Longinischus ornatus, Brailovsky, Harry, 2009

Brailovsky, Harry, 2009, Longinischus ornatus, a new genus and new species of Ozophorini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae) from Guatemala, Zootaxa 2292, pp. 65-68 : 67-68

Longinischus ornatus sp. nov.

( Figs 1–2 )

Description. Holotype female. Color. Body mostly pale shiny reddish-brown; antennal segments I and IV shiny reddishbrown, segment II pale yellow with basal joint shiny reddish-brown, and III pale yellow; clypeus (apex shiny reddishbrown), basal third of hemelytron (punctures shiny reddish-brown) and costal margin of corium pale shiny castaneous orange; labium with segments I to IV yellow (apical third of IV black); coxae, trochanter and femora shiny castaneous orange; tibiae shiny castaneous orange with apical third yellow; tarsi yellow; metathoracic peritreme and evaporative area black; abdominal sternite VII shiny reddish-brown except for shiny yellow middle third.

Measurements: Head length 0.49; width across eyes 0.53; interocular space 0.35; preocular distance 0.34; antennal segment length I, 0.22, II, 0.27, III, 0.20, IV, 0.40; pronotum length 0.43; width across humeral angles 0.86; scutellar length 0.20; width 0.19; total body length 2.39.

Type. Holotype female, GUATEMALA: El Progreso, Cerro Piñalon, Finca Las Nubes, 2500 m, 15°08’38.5’’N- 89°94’25.8’’W, 21-IX-2008, R. Anderson ( UNAM).

Male. Unknown.

Diagnosis. Longinischus ornatus sp. nov. is easily distinguished from other species of Ozophorini in Guatemala by the coleopteroid hemelytra, and (except for the usually macropterous species of Ozophora ) by the absence of stridulatory structures.

Biology. Collected at oak on cloud forest.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Etymology. From the Latin “ ornata ” (handsome, splendid), referring to the attractiveness of this species.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 2. Longinischus ornatus sp. nov. (female). 1, dorsal view; 2, lateral view.