Pararhagadochir para Szumik, Pereyra & Juarez, 2022

Szumik, Claudia, Pereyra, Veronica, Szumik, Victoria E. Goloboff, Costa-Pinto, Paula Jessica & Juarez, Maria Laura, 2022, Embioptera (Insecta) from Brazil: New species and a taxonomic update, ZooKeys 1088, pp. 129-171 : 129

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1088.72910

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:01592987-4A64-4BA8-9D83-0B4A2F162E27

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/76AAE0BF-59E7-401E-8EA4-5193273F9F4A

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:76AAE0BF-59E7-401E-8EA4-5193273F9F4A

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scientific name

Pararhagadochir para Szumik, Pereyra & Juarez
status

sp. nov.

Pararhagadochir para Szumik, Pereyra & Juarez sp. nov.

Figs 36-42 View Figures 36–42

Type material.

Holotype: male, Brazil: Pará, Conceição do Araguaia, 19-31-I-1983, J.A. Rafael leg., INPA.

Diagnosis.

Pararhagadochir para sp. nov. can be distinguished by the shape of 10Lp1 (Figs 39 View Figures 36–42 , 40 View Figures 36–42 ) and Lpp prominent (Fig. 42 View Figures 36–42 ).

Description.

Male (holotype). Head dark brown, thorax and abdomen orangish brown, except cerci brownish white. Total length 5.89. Head (Fig. 36 View Figures 36–42 ) width/length = 0.98; Anterior margin of the clypeus straight with a central small notch; epistomal sulcus discontinuous; postocular suture represented by a notch; OR = 0.32; Md with 3-2 incisor teeth and 1-1 molar teeth; Mm inconspicuous, Sm quadrangular, with anterior margin deeply concave, surface depressed (Fig. 37 View Figures 36–42 ). Forewing length 5.10, hindwing length 4.28. Wing base union type B; wing venation: Sc, R1, Rs, Cu, and A conspicuous; Ma, Ma1, Ma2, Mp, and Cua diffuse, less conspicuous, clearly not reaching wing edge; cross-veins in forewing: R1-Rs: 3; Rs-Ma: 0-1; Rs-Ma1: 1-2. Basitarsus of hind leg narrow (Fig. 38 View Figures 36–42 ): length 0.30, width/length = 0.24; medial bladder absent; two rows of setae on retrolateral face, one row on anterolateral face, three rows on ventrobasal face (Fig. 38 View Figures 36–42 ). Terminalia (Figs 39-42 View Figures 36–42 ) with the general shape present in the genus, the most striking conditions are listed here, 10Lp1 with both tips subequal and well sclerotized (Fig. 40 View Figures 36–42 ), 10Rp1 as Fig. 41 View Figures 36–42 ; 10Rp2 and Ep less conspicuous regarding other species of Pararhagadochir (Fig. 39 View Figures 36–42 ). Lpp with a prominent inner lobe without microtrichia, Hp with keels (Fig. 42 View Figures 36–42 ). LC2 as longer as LC1, longitudinal ratio of LC1/LC2 = 1.03, LC1dp quadrangular with setae; LC1dp/LC1width = 1.70, LC1dp almost 2 × longer than the width of LC1. Female. Unknown.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the Brazilian state of Pará where is placed the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Embioptera

Family

Archembiidae

SubFamily

Scelembiinae

Genus

Pararhagadochir