The Cylapinae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera: Miridae) of India: review of the subfamily with description of new species

Abstract

The subfamily Cylapinae (Insecta, Heteroptera: Miridae) from India is reviewed. Three tribes, seven genera and nineteen species are cited from the country, keyed and described. Six species are described as new: Fulvius kadapaensis sp. nov., Peritropis kodava sp. nov., Peritropis pathaki sp. nov., Peritropis sangai sp. nov., Peritropis yasunagai sp. nov. and Rhinomiris prathapani sp. nov. A new synonymy is published: Peritropis lewisi (Distant, 1904) (valid name) = Peritropis indicus Gorczyca, 2006b (new junior subjective synonym).

Sulawesifulvius thailandicus – a new species of the genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Chérot & Štys from Thailand (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae)

“…5; Cassis et al 2003: Figs 1H, 2E; Cassis and Monteith 2006: fig. 3A; Wolski 2010: Figs 6A, 15A; Wolski and Gorczyca 2012: Figs 79, 83; Yeshwanth et al 2016: Figs 2, 76).…”

“…Similar shape of the genital capsule was noted for the fulviine genera Peritropis (Moulds and Cassis 2006: fig. 1H; Yeshwanth et al 2016: Figs 34, 39, 45, 52, 57, 62), Mimofulviella Wolski (Wolski 2008), Euchilofulvius Poppius (Yeshwanth et al 2016: fig. 10) and Fulvius Stål (Yeshwanth et al 2016: Figs 16, 21, 34, 39) and is very common among other fulviine genera (Wolski, pers.…”

“…Sulawesifulvius was diagnosed by Gorczyca et al (2004), Mu and Liu (2014), and Yeshwanth et al (2016). The most distinctive characters of Sulawesifulvius , not shared by any other known fulviines, include the antennal segment III longest (Figs 1–3), the cuneus long, curved, nearly enveloping membrane (Figs 1–3, 5, 18, 22, 25), and the enlarged metafemur with subapical depressions laterally (Gorczyca et al 2004: fig.…”