The old-world Zygonini tr. nov. (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Clastopteridae), with new taxa from the related Machaerotinae
Author
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3768
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437
459
journal article
46336
10.11646/zootaxa.3768.4.3
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1175-5326
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Pseudoclastoptera
Hamilton
gen. nov.
Type-species:
Pseudoclastoptera irrubesco
sp. nov.
Etymology.
pseudo
- (adjective), Latin for “false”;
Clastoptera
(f), genus of Clastopterinae
Diagnosis.
Crown short, broadly rounded, three-fifths as long as wide, tylus shorter on midline than crown, its defining sutures ending abruptly just in front of ocelli; antenna with short postpedicel partially withdrawn into tip of pedicel, bearing arista on anterodorsal edge, a central globular basiconic sensillum almost entirely withdrawn into prominently rimmed pit, and behind this a large pit containing several coeloconic sensilla surrounded by prominent marginal spines (
Figs 30–31
C) that obscure the number of sensilla, which apparently number at least 7; rostrum extending beyond mesotrochanters but not beyond hind coxae; head narrower (0.75–0.80×) than pronotum, lateral margins of pronotum scarcely 0.3× as long as interocular distance; rostrum extending beyond mesotrochanters but not reaching hind coxae; pronotum shiny, obscurely punctured; scutellum weakly convex. Tegmina smooth except for small punctures (more prominent than those on thorax), opaque, veins strongly indicated only on claval suture and basal half of large costal plaque (
Fig. 4
B).
Hind
wing with 4–5 tiny hooks on large, triangular process of costal margin. Fore femur slender, 1.3 × as long as stouter hind femur; hind femur slender, 4 × as long as wide across apex; pectens of hind tibia with 10–13 spines, those of basitarsomere with 8–10 spines, of second tarsomere with 7–9 spines with long setae. Male anal tube with large, oblique basal segment; paraprocts nearly as long as 11th segment including epiproct; pygofer weakly scleritized, ventrolateral process an inturned spine, dorsal process large, triangular, articulated (
Fig. 5
C); subgenital plates fingerlike, weakly articulated (
Fig. 5
B); style as in
Pseudomachaerota
; theca heavily sclerotized, stout, in lateral aspect curved apically, truncated (
Fig. 5
C), in posterior aspect narrowed just before enlarged, cordate base, tapered beyond midlength, fringed with serrate flange around gonopore on posterior face (
Fig. 5
D). Ovipositor 2nd valvulae
1.2 mm
long, slender, weakly curved and tapered (
Fig. 17Q
).
Included species.
Two new species, differing chiefly in colour, and a possible third known only from an unassociated female.