Revision of the genus Psorus Bergroth, 1914 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae)
Author
Fernandes, José Antônio M.
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa nº 1, 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
joseamf@ufpa.br
Author
Grazia, Jocelia
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501 - 970, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jocelia@ufrgs.br
Author
Lobo, Deise S.
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa nº 1, 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-02-01
1696
48
56
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1696.1.4
2b7bf0fd-aa99-4c08-8bba-51d4c4987913
1175-5326
180734
Psorus paraensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 4–11
)
Etymology
: the species is named for the
type
locality.
Type-locality:
Brazil
: Pará, Belém.
Holotype
male
with the following labels: a)
BRAZIL
,
Pará
,
5 km
East of Belém
,
22.VIII.1973
b)
R. T. Schuh
(
MPEG
)
.
Paratypes
:
2 females
and
2 males
, same data as holotype (
AMNH
,
UFRG
)
;
Belém
,
female
,
16.I.1963
,
Pirelli
, col. Duret 788/93 (
MNHN
)
.
Description
. Measurements. Body length: 13.0–15.2; head length: 2.8–3.7; head width: 3.2–3.7; pronotum width: 8.5–9.5; pronotum length: 2.7–3.2; abdominal width: 8.8–10.5.
Male. Dorsal rim of pygophore with median third slightly convex. Median margins of posterolateral angles of pygophore conspicuously angulated before apex. Proctiger (segment X) a little shorter than posterolateral angles of pygophore; apex of process of ventral wall truncate. Parameres more visible from dorsal side; in ventral view surpassing middle of proctiger (
Figs. 4–5
). Lateral margin of parameres indented (
Fig. 7
). Phallus: phallotheca with three times and a half the length of vesica (
Figs. 8–10
)
Female. Posterior margins of gonocoxites 8 uniformly rounded. Folded areas along lateral margins of gonocoxites 8 and median margins of laterotergites 8 covered by gonocoxites 8 (
Fig. 6
). Basal half of
pars
intermedialis
with twice diameter of distal half. Diameter of
ductus receptaculi
before and after vesicular area almost the same (Fig. 11).
Distribution.
Brazil: Pará State.