Perenotus malobae, Roca-Cusachs, Marcos & Goula, Marta, 2016

Roca-Cusachs, Marcos & Goula, Marta, 2016, New genus and species of ant-like true bug (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Canary Islands, Zootaxa 4173 (1) : -

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.1.6
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:95CB8447-F8A8-45FF-8347-FE5CAF209FE8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5444102
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392777C-C42C-5859-10E8-D4CA8456A6C1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Perenotus malobae
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Perenotus malobae sp. nov. Roca-Cusachs & Goula 2016

Type locality. Canary Islands, La Palma, Garafia, Costa Juan Adalid.

Material examined. Type material. [female] HOLOTYPE: Costa Juan Adalid / Garafia , La Palma / Canarias. 25 May 2014 / Roca-Cusachs leg./ cardonal-tabaibal dulce // Perenotus gen. nov. malobae sp. nov. / Roca-Cusachs & M. Goula det. 2016// MNCN _Ent 157856

[All females]: 1, ‘La Palma / Volcán Martín / VIII-86 / P. Oromí’ [white, handwritten label] / ‘PARATYPE / 1, Systellonotus stysi sp. nov. / J. Ribes, Pagola-Carte / & Heiss, 2008 ’ [red, typewritten label]. // Perenotus gen. nov. malobae sp. nov. / Roca-Cusachs & Goula det. 2016.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to Marta López-Balcells, first author’s mother, as recognition for all her unconditional help, patience and support. The specific epithet is composed of the first two letters of the first name (ma) and the two family names (lo/ba) of the honoured person. Gender is female.

Description. Length: 3.363 mm. Body surface shiny. Dorsal coloration brownish red, abdomen darker brown. Dorsal vestiture of head, pronotum, scutellum and hemelytra of erect, pale, long setae, as long as diameter of anterior tibia. Dorsal vestiture of abdomen of semi-erect, stout, pale, uniformly scattered setae, twice as long as diameter of anterior tibia, arranged in more than one row of setae on each abdominal segment of circa 20 setae per row ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 a–b).

Head dorsally pentagonal, globose, 0.67 mm long and 0.93 mm wide. Eyes small and flattened, postocular region rounded and strongly constricted towards pronotal collar. Ocular index = 5.86. Head in frontal view subtriangular and slightly higher than wider; antennal fossae equally distant from the inferior margin of eye and the base of clypeus. Head in lateral view ovoid, gulae slightly curved; gulae and jugae bearing erect setae; clypeus weakly protruding and separated from frons by a weak transversal sulcus; maxillary plates small.

Rostrum brownish red in color, reaching base of abdomen. Segment I thick and nearly as wide as antennomere I, base concealed by inflated small bucculae, latter antero-laterally projected and visible in frontal view; segments II, III and IV thinner than rostromere I.

Antennae stout; segment I thick, cylindrical, brown; segment II brownish with darker apex, slightly to distinctly arched in basal half and somewhat enlarged apically; segment III cylindrical, basal third whitish and apex blackish; segment IV fusiform, long ovate and dark. Antennae covered by erected brownish setae as long as diameter of antennomers. Length of antennal segments I-II-III-IV = 0.27-1.09-0.56- 0.43 mm. Ratio of segments III/II = 0.53.

Pronotum 0.62 mm long and 0.612 m wide, 1.2 times as long as wide and 1.53 times as long as scutellum, dorsally globose with rounded lateral margins; anteriorly and posteriorly slightly constrained as a collar. Propleural acetabulae bilobate, laterally protruded, visible from dorsal view; acetabular lobes contiguous but not fused.

Scutellum triangular, 0.41 mm long, 0.49 mm wide, lateral margins slightly convex, disc with a distinctive conical blunted hump on posterior apex of scutellum, as high as upper level of head and pronotum. Evaporatory area of metathoracic scent gland very prominent, transversal, ivory-whitish in color, with a robust peritreme and a large orifice bordering the metacoxa.

Hemelytra shiny, smooth, distinctly surpassing the apex of scutellum, sub parallel at base and then divergent, posterior external apex right-angle-shaped and strongly turned upwards. Hemelytra 0.63 mm long and 0.74 mm maximal width. Clavus indistinct. Exocoria with longitudinal whitish band, anteriorly narrow, and posteriorly widening, not reaching posterior apex of coria. In lateral view, margin of coria sinuated.

Legs long, slender and concolored with head, pronotum and scutellum except whitish apex of middle coxa and posterior coxa completely whitish. Tibiae and femora with long, erect, scattered, brownish setae. Length of metatarsus = 0.4 mm; claw of metatarsus = 0.07 mm; length of metatarsal segments I-II-III = 0.16-0.1-0.18 (all measures in mm).

Abdomen swollen; coloration brown with darker terminal segments; connexivum reflexed dorsally.

Female genitalia illustrated in Ribes et al. (2008).

Male remains unknown.

Distribution. At present only known from to the island of La Palma.

Discussion. P. malobae sp. nov. includes one paratype female specimen from La Palma used by Ribes et al. (2008) to describe P. s t y s i ( Ribes, Pagola-Carte & Heiss 2008). After revision of new material from La Palma, it is clear that all Perenotus specimens from La Palma belong to P. malobae sp. nov. Figure of female genitalia of P. malobae sp. nov. may be consulted in Ribes et al. (2008).