Dextritubus acucullatus, 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 : 84-87

Dextritubus acucullatus sp. n.

( Figs 7–9 , dimensions in Table 1 )

Type material. Holotype: elytrous male, SEQ, Keysland, 26° 12’S 151° 44’E, 5 Dec 1994 – 26 Jan 1995, G. Monteith, intercept trap, open forest, HILL 00047, T 228950 in QM on 7 slides.

Description. Male brown; ratio lengths pronotal collar to entire pronotum 0.17; frons with pore level with frons and not located on a salient hood, with three transverse carinae below pore ( Fig. 8C ); T8 with right spiracle at apex of tubular process arising from small sclerite that is incompletely divided from main disc; T8 with left spiracle at apex of broad, rounded posterodorsal projection ( Fig. 9A ); vesica apically bifid ( Fig. 8F ). Female unknown.

Etymology. The specific epithet means ‘not bearing a hood’ alluding to the absence by males of a hood on the frons.

Figures

FIGURE 7. A – C, Dextritubus acucullatus male (Keysland); A, habitus, dorsal; B, same, with detail of polygonal mosaic on fore wing cell; C, habitus, right posterolateral. gc, genital capsule (pygophore); S 7, sternum 7; tp, tubular process of anophore. All scale lines 0.1 mm.

FIGURE 8. A – G, Dextritubus acucullatus male (Keysland); A, head, posterior; B, labium, left lateral; C, head and prothorax, right lateral; D, habitus, left lateral; E, left paramere; F, right paramere and vesical; G, tubular process of anophore and fragment of genital capsule (pygophore). All scale lines 0.1 mm.

FIGURE 9. A – D, Dextritubus acucullatus male (Keysland); A, abdomen, dorsal; B, abdomen, ventral; C, abdominal terminalia, abdomen; D, same with elytral fore wing margins. gc, genital capsule (pygophore); rp, right paramere; S, sternum; T, tergum; tc, tubular process of anophore; v, vesica. All scale lines 0.1 mm.