9.1. Gollneria quadrituberculatum (Poppius, 1912)
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Megacoelum quadrituberculatum Poppius, 1912: 38 (as new species); Carvalho 1959: 162 (catalog). Adelphocoris callosus Lindberg, 1958: 88 –90 (as new species) (the synonymy by Linnavuori 1975: 24; lapsus in synonymy in Schuh 1995: 687, corrected in Kerzhner & Schuh 2001: 291). Megacoelum quadrituberculatum: Linnavuori 1975: 24 –25 (diagnosis). Megacoelum quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975: 25 (as new subspecies) (treated as junior synonym of G. quadrituberculatum by Schuh 2002–2013). Gollneria quadrituberculatum Carvalho 1983: 383 (new combination, diagnosis); Schuh 1995: 772 (catalog); Schuh 2002–2013 (online catalog).
Material examined. Type specimens: Holotype Ƌ by monotypy (of Megacoelum quadrituberculatum Poppius, 1912): KENYA (as “British Ost-Afrika”): Kibwezi, xii.1907, Scheffler leg. (FC n° 27) (ZMHU). Holotype ♀ (?) by monotypy (of Megacoelum quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975): SOUTH SUDAN: Eastern Equatoria: Kapoeta, 26–27.iii.1963, leg. Linnavuori R. (FC n° 5299) (AMNH).
Additional material: 1Ƌ: CAMEROON: North of Goum, 40 km south of Lac Chad, 11.viii.1963, J. Péricart leg. (MNHN) [with Linnavuori’s manuscript identification label, probably the specimen from Cameroon cited by Linnavuori 1975: 24].
Diagnosis. Body yellowish with red brown patches, stripes and spots; head yellowish with red brown stripes on frons, eyes reddish; first antennal segment yellow, second antennal segment slightly orange in apical third, yellowish basally, third and fourth segments reddish-brown (segments darker in the subspecies G. q. quadrituberculatum); pronotum with anterior collar yellowish, disk yellowish, with a pair of red brown patches behind the callosities; mesoscutum covered; scutellum yellowish with a pair of sub-median red drop-like spots; legs yellowish tinged with red; tibial spines dark red-brown; hemelytra smooth, with reduced, sparse, and shallow punctation, clavus and corium yellowish brown (dark brown in G. q. quadrituberculatum), tip of cuneus reddish, membrane brownish. Published as part of Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B., 2016, A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 4126 (2) on pages 168-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.1,
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