Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 71. (Budapest 1979)

Vásárhelyi, T.: Three new Carventine species from New Guinea (Heteroptera, Aradidae)

Drakeida setifera sp. n. (Figs. 4-5) 9, macropterous, partly covered with incrustation, under incrustation with long erect bristles on different parts of body. Head shorter than wide (17 : 21). Anterior process of head very short, reaching to 1:5 of antennái segment I. Antenniferous tubercles short, eyes semiglobose, postocular tubercles well surpassing eyes. Antennae relatively short, longest joint III cylindrical, joint I thickened. Rostral atrium open, rostrum reaching about hind margin of eyes. Head almost fully covered with thick incrustation and with large carinae of incrustated bristles along inner border of eyes and on vertex. Uncovered are two curved lines on vertex. -— Pronotum elevated, about twice as long as wide (27 : 50), strongly widening posteriorly. Bristles and incrustation forming large tubercles and carinae, respectively. Collar region with a thick anterior ring and a row of bristles lacking only dorsomedially. Fore lobe with large lateral and lower mediolateral tubercles without sharp border between them. Hind lobe variously elevated with transverse ridge and with high elongated tubercle near to lateral margin. Hind border straight with rounded protruding posterolateral angles. — Scutellum wide (14 : 24) triangular, tip rounded, with 3 tubercles. Under incrustation with high ridge reaching from lateral edges posteromedially, broken medially by deep longitudinal furrow. Bristles of posteromedian tubercle originating on small longitudinal tubercle. — Abdomen with two rows of tubercles of incrustated bristles of about the same height, inner row much thicker. Connexival plates without protruding posterolateral edges, paratergite VIII basally cylindrical, tip conical, covered with incrustation. Segment IX pointed, with 2 posterior tubercles of incrustated bristles. Spiracle II on tip of long conical tubercle with long curved bristles and incrustation, III sublateral, IV-VI ventral, very close to margin, VII sublateral, VIII apical, VI-VII on small tubercles. Measurements (9)- total length 3.55 mm, length of head 0.46 mm, width of head across eyes 0.57 mm, length of pronotum 0.59 mm, width of pronotum 1.35 mm, length of scutellum 0.38 mm, width of scutellum 0.65 mm, maximum width of abdomen across segment V 1.5 mm, relative • ength of antenna joints I to IV as: 20 : 17 : 27 : 26. Holotype: 9, "New-Guinea (NE), Lae, 6. IX. 1968."; "NG-L-B 73. leg. DR. J. BALOGH", deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. — The specimen was collected by Berlese-funnel from moss and root system of fern. This new species differs from the single species described in this genus (D. incrustata KORMILEV, 1958; Philippines Republic) in the following: somewhat longer, antenna! joint II much longer (relative leng'h of antennái joints I to IV on incrustata as 13 : 8 : 15 : 14), head longer (22: 32 on incrustata), different pattern of incrustated bristles on pronotum and scutellum. The two species are, however, very close to each other. References KORMILEV, N. A. (1957): Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, XI (Hemiptera), On some apterous Mezirinae from New Guinea — Phil. J. Sei., 85 (3): 405-412. KORMILEV, N. A. (1958): Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, XV. (Hemiptera) — Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 66: 87-97. KORMILEV, N. A. (1965): Notes on Australian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with descriptions of new genera and species — Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 77 (3): 11-35. KORMILEV, N. A. (1968): Aradidae in the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, III (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) — Pacif. Ins., 10 (3-4): 575-597. USINGER, R. L. & MATSUDA, R. (1959): Classification of the Aradidae — London, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), p. I-VII. + 1-410. Author's address: DR. TAMÁS VÁSÁRHELYI Zoological Department Hungarian Natural History Museum H-l

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