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<mods:namePart>Ribeiro, Jose R. I.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Laboratorio de Entomologia, Sistematica e Biogeografia (LESB), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil &amp; Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Biologia Animal - PPG-BAN, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Sul, UFRGS, Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, Porto Alegre, 91540 - 000, Brazil</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/species/FF9C3B4A-FEF3-4D9C-BECE-348DBE418F1C" authority="Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari" authorityName="Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Belostomatidae" genus="Belostoma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Belostoma lanemeloi" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lanemeloi" status="sp. nov.">Belostoma lanemeloi Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Belostoma lanemeloi Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. and B. nieseri Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. A - E Male holotype of B. lanemeloi sp. nov. from Minas Gerais State, Brazil; F - J Male holotype of B. nieseri sp. nov. from Mato Grosso State. A Sclerite 1 of distal median plate of hindwing; B prosternal carina (lateral view); C - E male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); C dorsal view; D ventral view; E lateral view; F sclerite 1 of the distal median plate of the hind wing; G prosternal carina (lateral view); H - J male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); H dorsal view; I ventral view; J lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e87378.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/796175" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 4A-E</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Pirapora Municipality, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Body narrow and long. Knobshaped
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on mesepimeron rounded, as wide as long. Arms of phallotheca diverging apically in dorsal view; lateral margin of diverticulum of phallossoma strongly curved mesally, in dorsal view; width of diverticulum as long as its length, in ventral view.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Male.</emphasis>
Body length: 14.4 mm; greatest width of body: 6.3 mm.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Female.</emphasis>
Body length: 13.7 mm; greatest width of body: 6.0 mm. Body whitish brown.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Head</emphasis>
.-Anterior frontogenal suture (anteclypeus-maxillary plate suture) shorter than posterior frontogenal suture (anteclypeus-loral plate suture); anteoculus slightly shorter than interoculus (from 0.89 to 0.94 times); length of visible segment I of rostrum from 0.78 to 0.88 times the length of visible segment II.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thorax</emphasis>
.-Sclerite 1 of distal median plate becoming broader medially, as wide as long; notch or indentation much more poorly developed along its basilateral margin, which is somewhat concave (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Belostoma lanemeloi Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. and B. nieseri Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. A - E Male holotype of B. lanemeloi sp. nov. from Minas Gerais State, Brazil; F - J Male holotype of B. nieseri sp. nov. from Mato Grosso State. A Sclerite 1 of distal median plate of hindwing; B prosternal carina (lateral view); C - E male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); C dorsal view; D ventral view; E lateral view; F sclerite 1 of the distal median plate of the hind wing; G prosternal carina (lateral view); H - J male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); H dorsal view; I ventral view; J lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e87378.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/796175" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">4A</figureCitation>
); apical portion with lobed process poorly developed, rounded; posterior portion articulated with veins 1A and 2A bearing process directed posteriorly shorter than half of the longitudinal length of sclerite 1; process not indented apically and approximately straight; knobshaped
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on mesepimeron rounded, as wide as long (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Mesepimeron and part of wing-to-body coupling mechanism. Part of the ' Druckknopf ' system component, located in the thorax. The system allows for the complete coupling of hemelytra to the dorsum. Character 27 was proposed by studying only the complementary structure of the apparatus, located in mesepimeron, not that on the wing apparatus. A Knobshaped ' Druckknopf ' system rounded, as long as wide B knobshaped ' Druckknopf ' system piriform, longer than wide." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e87378.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/796173" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">2A</figureCitation>
); prosternal carina poorly elevated, rectangular, quite pointed anteriorly, with its anterior margin smoothly curved, not projected anterad in lateral view; apex without tubercles (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Belostoma lanemeloi Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. and B. nieseri Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. A - E Male holotype of B. lanemeloi sp. nov. from Minas Gerais State, Brazil; F - J Male holotype of B. nieseri sp. nov. from Mato Grosso State. A Sclerite 1 of distal median plate of hindwing; B prosternal carina (lateral view); C - E male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); C dorsal view; D ventral view; E lateral view; F sclerite 1 of the distal median plate of the hind wing; G prosternal carina (lateral view); H - J male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); H dorsal view; I ventral view; J lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e87378.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/796175" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">4B</figureCitation>
).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Abdomen</emphasis>
.-Pilosity covering about one third of connexivum, poorly developed on penultimate visible segment.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Male genitalia</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Belostoma lanemeloi Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. and B. nieseri Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari, sp. nov. A - E Male holotype of B. lanemeloi sp. nov. from Minas Gerais State, Brazil; F - J Male holotype of B. nieseri sp. nov. from Mato Grosso State. A Sclerite 1 of distal median plate of hindwing; B prosternal carina (lateral view); C - E male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); C dorsal view; D ventral view; E lateral view; F sclerite 1 of the distal median plate of the hind wing; G prosternal carina (lateral view); H - J male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum); H dorsal view; I ventral view; J lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.81.e87378.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/796175" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">4C-E</figureCitation>
).-Arms of phallotheca diverging apically, shorter than its anterior region (base of phallosoma), not covering sides of ventral diverticulum in dorsal view. Ventral diverticulum curved, rounded apically in lateral view; apical margin smoothly concave, with prominence in dorsal view; lateral margins slender, not thickened, curved at mid-length, directly laterally in dorsal and ventral views. Width of diverticulum as long as its median length in ventral view. Ventroapical protuberance not distinctly produced in lateral view, approximately triangular in ventral view.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 4.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Belostoma lanemeloi</emphasis>
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Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari,
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and
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Ribeiro &amp; Ferrari,
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-
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
Male holotype of
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</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">sp. nov.</emphasis>
from Minas Gerais State, Brazil;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
-
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">J</emphasis>
Male holotype of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. nieseri" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nieseri">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. nieseri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">sp. nov.</emphasis>
from Mato Grosso State.
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Sclerite 1 of distal median plate of hindwing;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
prosternal carina (lateral view);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
-
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
dorsal view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
ventral view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
lateral view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
sclerite 1 of the distal median plate of the hind wing;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">G</emphasis>
prosternal carina (lateral view);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H</emphasis>
-
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">J</emphasis>
male genitalia: phallosoma (phallotheca, dorsal arms, and diverticulum);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H</emphasis>
dorsal view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">I</emphasis>
ventral view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">J</emphasis>
lateral view.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Belostoma lanemeloi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">sp. nov.</emphasis>
appears closely related to the species of the
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. pygmeum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmeum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. pygmeum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group, as well as
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. plebejum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Members of the
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. pygmeum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmeum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. pygmeum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group share with the new species the posterior portion of the sclerite 1 of the distal median plate, articulated with veins 1A and 2A, bearing a short process directed posteriorly. The new species also shares with
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. nicaeum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nicaeum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. nicaeum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. pygmeum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmeum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. pygmeum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
a sclerite 1 that is somewhat straight along its basilateral margin, without any notch or indentation.
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Belostomatidae" genus="Belostoma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Belostoma plebejum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Belostoma plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
instead shares with
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. lanemeloi" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lanemeloi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. lanemeloi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">sp. nov.</emphasis>
a rounded knobshaped
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘druckknopf’">'druckknopf'</normalizedToken>
. The new species, however, can be distinguished from the species of the
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. pygmeum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmeum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. pygmeum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group by the body being narrower and longer. Additionally, the new species may be easily mistakenly keyed to
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. plebejum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
when using either
<bibRefCitation author="Estevez, AL" journalOrPublisher="Revista de Biologia Tropical" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="147 - 155" refId="B25" refString="Estevez, AL, Polhemus, JT, 2007. The small species of Belostoma (Heteroptera, Belostomatidae): revision of the plebejum group. Revista de Biologia Tropical 55: 147 - 155" title="The small species of Belostoma (Heteroptera, Belostomatidae): revision of the plebejum group." volume="55" year="2007">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Estévez">Estevez</normalizedToken>
and
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(2007)
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or
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1590/S0044-59672008000100021" author="Ribeiro, JRI" journalOrPublisher="Acta Amazonica" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="179 - 188" refId="B103" refString="Ribeiro, JRI, Alecrim, VP, 2008. Duas novas especies de Belostoma Latreille, 1807 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) do grupo plebejum sensu Nieser, 1975. Acta Amazonica 38: 179 - 188, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0044-59672008000100021" title="Duas novas especies de Belostoma Latreille, 1807 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) do grupo plebejum sensu Nieser, 1975." url="https://doi.org/10.1590/S0044-59672008000100021" volume="38" year="2008">
Ribeiro and
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(2008)
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keys to the
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. plebejum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group because of the considerable uniformity in body structures and the smooth genitalic variation among the species of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. plebejum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">s.l.</emphasis>
In fact,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. lanemeloi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">sp. nov.</emphasis>
shares with
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. plebejum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
slender, not thickened, lateral margins of the ventral diverticulum, and a body size that is more than 13.0 mm long. The new species can be distinguished from
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. plebejum" order="Characiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plebejum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B. plebejum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the arms of the phallotheca diverging in dorsal view and by the width of diverticulum as long as its median length in ventral view.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">The specific epithet is dedicated in honour of Dr Alan Lane de Melo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) for his contributions to the study of Brazilian giant water bug taxonomy.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1975-11" collectorName="M. Alvarenga" country="BRAZIL" determinerName="J. R. I. Ribeiro" latitude="-17.34" location="Pirapora Municipality" longLatPrecision="13" longitude="-44.93" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" stateProvince="Minas Gerais State" typeStatus="Holotype">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<typeStatus>Holotype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
.
<collectingCountry name="Brazil">BRAZIL</collectingCountry>
•
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="Brazil" name="Minas Gerais">Minas Gerais State</collectingRegion>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:5CBB8ECAC15651AC93AD922A91A96BF7:94F8438457FE2C157BB11174C9414165" country="BRAZIL" latitude="-17.34" longLatPrecision="13" longitude="-44.93" name="Pirapora Municipality" stateProvince="Minas Gerais State">Pirapora Municipality</location>
;
<geoCoordinate degrees="17" direction="south" minutes="20.40" orientation="latitude" precision="9" value="-17.34">17°20.40'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="44" direction="west" minutes="55.80" orientation="longitude" precision="9" value="-44.93">44°55.80'W</geoCoordinate>
;
<collectingDate value="1975-11">Nov. 1975</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>M. Alvarenga</collectorName>
leg.;
<determinerName>J.R.I. Ribeiro</determinerName>
det.; AMNH
</materialsCitation>
.-
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2023-01-01" collectingDateMax="2023-12-31" collectingDateMin="2023-01-01" collectorName="M. Alvarenga" country="BRAZIL" determinerName="J. R. I. Ribeiro" latitude="-17.34" location="BRAZIL" longLatPrecision="13" longitude="-44.93" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Minas Gerais" typeStatus="Paratype">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<typeStatus>Paratype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
.
<collectingCountry name="Brazil">BRAZIL</collectingCountry>
•
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
; same data as for holotype
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>
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