A review of Cryphocricos Signoret, 1850 (Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with descriptions of three new species
Author
Sites, Robert W.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-14
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journal article
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Cryphocricos granulosus
De Carlo
(
Figs 11–12
)
Cryphocricos granulosus
De Carlo 1967
: Amazoniana 1:190–191.
Type
repository:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
(
Munich
,
Germany
)
.
Type
locality:
Brazil
:
Rio Grande do Sul
.
Discussion:
The
holotype
is a brachypterous male (
Fig. 11
) and the
allotype
a brachypterous female with heavy glue residue ventrally on the right side of the pterothorax (
Fig. 12
), evidently to hold the specimen to the pin. Eighteen additional
paratypes
are at ZSM. Ectosymbiotic flatworms,
Temnocephala minutocirrus
Amato, Seixas & Amato, 2007
, were found on 33% of
C. granulosus
specimens collected from Arroio Forqueta in
Rio Grande do Sul
,
Brazil
(
Amato
et al.
2007
). Previously, the only report of
Temnocephala
on saucer bugs was on several species of
Limnocoris
, also in
Brazil
(
Vianna & de Melo 2002
).
Diagnosis:
De Carlo (1967)
reported this species to be very characteristic mainly due to the numerous granules (=tubercles) on the dorsal part of the body, which are not observed in
C. vianai
De Carlo, 1951
, which has the same color, but the anterior femora are slightly less wide and the female subgenital plate at the distal end is recessed on the sides, with a slight protruding curve in the middle; it differs from
C. rufus
by color and because granules (=tubercles) are more dispersed in it.