Sarju brevirostrata sp. nov. Salini and Rabbani (Figs 1–17) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 07357012-0667-445A-8555-32F149399881 Type locality. Manipur, Imphal, 24°82.081’N 93°94.884’E, 783m. Type material. Holotype: ♂, India, Manipur, Imphal, 24°82.081’N 93°94.884’E, 783m, 17.viii.2014, Ex. Sweep net, Yeshwanth, H. M. Coll., (UASB). The holotype is pinned through scutellum, complete, except detached abdomen and abdominal segment VIII glued to a piece of card and the dissected male genitalia placed in a plastic microvial with glycerol attached to the same pin. Paratype: ♂ India, Assam, Murphulani, 22.xi.1920, N. Lnglis Coll., (FRI, Dehradun); Dalpada clavata F.?, M. Bose Det. The original locality label is quite illegible (Fig. 5). The paratype is pinned through scutellum, antennal segment V of left antennae, antennal segments II – V of right antennae, tarsal segments II and III of right foreleg, left mid legs except coxa and trochanter, right mid legs except coxa, posterior half of membranes missing. The hind legs are glued to a piece of card and the dissected male genitalia placed in a plastic microvial with glycerol attached to the same pin. Colouration. Body above (Fig. 1) ochraceous except the following: humeri black with apex ochraceous, two narrow, short, lateral stripes on mid region of tylus and 1/5 th anterior and posterior region (appear as transverse stripe) of connexival segments, black. Antennae brown to black, first segment ochraceous except the apex and two lateral stripes, black; segments II and III brown, sometimes pale basally; segments IV and V chocolate brown except basal 1/3 rd pale yellow. Scutellar pit, black. Hemelytra concolourous to dorsal body colour, membrane fuscous with veins brownish, scattered black spots of variable shapes towards apex. Ventral side (Fig. 2) ochraceous except the following: lateral sides of head, lateral region of pro, meso and meta pleura, black; abdominal venter laterally brownish formed by the brown punctuations. Labium ochraceous except apex, black. Legs concolourous to ventral side except apex sometimes black. Spiracular outline, anterior and posterolateral angles of ventrites III to VII and apical half of tarsal claws, black. Integument and vestiture. Body above covered with coarse, round, brown to black punctures, head and anterior half of pronotum densely punctuate. Connexivum with fine, dense and conclourous punctures. Legs, head ventral side and pleura with dense, round, black punctures, concentrated towards lateral sides of body; abdominal venter laterally with punctures dense, round and brown. Male genitalia with posterior half of genital capsule with dense, dark brown, round punctures especially on ventral side. Body glabrous except the following legs with moderately elongate, golden setae, antennae with short, golden brown setae moderately dense. Male genitalia with posterior half of genital capsule pilose, entire caudal rim of genital capsule with elongate, dense, golden brown setae, anterior half of ventral side of genital capsule beneath the median concavity with profuse, moderately elongate setae in a row; infoldings of ventral rim developed on lateral sides of posterior opening of genital capsule with mat of dense, elongate, thick, dark brown setae. Description. Structure. Head (Figs. 3–4) slightly longer than wide, dorsal surface of head more or less flattened, sometimes apex bend downwards; lateral margins with a pair of small tooth-like projection subapical to mandibular plates, quadrangular and another pair in front of compound eyes, nearly indistinct, sometimes with minute protuberance; lateral margins of head distinctly concave. Mandibular plates straight or apically bend downwards, completely covering apex of clypeus, meeting in front of clypeus, apex of mandibular plates narrowly rounded (Fig. 4) or acuminate (Fig. 3), longer than clypeus; clypeus closed apically. Antenniferous tubercles small and well visible from above. Antennae five segmented, slender, first segment slightly swollen, second segment straight, not geniculate unlike in most species of Sarju. Antennal segments from shortest to longest: I

Published as part of Salini, S., Rabbani, M. K. & Singh, Sudhir, 2021, Taxonomic notes on Sarju Ghauri, 1977 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with description of a new species from India, pp. 283-303 in Zootaxa 4951 (2) on pages 286-290, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4664134