristis augurium n. sp.;

d, Oxypristis modestus Blôte, 1938;

e, Oxypristis conspicuus n. sp

£, Oxypristis leroyi Signoret, 18

g, Oxypristis augurium n. sp.;

h, Oxypristis modestus Blôte, 1938.

Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ

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Fig. 60: a, b, g-h, Oxypristis leroyi Signoret, 1860:

a, b, paramere;

9, abdomen in lateral view, showing the elliptical spiracle;

h, thorax in ventral view (arrow point out the intermetacoxal space);

c,d, paramere of Oxypristis augurium n. sp.;

e, f, parameres of Oxypristis modestus Blôte, 1938.

EEE) Insecio Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 249

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 61: Dorsal view of Oxypristis modestus Blôte (male).

Scale: 3 mm.

250 Horry BRALOVSKY ALFEROWTZ as

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 62: Dorsal view of Oxypristis augurium n. sp. (female).

Scale: 4 mm.

EPP Insecta Hemiptera Heteropiera Coreidae 251

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 63: Craspedum madagascariense (Coquerel, 1848) (male):

a, dorsal view;

b, c, parameres.

Scale: 2 mm.

252 Harry BRALOVSKY ALEROWNZ a

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 64: Dorsal view of Clavigralla annulipes Signoret, 1860 (male).

Scale: 1 mm.

NEEL) insecio Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 253

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Fig. 65: Dorsal view of Clavigralla asterix Dolling, 1979 (male).

Scale: 1 mm.

254 Horry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWIZ SE

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 66: Dorsal view of Clavigralla elongata Signoret, 1960 (female).

Scale: 1 mm.

COREEEPEES PAL Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 255

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Fig. 67: Dorsal view of Clavigralla madagascariensis Dolling, 1979 (male).

Scale: 1 mm.

256

Horry BRALOVSKY ALPEROWIZ SE

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 68: Dorsal view of Clavigralla pusilla Dolling, 1979 (female).

Scale: 1 mm.

COLEPTEEREETT Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 257

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Fig. 69: Dorsal view of Clavigralla pusilla Dolling, 1979 (male).

Scale: 1 mm.

258 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ OS

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 70: Dorsal view of Clavigralla tuberculicollis (Reuter, 1887) (female).

Scale: 2 mm.

CÉUETEPEEEMWATT nsecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidoe 259

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260

Fig. 71: Dorsal view of Clavigralla wittei (Schouteden, 1938) (female).

cale: 1 mm.

Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 72: Dorsal view of Clavigralla wittei (Schouteden, 1938) (male).

Scale: 1 mm.

ETF EPA secte Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 261

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262

Fig. 73: Dorsal view of Oncaspidia pilosicollis (Stal, 1855) (female).

Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ

Source : MNHN, Paris

Fig. 74: Dorsal view of Mevanidea spiniceps (Signoret, 1860) (male).

Scale: 1 mm.

EERE] insecia Hemipiero Heteropiera Coreidae 263

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Fig. 75: General coreid morphology: Cletoliturus lituripennis (Stal, 1855).

a, dorsal view; b, lateral view; c, hind leg.

Acronyms used: abdomen (abdominal sterna Il, Ill, IV, V, VI, Vil) (ab); antennal segments

1, 1, UL IV (an); antenniferous tubercle (at); anterior border (ab); anterior margin (am);

anterolateral border (alb); apical angle (aa); apical margin (am); buccula (bu); calli (ca); claval

commissure (cle); claval suture (cls); clavus (cl); clypeus (cl); collar (col); connexivum (con);

corium (co); costal margin (cm); eyes (e); femora (f}; frons (fr); frontal angle (fa); juga (i):

hemelytra (he); ocelli (0); hemelytral membrane (me); humeral angle (ha); labial segments I, Il,

ML IV (L); labrum (La); maxillary plate (mp); mesocoxae (mc); mesopleurum (ms); metacoxae

(mtc); metapleurum (mt); metathoracic peritreme (ostiolar peritreme) (op); posterior border

(pb); posterolateral border (plb); posterolateral tubercle (pot); procoxae (pc); pronotum (pr);

Propleurum (pp); pygophore (genital capsule) (py); scutellum (sc); spiracle (sp); tarsi (tr); tibiae

(ti); trochanter (tr); tylus (t); vertex (ve).

264 Harry BRAILOVSKY ALPEROWITZ ET

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: Glossaire / Glossary

Based on Torre-BUuENo (1989) and ScHux & Starter (1995).

abdominal spiracle one of a Pair of spiracles of an abdominal segment.

antenna (pl., antennae) paired segmental appendages, borne one on each side of

head.

antenniferous tubercle a protuberance of head which bears antenna.

auricle(s) variously shaped structure on metapleuron of adult, assisting in spreading

metathoracic scentgland products from ostiole onto evaporatorium.

buccula (pl., bucculae) a flange of gena, on each side of basal portion of labium.

callar area middle part of pronotum behind collar and containing calli, and corre-

sponding in size to prothoracic body cavity.

callus (pl., calli) paired or fused impression or elevation in anterior part of pronotum

behind collar.

claspers parameres.

claval commissure junction of hemelytra along clavus on midline of body posterior to

apex of scutellum and anterior to membrane.

claval suture suture of forewing separating clavus from corium.

clavus (pl., clavi) usually parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron.

clypeus part of head below frons, to which labrum is attached anteriorly.

collar rounded or flattened anterior margin of prothorax.

corium (pl., coria) proximal coriaceous or differentiated part of forewing exclusive of

clavus and distinct from membrane, often being subdivided into anterior (lateral) exoco-

rium and posterior (mesal) endocorium,

coxa (pl., coxae) basal segment of the leg, by means of which it is articulated to the

body.

femur (pl., femora) the third, and usually the stoutest segment of the leg, articulated

to the body through the trochanter and coxa and bearing the tibia at its distal end.

fissure or fissura a crevice, a narrow longitudinal opening.

genital capsule pygophore.

gula the fused lower ends of the postocciput forming a ventral plate.

hemelytron (pl., hemelytra) forewing of Heteroptera, with distinctly thickened prox-

imal portion and membranous distal portion.

hemiptera characterized by sucking mouthparts.

heteroptera characterized by adults with forewings folded flat over the body in the

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form of hemelytra with basally thickened corium, apical membranes usually broadly

overlapping, gula present, dorsal abdominal scent glands in nymphs, and metathoracic

scent glands in adults.

humeral angle posterolateral angle of pronotum.

humerus (pl., humeri) humeral angle.

jugum (pl., juga) mandibular plates.

labrum the upper lip, abutting the clypeus in front of the mouth.

membrane membranous apical portion of hemelytron.

mesopleuron (pl., mesopleura) pleuron of mesothorax.

metapleuron (pl., metapleura) pleuron of the metathorax.

metathoracic scent gland in Heteroptera, universally occurring adult system of

paired or unpaired scent glands with single or paired opening on metasternum with

external outflow channels (ostiolar canals) that transmit glandular products to ostiole

located on metepisterna.

ocellus (pl., ocelli) in adult insects, simple eye consisting of a single beadlike lens.

ostiolar peritreme a calloused area of variable shape, surrounding the ostiole, and

itself often surrounded by the evaporatorium.

ostiole external opening of metathoracic scent gland, often refering to opening on

metepisternum.

parameres paired male genital structures independent of phallus.

paratergites VIII-IX lateral flanges on pregenital segments of abdomen.

plica (pl., plicae) a fold, or wrinkle.

pronotum the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax

propleuron (pl., propleura) pleuron of prothorax.

Pygophore abdominal segment IX of male, enclosing the phallus.

rostrum combined labium and maxillary and mandibular stylets.

scutellum (pl., scutella) triangular part of mesothorax, generally placed between

bases of hemelytra,

tarsus (pl., tarsi) the leg segment attached to the apex of the tibia, bearing the pre-

tarsus.

tibia (pl., tibiae) the fourth segment of the leg, between the femur and the tibia

trochanter a segment of the leg between the coxa and the femur.

true bug a heteropteran.

tylus (pl., tyli) distal part of clypeus; anteclypeal region

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: Index des taxons /

: Index of taxa

Acanthocorduba linnavuori, 119-121, 231

Acanthocorini, 13, 16, 24-27

Acanthocoris Amyot et AudinetServille, 27, 31

Anisoscelini, 16, 23, 25, 51

ankatsoensis Dolling, 170-172

annulipes Signoret, 170-173, 178, 180, 253

Anoplocnemis Stal, 135-139

asterix Dolling, 170, 172, 173, 254

Antanambecoris Brailovsky, 27-30, 50

antsalovus Brailovsky, 70-72, 77, 201, 202,

207

argillaceus Stal, 36-38, 40, 192

augurium n. sp., 157-159, 248, 249, 251

baniana Brailovsky et Ortega Léon, 120, 121,

231

brevicornis Bergroth, 137-143, 237-243

brevicrus Bergroth, 137-140, 142, 143,

239-242

callosa Stal, 65-68, 201, 202

capensis Wetswood, 88, 89, 91, 92, 212,

214, 215, 217, 218, 222, 223

Choerommatus Amyot et Audinet-Serville, 26,

27, 33, 35-39, 47

clavatus Signoret, 88, 89, 93, 97, 99,195,

212, 214, 215, 217, 224

Clavigralla Spinola, 168-170, 182

Clavigrallini, 16, 166-168, 181, 182

Cletoliturus n. gen., 85, 86, 106, 108

Cletoscellus n. gen., 85, 101-103

Cletus Stal, 85-88

ne de Madagascar / 94 BP Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae

coloratus Distant, 70-72, 76, 201, 202

consociatus n. sp., 62, 142, 237, 239-242

consociatus n. sp., 138, 139, 202, 206

conspicuus n. sp., 157, 159, 248

contortus Brailovsky et Barrera, 112, 113

Corduba Stal, 119-121

couturieri n. sp., 58-60, 203

Craspedum Rambur, 163, 164

curvipes Fabricius, 137, 138, 143, 144, 147,

173, 237-242

Daladerini, 16, 23, 25, 55, 56, 62

Dasynini, 16, 24, 25, 79

decoratus n. sp., 35, 36, 38, 39, 192

delectabilis n. sp., 103, 105, 106, 212, 213,

215, 217, 218, 220

Dianomictis O'Shea, 135, 136, 147, 148

dilaticornis Signoret, 50, 192, 198

dilatatus Garcia Varela n comb., 42-44, 46,

192, 196

distincta Brancsik, 137, 138, 144, 145, 242

Elasmocniella n. gen., 136, 150, 151

elongata Signoret, 170, 174, 176, 255

elongata Distant, 153, 154, 237-242, 247

expansa Distant, 148, 237-242, 245

garciai Brailovsky, 81, 84, 209, 211

gloriosus n. sp., 151, 237, 238, 246

Gonocerini, 24, 26, 84, 85

gonagra Fabricius, 53, 55, 200

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Hydara Dallas, 119, 120, 122-124, 232

Hydarini, 24, 25, 119

inconditus n. sp., 43-45, 192, 197

incultus n. sp., 88-90, 212, 215-218, 225

inornatus n. sp., 70, 71, 74, 75, 202, 208

Kerzhnercryptes Brailovsky, 56-58, 62

kmenti Brailovsky, 123-125, 232, 233

Latimbini, 23, 25, 126, 127

Latimbus Siäl, 126-128, 235

Leptoglossus Guérin-Méneville, 52, 53

leroyi Signoret, 157, 159-162, 248, 249

linnavuorii n. sp., 36, 39, 40, 195

lituripennis Stal n. comb., 108-110, 213, 215,

217, 219, 264

longicornis Garcia Varela, 70-72, 75, 76, 201

luctuosa Stal, 137-139, 144, 145, 237, 241

Madagalaesus Brailovsky, 79-82

madagascariense Coquerel, 164, 165, 252

madagascariensis Kiritshenko, 112-115, 218

229

madagascariensis Signoret, 138, 139, 145,

146, 237, 241, 242, 244

madagascariensis Dolling, 170, 172, 174,

175, 256

Mevanidea Reuter, 183

Mictini, 23, 25, 134-136

modestus Bléte, 157, 159, 161, 162, 248-250

morondavus Brailovsky, 70, 71, 76, 77, 201,

202

Mygdonia Stal, 135-137, 151-153

268

naevillus n. sp., 128, 132-134, 235

notios Brailovsky, 81, 83, 84, 209, 210

obscurus Distant, 70, 71, 75, 77, 78, 201,

202

ochraceus Herrich-Schaeffer, 88, 89, 92, 94,

95, 100, 213, 214, 216-218, 226

Odontocurtus n. gen., 56, 61, 62

Odontorhopala Stal, 56, 61-63, 65

Oncaspidia Stal, 16, 168, 181

pallescens n. sp., 65, 67, 68, 205

Parabrachytes Distant, 56, 57, 62, 65,

69-71

perinetus Brailovsky, 58-60, 201, 202, 204

Petalocnemis Stal, 27, 28, 32, 35, 41-44

Petascelini, 23, 25, 155

Phelaus Stal, 27, 28, 49

Phyllomorphini, 24, 25

pilosicollis Stal, 182, 262

Plinachtus Stal, 85, 110, 112, 113

Pluotenia Brailovsky, 27, 28, 46

poikilus n. sp., 88, 96-98, 212, 215-218,

227

presignus n. sp., 88, 89, 97-99, 213, 214

pronotalis Brailovsky, 29, 194.

pronus Bergroth, 88, 99, 100, 213, 214, 21

218, 228

Pseudophloeinae, 22, 166, 167

Pseudophloeini, 166, 167, 183

pulla Brailovsky, 47, 199

pusilla Dolling, 170, 171, 177, 180, 257, 2

refulgens n. sp., 128, 129, 131, 235, 236

Rhombolaparus Bergroth, 58, 65, 185

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saphisus n. sp., 128, 133, 134, 235 tibialis Signoret, 32, 33, 192, 193

scitulus Brailovsky et Barrera, 112, 116, 117, tuberculicollis Reuter, 169, 170, 178, 179,

218 259

spiniceps Signoret, 184, 263

spinijugis Bergroth n. comb., 103, 106,212, V

Lee 22) vermiculus Brailovsky et Barrera, 112, 117,

stereus n. sp., 128, 130, 133, 134, 235 218, 230

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tardigradus Bergroth, 185 wittei Schouteden, 170, 171, 179-181, 260,

tenuicornis Westwood, 123-125, 232, 234 25

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I. - Insectes Odonates Anisoptéres, par le Dr FC. Fraser, 1956

Il. - Insectes Lépidoptéres Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Acraeidae, par R. Paulian, 1956

IIL - Insectes Lépidoptéres Hesperiidae, par P. Viette, 1956

IV, - Insectes Coléopiéres Cerambycidae Lamiinae, par S. Breuning, 1957

V. - Insectes Mantodea, par R. Paulian, 1957

VI. - Insectes Coléoptères Anthicidae, par P. Bonadona, 1957

VIL. - Insectes Hémiptéres Enicocephalidae, par A. Villiers, 1958

VIII. - Insectes Lépidoptères Sphingidae, par P. Griveaud, 1959

IX. - Arachnides Opilions, par le Dr RF, Lawrence, 1959

X. - Poissons des eaux douces, par J. Arnoult, 1959

Xl. - Insectes Coléoptères Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeina et Onthophagini, par R. Paulian ;

Helictopleurina, par E. Lebis, 1960

XII, - Myriapodes Chilopodes, par le Dr R-F. Lawrence, 1960

XIII. - Zoogéographie de Madagascar et des îles voisines, par R. Paulian, 1961

(Prix Foulon de l’Académie des sciences)

MOC OIEEEPEES PAL! Insecia Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae 271

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XIV. - Insectes Lépidoptères Eupterotidae et Attacidae, par P. Griveaud, 1961

XV. - Insectes Aphaniptéres, par R. Lumaret, 1962

XVI. - Crustacés Décapodes Portunidae, par A. Crosnier, 1962

XVIL. - Insectes Lépidoptères Amatidae, par P. Griveaud, 1964

(Prix Constant de la Société entomologique de France)

XVII. - Crustacés Décapodes Grapsidae et Ocypodidae, par A. Crosnier, 1965

XIX. - Insectes Coléoptères Erotylidae, par H. Philipp, 1965

XX (1). - Insectes Lépidoptéres Noctuidae Amphipyrinae (part 1), par P. Viette, 1965

XX (2). - Insectes Lépidoptères Noctuidae Amphipyrinae (part 2) et Melicleptriinae, par

P. Viette, 1967

(Prix Foulon de l’Académie des sciences)

XXI. - Octocoralliaires, par A. Tixier-Durivault, 1966

XXII. - Insectes Diptères Culicidae Anophelinae, par A. Grjebine, 1966

(Prix Passet de la Société entomologique de France)

XXIII. - Insectes Psocoptères, par A. Badonnel, 1967

XXIV. - Insectes Lépidoptères Thyrididae, par PE.S. Whalley, 1967

XXV. - Insectes Hétéroptères Lygaeidae Blissinae, par J.A. Slater, 1967

XXVI. - Insectes Orthoptéres, Acridoidea (Pyrgomorphidae et Acrididae), par V.M.

Dirsh et M. Descamps, 1968

XXVIL. - Insectes Lépidoptères Papilionidae, par R. Paulian et P. Viette, 1968

XXVIII, - Insectes Hémiptéres Reduviidae (1" partie), par A. Villiers, 1968

XXIX. - Insectes Lépidoptéres Notodontidae, par S.G. Kiriakoff, 1969

XXX, - Insectes Dermaptéres, par A. Brindle, 1969

XXXI. - Insectes Lépidoptéres Noctuidae Plusiinae, par C. Dufay, 1970

XXXII. - Arachnides Araignées Archaeidae, par R. Legendre, 1970

XXXIIl. - Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeléonidae, le genre Chamaeleo, par E.R. Brygoo,

1971

XXXIV. - Insectes Lépidoptéres Lasiocampidae, par Y. de Lajonquiére, 1972

XXXV. - Oiseaux, par Ph. Milon, J.-J. Petter et G. Randrianasolo, 1973 + fascicule des

planches

36. - Mammiféres Carnivores, par R. Albignac, 1973

37. - Insectes Coléoptéres Carabidae Scaritinae, par P. Basilewsky, 1973

38. - Arachnides Araignées Araneidae Gasteracanthinae, par M. Emerit, 1974

39. - Insectes Lépidoptères Agaristidae, par S.G. Kiriakoff et P. Viette, 1974

40. - Insectes Coléoptéres Cerambycidae Parandrinae et Prioninae, par R.M. Quentin

et À. Villiers, 1975

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41. - Insectes Coléoptères Carabidae Scaritinae : Il. Biologie, par A. Peyrieras. - Ill. Sup-

plément à la systématique, par P. Basilewsky, 1976

42. - Arachnides Acariens Astigmata Listrophoroidea, par A. Fain, 1976

43 (1). - Insectes Lépidoptères Lymantriidae (1° partie), par P. Griveaud, 1977

43 (2). - Insectes Lépidoptères Lymantriidae (2° partie), par P. Griveaud 1977

44. - Mammifères Lémuriens (Primates Prosimiens) par J.J. Petter, R. Albignac et Y. Rum-

pler, 1977

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45. - Reptiles Sauriens lguanidae, par Ch. P. Blanc, 1977

46. - Crustacés Décapodes Aristeidae (Benthesicyminae, Aristeinae, Solenicerinae) par

A. Crosnier, 1978

47. - Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeléonidae, genre Brookesia et complément pour le genre

Chamaeleo, par E.R. Brygoo, 1978

48. - Echinodermes Ophiures, par G. Cherbonnier et A. Guille, 1978 (stock détruit par

l'éditeur)

49. - Insectes Hémiptères Reduviidae (2e partie), par A. Villiers, 1979

50. - Insectes Coléoptéres Silphidae, Passalidae, Belohinidae et Ceratocanthidae, par

R. Paulian et J.-P. Lumaret, 1979

51. - Insectes Coléoptères Staphylinides Oxytelidae Osoriinae, par H. Coiffait, 1979

(stock détruit par l'éditeur]

52. - Insectes Coléoptères Cerambycidae Disteniinae, par A. Villiers, 1980

53. - Insectes Lépidoptères Limacodidae, par P. Viette, 1980

54. - Insectes Coléoptéres Colydiidae et Cerylonidae, par R. Dajoz, 1980 (stock détruit

par l'éditeur)

55. - Insectes Coléoptères Curculionidae Cycloterini, par R. Richard, 1981

(Prix M. et Th. Pic de la Société entomologique de France)

56. - Insectes Coléoptères Trogidae et Hybosoridae, par R. Paulian, 1981

57. - Insectes Coléoptéres Cetoniidae Euchroeina : |. Systématique, par R. Paulian et A.

Descarpentries. Il. Biologie et formes larvaires, par J.-P. Lumaret et A. Peyrieras, 1982

58. - Crustacés Copépodes des eaux intérieures, par BH. Dussart, 1982

59 (1). - Crustacés Amphipodes Gammariens (1 partie), par M. Ledoyer, 1982 (stock

détruit par l'éditeur)

59 (2). - Crustacés Amphipodes Gammariens (2° partie), par M. Ledoyer, 1986

60. - Insectes Lépidoptères Epiplemidae, par J. Boudinot, 1982

61. - Insectes Lépidoptères Sesiidae, par P. Viette, 1982

62. - Insectes Coléoptères Curculionidae Stigmatrachelini, par R. Richard, 1983

63. - Insectes Lépidoptères Psychidae Oiketicinae, par J. Bourgogne, 1984

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64. - Insectes Coléoptéres Carabidae Platyninae, par P. Basilewsky, 1985

65. - Insectes Coléoptères Dynastidae, par R.-P. Dechambre, 1986

(Prix Passet de la Société entomologique de France)

66. - Insectes Coléoptéres Curculionidae Brachyderini, genre Dinosius, par M. Ferragu,

1986

67. - Insectes Coléoptères Staphylinidae Paederinae, |. Pinophilini, par J-Cl. Lecoq,

1986

68. - Insectes Diptéres Culicidae Culicinae Ficalbiini, par A. Grjebine, 1986

69. - Insectes Coléoptéres Aulonocnemidae, par Y. Cambefort, 1987

70. - Echinodermes Holothurides, par G. Cherbonnier, 1988

71. - Insectes Coléoptéres Staphylinidae Euaesthetinae, par J. Orousset, 1988

(Prix M. et Th. Pic de la Société entomologique de France)

72. - Insectes Lépidoptéres Crambidae Scopariinae, par P. Leraut, 1989

73 (1). - Insectes Coléoptères Melolonthidae (1'° partie), par M. Lacroix, 1989

(Prix M. et Th. Pic de la Société entomologique de France)

73 (2). - Insectes Coléoptéres Melolonthidae (2° partie), par M. Lacroix 1993

74. - Insectes Coléoptéres Aphodiidae, par P. Bordat, R. Paulian et R. Pitfino, 1990

75 (1). - Amphibiens (1° partie), par R.M.A. Blommers-Schlôsser et Ch. P. Blanc, 1991

75 (2). - Amphibiens (2° partie), par R.M.A. Blommers-Schlôsser et Ch. P. Blanc, 1993

76. - Insectes Coléoptéres Nosodendridae, par S. Endrédy-Younga, 1991

77. - Insectes Coléoptéres Ptinidae, par X. Bellés, 1991

78. - Insectes Hétéroptères Tingidae, par P. Duarte Rodriguez, 1992

79. - Insectes Coléoptéres Staphylinidae Paederinae, II. Paederini, par J.-Cl. Lecoq,

1993

80. - Gastéropodes terrestres Prosobranches, par E. Fischer-Piette et al., 1993

81. - Insectes Lépidoptères Pterophoridae, par C. Gibeaux, 1994

82. - Insectes Coléoptères Cetoniidae, genre Pygora, par R. Paulian, 1994

83. - Gastéropodes terrestres Pulmonés, par E. Fischer-Piette et al., 1994

84. - Mammifères Chiroptéres, par R.L. Peterson ef al., 1995

85. - Insectes Diptères Culicidae Culicinae. Genre Orthopodomyia de la sous-région

malgache et de la région afrotropicale, par J. Brunhes et JP. Hervy, 1995

86. - Insectes Coléoptères Staphylinidae Paederinae, genre Astenus, par J-Cl. Lecoq,

1996

87. - Chelicerata Scorpions, par W.R. Lourenço, 1996

88 (1). - Insectes Coléoptéres Hopliidae [1° partie], par M. Lacroix, 1997

88 (2). - Insectes Coléoptères Hopliidae (2° partie], par M. Lacroix, 1998

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89. - Insectes Coléoptères Staphylinidae Aleocharinae, par R. Pace, 1999

90. - Insecta Coleoptera Chironidae, par J-B. Huchet, 2003

91. - Insecta Diptera Culicidae Uranotaenia, par H. da Cunha Ramos et J. Brunhes,

2004

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92. - Insecta Coleoptera Buprestidae de Madagascar et des îles voisines : catalogue

annoté / Insecta Coleoptera Buprestidae of Madagascar and adjacent islands: an An-

notated Catalogue, par C. L. Bellamy, 2006

93. - Insecta Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Pedinini Platynotina, par D. Iwan, 2010

Suppléments / Supplements

1. - Liste récapitulative des Lépidoptères Hétérocéres de Madagascar / A provisional

checklist of the Lepidoptera Heterocera of Madagascar, par P. Viette, 1990

2. - Principales localités où des Insectes ont été recueillis à Madagascar / Chief field

stations where Insects were collected in Madagascar, par P. Viette, 1991

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families, twelve tribes, twenty nine genera, one subgenus, and sixty nine species are treated in detail.

ir new genera and ninefeen new species are described and placed in the subfamily Coreinae. Three new com-

1ations ate proposed and five species are synonymised. Two genera {Latimbus Stal and Oncaspidia Stal), and

‘are recorded for the first time from Malagasy. Dorsal habitus illustrations for at least one species of

well as 200 drawings of morphological details, male and female genitalia of some of the species

Bilingual keys to all Malagasy subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera and species are included.

onal records are added.

Madagascar sont révisés ; tous les taxa connus, présents dans l'île, sont pris en compte. Deux

e tribus, Vingtneuf genres, un sousgenre, et soixanteneuf sont traités en détail. Quatre

d et dixneuf nouvelles espèces sont décrits et placés dans la ille des Coreinae. Trois nouvelles

diséhs sont proposées et cing espèces sont mises en synonymie. Deux genres (Latimbus Stal et Oncaspidia Stal)

espèce sont enregistrés pour la premiere fois de Madagascar. Une espèce par genre au moins est illustrée par

habitus en Vue dorsale et environ 200 dessins, représentant des détails morphologiques ainsi que les genitalia males

let femelles de quelques espèces, facilitent leur identification. Des clés bilingues sont fournies pour les sousfamilles,

tribus, genres, sous-genres et espèces malgaches. Des localités nouvelles apportent des précisions sur leur distribution.

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