CONCERNING CUBAN MIRIDAE(INSECTA: HEMIPTERA)

J. MALDONADO CAPRILES

Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, PR, 00732,and Department of Crop Protection, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, 00708

A BSTRACT

Sixty three species of mirids, including nine new records, two new genera, and five new speciesare reported from Cuba. Specimens from the Moravske Museum, Czechoslovaquia, identified bythe author; Pastor Alayo's 1974 publication of Cuban mirids, and search through Carvalho's Cata-logue of the Miridae were the principal sources of these records. Aguayomiris and Derophthal-moides new genera, and Aguayomiris pal/ipes, Ceratocapsus parallelus, C. ave/inae, Adfakconia bi-color, and Derophthalmoides multimaculatus new species are described. Partial keys to separatethe new from allied genera are given.

R ESUMEN

Sesenta y tres especies de rnfridos, incluyendo nueve registros nuevos, dos g6ners nuevos ycinco especies nuevas, se informan de Cuba. Ejemplares del Moravske Museum, en Checoslova-quia, e identificados por el autor; Ia publicacin de 1974 de Pastor Alayo sobre los Mlridos de Cubay bi.squeda en el Catilogo de los Miridae del Mundo de Carvaiho fueron las fuentes de las citas tra-tadas. Los g6noros Aguayomiris y Derophthalmoides y las especies Aguayomiris pallipes, Cerat-capsus parallelus, C. ave/nae, Adfa/conia bicolor y Derophthaelmoides multimaculatus se doscribencomo taxones nuovos. Se incluyen clavos parciales para aclarar la posicidn sistemhtica do los gdne-ros nuevos.

INTRODUCTION

aterial for study loaned to me by Dr. J.L. Sehlik is identified throughout the

text by MM, as it is deposited at the MoravskeMuseum at Brno, Czechoslovaquia. OnlyProvince is given for localities of known taxaand complete locality data are given for newtaxa. Pastor Alayo, from the Academy ofSciences at La Habana, Cuba, published alist of Cuban mirids in 1974. His records arementioned and some of his information is up-dated. Records in Carvalho's (1 957-1959)catalogue are also cited. Taxa are listedalphabetically by subfamily, tribe, genus,and species. Holotypes, allotypes, andparatypes are deposited in the Moravske Mu-

seum. Other paratypes are deposited in theNational Museum of Natural History(NMNH), Washington, D. C., and in mycollection (JMC). Measurements are in milli-meters.

DISCUSSION

BRYOCORINAE

Bryocorini

Aguayomiris Maldonado, new genus

Type species: Aguayomiris pallipes, newspecies.Head roundly produced between anten-

nae; finely sulcate and punctate; eyes sessile,

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hemispherical. Pronotum and scutellumpunctate, the first coarsely so. First antennalsegment shorter than width of vertex; allsegments sparsely set with short, relativelyslender setae. Collar longer mesally thanlenght of an eye, posterior lobe of pronotuminflated basally; calli well developed, short,smooth; lateral margins rounded. Hemelytrasmooth, sparsely clothed with silvery, de-cumbent setae; embolium narrow and notincrassate; cuneus slightly wider than long,cuneal fracture shallow. Black species withyellow-white legs. Small, under 3.0. Male:left clasper curved, elongate, with a basalappendage; right clasper short, wide,caudally, strongly sclerotized.

I dedicate this genus to the late Cuban-Puerto Rican eminent biologist Dr. Carlos G.Aguayo. In Carvalho's (1955a) key to thegenera of the World, Aguayomiris runs to Si-xeonotus, as both have a narrow embolium.Sixeonotus, however, has a short collar, thesetae are comparatively long, semierect, andabundant, and the embolium is incrassate.Externally Aguayomiris is quite similar to Si-xeonotus. However, their genitalia are to-tally different. The new genus also has thegeneral aspect, that is, mostly black bodywith whitish legs and densely pitted protho-rax, of other Bryocorini. I call this the Pycno-deres group of genera because it is the mostcommon and oldest species group name.The genera in this group are Cyrtocapsus, Si-xeonotus, Parapycnoderes, Pycnoderes,Schaffnerisca, and Sixeonotopsis. This gen-era can be separated by means of the follow-ing key, a modification of my key (1 973) toseparate Parapycnoderes.

Key to the Pycnoderes group ofBryocorini genera

1. Rostrum reaching apex of fore coxae;antennal segments I and 11 incrassate;Sixeonotopsis Carvalho & Schaffner,.................... 1974a

Rostrum reaching middle of mesoter-num or beyond; antennal segments Iand 11 linear ................ 2

2. Hemelytra and embolium broad, thelatter 2 or 2.2 times as broad as thick-ness or antennal segment]l ...... 3Hemelytra and embolium narrow, thelatter at most slightly thicker than an-tennal segment I ....... ...... 4

3. Collar longer than calli or eye; broadoval.

Parapycnoderes Maldonado, 1973Collar shorter than calli or eye; oval orlong oval...................Pycnoderes Gubrin-MWn~ville, 1857

4. Collar longer than calli or eye ...............Aguayomiris new genus

Collar shorter than calli or eye .. .. 55. Clavus and corium inflated .......

.... Schaffnerisca Carvalho, 1974Clavus and corium not inflated . . . 6

6. Hemelytra and pronotum coveredwith silky pubescence; eyes extend-ing back to side margins of pronotum........Cyrtocapsus Reuter, 1 875Hemelytra and pronotum with fine,simple pubescence; eyes small andprojected lateral ......................Sixeonotus Reuter, 1 875

Aguayomiris pallipes Maldonado, n. sp.Figures 1-5

Male - above and below black; membrane,including cells, dark gray, veins blackish,legs pale yellowish. Antenna: segments Iand 11 pale yellowish, segments Ill and IV gray-ish. Rostrum pale yellowish, apex darkbrown. Habitus as in figure 5.Head - length 0.25, width across eyes

0.65, vertex 0.4. Antenna: 1, 0.25; 11, 0.5;III, 0.45: IV, 0.25. Rostrum reaching middleof mesosternum. Pronotum: width at hume-ral angles 1 .01, length 0.74, puncturescoarser on disc of pronotuum than on head,collar or scutellum; collar: mesal length 0.2,lateral length 0.1 2. Scutellum: width 0.44,length 0.25, finely punctate. Setae on pro-notum and hemelytra fine, short, and moder-ately abundant. Greatest width across he-melytra 1 .20; cuneus width 0.4, length 0.3.Length to apex of hemelytra 2.6-2.7. Geni-talia as in figures 1-4; right clasper angular,apex strongly sclerotized.Female - color mostly as in male; antennal

segment 11 with apical half grayish. Head:length 0.2, width across eyes 0.4, vertex0.35. Antenna: 1, 0.2; 11, 0.45; III, 0.6; IV,0.25; with sparsely set short, fine setae.Pronotum: width 1.01, length 0.7, mesallength of collar 0.2; shape and pubescenceas in male. Scutellum: width 0.4, length 0.3,finely punctate. Width across hemelytra1.05; cuneus: basal width 0.4, length 0.3.Length to apex of hemelytra 2.4.Holotype - male, CUBA, Habana-Alamar,

18-26.vi.1965, leg. Jar Prokop, in MM.

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Allotype - female, CUBA, Habana-Alamar-Cojimar, 2-10 m., 15-29.ix, 1966, leg. JarProkop, in MM. Paratypes - 1 91, both sexes,all but two from Habana Province, one fromMatanzas and the other from Pinar del Rio;20 in JMC, 5 in NMNH, others in MM. Be-cause of the coloration and general ap-pearance this new species could have beenconfused with Sixeonotus insignis by Alayo(1974). The shape of both claspers defi-nitely sets apart this genus from Sixeonotus.

Euricipitia clarus (Distant)

Reported as E. splendens by Alayo(1974). Also found in Hispaniola (JMC andJ. C. Schaffner's collections), Panam6, andVenezuela.

Cyrtocapsus caligineus (Stal)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). Acommon species in the circumcaribbean areaas witnessed by specimens in my collection.

Cyrtocapsus femoralis Reuter

Previously known only from northernSouth America (Carvalho, 19:54). In MMfrom Habana and Pinar del Rio. New record.

Hemisphaerodella mirabilis Reuter

Recorded and illustrated by Alayo (1974).A small, black, brachypterous neotenic spe-cies relatively common in the GreaterAntilles and also reported from southernUnited States, Central America, and SouthAmerica. Can be collected on Ipomea spp.

Heterocoris dillatatus Gubrin-MWnbville

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). Aremarkably shaped metallic-blue species en-demic to Cuba. In MM and JMC from La Ha-bana.

H eterocoris cyaneus Knight

Listed by Carvalho (19 57).

Monalocoris filicis (Linnaeus)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974).Undoubtedly a misidentification. It repre-

sents the North American Monalocoris amer-icanus Wagner and Slater (1 952). The ge-nus is primarily Holarctic, with a few repre-sentatives in the Neotropics.

Pycnoderes angustatus Reuter

Listed and keyed by Alayo (1 974). Thenarrow elongate body will allow recognitionof this species. Known from Florida, Jamaica(Carvalho, 1957); specimens from Hispa-niola in JMC.

Pycnoderes quadrimaculatusGu~rin-Mdnbville

Listed by Alayo (1974) and listed by Car-valho (1 957). A very common species in theNew World. Sometimes very abundant or cu-curbits (Maldonado, 1969). In MM from Pi-nar del Rio, Matanzas, and Habana.

Pycnoderes vanduzeei Reuter

Listed, keyed, and illustrated by Alayo(1 974). In MM from Matanzas, Pinar del Rio,and Habana. This is one of the smaller spe-cies in the genus, frequently found on weedssuch as Commeiina (Maldonado, 1969).

Sixeonotus insignis Reuter

Listed by Alayo (1974). Very likely a mis-identification. Recorded by Alayo from asingle specimen identified by Uhler and inthe Gundlach collection. Alayo states thatthe specimen is badly damaged by psocids.See discution under Aguayo miris pailipes n.sp.

CYLAPINAE

Fulvini

The three species mentioned below shouldbe considered as tentative identifications un-til specimens referred to are carefully stud-ied.

Fulvius anthocorides Stal

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974).

Fulvius bisbistillatus (Stal)

Alayo recorded this species in a typed, un-published list that he sent me several years

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ago. This species, illustrated by me (1 969),is a different from Alayo's illustration (1 974)of F. anthocorides. New record.

Fulvius brevicornis Reuter

Listed from Cuba by Carvalho (1957).This species does not have the cuneus bicol-ored as in Alayo's drawing of F. anthocori-des. It represents a third record of the tribefor Cuba.

DERAEOCORINAE

ORTHOTYLINAE

Halticini

Halticus bractstus (Say)

Alayo (1974) listed and illustrated thiswidely distributed New World species.Henry (1 983) published a key to the 4 spe-cies of our region.

Orthotylini

Adfalconia bicolor, Maldonado, n. sp.Figure 6

Deraeocorini

Diplozoma collaris Van Duzee

Listed by Alayo (1974). Also known fromFlorida and Puerto Rico (Maldonado, 1969).In MM from Habana.

Hyaliodini

Hyaliodes vittaticornis Bruner

Originally described from Cuba. Listed andillustrated by Alayo (1974). Specimens inMM from Habana and Pinar del Rfo.

Paracarnus cubanus Bruner

Listed, keyed, and illustrated by Alayo(1 974). In my 1 969 paper I give a key to thespecies in the genus and quote China's sug-gestion that P. cubanus is a synonym of P.mexicanus Bruner, 1934. Henry and Wheeler(1982) also maintained the name P. cuba-nus, indicating that until Distant's type couldbe re-examined, it was best to recognize Bru-neris species.

Paracarnus myersi China

Listed and keyed by Alayo (1974). Knownonly from Cuba (China, 1931).

Paracarnus puncticoliis (Motschulsky)

Alayo (1974) listed and keyed P. maestra-lis Bruner, 1934, a junior synonym of P.puncticollis (Carvalho, 19 55b).

Female - overall color brownish with black-ish areas and pale orange head. Legs and an-tennae (last two segments missing in all spe-cimens) straw color; last tarsal segmentblackish. Pronotum: anterior lobe blackish,posterior brown, in two paratypes the blackextends almost to base of pronotum. Venterof head, pleurae, and abdominal sternablack. Scutellum black. Hemelytra: clavussame shade of brown as posterior lobe ofpronotum; corium on outer apical half withsmall variable blackish area contiguous toembolium and extending to inner 2/3 of co-rium; embolium brownish as clavus; cuneusstraw color; membrane translucent, palestramineous, slightly lighter than legs, veinsof cell light brown.Head and anterior lobe of pronotum smooth;

posterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, andhemelytra, except embolium and cuneus, fine-ly punctured. Head finely carinate basally;length 0.1 5, width across eyes 0.6, inter-ocular space 0.4. Antennat. 1, 0.1 5; 11, 0.45;first segment slightly thicker than second;second slightly thickened toward apex, pilos-ity fine and very scarce; rostrum reachingmiddle coxae. Pronnotum: length 0.55, basalwidth 0.85; calli obsolete; lateral marginstraight, posterior margin very slightly con-cave above scutellum; scutellum width0.37, length 0.3. Hemelytra: embolium defi-ned basally only, deflexed along radial vein;cuneus very small, cuneal fracture deep; great-est width across hemelytra 1.0. Total length2.0.Holotype - female, CUBA, Oriente, La Gran

Piedra, 1 ,200 m., 27.xii. 1 965, leg. Jar Pro-kop, in MM. Paratypes - 6 females: 1 inNMNH, 2 in JMC, 3 in MM. The specimen fitquite well Carvalho and Rosas' (1 962) generic

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description in having the embolium well defi-ned basally but fading near the middle of thecorium, and an unusually short cuneus. Ad-falconia cunealis, the other species in the ge-nus, is uniformly black above and the basalhalf of the membrane fumate, whereas thenew species is bicolored and its membrane isuniformly clear.

Ceratocapsus avelinae, Maldonado, n. sp.Figures 20-24

Male - Overall coloration fuscous. Hemely-tra fuscous, cuneus darker, embolium whit-ish. Head slightly paler than pronotum andslightly darker than antenna. Legs yellowishbrown; coxae and trochanters paler. Osteo-lar peritreme whitish. Abdomen same shadeof fuscous as hemelytra. First two antennalsegments yellowish brown; apex of secondplus all third and fourth segments darker.Setae sparse and inconspicuous. Habitus asin figure 24.

Elongate oval. Head across eyes 0.62, in-terocular space smooth, basal margin finelycarinate, 0.2; length 0.3. Antenna: 1, 0.25;11, 0.8; III, 0.5; IV missing; setae short andinconspicuous; first segment thickest, seg-ments 11 and Ill of equal thickness. Pronotumpunctate, calli obsolete, width at humeralangles 0.82. Scutellum width 0.4, length0.3, finely punctate. Hemelytra, except em-bolium and cuneus punctate; cuneus as wideas long, 0.35. Genitalia (Figs. 20-23) withthe complex form typical of genus. Length2.4.Female - coloration as in male; last anten-

nal segment darkest. Head: width acrosseyes 0.62, interocular space 0.25, smooth,base finely carinate; length 0.2. Pronotum:length 0.4, width at humeral angles 0.82,punctate and shaped as in male. Scutellum:width 0.5, length 0.35, finely punctate;cuneus as wide as long, 0.35. Length 2.7.

Holotype - male, CUBA, Prov. Matanzas,Varadero, 1.5 in., 4.xi.1966, leg. F. Gregor,in MM. Allotype - female, same data, in MM.Paratypes: 2 males, CUBA, Pinar del Rio, So-roa, 100 m., leg. Jar Prokop; 2 females, Ha-bana, one from Suraco, the other fromAlomar-Cojimar; 1 male and 1 female each inNMNH and JMC.Runs to second part of couplet 17 of Car-

valho, Fontes, and Henry's (1983) key be-cause of its mostly uniformly brownishcolor, oval body, lack of punctures on the head

and its almost glabrous body. Ceratocapsusgraziae and C. surinamensis, the species inthis couplet, have quite different genitalia. Ihave not seen specimens of C. cubanus.Reuter's short description mentions an ovalbody, whitish membrane, and antennal seg-ments pinkish apically. These last two char-acters are different in C. avelinae. The spe-cies is named after the late Mrs. Avelina Ta-lavera de Aguayo.

Ceratocapsus cubanus Bergroth

Alayo (1974) listed and illustrated C.punctulatus (Reuter, 1875), not C. cubanusBergroth, 1910, a new name for punctula-tus. Listed in Carvalho (1 958a). See discus-sion under C. ave/inae n. sp.

Ceratocapsus parallelus Maldonado, n. sp.Figures 14-18

Male - overall color pale-reddish brown.Gradually fading from slightly deeper andwith very pale-reddish tinge on head to pale-yellowish at apex of corium. First and sec-ond antennal segments yellowish-brown,third with basal half yellowish brown fadingto yellow toward apex. Base of rostrum, headbelow, meso- and metapelura, and abdomendeeper red than head above. Coxae, trochan-ters, and basal half of femora yellow, apicalhalf of femora yellowish with a reddish tinge,tinge slightly deeper than above; tibiae andtarsi yellowish, apical segment of tarsi darkgray. Fore wings with small areas on outerapical half of' corium and apex of emboliumyellowish, perhaps because of translucencyand absence of pits; cuneus reddish,membrane with areolar area and triangularare posterior to cells yellow, remaining partsof membrane grayish (Fig. 14).Body parallel sided. Head: sightly pro-

duced in front, vertex smooth; length 0.31,width across eyes 0.5, vertex 0.2 wide. An-tenna: 1, 0.2; 11, 0.85; III, 0.6; IV, -; seg-ments with very short fine setae, first verynarrow basally, gradually thickened to apex,apically thicker than other segments; lastthree segments of approximately samethickness. Rostrum reaching betweenmiddle coxae. Pronotum: collar as long asapical thickness of second antennal seg-ment; calli obsolete, with a few fine punctu-res length 0.4, width at humeral angles0.79. Scutellum: width 0.4, length 0.25,

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pits finer than on pronotum. Width acrosshemelytra 0.85; cuneus length 0.35, basalwidth 0.24, smooth. Veins of cells ofmembrane poorly defined.Genital segments as in figures 15-19. Length.Female - coloration and shape as in male;

ventral parts slightly less reddish, scutellumdeeper brown, fourth antennal segmentgray. Head: length 0.34, width across eyes0.6, vertex 0.25. Rostrum reaching middlecoxae. Pronotum: length 0.55, width 0.9.Scutellum length 0.2, width 0.4. Widthacross hemelytra 0.85. Length .5.1.

Holotype - male, CUBA, Habana-Alamar-Cojimar; 2-10 m., 25-31.vii.1966; leg. JarProkop, in MM. Allotype - female, CUBA, Pi-nar del Rio, Pinales, 26.vii. 1 966, leg. F. Gre-gor, in MM. Paratypes - 15 of both sexes; 2in NMNH, 10 in MM, and 3 in JMC, same dataas holotype. The parallel sides separates thisspecies from its congeners; fits in the firstpart of couplet 4 in the following key.

I take the opportunity to present a partialkey to some genera described after Car-valho's key to the genera of the world. Asthe name' of two imply they are somehow re-lated to Ceratocapsus and should fall nearthis genus in Carvalho's key. I have dividedCeratocapsus in two groups according to thecharacteristics mentioned in the key withoutassigning them any rank because this pointneeds further clarification.

Key to the Ceratocapsusand some allied genera

1. Black; fore wings hyaline ........ . Queretarius Carvalho & Schaffner,.................... 1974b

Brown or stramineous; fore wingsopaque ................... 2

2. Third and fourth antennal segmentsthinner than second; two types of pu-bescence; pronotum smooth; cuneususually longer than wide.........Ceratocapsella Carvalho & Shaffner,.................... 1974c

Second, third, and fourth antennalsegments of equal thickness . . . 3

3. Antenna thick, first segment abouttwice as thick as collar and denselypubescent; pronotum shagreen; he-melytra black with flattened scalelikesetae and two other types of setae . .

....... Ceratocapsisca Carvalho &Wallerstein, 1975 .............Antenna slender, first segment not as

above, pilosity fine and inconspic-uous; pronoturm smooth or punctate;hemelytra stramineous or brownish,finely pubescent ........... 4

4. Body with parallel sides; headsmooth; pronotum, scutellum, andhemelytra pitted; collar exposed,without pits; right clasper simple,elongate (Figs. 1 5-16)............. .Ceratocapsus(part)Body oval or long ovate; pronotum,head scutellum, and hermelytra smoothor pitted; collar sometimes hidden andusually pitted; claspers complex inshape . . Ceratocapsus Reuter, 1875

Hyalochloria unicolor Reuter

Described from Jamaica. In MM from Ha-bana. Small, delicate, greenish, and withsmall black ornamentation. Can be:identifiedusing the key provided by Henry (1978).New record for Cuba.

Jobertus chryselectrus DistantAlayo (1974) lists and illustrates this deli-

cate small species. A key to the species isgiven by Maldonado (1 980).

MIRINAE

Mirini

Calondas fasciatus Distant

Listed by Alayo (1974). Known from Bra-zil and Panama (Carvalho, 1959).

Creontiades debilis Van Duzee

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). Acircumcaribbean species. This species andC. rubrinervis below can be identified withmy 1969 key.

Creontiades rubrinervis (Stal)

Listed by Alayo (1974) and by Carvalho(1959). More abundant than the previousspecies. Common on some terrestrial vinestypical of the seashore or in wet areas. InMM from Matanzas, Habana, Pinar del Rio,and Oriente.

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Dagbertus fasciatus (Reuter)

Specimens from Cuba, Hispaniola, andPuerto Rico show marked differences in col-oration. In MM from Habana and Matanzas,8 specimens. Moderately large collections ofthis species can be made from flowers ofappropriate host plants such as Cordia nitidaor Tecoma stans. New record.

Dagbertus oalvaceus (Reuter)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974).The lack of reddish areas and the differentgenitalia distinguish this species from D. fas-ciatus.

Derophthalmoides Maldonado, new genus

Type species: Derophthalmoides multimacu-latus Maldonado, n. sp.

Brownish, spotted and mottled with yellow-ish. Head vertical, eyes large, rostrumreaching mesocoxae. Antennal segmentsmostly linear, second segment slightlyincrassate toward apex, nearly glabrous,first segment as long as interocular space;lora not raised. Pronotum declivous, poste-riorly well above level of head, smooth; scu-tellum smooth, slightly wider than long, con-vex, not swollen or gibbous. Hemelytra withmoderately deep fracture, strongly deflexedat cuneal fracture, clavus without punc-tures. Segments of legs cylindrical, femoranot extending beyond tip of abdomen, ante-rior tibia without apical tuft of setae. Prono-tum, hemelytra, and scutellum with veryscarce short adpressed scalelike pilosityonly.

Genitalia as in figures 7 to 1 1; left clasperwith well developed subbasal apodeme,apex bent at 900, otherwise simple; rightclasper not linear or cylindrical, with shortsmall apodeme near midlenght, thus some-what Y- or sickle-shaped.

Habitus, size, and deflection of hemelytramuch as in Derophthalma. Both genera havevertical head, declivous pronotum, elevatedscutellum, strongly deflexed hemelytra, andonly one type of setae. Derophthalma (Car-valho and Gomes, 1980) has pitted prono-tum and scutellum, scutellum conspicuouslyswollen; the left clasper in most species hasa subbasal apodeme and the right clasper isbasically cylindrical with a thin, hook-likeapex. This set of characters separate De-rophthalma from Derophthalmoides. The

same type of general shape of the right clas-per occurs in several Mirini genera (Proba,Eusticus, etc.) but these have the right clas-per cylindrical as in Derophthalma. Deroph-thalmoides runs to couplet 18 of Ca-rvalho'skey to the genera of the world (1955) butneither part of the couplet apply to it as it hasonly small inconspicuous adpressed flattenedsetae.

Derophthalmoides multimaculatus,Maldonado, n. sp.

Figures 7-1 3

Male - Figure 12; brown with abundantyellowish spots on vertex, pronotum, scu-tellum, pleurae, abdomen, membrane, andlegs. First antennal segment with one or twoyellow spots, second with yellow bandabout midlength. Base of clavus and coriummore extensively yellowish to level of apexof scutellum, clavus uniformly brownish toapex, corium uniformly brownish to apexand lateral to radial vein. Embolium yellow-ish with spots and dashes of brown. Cuneuslight brown, margined with yellow, disc withsmall brown spots surrounded by larger irreg-ular brownish, lighter spots. Membrane darkbrown, spotted with yellow. Very scarceshort, ad~pressed pilosity.Head vertical (Fig. 13), distance from an-

terior margin of eye to apex of clypeus lessthan half width of an eye; width across eyes1 .0, interocular space 0.35, length 0.2, ver-tex smooth. Antenna: 1, 0.35; 11, 1.5; lasttwo segments missing. Pronotum: length0.75, width at humeral angles 1.42, lateralmargins very slightly concave, rounded, pos-terior margin broadly convex. Mesoscutumexposed; scutellum convex, slightly abovesurface of clavus but not swollen or gibbous;width and length 0.65. Hemelytra: greatestwidth at about level with apex of clavus1.62, strongly deflexed at base of cunei; cu-neus length 0.65, basal width 0.3. Lengthof body to base of cuneus 2.5. Genitalia asin figures 7 to 11.Holotype - male, CUBA, Matanzas, Vara-

dero, 1-5 im., 4.xi.1966; leg. F. Gregor, inMM. Paratype - male, CUBA, same data, inJMC. Its small size and deflexed :hemelytragive this species the appearance of a De-rophthalma but differs as described above.The abundant yellow spots all over the bodycharacterize this species and separates itfrom all other Cuban Mirini.

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Phytocoris angustifrons Knight

Probably the same species listed by Alayoas Phytocoris sp. This species is known fromthe southern United States (Carvalho,1959). New record for Cuba.

Polymerus testaceipes (Stal)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). Avery common species that occurs in pale anddark forms. It is common on a variety ofweeds in the circumcaribbean area (JMCcollection). In MM from Pinar del Rio, Habana,Matanzas, and Las Villas.

Polymerus basalls (Reuter)

A North American species listed by Alayo(1974). It is a widespread species in NorthAmerica and Mexico (Carvalho, 1959).

Proba sal/ei (Stal)

Listed as Dagbertus sal/ei Stal by Alayo(1974). This species is known from NorthAmerica south to Peru. Specimens from His-paniola in my collection.

described by Carvalho and Pontes (1973) asP. maldonadoi.

Stenodemini

Collaria oleosa (Distant)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). InMM from Habana. Common greenish speciescollected by me at low levels on grasses inmost circumcaribbean countries.

Dolichomiris linearis Reuter

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). InMM from Matanzas, Las Villas, Habana, andOriente. Common in grasses, especially thosewith long vertical inflorescens (Maldonado,1969). Should occur all over the island.

Trigonotylus doddi (Distant)

Listed in many papers, including Alayo's(1974), as T. dohertyi (Distant). CitingEyles, this synonym was reported by Car-valho (1975). A cosmopolitan species. InMM from Habana, Oriente, and San Antoniode la Vega. Common on grasses, oftentogether with Dolichomiris linearis (Maldo-nado, 1969).

Taylorilygus pellidulus (Blanchard)

In MM from Habana, Matanzas, and Pinardel Ri1o. A cosmopolitan species (Carvalho,1959). New record for Cuba.

Prepops atripennis (Reuter)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo 1974).This is a North American species (Carvalho,1959).

Prepops latipennis (Stal)

Illustrated and listed in the genusOpistheuria by Alayo (1974). This is aCentral American species (Carvalho, 1959).

Prepops circummaculatus (Stal)

Listed by Alayo (1974). This is a SouthAmerican species. This record may belong toanother species, 'as happened with Hispa-niolan and Puerto Rican specimens identifiedby me as P. circummaculatus and later

ORTHOTYLINAE

Pilophorini

Sericophanes parviceps Reuter

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1 974) andlisted by Carvalho (1 958b). The species inthis tribe are ant-mimics, with the abdomenstrongly constricted basally.

PHYLINAE

Dicyphini

Cyrtopeltis tennis Reuter

Listed by Alayo (1974) and by Carvalho(1 958a). Common on tobacco and othersolanaceous plants. A cosmopolitan species.

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Cyrtopeltis modesta (Reuter)

Listed by Carvalho (1 958a).

Cyrtopeltis varians (Distant)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1 974). Inthe Americas it should be found wherever to-bacco is grown. Also occurs on other solana-ceous plants. A key to the American speciesin the genus is given in my 1969 paper.

Macrolophus basicornis (Stal)

Listed in Alayo (1974) and Carvalho(1 958a). Macrolophus aureus (Distant)reported by Bruner (1934) from Cuba, is asynonym. A key to the American species inthe genus is given in my 1969 paper.

Ma-crolophus praeclarus (Distant)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1 974) andlisted by Carvalho (1 958a). A specimen inbad condition in MM.

Phylini

Capel/anus sparsus (Distant)

In MM. Also recorded-from G~uatemala andMexico. A new record for Cuba.

Lepidopsallus rubidus (Uhler)

Listed by Alayo (1974). The occurence ofthis North American species in Cuba isdoubtful.

Psallus polita Uhler

Henry recently restudied the type andfound that it represents what I called (1969)Paramixia carmelitana (Carvalho). In MMfrom Las Villas, Oriente, Matanzas, Habana,and Pinar del Rfo. New record for Cuba.

Reuteroscopus hamatus Kelton

In MM from Habana. Less abundant in theGreater Antilles than R. ornatus (personalobservation). Also known from Florida andCentral America (Kelton, 1964).

Reuteroscopus ornatus (Reuter)

Listed by Alayo (1 974). Many specimensin MM from Habana, Matanzas, and Oriente.Intermediate forms in coloration, probablyteneral, were found among this material buttheir genitalia suggest that they representthis species. Known from the Greater An-tilles, Central America, and the United States(Kelton, 1964).

Rhinaclia basafis (Reuter)

Described from Mexico and later reportedfrom Puerto Rico (Maldonado, 1969). Rhi-nacloa pa/Bida (Reuter), R. castanea (Car-valho), and Lepidopsa/lus pusillus Knight aresynonyms (Schuh and Schwartz, 1985); allthese names recorded from Cuba (Carvalho,1 958a). In MM from :Habana, Pinar del Rfo,and Matanzas. New record for Cuba.

Rhinacloa cardini (Barber and Bruner)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974).and listed by Carvalho (1 958a) as Camp-ylomma. This new combination declared bySchuh and Schwartz (1 985). A widespreadspecies in the Caribbean (JMC collection).

Rhinacloa clavicornis (Reuter)

Recorded by Schuh and Schwartz (1985).Rhinacloa subpailicornis listed and illustratedby Maldonado (1969) and Alayo (1974) is asynonym (Schuh and Schwartz, 1985).

Rhinacloa paliidipes Maldonado

Described from Puerto Rico, later reportedfrom Florida (Henry, 1983). Reported fromCuba, Mexico and Venezuela by Schuh andSchwartz, 1985.

Spanagonicus albofasciatus (Reuter)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974). InMM from Habana and Matanzas. Foundaround the Caribbean and in southern UnitedStates (Carvalho, 1958a).

Tytthus neotropicalis Carvalho

In MM from Habana. Described from Braziland later reported from Puerto Rico (Maldo-nado, 1969). New record for Cuba.

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Tytthus parviceps (Reuter)

Listed and illustrated by Alayo (1974) andlisted by Carvalho (1 958a). In MM from Ha-bana, sympatric with T. neotropicalis. This isa widespread species known from the OldWorld and the circumcaribbean region (JMCcollection).

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PLATE 1. Agusyomiris pallipes n. sp., male 1. right clas-per, lateral, 2. claspers in situ, 3. left clasper, dorsal, 4.left clasper, lateral, 5. habitus. Adfalconia bkolor n. sp.,female, 6. habitus. Derophthalmoides multimaculausn. sp. 7. right clasper, lateral, 8. right clasper, dorsal, 9.left clasper, dorsal, 10. left clasper, lateroventral, 1 1.aedeagus, dorsal, 12. habitus, 13. head, lateral.

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