Zanchismeopsidea diegoi Henry

Henry, Thomas J., 2015, Revision of the Ceratocapsine Renodaeus group: Marinonicoris, Pilophoropsis, Renodaeus, and Zanchisme, with descriptions of four new genera (Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae), ZooKeys 490, pp. 1-156 : 98-100

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Zanchismeopsidea diegoi Henry sp. n. Figs 105, 106, 304-306

Diagnosis.

Zanchismeopsidea diegoi (Figs 105, 106) is recognized by the elongate, subparallel body; bilobed pronotum with the anterior lobe narrowed and armed with two large tubercles, the strongly convex posterior lobe; the exposed mesoscutum, the prominent scutellum, and the shiny hemelytron with a broad, loose band of silvery, scale-like setae across the basal half of the clavus and corium.

Description.

Male (n = 2, holotype measurements in parentheses): Length to apex of membrane 3.42 mm (3.62 mm), width 1.05 mm (0.94 mm). Head: Length 0.34 mm (0.48 mm), width 0. 74 mm (0.78 mm), interocular width 0.26 mm (0.27 mm). Labium: Length about 1.00 mm (1.25 mm), broken and imbedded in glue. Antenna: Segment I, length 0.21 mm (0.24 mm); II, 0.58 mm (0.62 mm); III 0.37 mm (0.49 mm); IV, 0.42 mm (0.43 mm). Pronotum: Length 0.63 mm (0.75 mm), length of anterior lobe 0.21 mm (0.27 mm), length of posterior lobe 0.42 mm (0.48 mm); anterior lobe width 0.47 mm (0.48 mm), posterior lobe width at base 0.95 mm (1.02 mm).

Coloration: Head, pronotum, mesoscutum, and scutellum: Shiny brown. Antenna: Segments I and II dark brown; segments III and IV nearly black. Hemelytron: Shiny brown, paler yellowish brown on inner half of cuneus; membrane fumate or blackish gray, white at base between bases of cunei and narrowly along apical half of cuneal margin. Ventral surface: Shiny brown on thorax to more reddish brown on abdomen. Ostiolar evaporative area: White. Legs: Fore coxae brown, middle coxae brown at base, paler yellowish brown apically; hind coxae yellowish brown, darker brown at base; remaining segments missing.

Structure, texture, and vestiture: Head: Surface shiny to semishiny, frons transverely rugose, vertex finely granulate; with a few scattered semierect pale setae, interspersed with a few short, recumbent setae. Labium: Extending to middle coxae or slightly beyond. Pronotum: Bilobed; anterior lobe with two distinct conical tubercles; posterior lobe shiny, impunctate; clothed with short, sparse, recumbent simple setae. Mesoscutum: Broadly exposed, shiny, impunctate. Scutellum: Shiny, impunctate, bluntly conical, with a few long, erect, simple setae. Hemelytron: Shiny, impunctate; with a broad, loose band of silvery, scale-like setae across base of corium and basal half of clavus, intermixed with three or four long, erect, white bristle-like setae on clavus and four more along apical margin of corium, and very short, sparse, fine, simple setae on clavus, corium, and cuneus. Ventral surface: Shiny, with scattered, recumbent, simple setae on abdomen.

Male genitalia: Genital capsule aperture with one long slender spine arising at 2:00 o’clock position. Left paramere (Fig. 304) bilobed, with left lobe apically blunt and right lobe more tapered. Right paramere (Fig. 306) with simple main trunk tapering apically, with one down-curved lateral arm and a short spine on back side. Phallotheca (Fig. 305) with an apical beak-like process curving downward caudally.

Female: Unknown.

Etymology.

I am pleased to name this new species in honor of my good friend and colleague, Diego Carpintero, author of numerous publications on Argentinian Heteroptera, especially Anthocoridae and Miridae , and collector of the only two known specimens of Zanchismeopsidea diegoi .

Host.

Unknown; holotype and paratype taken at light.

Distribution.

Known only from the state of Santiago Del Estero, Argentina.

Type material.

Holotype ♂: ARGENTINA: S[antiago] D [el] Estero, Añatuya (Luz), III– 99, D. J. Carpintero (MACN). Paratype: Same data as for holotype, 1♂ (USNM).