Redescription of Pseudoparomius linearis (Stål), and descriptions of three new species of Pseudoparomius Harrington (Rhyparochromidae: Heteroptera)
Author
Dellapé, Pablo Matías
Author
Coscarón, María Del Carmen
text
Zootaxa
2005
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journal article
51061
10.5281/zenodo.170998
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170998
Pseudoparomius bimaculatus
n. sp.
(
Figs. 2
; 10–14)
FIGURES 10–14
:
Pseudoparomius bimaculatus
, male genitalia. 10— pygophore, dorsal view. 11— pygophore, lateral view. 12— right paramere, inner view. 13— right paramere, outer view. 14a— phallus, 14b— schematic drawing of serrated projections.
Description.— Total length: 5.40. Body elongate, dorsal surface pruinose except anterior pronotal lobe shagreened (
Fig. 2
). Head length: 1.00; head width: 1.20. Antenniferous tubercles slightly convergent. Head broad. Antenna long, slender, segment IV fusiform and broader; light brown except segment IV chestnut; with short decumbent setae more abundant at apex; first segment shorter than half interocular width. Length of antennal segments I–IV: 0.40, 1.03, 0.93, 1.20. Eyes oval, relatively small. Eye width: 0.17; interocular distance: 0.87. Interocellar distance: 0.52. Rostrum chestnut, with short sparse semierect setae; reaching posterior border of procoxa. Length of rostral segments I–IV: 0.55, 0.55, 0.33, 0.38. Pronotum punctuate. Anterior pronotal collar slightly demarcated by a furrow; anterior pronotal lobe shagreened and almost glabrous; collar and posterior pronotal lobe pruinose. Anterior pronotal lobe dark brown, posterior pronotal lobe light brown with two yellowish irregular maculae medially near posterior margin. Scalelike setae posteriorly on anterior pronotal lobe, transverse sulci. and anterior half of posterior pronotal lobe. Length of collar, anterior pronotal lobe, and posterior pronotal lobe: 0.17, 0.87, 0.60, respectively; width of collar, anterior pronotal lobe, and posterior pronotal lobe: 1.02, 1.20, 1.40, respectively. Transverse impression width: 1.00. Scutellum dark brown, almost black, with scalelike setae, punctuate except lower Yshaped carina. Hemelytra coloration pattern as shown in fig. 2, with abundant scalelike setae. Hemelytra almost reaching abdominal apex. Pleura dark brown. almost black, posterior border of metaepisternum whitish dorsally; punctuate; with short, decumbent setae. Legs chestnut. Abdomen brown, with short abundant decumbent setae. Abdominal length: 2.37; abdominal width: 1.47. Pygophore and claspers as shown in figs. 10–13, external projection protruded. Aedeagus (
Fig. 14
): Vesica with four serrated projections.
Types
.—
Holotype
male,
Brazil
: PARÁ, Belem, 7/1970, M. Galiano col. (MACN).
Paratypes
.—
Bolivia
: 1 Ψ, Caranavi (MLP).
Argentina
: CORRIENTES.— 1 Ψ, Ituzaingó, Reserva Santa María,
X2003
, Dellapé (MLP). MISIONES.— 2 ΨΨ, Puerto 17 de Octubre, 29/
31X1954
,
De
Carlo & Viana (MACN). 2 ɗɗ, 2 ΨΨ, Yacui,
III1950
, Giai (MACN). 1 Ψ, Puerto Bemberg, 17/
30III1934
, Hayward (MACN). 1 ɗ, Puerto Aguirre, 1/
6III1934
, Hayward exp. (MACN).
Etymology.
— The name refers to the yellowish maculae on the posterior pronotal lobe.