Revision of Heteroscelis Latreille, 1829 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) with the description of a new species from Colombia Author Sampaio, Vinicius Gomes 0000-0002-1392-8444 Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. & sampaiovgs @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1392 - 8444 sampaiovgs@gmail.com Author Roell, Talita 0000-0001-9967-482X Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. & tali. roell @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9967 - 482 X tali.roell@gmail.com Author Campos, Luiz Alexandre 0000-0001-5414-8746 Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. & luiz. campos @ ufrgs. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5414 - 8746 luiz.campos@ufrgs.br text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-08 5278 3 401 438 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.1 f9645963-d85a-49a5-b067-4dd7860c4ebf 1175-5326 7906373 DFCD52A4-3A24-460C-8309-329A26BCE322 Heteroscelis lepida ( Stål, 1862 ) ( Figs. 1 , 15–19 ) Phyllochirus lepidus Stål, 1862: 93 ; Stål 1870: 31 (syn.). Bodetria scutellaris Walker, 1868: 529 ; Stål 1870: 31 (syn.); Distant 1880: 33 , 1900: 63 ; Thomas 1992: 48 . Heteroscelis lepida : Stål 1870: 31 ; Distant 1880: 33 , 1900: 63 ; Pirán 1961: 88 ; Thomas 1992: 48 ; Brailovsky & Mayorga 1994: 34; Arismendi & Thomas 2003: 224 ; Cambra et al. 2018: 5 ; Lupoli 2019: 80 ; Cazorla 2021: 10 ; Rider & Swanson 2021: 7 ; Castro-Huertas et al. 2022: 9 ; Roell et al. 2023: 77 . Heterosceloides lepida : Schouteden 1907: 20 ; Kirkaldy 1909: 30 ; Pirán 1961: 88 (syn.). Types examined MEXICO . Phyllochirus lepidus Stål, 1862 ; female holotype ; “ México . Coll. Signoret”, “ lepidus set. Stål”, “ lepidus ” , “ Heterosceloides lepidus Stål ”; (NHMW). Photo examined ( Fig. 16 ). MEXICO . Bodetria scutellaris Walker, 1868 ; male holotype ; “ Holotype ”, “Type”, “Vera cruz / 5466”, “ Bodetria scutellaris ”; “NHMUK 010592395”; (NHMUK). Photo examined ( Fig. 17 ). Other material examined . PANAMA . Panama : (Canal Zone, Madden Forest, 9.05, -79.37), 1 male , 8.I.1971 H. Stockwell (STRI), Smithsonian Tropical Research institute, photo examined . VENEZUELA , Falcon : (Las dos Bocas, 11.30129 , -69.41226 ), 1 female , 29.I.1967 R. Cassares (UFRG). COLOMBIA , Antioquia : (Santa Fé de Antioquia , Hacienda Cotové - UNAL, 600 m . 6.5316 , -75.8260 ), 1 female , 6.X.2000 A. Botero, et al . (UNAB). 1 female , no data (UFRG). FIGURE 15. Heteroscelis lepida ( Stål, 1862 ) , female. A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, lateral; D, head and pronotum in dorsal view; E, external scent efferent system; F, tibial expansion. Scale bars: A–D = 2mm, E, F = 1mm. Records retrieved from iNaturalist MEXICO , Veracruz : (Puente Nacional, 19.34434 , -96.464912 ), 31.X.2016 . MEXICO , Veracruz : (Puente Nacional, 19.343728 , -96.464263 ), 25.IX.2017 . COSTA RICA , Puntarenas : ( Puntarenas , 10.275075 , -84.812452 ) 25.V.2017 . COLOMBIA , Sucre : (Galeras, 9.147859 , -74.978428 ), 18.II.2017 . VENEZUELA , Falcon : ( Miranda , 11.41002 , -69.679581 ), 5.XII.2022 . FIGURE 16. Phyllochirus lepidus Stål, 1862 , female holotype. A–D, dorsal, lateral, genital plates, and labels, respectively (NHMW). Scale bars: A, B = 2mm, C = 1mm. © by Natural History Museum Vienna, Hemiptera Image Collection, Vienna, Harald Bruckner, 2022; published with permission. Diagnosis. Body iridescent-blue, with a large triangular red or orange spot on scutellum; vesicular area of female genitalia subequal in length to the proximal part of the ductus receptaculi. Redescription HEAD: Mandibular plates equal to or slightly surpassing clypeus, anteriorly rounded, separated at apex; head length anterior to the eyes equal to 2/3 of the total length of the head ( Fig. 15 , D); labium reaching the metasternum; proportion of labiomeres: I<II>III<IV; proportion of antennomeres: I<II<III<IV ≅ V. THORAX: Scutellum with a large triangular red or orange spot, covering the entire frenal lobe and the central portion of the postfrenal lobe; coria longer than the scutellum, not reaching the posterior margin of the connexival segment VI, uniformly punctured; membranes dark, surpassing posteriorly the abdomen; metapleural evaporatoria not surpassing posteriorly the anterior limit of coxae; peritreme disc-shaped, surpassing half the pleural width; apex of peritreme rounded, posterior margin arched, convex, anterior margin almost straight ( Fig. 15 , E); foretibial length on average 3.5x larger than the width of the dorsal tibial expansion ( Fig. 15 , F). ABDOMEN: Uniformly punctured; urosternite III tubercle not surpassing the posterior margin of metasternum; posterior angles of urosternites III to VII ending in minute spine ( Fig. 15 , B). Male GENITALIA ( Fig. 18 ): Pygophore with dorsal rim concave; ventral rim slightly sinuous, medially concave; segment X with surface corrugated; head of parameres laterodorsally directed in posterior view. FIGURE 17. Bodetria scutellaris Walker, 1868 , male holotype. A–D, dorsal, lateral, posterior, and labels, respectively (NHMUK). Scale bar: A–C = 2mm. © by The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, Talita Roell, 2022; published with permission. FIGURE 18. Heteroscelis lepida ( Stål, 1862 ) , male.A, B, pygophore, posterior.Abbreviations: dr = dorsal rim; par = parameres; vr = ventral rim; X = segment X. Scale bar = 0.5mm. © by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Marleny E. Rivera, 2022; published with permission. Remarks: The only description of the internal male genitalia was made by McDonald (1966) . Based on his description and illustrations ( McDonald 1966: 121 , figs. 300–302) we interpret the phallus having the conjunctival dorsal lobe (conjunctival appendages sic McDonald ) with one pair of projections, and the ventral lobes with three projections each. Female MEASUREMENTS (n=3). Head length 1.24 ± 0.22 (1.00–1.44); width 1.34 ± 0.07 (1.26 –1.40); pronotum length 1.75 ± 0.21 (1.57–2.00); width 3.88 ± 0.24 (3.70–4.16); scutellum length 2.25 ± 0.27 (2.01–2.56); width 2.18 ± 0.11 (2.10–2.32); length of antennomeres: I 0.33 ± 0.04 (0.30–0.37), II 0.62 ± 0.15 (0.50–0.80), III 0.81 ± 0.19 (0.69–1.04), IV 1.09 ± 0.17 (0.90–1.20); V 1.00 ± 0.11 (0.88–1.12); length of labiomeres: I 0.53 ± 0.14 (0.37–0.64), II 0.71 ± 0.08 (0.63–0.80), III 0.40 ± 0.09 (0.30–0.48), IV 0.61 ± 0.11 (0.50–0.72); width of foretibal expansion 0.65 ± 0.26 (0.50–0.96); width of abdomen 3.41 ± 0.36 (3.20–3.84); total length 6.31 ± 0.64 (5.67–6.96). GENITALIA ( Fig. 19 ): Valvifers VIII posterior margin shallowly concave over the plates of sternite IX, truncate over the base of laterotergites VIII; laterotergites VIII wider than long, with spiracles close to the lateral margin; segment X with the posterior margin straight; valvulae IX with 1+1 bean-shaped secondary thickenings with the proximal margin laterally elongated; capsula seminalis oval. Distribution: United States of America ( Texas ), Mexico , Guatemala , Honduras , El Salvador , Costa Rica (new record), Panama , Colombia , Ecuador , Venezuela , French Guyana . ( Fig. 1 ).