Macroscytus annulipoides J.A. LIS

Macroscytus annulipoides J.A. LIS

(Figs 29­35)

Macroscytus annulipoides J.A. LIS, 1999a: 460 .

DESCRIPTION

Body 7.17­8.76 mm in length, 3.96­4.75 mm in width, from pale castaneous to dark castaneous, sometimes almost black; entire umbones and posterior margin of pronotum more or less broadly yellowish brown or whitish yellow, making pronotal disc sharply bicoloured; hemelytra paler than pronotum and scutellum, basal third of mesocorium and entire exocorium yellowish brown, yellow or whitish yellow.

Head with dorsal surface at first sight looking impunctate, bearing only small and hardly visible punctures; clypeus subapically without a pair of setigerous punctures, each paraclypeus submarginally with a single preocular setigerous puncture (Fig. 31); ocular index 2.10­2.50; interocellar index 5.2­7.7; length of antennal segments (in mm): 0.29­0.33: 0.33­0.42: 0.57­0.69: 0.63­0.78: 0.78­0.88.

Puncturation of pronotal disc more or less distinct; transverse discal impression behind calli absent; lateral margins of pronotum with 4­5 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing long hair­like setae (Fig. 29). Anterior convexity of propleuron punctate anteriorly; posterior convexity with a few irregularly scattered large punctures; propleural depression with a row of large, coarse punctures.

Puncturation of scutellar disc more or less dense, well visible in the median part.

Mesocorium almost evenly punctate; exocorium sparsely punctate, punctures brown or dark brown in basal half, almost colourless or colourless in the posterior; costa very narrow, almost entirely separated from exocorium, without or with a single setigerous puncture (Fig. 29).

Femora yellowish brown, yellow or whitish yellow, sometimes basally brown; tibiae yellowish brown, yellow or whitish yellow, getting darker towards tarsi; dorsal margin of hind male femur with a row of very small teeth (Fig. 30); male hind tibia with a few very small, almost indistinct dark denticles on its inner margin (Fig. 30); female hind femur and tibia without denticles.

Abdominal sterna almost impunctate, usually with fine and almost indistinct scattered punctures close to lateral margins, around trichobothria and posterior to spiracles.

Male genitalia as in Figs 32­35.

TYPE DATA

Holotype male: Australia, North Queensland, Tully Falls ( QMB) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED

Holotype, 20 paratypes, and 10 other specimens: Australia: Queensland, Flying Fish Pt. , 1 paratype ( QMB) ; Queensland, Tully Falls, 4 paratypes ( QMB, UO) ; Queensland, Bellenden Ker Base Stn. , 5 paratypes ( QMB, UO) ; Queensland, Bellenden Ker Range , 7 paratypes ( QMB, UO) ; Queensland, Stone Ck. , 2 paratypes ( QMB, UO) ; Queensland, Kirrama Range , 1 paratype ( QMB) ; Queensland, Mt. Webb Nat. Park, 50km N. Cooktown , 10 exx. ( QMB, UO) .

DISTRIBUTION

Australia.