Taxonomic updates on the Mecocephala group (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Redescription of ‘ Hypatropis complex’, with a review of genitalic terminology and new records Author Barros, Lurdiana D. Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, Campus do Vale, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Avenue Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre 91501 - 970, Brazil. Author Barão, Kim R. Laboratory of Systematics and Diversity of Arthropods, Penedo Educational Unit, Arapiraca Campus, Federal University of Alagoas, Avenue Beira Rio, s / n, Penedo 57200 - 000, Brazil. Author Grazia, Jocelia Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, Campus do Vale, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Avenue Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre 91501 - 970, Brazil. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-03 4981 1 1 46 journal article 5931 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.1.1 a6f5f409-8f2f-442a-915a-bbe8129d625a 1175-5326 4897374 C98FB7A5-59AD-4D8D-9900-3EAFA339C537 Amauromelpia miri Fernandes & Grazia, 1998 Figs 49 , 112 , 115–125 , 135 Amauromelpia miri Fernandes & Grazia, 1998a: 157–160 , figs 6–9, 13–15, 17. Type material examined. Holotype ♂ , PERU , Loreto , Iquitos, Iquitos ville, chacra Mario Eduardo Vargas, <Cruciferaceae? / Sinapris >, G. Couturier leg. ( AMNH ) <illustrated specimen >. Paratypes , PERU , ♂ , Loreto , Iquitos, L . Huggert leg. ( LUND ) <illustrated specimen >; ♀ , Jenaro Herrera, G . Couturier leg. ( UFRG ) <illustrated specimen >. Other material examined. PERU , ♂ , San Martín , Tocache, L . Huggert leg. ( UFRG ), <illustrated specimen>, <new record >. Diagnosis. Mandibular plates equal than clypeus in length ( Fig. 117 ).Anterolateral margins of pronotum serrate ( Fig. 135 ). Measurements. See Table 1 . Male genitalia. Posterolateral angles of pygophore quadrate. Genital cup occupying less than half the length of pygophore. Area between layers of ventral rim depressed. Segment X having a transversal carina ( Figs 120–122 ). Phallus ( Figs 123–125 ): Dorsal connectives short, not reaching the distal half of phallotheca . Dorsal processes of phallotheca wider at the base, and curved. Female genitalia. Posterior margins of valvifers 8 straight. Mesial margins of laterotergites 9 convergent; posterior margins surpassing abdominal tergite 8 ( Fig. 49 ). Capsula seminalis without process (see Fernandes & Grazia, 1998: 159 , fig. 18). Distribution. Colombia (Amazonas); Peru ( Loreto ) ( Fig. 135 ).