Dicyphus deylamanus, LINNAVUORI & HOSSEINI, 1999

DICYPHUS DEYLAMANUS LINNAVUORI & HOSSEINI, 1999 View in CoL

( FIGS 30, 35)

Dicyphus deylamanus Linnavuori & Hosseini, 1999: 156 View in CoL (original description).

Material examined

Iran: Gilan , Deylaman, 36.88599ºN 49.9085ºE, 1431 m, 16 Aug 1998, Hosseini & Linnavuori, 1♀ paratype ( UNSW _ ENT00026529 View Materials ) (College of Agriculture, Rasht , Iran) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis

Dicyphus deylamanus View in CoL is recognized by the following combination of characters: macropterous males and females only known; large species, body length 5.0– 5.25 mm in males, 4.75–5.0 mm in females ( Linnavuori & Hosseini, 1999). Only one female examined. Extensively dark species ( Fig. 30), with most of head, including clypeus, mandibular and maxillary plates, genae and gula shiny black; frons+vertex with broad X-shaped black marking bounded by stramineous lateral regions; antennae mostly dark brown to black, with base and apices of AI and base of AII narrowly stramineous; pronotum nearly all black, aside from pale yellow midline on collar and callosite region; thoracic pleura mostly black, with ventral margin of propleura and evaporative bodies bounding metathoracic spiracle stramineous; mesoscutum and scutellum with midline broadly dark brown to black, with lateral angles of latter stramineous; hemelytra bicoloured, with clavus, endocorium and tip of cuneus dark brown, exocorium mostly stramineous three pairs of dark-brown spots, at corial fracture, middle of apical margin of endocorium and tip of cuneus; membrane veins embrowned; aside from two rows of black spots on femora, legs also with base of tibiae narrowly dark brown to black; female abdominal venter shiny dark brown to black. Left paramere moderately long with spatulate region not greatly expanded and tapered; endosoma with two large, asymmetrical and weakly arcuate lobal sclerites ( Linnavuori & Hosseini, 1999).