Hyperbius joceliae a new species of Ditomotarsinae from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Hemiptera: Acanthosomatidae)
Author
Carpintero, Diego Leonardo
0000-0003-2720-4276
División Entomología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “ Bernardino Rivadavia ” Av. Ángel Gallardo 470. (1405), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. & dcarpint @ macn. gov. ar, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2720 - 4276
Author
Biase, Sebastián De
División Entomología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “ Bernardino Rivadavia ” Av. Ángel Gallardo 470. (1405), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. & seba. de. biase @ gmail. com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-14
4958
1
668
677
journal article
7197
10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.42
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1175-5326
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Hyperbius geniculatus
(
Signoret, 1863
)
(
Figs 7–12
)
Ditomotarsus geniculatus
Signoret, 1863: 549
[nueva especie:
Chile
].
Hyperbius geniculatus
:
Stål, 1868: 534
;
Berg, 1892: 50
[
Argentina
:
Chubut
];
Breddin, 1897: 340
[
Argentina
: Patagonia del Sur.
Chubut
];
Kirkaldy, 1909: 180
[
Argentina
: Patagonia del Sur];
Pennington, 1920: 10
[
Argentina
:
Chubut
; Rio Negro;
Santa Cruz
;
Tierra del Fuego
];
Kumar, 1974: 11
[
Argentina
:
Chubut
: Epuyen, Rio Turbio];
Faúndez, 2007: 77
;
Carvajal
et al
., 2015a: 148
;
Grazia & Schwertner, 2015: 836
.
Studied material.
ARGENTINA
:
Neuquén
,
1 Male
,
4 Females
, 7927. (
MACN
)
;
Río Negro
,
4 Females
, 4 broken specimens, 10264,
22-
VII-
1910
, A.
Breyer
(
MACN
)
;
1 Female
, 10185, J.
Koslowsky
(
MACN
)
;
Chubut
,
1 Male
,
M. J. Viana.
(
MACN
)
;
3 Males
(
MACN
)
.
Female:
We have only measured females to be able to compare the morphology with
H. joceliae
.
Measurements (n = 6): Total length: 6.84 (7.24) 7.63; width: 3.63 (3.95) 4.21. Head. Length: 1.32 (1.37) 1.45; width: 1.74 (1.84) 1.89; interocular space: 0.95 (1.06) 1.13; antennal segment lengths: 0.45 (0.48) 0.53; II: 0.82 (0.87) 0.92; III: 0.42 (0.43) 0.45; IV: 0.63 (0.70) 0.76; V: 0.74 (0.78) 0.82. Pronotum. Length: 1.37 (1.45) 1.50; width at base: 3.10 (3.39) 3.68.
Diagnostic characters.
General color blackish with well-marked punctures and smooth pale yellowish areas, particularly along the clavo-corial suture, margins of pronotum and exocorium (
Fig. 7
). Head (
Fig. 8
) with two longitudinal pale yellowish lines behind the ocelli and a rounded spot between them of the same color, all them well marked. Dorsally with thick, well-defined punctures. Mandibular plates just surpassing the apex of the anteclypeus. Antennae with the segment I exceeding the apex of the head. Female genitalia (
Fig. 11
). First gonocoxae wide, black, markedly rough longitudinally; second gonocoxae semicircular, dark brown, with transverse roughness; paratergite 9 subtriangular, apically acute, black and rough, with outer margin clear and smooth.
FIGURES 7–12.
Hyperbius geniculatus
(Signoret)
.
7.
Dorsal View.
8.
Head.
Fig. 9.
Metapleura.
10.
Pendergrast’s Organ.
11.
Female genitalia. Caudal view.
12.
Male genitalia. Caudal view.
Distribution.
CHILE
,
ARGENTINA
:
Neuquén
, Río Negro,
Chubut
,
Santa Cruz
,
Tierra del Fuego
.
Host Plant.
Unknown.