Cladistic analysis and synopsis of Chloropepla Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with the description of three new species Author Grevea, Caroline Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9.500, 91501 - 970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil carolinegreve@yahoo.com.br Author Schwertnerb, Cristiano F. Laboratório de Ecologia e Sistemática, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Prof. Artur Riedel 275, 09972 – 270 Diadema-SP, Brazil Author Grazia, Jocelia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9.500, 91501 - 970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil text Insect Systematics & Evolution 2013 2013-04-15 44 1 43 journal article 10.1163/1876312X-04401002 e2ed26bf-60f8-4dca-b769-b6029e9e00fa 3653979 Key to Chloropepla species 1 Humeral angles produced into spines ( Fig. 1C ) ................................................. 2 - Humeral angles acute but not produced into spines ( Fig. 1E )............................ 4 2 Humeral angles outlined in black ( Fig. 1D )....................................................... 3 - Humeral angles not outlined in black ( Fig. 1C, E ) .......................................... 12 3 Lateral margin of each jugum uniformly convex towards apex ( Fig. 1A ), bordered in black; dorsum of each tibia outlined in black ................ C. aurea ( Pirán, 1963 ) - Lateral margins of juga sinuous ( Fig. 1B ), not bordered in black; dorsum of tibia not outlined in black .............................................. C. pirani Grazia-Vieira, 1971 4 Apices of femora with conspicuous spine ( Fig. 2G ) ........................................... 5 - Apices of femora with reduced spine ( Fig. 2F ) ................................................... 6 5 Hypandrium with 1+ 1 broad expansions flanking segment X, each expansion bearing an elongated outgrowth on dorsal surface ( Fig. 11A ); posterior margin of gonocoxites 9 straight ( Fig. 12A ) ...................................... Chloropepla rideri sp.n . - Hypandrium with 1 +1 narrow expansions flanking segment X, without outgrowth on dorsal surface ( Fig. 8A ); posterior margin of gonocoxites 9 convex ( Fig. 8B ).......................................... C. paveli Grazia, Schwertner & Greve, 2008 6 Medial excavation in ventral rim of pygophore “V”-shaped ( Fig. 4F ); marginal process of dorsal rim of pygophore triangular ( Fig. 4A, B ); gonocoxites 9 strongly convex, with lateral margins nearly parallel ( Fig. 16A ) ....................................... 7 - Medial excavation in ventral rim of pygophore “U”-shaped ( Fig. 4G ); marginal process of dorsal rim of pygophore digitiform ( Fig. 4C-E ), gonocoxites 9 slightly convex, with lateral margins convergent ............................................................ 8 7 Apex of hypandrium rounded, without process ( Fig. 8C ); apex of laterotergites 8 and 9 acute ( Fig. 8D ) .......................................................... C. lenti Grazia, 1968 - Apex of hypandrium with 1+1 narrow, rectangular process ( Fig. 15A ); apex of laterotergites 8 and 9 obtuse ( Fig. 16A ) ................................. C. costaricensis sp.n . 8 Humeral angles outlined in black ...................................................................... 9 - Humeral angles not outlined in black.............................................................. 10 9 Dorsal expansions of hypandrium broad, with 1 +1 laminar processes with quadrangular form along dorsal surface, near apex ( Fig. 17A ) ...... C. caxiuanensis sp.n . - Dorsal expansion of hypandrium narrow. Without process on dorsal surface ( Fig. 4E )............................................................... C. rolstoni Grazia-Vieira, 1973 10 Ventral process of hypandrium digitiform ( Fig. 8F )........ C. dollingi Grazia, 1987 - Ventral process of hypandrium bilobate ( Fig. 8G ) ........................................... 11 11 Ventral surface of hypandrium mesially bearing 1+ 1 laminar process, oblique to the longitudinal axes of the hypandrium ( Fig. 8G ); parameres short, not reaching the margin of pygophore ( Fig. 9A ); posterior margin of gonocoxites 8 strongly angulate ( Fig. 9B ).................................. C. tucuruiensis Grazia & Teradaira, 1980 - Ventral surface of hypandrium without mesially process ( Fig. 9C ); parameres long, almost surpassing the margin of pygophore ( Fig. 9D ); posterior margin of gonocoxites 8 slightly convex.............. C. stysi Grazia, Schwertner & Greve, 2008 12 Width at base of gonocoxites 9 almost 2.5 times the width at apex; laterotergites 8 with triangular apices ( Fig. 14A ); males unknown ............................................ .......................................................................... C. luteipennis ( Westwood, 1837 ) - Width at base of gonocoxites 9 nearly two times the width at apex; laterotergites 8 strongly acute at apices, almost spine like ( Fig. 9E ); pygophore strongly excavated dorsally, reducing the dorsal wall of pygophore to nearly half of the total length of pygophore; parameres long, surpassing segment Xin length ( Fig. 9F ) ................. ............................................................................................ C. vigens ( Stål, 1860 )