identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
112360685837FF86B053FF4DFE5AFD29.text	112360685837FF86B053FF4DFE5AFD29.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Myiomma cobbeni Akingbohungbe 2003	<div><p>Myiomma cobbeni sp. nov.</p> <p>Female. Length 1.92. Maximum width across hemelytra 0.88. Head width across vertex 0.16; dorsal length 0.20; facial width 0.41; facial length 0.48. Minimum frontal interocular space 0.02; anterior space 0.04; posterior space 0.31. Maximum width of eye 0.26; dorsal width 0.07; height 0.28. Height of gena 0.14. Ocellus width 0.02; interocellar space 0.03. Maximum width of pronotum 0.76; median length 0.24. Scutellum length 0.32; width 0.38. Cuneus length 0.31; width 0.22. Rostrum 1.08. Antennal segments I 0.08; II 0.45; III 0.18; IV 0.15.</p> <p>Head strongly deflexed; vertex broadly horizontal, together with eyes distinctly reflexed over anterior pronotal margin; from above about 0.83× as long as pronotum; in front subglobose (figure 2), broadest across postgenae, about 0.83× as broad as high. Disk strongly tumid convex, impunctate, granulate; pubescent with fine semi-erect and erect hairs with colour matching background. Vertex at base where ocelli are borne moderately swollen, deep red; finely longitudinally incised anteriorly. General coloration ivory-whitish with ornamentation as follows: somewhat irregular Y-shaped blotch at subexcavated base of gena plus discrete spot on postgena dark red to blackish; median longitudinal bar covering apex of frons and tylus, two adjacent spots along middle of frons immediately behind the bar, disk of lorum, all bright red; frons in addition with impressed dark brown spot on either side of median bar beneath jugum and inverted broken V-shaped dark brown marking towards base. Eyes red to dark red, somewhat pyriform, distinctly microhairy; broadly exposing occiput and postgena laterally, emarginate near ocelli. Ocelli dark red, translucent; about 1.5× width of each apart. Antennophore far removed from ventral margin of eye to apex of gena. Antennae mostly dark golden to reddish brown; base and apex of segment I, tip of II pale. I about half its length in thickness, glabrous; II clavate, slightly thicker subapically, there as thick as I; clothed with short semi-reclining golden hairs intermixed with dark red bristle-like ones much longer than segment is thick.</p> <p>Pronotum subcampanulate, about 3.17× as broad as long; lateral margins sharply carinate, posterior margin broadly bisinuate. Disk moderately convex, calli more prominently so; finely transversely wrinkled and punctate. Anterior marginal band, broad fascia behind calli subtended by two large virtually confluent rays, posterior humeral angles, all dark reddish brown; disk otherwise ivory-whitish. Mesoscutum impunctate, granulate; orange with dark red triangular marking dorsally on each lobe, dull whitish on lateral carinae. Scutellum impunctate, finely transversely wrinkled; mostly whitish, broad triangular marking at base reddish brown; two sub-median vittae plus tip dark brown to black.</p> <p>Hemelytra generally dull dark red, apical blotch on corium brighter; ornamented with ivory-white as follows: embolium, broad basal band on cuneus, median vitta on clavus, and one vitta running along radial vein plus another mesad of claval suture, both conjoined across apex of corium, forming rather striking elongate triangular marking on disk of corium. Embolium, cuneus, impunctate; corium, clavus finely punctate. Membrane dark reddish brown, glabrous, biareolate.</p> <p>Dorsum generally densely pubescent with semi-reclining golden to reddish brown hairs intermixed with dark red semi-erect bristle-like hairs arising from fine aciculate punctures.</p> <p>Venter largely dark reddish brown with propleura mostly ivory-whitish; axillary sclerite, anterior maculae on mesosterna and metapleura, ostiolar peritreme tubercle, lateral margin of second abdominal sternite, posterolateral maculae on other abdominal sternites, all ivory-whitish. Propleuron sparse with broad shallow punctures. Coxae, trochanters generally whitish hyaline suffused with golden yellow; fore-coxae distinctly darkened laterally on dorsal surface. Femora mostly deep to dark red, pale golden to whitish towards base and apex; fore and mid tibiae with alternating dark and light golden bands; hind tibiae, tarsi mostly dark golden. Femoral trichobothrial pattern: two apical plus one subapical metafemoral, and two median mesofemoral, all with sunken bothria and compact trichomae. Rostrum deep red on segment I, otherwise dark reddish brown; pubescent with fine erect short hairs, reaching as far back as seventh abdominal sternite. Dorsal habitus illustrated in figure 1.</p> <p>Male. Unknown.</p> <p>Comments</p> <p>This new species shows some affinity with Myiomma nigra Smith from which it can readily be separated by the narrower pronotum which is 2.43× as broad as long compared to 3.17× in the new species, and the distinctive colour pattern of its dorsum with the presence of ivory-whitish vittae absent in M. nigra. The new species also shows affinity with M. rubra Smith which, however, has its dorsum predominantly bright red and devoid of any whitish vittae. Besides, the latter is a relatively smaller species with antennal segments I and II whitish, and the frons broadly reddish posteriorly together with the tylus, juga, genae and lora. It is named in honour of its collector and distinguished Hemipterist, the late Dr Rene H. Cobben.</p> <p>H  : female, Ivory Coast: Adiopodoume, 25 April 1964, R. H. Cobben (AEA).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/112360685837FF86B053FF4DFE5AFD29	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Akingbohungbe, A. E.	Akingbohungbe, A. E. (2003): New species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Ivory Coast and Yemen. Journal of Natural History 37 (23): 2849-2862, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007525, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022293021000007525
112360685831FF84B05BFCF8FD2DFBCB.text	112360685831FF84B05BFCF8FD2DFBCB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Myiomma maculata Akingbohungbe 2003	<div><p>Myiomma maculata sp. nov.</p> <p>Male. Length 2.32. Maximum width across hemelytra 1.00. Head width across vertex 0.20; dorsal length 0.16; facial width 0.41; facial length 0.46. Minimum frontal inter-ocular space 0.02; anterior inter-ocular space 0.08, posterior space 0.32. Maximum width of eye 0.20; height 0.28. Height of gena 0.08; height of lorum 0.10. Ocellus width 0.03; interocellar space 0.05. Maximum width of pronotum 0.82; median length 0.32. Scutellum length 0.38; width 0.41 (0.40; 0.42); Cuneus length 0.42; width 0.28. Rostrum 0.98 (1.02; 0.94). Antennae I 0.07; II 0.68; III 0.13 (0.14; 0.12); IV 0.14.</p> <p>Head deflexed, vertex broadly horizontal, from above about half as long as pronotum; obovate in front (figure 4), about 0.89× as broad as high, disk strongly tumid convex; vertex at base swollen convex, weakly depressed anteriorly. Frons weakly marginate apically, distinctly higher than tylus. Gena moderately low, about 0.29× as high as eye; weakly subexcavated with antennophore at its apex distad of eye margin. Lorum depressed, elongate, about 1.25× as high as gena. Postgena tuberculate, broadly exposed laterally together with occiput. Entire head dark red with occiput pale yellow, impunctate. Frons, juga, tylus pubescent with dark red semi-reclining hairs intermixed with shorter fine erect ones arising from aciculate punctures. Eyes glabrous, apparently reddish (somewhat bleached in specimens); distinctly separated mesally on frons, about 0.02 apart; more widely so behind vertex, about 0.06 apart; distinctly emarginate near ocelli. Ocelli whitish translucent, about 2× width of each apart. Antenna with segment I glabrous, reddish to dark brownish dorsally, pale whitish ventrally, about 0.71× as thick as long. II cylindrical, narrowed towards middle, at base and apex about as thick as I; broadly recurved outwards, largely pale whitish with subapical dark red band; densely clothed with reddish brown erect bristle-like hairs twice as long as thickness of segment. III linear, IV fusiform; both reddish, clothed with short semi-reclining pubescence.</p> <p>Pronotum subcampanulate, about 2.56× as broad as long; lateral margins sharply carinate, posterior margin distinctly bisinuate. Disk dark red, finely transversely rugose punctate; pubescent with short dark reddish brown reclining hairs; calli weakly prominent. Mesoscutum, scutellum impunctate, dark red with basal threefifths of scutellum contrasting whitish; both dense with short reclining reddish brown hairs, some arising from fine aciculate punctures.</p> <p>Hemelytra generally translucent; basal two-thirds of embolium, large sub-median blotch on corium, median band on clavus, pale whitish; remainder of disk golden to reddish brown shading to distinct dark apical band on corium. Cuneus dark golden with basal third or so contrasting whitish. All impunctate, dense with short rather obscure reddish brown semi-reclining hairs arising from fine aciculate punctures; these intermixed with dark red deciduous bristles (those on whitish bands on scutellum and cuneus golden yellow). Membrane dark golden, glabrous, biareolate.</p> <p>Venter largely deep red; thorax, pygophore much darker shading to black. Propleura shallowly transversely rugose punctate. Coxae mostly reddish, whitish towards apex. Femora similarly coloured with basal annulus on mesofemur also pale whitish. Fore tibiae with three, and mid tibiae with two red to dark red alternating with pale whitish bands. Hind tibiae broadly reddish infuscate at base, pale whitish apically. Fore tarsi, tarsomere II of mid and hind tarsi dark reddish, remainder of tarsi pale whitish. Femoral trichobothrial pattern: two subapical metafemoral plus one sub-median mesofemoral, all with sunken bothria and compact trichomae. Rostrum largely reddish to dark reddish brown, extending as far back as third abdominal sternite.</p> <p>Dorsal habitus illustrated in figure 3; genitalia illustrated in figures 11–13.</p> <p>Female. Unknown.</p> <p>Comments</p> <p>This species is the first record of Myiomma from the Middle East. Its affinities are with M. bredoi Akingbohungbe from Lubumbashi, Republic of Congo. In my 1996 key to Myiomma spp., it will run to couplet 13 where it can readily be separated from M. albiscutellata Smith on the basis of the coloration of the dorsum which is largely dark brown to blackish in that species. From M. bredoi, the new species can readily be separated by its much larger size, its narrower pronotum which is 2.56× as broad as long compared to 2.86× in bredoi, its dark red ostiolar peritreme compared to whitish in the latter species, and the distinctive structure of the right paramere of its genitalia etc.</p> <p>H  : male, Yemen: Sana’a Sana’a, September 1993, M. Knapp (LC).</p> <p>P: male, same data (LC).</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/112360685831FF84B05BFCF8FD2DFBCB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Akingbohungbe, A. E.	Akingbohungbe, A. E. (2003): New species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Ivory Coast and Yemen. Journal of Natural History 37 (23): 2849-2862, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007525, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022293021000007525
112360685833FF8BB07BFBA7FD32FE2A.text	112360685833FF8BB07BFBA7FD32FE2A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Isometopus quadrivittatus Akingbohungbe 2003	<div><p>Isometopus quadrivittatus sp. nov.</p> <p>Female. Length 2.24 (2.04; 2.40). Maximum width across hemelytra 1.24 (1.12; 1.36). Head width across vertex 0.44; dorsal length 0.18 (0.16; 0.20); facial width 0.62 (0.60; 0.64); facial length 0.52 (0.51; 0.54). Anterior interocular space 0.14; posterior space 0.50 (0.48; 0.52). Dorsal width of eye 0.14; maximum width 0.25 (0.24; 0.26); height 0.30 (0.28; 0.32). Height of gena 0.14 (0.12; 0.16). Ocellus width 0.03; inter-ocellar space 0.07. Maximum width of pronotum 1.09 (1.00; 1.18); median length 0.30 (0.28; 0.32). Scutellum length 0.60 (0.58; 0.62); width 0.54 (0.50; 0.58). Cuneus length 0.41 (0.36; 0.46); width 0.36 (0.30; 0.38). Rostrum 1.32. Antennae I 0.10; II 0.52 (0.50; 0.54); III 0.37 (0.36; 0.38); IV 0.18.</p> <p>Ovate macropterous to elongate oval strongly macropterous. Head from above about 2.2–2.75× as broad as long, somewhat semi-lunar in outline; in front more or less quadrangular (figure 6), about 1.18× as broad as high. Occiput, postgena, lateral margin of gena ivory white; disk otherwise mostly reddish to dark reddish brown; vertex, subapical band on frons somewhat paler; genae and apical half of tylus dark red to black. Frons confluent with tylus; disk strongly tumid, rather shagreened, dense with shallow punctures; together with vertex obscurely pubescent with short semi-erect to erect pale yellow hairs; apex with two large adjacent quadrangular impressions producing weakly marginate effects at about level of ventral eye margin and immediately above juga. Genae subexcavated, about 0.43–0.50× as high as eyes. Eyes dark reddish, obscurely microhairy, emarginate behind ocelli. Latter colourless with some dark pattern inset, about 2.33× width of each apart. Antennal segment I glabrous, dark red, cylindrical with broad median indentation; about half as thick as long. II in strongly macropterous specimen dark reddish brown with apex and broad lateral stripes whitish; similarly coloured in macropterous specimen but with only apex and rather narrow obscure stripe on basal half whitish; clavate with whitish apex as thick as I and four-fifths its thickness at base; pubescent with semi-reclining finely punctigerous hairs shorter than segment thickness. III dark reddish brown but with apical third in strongly macropterous specimen pale yellow; subfusiform, pubescent with semi-reclining and semi-erect finely punctigerous hairs about as long as or slightly longer than segment thickness. IV pale yellow with slight reddish tinge, fusiform.</p> <p>Pronotum subcampanulate, about 3.57–3.69× as broad as long; disk dark red to black, strongly convex, more tumidly so anteriorly; lateral margins finely explanate and whitish hyaline, posterior bisinuate.</p> <p>Dorsum shining, generally rugose; dark reddish brown with four broad strongly contrasting ivory-white vittae as follows: one on each clavus, and one on disk of each corium between radial vein and claval suture. Scutellum similarly with broad lateral vittae conjoined apically, and broad triangular band covering most of disk of cuneus ivory-white. Embolium, cuneus impunctate; remainder of dorsum punctate, more coarsely and transversely rugose on pronotal disk; distinctly pubescent (specimens apparently rubbed) with short reclining golden yellow and reddish brown hairs arising from fine aciculate punctures. Membrane dark reddish brown, glabrous, biareolate.</p> <p>Venter generally dark reddish brown to black, metasternum and epimera pale yellow. Propleura rugose punctate. Fore coxae dark reddish brown with broad whitish vitta along ventral margin; mid and hind coxae mostly pale with somewhat irregular darkening. Femora in macropterous specimen pale yellow suffused with reddish shading to distinct darkening on fore and hind legs; generally dark reddish brown in strongly macropterous specimen. Fore and mid tibiae largely whitish with some reddish tinge shading to distinct dark apical band on mid tibiae of strongly macropterous specimen; hind tibiae largely dark reddish brown with base and apex whitish. Tarsi mostly pale yellow with reddish tinge shading to distinct darkening in strongly macropterous specimen. Rostrum dark reddish brown to black, bright red dorsally on segment I; sparsely obscurely pubescent, reaching as far back as eighth abdominal sternite.</p> <p>Dorsal habitus illustrated in figure 5.</p> <p>Male. Unknown.</p> <p>Comments</p> <p>This new species represents an extension of the known distribution of members of the subgenus Jehania Distant into the Middle East. Previously, only members of the nominotypic subgenus Isometopus Fieber had been recorded from the region and these included I. intrusus (Herrich-Schaeffer), I. taeniaticeps Puton, I. diversiceps Linnavuori, I. nigritulus Akingbohungbe, I. frontalis Akingbohungbe and I. peregrinus Akingbohungbe. The affinities of the new species are with I. puncticollis Akingbohungbe from Uganda, I. lineatifrons Akingbohungbe from Nigeria and I. peltatus McAtee and Malloch from Togo. It is, however, relatively smaller-sized than any of these species and can be readily separated from them using the key provided in Akingbohungbe (1996). In that key, the new species will come to couplet 44 as I. peltatus. It can, however, be readily separated from the latter by the presence of a single oblique ivory-white vitta on the disk of corium rather than two with one towards base near claval suture and the other towards apex near membrane. The gena in the new species is also not as high, being about half or less as high as the eye compared to 0.65× in peltatus. The head in the latter is also more strongly appressed, being about 3.2× as broad as long compared to distinctly less than 3× in the new species. Besides, the second antennal segment is at least half as long as the pronotum is broad in the new species whereas it is distinctly less than half as long in peltatus.</p> <p>The new species will most likely show considerable variation in nature judging from the amount of variation observed in the two specimens now available for study. One specimen has the wings extending to the end of the abdomen (macropterous) while the other has the wings extending much beyond the tip of the abdomen (strongly macropterous). Between these, there are variations in size and coloration which I have tried as much as possible to reflect in the description.</p> <p>H: female, Yemen: Mahwit Wadi Sara S of AL Mahwit, 17 March 1992, on Cissus quadrangularis climbing on Acacia in hilly habitat, R. Linnavuori (LC).</p> <p>P: female, same data (LC).</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/112360685833FF8BB07BFBA7FD32FE2A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Akingbohungbe, A. E.	Akingbohungbe, A. E. (2003): New species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Ivory Coast and Yemen. Journal of Natural History 37 (23): 2849-2862, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007525, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022293021000007525
11236068583CFF89B04BFDE4FDE2FD94.text	11236068583CFF89B04BFDE4FDE2FD94.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Isometopus yemenensis Akingbohungbe 2003	<div><p>Isometopus yemenensis sp. nov.</p> <p>Male. Length 2.40. Maximum width across hemelytra 1.12. Head width across vertex 0.54; dorsal length 0.14; facial width 0.62; facial length 0.44. Anterior interocular space 0.14; posterior space 0.46. Dorsal width of eye 0.20; maximum width 0.24; height 0.34. Height of gena 0.06. Ocellus width 0.04; interocellar space 0.04. Maximum width of pronotum 1.08; median length 0.24. Scutellum length 0.52; width 0.52. Cuneus length 0.40; width 0.28. Rostrum 1.16. Antennae missing.</p> <p>Subovate, strongly macropterous. Head in front somewhat ellipsoidal (figure 8), about 1.41× as broad as high. Vertex dark brown to blackish, finely rugose. Frons ivory whitish, rugose punctate; disk with three pairs of dark red spots arranged in two rows along midline plus another relatively larger one abutting on base of tylus; apical margin bluntly carinate, convex, strongly raised above base of tylus and juga. Lora and apex of tylus distinctly deflexed; both together with excavated spots on genae dark red. Gena low, about 0.18× as high as eye. Entire head disk generally obscurely pubescent. Eyes dark red, elliptical; ocelli dark red, large, each as broad as interocellar space.</p> <p>Pronotum subcampanulate, about 4.5× as broad as long. Lateral margins finely explanate, whitish hyaline; posterior margin broadly bisinuate. Disk tumid convex, inclined forwards, transversely rugose punctate and with somewhat shallow median longitudinal sulcus. Mesoscutum, scutellum finely rugose punctate; both similarly tumid as pronotum.</p> <p>Hemelytra translucent to hyaline, ental half or so of corium and clavus punctate; remainder impunctate, at best with fine aciculate punctures only. Membrane glabrous, biareolate.</p> <p>Dorsum generally strongly shining, pubescent with short reclining golden yellow and reddish brown hairs matching colour of background; these intermixed with short reclining dark red bristle-like hairs on hemelytra. Pronotal disk, mesoscutum, most of scutellum, basal angle and rather large apical blotch on corium, base and apex of clavus, ental marginal vitta on cuneus, all dark chocolate brown to dark red; remainder of dorsum strongly contrasting pale whitish hyaline, apex and short lateral median vittae on scutellum plus broad ectal vitta on clavus distinctly ivory-white.</p> <p>Venter largely black; propleura, large macula on mesepimeron, remnant of abdominal sternite I ivory whitish. Foreleg largely fuscous to blackish; broad stripe on coxa, trochanter, ventral surface of femur towards apical half, and base of tibia pale to whitish. Mid leg dark fuscous to dark red with base and apex of coxa, apex and broad marginal stripe on ventral surface of femur pale to whitish. Hind leg with femur much enlarged, broadly pale fuscous to smoky at base, dark red to black towards apex; tibia pale whitish with median reddish brown to dark fuscous band; tarsi mostly pale brownish. Rostrum generally dark red, segment I much paler ventrally; sparsely obscurely hairy, extending as far back as fifth abdominal sternite.</p> <p>Dorsal habitus illustrated in figure 7; genitalia illustrated in figures 14–16.</p> <p>Female. Unknown.</p> <p>Comments</p> <p>This new species also represents a new record of the subgenus Jehania Distant in the Middle East. Within the subgenus, its affinities are with Isometopus wacriensis Smith and I. albifrons (Slater and Schuh). Its head is about 1.41× as broad as high compared to 1.15× in I. wacriensis; its pronotum is similarly about 4.5× as broad as long unlike 2.95–3.39× in the latter species, and the frons is ivory-white with paired rows of dark red spots rather than being uniformly yellow-brown or dark brown with reddish tinge. From I. albifrons, the new species can readily be separated by its pronotum being narrower, about 3.28× as broad as long; also, the frons in albifrons lacks the paired rows of dark red spots along its middle, the cuneus is 1.05× as long as broad compared to 1.43× in the new species, and it is much larger in size being 2.60 in length.</p> <p>H  : male, Yemen: Lahij Anad, 10 April 1992, on Saliola spinescens, R. Linnavuori (LC).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/11236068583CFF89B04BFDE4FDE2FD94	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Akingbohungbe, A. E.	Akingbohungbe, A. E. (2003): New species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Ivory Coast and Yemen. Journal of Natural History 37 (23): 2849-2862, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007525, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022293021000007525
11236068583EFF8CB058FD57FB71FD77.text	11236068583EFF8CB058FD57FB71FD77.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Paloniella nodifrons Akingbohungbe 2003	<div><p>Paloniella nodifrons sp. nov.</p> <p>Male. Length 1.78. Maximum width across hemelytra 1.20. Head width across vertex 0.54; dorsal length 0.04; facial width 0.65; facial length 0.34. Anterior interocular space 0.30; posterior space 0.40. Dorsal width of eye 0.10; maximum width 0.21; height 0.28. Height of gena 0.02. Ocellus width 0.04; interocellar space 0.26. Maximum width of pronotum 1.02; median length 0.38. Scutellum length 0.62; width 0.53. Cuneus length 0.36; width 0.30. Rostrum 0.80. Antennae I 0.10; II 0.45; III 0.14; IV 0.12.</p> <p>Ovate, strongly macropterous. Head strongly appressed, from above about 13.5× as broad as long; in front strongly transverse and ellipsoidal (figure 10), about 1.91× as broad as high. Vertex sharply carinate behind ocelli. Eyes apparently deep red (extensively bleached in specimen), moderately appressed and oval, glabrous. Ocelli moderately protuberant, colourless with surrounding annuli red; widely separated, about 6.5× width of each apart. Vertex, frons dark chocolate to reddish brown, finely rugose and distinctly punctate; dense with whitish erect somewhat sericeous hairs intermixed with fine reddish brown ones arising from aciculate punctures. Frons moderately tumid, apex with two pairs of nodular dark red to black spots; anterior margin convexly carinate, finely upturned. Antennae with segment I dark red, glabrous, cylindrical with broad indentation mesally; about 0.40× as thick as long. II at base about 1.25× as thick as I, more so (1.50×) subapically; densely microsculptured, yellow-brown with broad lateral reddish stripes; pubescent with erect hairs shorter than or subequal to segment thickness. III and IV fusiform, reddish brown to dark reddish.</p> <p>Pronotum subcampanulate, about 2.68× as broad as long; disk tumidly raised, strongly inclined forwards; prominently explanate laterally, distinctly bisinuate posteriorly. Pubescent with some whitish somewhat sericeous hairs and abundant decumbent reddish brown hairs intermixed with fine erect ones arising from aciculate punctures. Mesoscutum, scutellum similarly tumidly raised.</p> <p>Dorsum generally dark chocolate to reddish brown, finely rugose, distinctly punctate; embolium, ectal area of cuneus golden yellow and impunctate. Mesoscutum, scutellum largely rubbed. Hemelytra dense with semi-reclining and semi-erect golden to reddish brown hairs intermixed with finer erect ones arising from aciculate punctures; embolium in addition with some dark red bristles; membrane golden, biareolate, glabrous.</p> <p>Venter generally dark red, propleura pale to yellow brown. Pleura distinctly punctate. Legs largely reddish brown, tibiae somewhat paler or golden with weakly contrasting reddish stripes. Rostrum with segment I, base of III, apex of IV red to dark red; otherwise pale to golden yellow; extending slightly beyond hind coxae.</p> <p>Dorsal habitus illustrated in figure 9; genitalia illustrated in figures 17–19.</p> <p>Female. Unknown.</p> <p>Comments</p> <p>The affinities of this new species are with Paloniella latifrons Akingbohungbe from Nigeria and P. mutabilis Akingbohungbe from Tanzania. It is, however, relatively smaller than either of these two species. Besides, it can be readily separated from them based on the pubescence on the second segment of the antenna which are ordinary hairs that are either shorter than or subequal to the thickness of the segment; these contrast with the bristle-like hairs that are at least twice as long as segment thickness in these other species. The frons in the new species also bears two pairs of somewhat nodular spots arranged along the middle towards the apex, but these spots are absent in P. latifrons and P. mutabilis. The head in addition is less strongly transverse, being less than twice as broad as high in contrast to these two species. Rather unfortunately, the specimen suffered some defects and some of the legs went missing in the process of dissecting for the genitalia. However, the observations recorded on them had already been made.</p> <p>H  : male, Ivory Coast: Kiriao, 17 October 1973, Linnavuori (LC).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/11236068583EFF8CB058FD57FB71FD77	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Akingbohungbe, A. E.	Akingbohungbe, A. E. (2003): New species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Ivory Coast and Yemen. Journal of Natural History 37 (23): 2849-2862, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007525, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022293021000007525
