Sulawesifulvius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Heteroptera
Family:
Miridae
Subfamily:
Cylapinae
Genus:
Sulawesifulvius

Gorczyca , Chérot & Štys, 2004
Species
  • S. schuhi (type sp.)
  • S. yinggelingensis
  • S. indicus

Sulawesifulvius is a genus of true bugs in the family Miridae. The genus was described in 2004 based on a specimen collected by fogging of the forest canopy in Sulawesi. It was found to be unlike any other members in the subfamily Cylapinae. The type species was named in honour of entomologist Randall T. Schuh. Almost nothing is known of the biology of the species.[1]

Sulawesifulvius looks similar to Peritropis but is more flattened with tubercles on the vertex and frons, a short beak and prominent angles in fronts of the pronotum (top of thorax). The genus was monotypic until a second species was described in 2014 from Yinggeling National Nature Reserve in the Hainan Province of China[2] and a third from southern India in 2015.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gorczyca, J.; F. Cherot; P. Stys (2004). "A remarkable new genus of Cylapinae from Sulawesi (Heteroptera: Miridae)". Zootaxa. 499: 1–11. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.499.1.1.
  2. ↑ Mu, Yi-Ran; Guo-Qing Liu (2014). "Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Cherot & Stys, 2004 (Hemiptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) with Description of One New Species". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 87 (4): 327–332. doi:10.2317/JKES130105.1. S2CID 86507186.
  3. ↑ Yeswanth, H. M.; Frédéric Chérot (2015). "A new species of the genus Sulawesifulvius Gorczyca, Chérot, & Štys, 2004 (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae) from India". ZooKeys (475): 89–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.475.8349. PMC 4311700. PMID 25684998.


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