Biguembia copo Szumik, 1997

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Biguembia copo Szumik, 1997

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Biguembia copo Szumik, 1997: 149 ; Ross, 2001: 60 (genus composition); Szumik, 2004: 229 (phylogeny); Szumik et al., 2008: 1003 (phylogeny).

ThiS emended deScription proVideS new female characterS.

Female. In dorSal View, head blackiSh brown without any unpigmented area, prothorax and legS light brown, meSothorax, metathorax and firSt abdominal tergite brown, reSt of the body light brown. Antennae yellowiSh brown, femora and abdominal SterniteS brown.

Total length 15.42 mm. Head width/length = 0.98, OR = 0.86. Medial tarSal Segment on hind leg with microtrichia on anterolateral Side of the bladder. BaSitarSuS broad ( Fig. 17 ), length 0.42 mm, width/length = 0.48, medial bladder diameter/baSitarSuS width = 0.50; both bladderS extremely deVeloped; 3–4 rowS of Setae on retrolateral face, 6–7 rowS on anterolateral face, 5 rowS on VentrobaSal face, 22–24 Setae between bladderS on retrolateral face ( Fig. 17 ).

Ninth Sternite blackiSh brown; medial plate (8°S) whitiSh brown, 1°VfS blackiSh brown with tipS not pigmented; medial plate clearly differentiated from the 1°VlfS ( Fig. 7 ), 2°VlfS a broad, clearly Sclerotized band ( Fig. 7 ). Opening of Spermathecal oViduct coVered by the central plate.

Additional records. Argentina: Salta: 3 Km W Hickman RN 81, -23.20825 -63.59743, 260 m, 25-II-2007, Szumik, Molina, Cuezzo , 2 femaleS, 1 juV., IFML ; LomaS de Olmedo, 18 Km E Cruce RP5 and RP13, -23.804 - 63.94375, 28-IV-2007, Szumik, Rajmil, Cuezzo, 1 female, IFML; LomaS de Olmedo, 5 Km E Cruce RP5 and RP13, -23.815533 -64.015111, 28-IV-2007, Szumik, Rajmil, Cuezzo, 1 male, 2 femaleS, 6 juVS., IFML; RP5 Km 205, -23.883833 -64.058722, 28-IV-2007, Szumik, Rajmil, Cuezzo, 1 male,1 female, IFML. Santiago del EStero: 18.6 Km SW El Mojon, RP37 , -26.198528 -64.446056, 394 m, 1-VII-2016, Szumik, 1 male, IFML .

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 7. Female terminalia. 5. Gibocercus chaco; 6. Gibocercus beni; 7. Biguembia copo.

FIGURES 15 – 17. Female hind basitasus. 15, Gibocercus chaco; 16, Gibocercus beni; 17, Biguembia copo.