A review of Cryphocricos Signoret, 1850 (Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with descriptions of three new species
Author
Sites, Robert W.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-14
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Cryphocricos rufus
De Carlo
(
Figs. 24–25
)
Cryphocricus rufus
De Carlo 1940
:
Rev. Soc. Entomol.
Argentina
11:428–430 (misspelling of genus).
Type
repository:
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
“Bernardino Rivadavia” (
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
)
.
Type
locality:
Brazil
:
Estado
do
Rio de Janeiro
,
Itatiaia
.
Discussion:
The
holotype
has intact forelegs but is missing all other tarsi and right hindleg distal to the femur (
Fig. 24
). The female
allotype
has intact forelegs and left hindleg (
Fig. 25
), but the middle legs are complete only through the tibiae and the right hindleg through the femur (
Fig. 22
). Glue to hold the
allotype
to the pin has obscured the view of the pterothoracic ventral midline, leg bases, and the left side of the metasternum through abdominal sternum IV.
Diagnosis:
This species differs from
C. peruvianus
by the reddish-brown color, smaller size, laterally rounded hemelytra, and deep concavity in the anterior margin of the pronotum (
De Carlo 1940
). In the key to brachypterous specimens,
Usinger (1947)
distinguished
C. rufus
from
C. daguerrei
by the evenly curved lateral margin of the abdomen, from
C. barozzii
and
C. peruvianus
by the rounded apical and lateral margins of the hemelytra, and from
C. breddini
by the body more than half as wide as long. The posterior margin of the subgenital plate of the
allotype
is broadly concave with rounded posterolateral corners (
Fig. 25
).