A review of the Mexican species of Alloeorhynchus Fieber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae: Prostemmatinae) with description of six new species, new distributional records, and key to the species
Author
Brailovsky, Harry
Author
Barrera, Ernesto
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-10-25
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10.11646/zootaxa.4338.2.5
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Key to the species of
Alloeorhynchus
known from Mexico
1 Anterior lobe of pronotum shiny yellow or yellowish orange, or golden orange..................................... 2
- Anterior lobe of pronotum shiny black or shiny reddish brown or pale brownish castaneous........................... 9
2 Connexival segments II–V shiny yellow with a group of black spinules resembling an elongate spot.................... 3
- Connexival segments entirely shiny yellow................................................................. 6
3 Clavus shiny yellow with punctures and apical third shiny castaneous; corium yellow with apical third shiny pale castaneous (
Figs. 4
,
19–20
)..........................................................................
A. macer
sp. nov.
- Clavus and corium mostly black to reddish brown............................................................ 4
4 Posterior lobe of pronotum shiny yellowish orange to reddish orange with three black marks, one at each posterior angle and along lateral edge and a triangular-shaped one at base of midline (
Figs. 2–3
,
17–18
)..................
A. trimacula
(Stein)
- Posterior lobe of pronotum not distinctly trimaculate.......................................................... 5
5 Posterior lobe of pronotum shiny yellowish orange except for a black semilunar area medially on posterior margin, almost touching the posterior border of anterior lobe; collar shiny yellow or yellowish orange (
Figs. 6–7
,
11–12
)...................................................................................................
A. nigrofasciatus
Harris
- Posterior lobe of pronotum shiny black to reddish brown except for wide yellowish orange triangular mark lateral to middle line; collar shiny reddish brown (
Fig. 10
)..................................................
A. vergrandis
sp. nov.
6 Prothorax including the acetabulae shiny yellow; lateral margin of anterior lobe of pronotum shiny yellow............... 7
- Prothorax shiny black to reddish brown with acetabulae yellow; lateral margin of anterior lobe of pronotum shiny pale castaneous to reddish brown or black............................................................................ 8
7 Posterior lobe of pronotum shiny yellow with posterior border and lateral borders of humeri shiny reddish brown..............................................................................................
A. bellatulus
sp. nov.
- Posterior lobe of pronotum shiny reddish brown (
Figs. 9
,
13–14
)............................... ..
A. nigrolobus
Barber
8 Head dorsal and ventrally shiny black to reddish brown; posterior lobe of pronotum shiny reddish brown (
Figs. 21–22
)...........................................................................................
A. epigaeus
sp. nov.
- Head dorsally shiny castaneous to golden orange with apical third yellow; head ventrally shiny yellow; anterior and posterior lobe of pronotum pale golden orange with lateral edge and humeri black (
Figs. 1
,
15–16
)...............
A. aureus
sp. nov.
9 Corium yellow with apical third reddish brown; legs yellow; apex of scutellum reddish brown; antennal segment IV pale castaneous to pale castaneous orange (
Fig. 8
)......................................................
A. moritzii
(Stein)
- Corium brownish castaneous; legs dark castaneous (tarsi pale castaneous); apex of scutellum yellow; antennal segment IV yellowish white with basal third and apex brown (
Fig. 5
)........................................
A. convolutus
sp. nov.