Heraeus nicaraguensis
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Rhyparochromidae
Genus: Heraeus
Name
Heraeus nicaraguensis Pablo M. Dellapé, 2016 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Heraeus nicaraguensis Pablo M. Dellapé, 2016, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 98-99.
Description
(FIGS 36 D, 38, 39A, 40A–D)
Diagnosis
Diagnosis Labium extending to mesocoxae. Distiflagellomere with a pale band. Membrane with an apical pale spot. Metafemur with a subapical dark band. Apex of pygophore pointed dorsally in lateral view.
Description
Description (Fig. 36 D) Total length 5.32. Dark brown species. Head: Dark brown, shiny, coriaceous, with short recumbent and long erect setae dorsally. Head length 1.10, width 0.83, postocular length 0.43. Eyes not surpassing the dorsal margin of head in lateral view. Ocelli at level of an imaginary line passing the posterior border of eyes. Interocular width 0.40, interocellar width 0.24. Labium pale brown, with erect setae; extending to mesocoxae. Labial segment lengths: I 0.70, II 0.75, III 0.48, and IV 0.29. Antennae brown, basal half of basiflagellomere and base of distiflagellomere darkened, distiflagellomere with a wide sub-basal yellowish band; setae abundant, short, and recumbent. Antennal lengths: scape 0.42, pedicel 0.99, basiflagellomere 0.80, and distiflagellomere 1.04. Length of pale band on distiflagellomere 0.40. Thorax: Pronotum dark brown, posterior pronotal lobe slightly paler, with four longitudinal pale bands and a pale spot on each humeral angle. Anterior and posterior lobes with short recumbent setae and long erect setae, longer on anterior lobe. Collar length 0.08, anterior lobe length 0.54, posterior lobe length 0.46; anterior lobe width 0.86, posterior lobe width 1.28. Scutellum dark brown, apex paler, pruinose, punctate, with short recumbent and erect setae, as on anterior lobe. Pleurae dark brown, punctate, with short recumbent setae. Evaporative area extended. Hemelytra dark brown, with a pale inner corial spot and a subapical corial spot; costal margin pale on proximal three-quarters; membrane brown, with veins paler and an elongate apical pale spot (Fig. 36 D). Legs: Coxae, protrochanter, and profemur dark brown, at most with apices paler, meso- and metafemur with a subapical dark band; remain- der of legs pale brown, apex of tibiae, tarsi, and pretarsi darker (Fig. 39 A); setae long and erect, longest on profemur.
Abdomen: Dark brown, with abundant short recumbent setae. Male genitalia: Pygophore (Fig. 40 A, B) rounded, apex with a dorsally directed protuberance, anterior margin of dorsal aperture slightly rounded. Parameres: Figure 40 (C, D). Aedeagus: spinose; conjunctiva with spines laterally beneath the ejaculatory reservoir; vesica with spines laterally and sclerotized lobes with spines distally; processus gonopori long and slender.
Distribution
Distribution Costa Rica and Nicaragua (Fig. 38).
Etymology
Etymology The specific epithet ‘ nicaraguensis ’ is an adjective referring to Nicaragua, the Central American country where the holotype was collected.
Materials Examined
Type material Holotype: ♂, NICARAGUA, Puerto Cabezas, VII- 1971, J. Maldonado C. (USNM). Paratypes: 1♂, 1♀, same data as for holotype (USNM); COSTA RICA: Heredia: 1♀, La Selva OTS Station, 22/23-V-1988, blacklight, J. O’Donnell (UCMS); 1♀, 24/25-V-1988, blacklight, J. O’Donnell (UCMS).
Taxon Treatment
- Pablo M. Dellapé; María C. Melo; Thomas J. Henry; 2016: A phylogenetic revision of the true bug genus Heraeus (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae: Myodochini), with the description of two new genera and 30 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 98-99. doi
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