Lissaptera heissi Larivière and Larochelle, 2022

Larivière, Marie-Claude & Larochelle, André, 2022, Synopsis of the subfamily Carventinae in New Zealand (Heteroptera: Aradidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (961), pp. 1-54 : 8-9

Lissaptera heissi Larivière and Larochelle , new species

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Lissaptera heissi Larivière and Larochelle , new species. Holotype: male (AMNZ) labeled “ NEW ZEALAND ND Te Paki, 122m Taputaputa Res [= Tapotupotu Reserve] 7.xii.1967 KAJ Wise (typed) / Puriri leaf litter. Berlese extraction P/S 409. L5093 (typed) / AMNZ72454 AUCKLAND MUSEUM NEW ZEALAND (green label; typed) / HOLOTYPE [male symbol] Lissaptera heissi Larivière & Larochelle, 2022 (red label; typed).” Paratypes: 1 female (AMNZ) with same data as holotype, 1 male (AMNZ) from the same locality, 9.iii.1967, bearing blue paratype labels.

Description (incrustation removed). Body pear-shaped (more broadly so in female); length about 3.0 mm (male), 3.6 mm (female). Dorsal color (male) reddish brown tinged with dark brown approaching black; reddish yellow on plates and markings of lateral margins of pronotum, fused notal plate, tergal plate of abdomen; yellowish between segments of connexivum. Female dark reddish black with more distinct pale markings and plates than in male; overall color resembling L. completa . Eyes reddish brown. Antennae and legs slightly paler than main body. Ventral color mostly matching dorsal color. Head. Genae subequal to or barely longer than clypeus, not forming a gap in front. Antenniferous tubercles narrowly subtriangular (inner margin slightly concave), their apices acutely rounded and subparallel. Thorax. Pronotum. Disc slightly produced posteriorly. Lateral portions with a slightly angular submarginal bead extending from anterior to posterior margin. Notal plate (fused mesonotum, metanotum, dmtg I–II) moderately to strongly elevated posteromedially. Midlateral portions, each with two or three moderately large, irregularly shaped, pale marks or slightly elevated plates. Posterolateral portions, each with two pairs of small suboval to rounded apodemal spots (a pair in line with transverse suture of dmtg I–II, a second pair more anteriorly); apodemal spots more obscure in male. Dmtg I–II separated by a long transverse suture reaching or surpassing inner apodemal spots (suture sometimes curving backward, nearly delimiting dmtg II medially). Abdomen. Tergal plate (dmtg III–VI). Disc moderately to strongly elevated. Lateral margins slightly convex (male), moderately convex (female). Inner and outer rows of apodemal spots obscure in male. Connexivum flat or barely reflexed throughout (male), rather flat (female). Posterolateral angles of dltg III–VI rounded-subquadrate, barely produced, rather flat (not reflexed), VII narrowly rounded-subtriangular, slightly thickened and produced, barely reflexed (male); III–VI rounded, unproduced, rather flat, VII subquadrate, barely thickened, unproduced, rather flat (female). Male genitalia. Right paramere ( Fig. 32 , outer lateral view) with broad subrectangular head and short shaft; anterior margin of head slightly rounded, with subtriangular projection.

Other characters as in L. completa .

Material examined. 8 specimens ( AMNZ).

Geographic distribution ( Fig. 80 ). North Island: ND–Northernmost Aupouri Peninsula (Pandora, West Spirits Bay ( AMNZ); Taputaputa [= Tapotupotu] Reserve ( AMNZ); Te Paki Trig ( AMNZ); Unuwhao ( AMNZ)).

Biology. Altitudinal range. Lowland. Habitat. Occurs in broadleaf forests and shrublands. Collected mostly in leaf litter (e.g., Dysoxylum , Leptospermum or Vitex leaf litter); also in decaying wood debris. Seasonality. Adults and tenerals: November–December, March. Mating probably occurs in December–January.

Remarks. This species is named after Ernst Heiss (Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria) for his exceptional body of work on world Aradidae and for his precious help and encouragement in our Hemiptera research over the last three decades and through the course of this study. In addition to characters of the male parameres, Lissaptera heissi is mostly distinguished from L. completa by the following features: genae subequal to or barely longer than clypeus; antenniferous tubercles subparallel apically; dmtg I–II separated by a long transverse suture; male much smaller and more uniformly colored than female. Lissaptera heissi is only known from the Te Paki area (northernmost Aupouri Peninsula, ND). Specimens from Tapotupotu Reserve and Unuwhao are teneral.

Figures

Figures 23–35.Male left paratergite VIII. 23) Lissaptera, outer lateral.24) Acaraptera, outer lateral.25) Leuraptera, outer lateral. 26) Carventaptera spinifera, dorsolateral. 27) C. hallae new species, dorsolateral. 28) Modicarventus, outer lateral. 29) Neocarventus, outer lateral.30) Tuataraptera, outer lateral. Right paramere, outer lateral. 31) Lissaptera completa. 32) L. heissi new species. 33) Acaraptera myersi. 34) A. waipouensis. 35) Leuraptera zealandica.

Figures 44–47. Dorsal habitus. 44) Lissaptera completa, male. 45) L. completa, female. 46) L. heissi new species, male. 47) L. heissi new species, female. Scale line = 1 mm.

Figures 79–84. Species distribution maps. 79) Lissaptera completa. 80) L. heissi new species. 81) Modicarventus kirmani new species. 82) M. wisei. 83) Neocarventus angulatus. 84) N. montanus new species.