Parvodeceptor infrequens, Hill, Lionel, 2015

Hill, Lionel, 2015, Three new genera of Schizopteridae from Australia with description of six new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Schizopteridae), Zootaxa 3990 (1), pp. 73-96 : 78

Parvodeceptor infrequens sp. n.

( Figs 1A–E , dimensions in Table 1 )

Type material. Holotype, female, North Queensland, Malanda Falls, 750m above sea level, 9 Dec 1989, Monteith, Thompson and Janetski, pyrethrum knockdown logs and trees, HILL 00043, whole in ethanol vial except right elytron on slide, T 228947 in QM.

Description. Female generally brown without distinctive markings, elytral veins darker than cells, eyes redblack in ethanol. Frons with pair of inconspicuous protuberances near anterior margin, visible in anterodorsal view ( Figs 1A–B ). Male unknown.

Notes. It is unfortunate to have to describe this species from a single female and not provide a stronger specific diagnosis but it is the sole representative of the genus seen by the author in 35 years of study.

Etymology. The Latin adjective infrequens alludes to the rarity of this species.

Figures

FIGURE 1. A – F, Parvodeceptor infrequens female; A, habitus, dorsal; B, head and anterior prothorax, right lateral; C, thoracic sterna, ventral; D, pterpothoracic pleurae, right lateral; E, right fore wing, dorsal; F, posterior abdomen, ventral and tergum 9, dorsal. Abbreviations: A, antennomere; ac, anteclypeus; b, bucculae; ely, elytral forwing; f, frons; fp, frontal protuberances; g, gena; L labial segment; mse mesepisternum; mss, mesosternum; mte, metepisternum; mts, metasternum; ps, prosternum; S abdominal sterna; T 9, tergum 9; I, fore coxal cavity; II, midcoxal cavity; III, hind coxal cavity. All scale lines 0.1 mm.