Illustrated identification key to the genera of New World Micrelytrini (Hemiptera: Alydidae: Micrelytrinae), with description of two new genera, one new species and new distributional records Author Brailovsky, Harry text Zootaxa 2019 2019-09-11 4668 3 393 409 journal article 25476 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.3.5 017027f2-09c7-4bc9-af88-f791e15ea4cf 1175-5326 3449646 E38BD6E6-EFDD-468E-A470-2D78871DAB19 Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant) , comb. nov. ( Figs. 12 , 25 , 38 , 59–60 ) Protenor tropicalis Distant 1881: 160 . Redescription. Male. Dorsal coloration. Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus and corium pale yellow; eyes pale reddish; ocellar tubercle and punctures of pronotum, clavus and corium darker; antennal segment I yellowish orange with dark spots, II–III shiny reddish, and IV bicolored reddish brown with basal third pale yellow; calli and anterolateral margins of pronotum pale yellow; midline of pronotal disk with pale yellow longitudinal stripe without punctures; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine with an irregular dark brown spot near basal angle; costal margin of corium with dark reddish row of punctures; connexivum pale yellow with upper and inner borders darker; abdominal segments III–VI pale yellowish orange and VII pale brown with middle third pale yellowish orange. Ventral coloration. Head yellowish white, with lateral punctures dark brown; rostral segments I–IV pale yellow (apex of segment IV black); pro-, meso-, and metapleura yellow with dark reddish punctures; pro-, meso-, and metasterna, and metathoracic scent gland yellowish white; coxae yellow with one small dark brown discoidal spot; trochanters yellow; femora yellow with dark spots; tibiae and tarsi pale yellow to yellowish orange; abdominal sterna pale yellow with few small brown spots lateral to midline, and with several scattered pink spots; midline of abdominal sterna III–IV and occasionally III–VII with dark brown longitudinal stripe. Female. Color and habitus similar to male. Connexival segments VIII–IV yellow; abdominal segments VII–IX pale dark; genital plates pale yellow with scattered dark punctures. Measurements. Male. Body length 10.88; head length 1.92; head width across eyes 1.44; interocular distance 0.92; preocular distance 1.28; postocular distance 0.19; interocellar distance 0.16; antennal segments: I 1.96, II 2.20, III 1.96, IV 2.64; pronotum: total length 1.76; maximum width across frontal angles 1.16; maximum width across humeral angles 1.84; scutellum: length 1.12, width 0.71. Female. Body length 11.33; head length 1.88; head width across eyes 1.48; interocular distance 0.98; preocular distance 1.28; postocular distance 0.19; interocellar distance 0.16; antennal segments: I 2.08, II 2.36, III 2.04, IV 2.96; pronotum: total length 1.84; maximum width across frontal angles 1.20; maximum width across humeral angles 1.92; scutellum: length 1.12, width 0.76. General distribution. Orirginally described frorm Guatemala (Las Mercedes, and Purula), Nicaragua and later cited in Mexico ( Veracruz : Barranca de Metlac and Zongolica) ( Distant 1881 ; Brailovsky & Zurbia 1979 ). Material examined. New records. MEXICO : Chiapas , 6 mi S Rayon , 5300’, 16-VI-1965 , Burke , Meyer & Schaffner ( TAMU ) 1 male , 1 female . Hidalgo , Meztitlan , 10-XI-2017 , J. Valdez ( UNAM ) 1 male ; Tlalchinol , 4 km NE, 1581 m , 21.02781°N– 98.64271°W , 2-VI-2015 , D. Barrales , O. Francke ( UNAM ) 1 female . Oaxaca , 11 mi N Candelaria Loxicha , 19-VII-1974 , Clark , Ashe , Murray , Schaffner ( TAMU ) 1 male ; km 78.5 Tuxtepec-Oaxaca , 24-IX-1989 , A. Cadena ( TAMU ) 1 male ; Pochutla , desv. Pluma Hidalgo , 3500’, 15°57’71’’N–96°97’54’’W, 15- VIII-1986 , E. Barrera , G. Ortega Leon UNAM ) 1 female ; Pluma Hidalgo , Finca Copalita , 31-I-1988 , E. Ramirez ( UNAM ) 1 female ; Portillo del Rayo , 5 km S de Xalatengo , 21-X-1982 , E. Barrera ( UNAM ) 1 male , 1 female ; 5 km N of Jalatengo , road 175 Puerto Angel , 1590 m , 21-X-1975 , H. Brailovsky ( UNAM ) 1 female ; Sola de Vega , 1820 m , 11–14-VI-2016 , G. Nogueira ( UNAM ) 2 males ; Portillo del Rayo , 10-II-1982 , 31-I-1988 , E. Barrera , A. Ca- dena, E. Ramirez ( UNAM ) 2 males , 1 female . Veracruz , Zongolica , 18-V-1962 , 30-I-1967 , 30-XI-1967 ( UNAM ) 2 males , 1 female ; Metlac , 21-III-1975 , A. Moron ( TAMU ) 1 male ; Idolos , 1-V-2003 , H. Brailovsky , L. Cervantes ( UNAM ) 1 male ; Orizaba , Cerro del Borrego , 2-V-2000 , E. Barrera , A. Ibarra ( UNAM ) 1 female ; San Andres Tlalnelhuayocan , 1400 m , 19°31’19’’N–96°59’27’’W , 3-V-2009 , S. Lopez ( INECOL ) 1 male ; old road Xalapa-Coatepec, 1272 m , 19°–28’991’’N–96°56’877’’W , 2-VII-2009 , L. F. de la Mora ( UNAM ) 1 female ; Coatepec-Anahuac, 1217 m , 19°27’50’’N–96°57’35’’W , X-2009 , L. Cervantes , S. Lopez ( INECOL ) 1 female ; 3 km S of Naolinco , 1675 m , 19.39868°N–96.54044W , 19-IV-2005 , E. Barrera , C. Rosas ( UNAM ) 1 male . HONDURAS : Departamento Morazan, Cerro Uyuca , 5900’–6100’, 3-VII-1948 , T. H. Hubbell ( USNM ) 1 female . Biology. This species is found in tropical and subtropical zones and has been collected in secondary vegetation climbing grasses.