Baranowskiobius, Dellapé & Melo & Henry, 2016

Dellapé, Pablo M., Melo, María C. & Henry, Thomas J., 2016, A phylogenetic revision of the true bug genus Heraeus (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae: Myodochini), with the description of two new genera and 30 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (1), pp. 29-134 : 110

BARANOWSKIOBIUS GEN. NOV.

Type species: Nabis elegans Walker, 1873a: 144 . HERE DESIGNATED.

Diagnosis

Postocular region elongate, longer than interocellar distance. Jugal ridge present. Mesepimeron emergent. Evaporative area extensive. Clavus with three complete rows of punctures and additional incomplete rows between inner and median row. Procoxa with a spine. Protrochanters without spines. Aedeagus unspined, vesica with two lobes weakly sclerotized laterally; ejaculatory ductus wide; processus gonopori broadened towards apex.

Description

Relatively large and elongate. Pruinose dorsally.

Head: Elongate, vertex rounded. Postocular region elongate, longer than interocellar distance, slightly narrowing, forming a neck. Eyes surpassing dorsal margin of head. Jugal ridge present. Buccular juncture V-shaped, near insertion of labium.

Thorax: Pronotum punctate, more conspicuous on collar and posterior lobe. Mesepimeron emergent. Evaporative area extensive, covering a thin fringe on mesopleura and all of metapleural area, except on dorsal quarter. Clavus with three complete rows of punctures and filled with two additional incomplete rows on distal three-quarters between inner and median rows. Procoxa with a small spine in both sexes. Profemur incrassate, elongate, with spines on apical half arranged in two rows. Protibia straight, with spiniferous tubercles, with or without spines in males. Protrochanter and mesofemur without spines in both sexes. Meso- and metatibiae with spiniform setae.

Abdomen, male genitalia: Aedeagus unspined, vesica with two lobes weakly sclerotized laterally, ejaculatory ductus wide; processus gonopori broadened towards apex.

Etymology

This new genus is named in honor of our friend and colleague Dr Richard Baranowski, who has published numerous important papers on the Lygaeoidea, including the ‘ Lygaeidae of Florida’ (Slater &