Nannocoris anophorus, Weirauch, Christiane, Hoey-Chamberlain, Rochelle & Knyshov, Alexander, 2018

Weirauch, Christiane, Hoey-Chamberlain, Rochelle & Knyshov, Alexander, 2018, Synopsis of Schizopteridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Dipsocoromorpha) from the United States, with description of seven new species from the US and Mexico, ZooKeys 796, pp. 49-82 : 49

Nannocoris anophorus sp. n. Figures 6, 7, 10

Material.

Type material. Holotype: male: USA: Texas: Hays Co.: 6 mi. NW Dripping Springs, 30.22648°N 98.18493°W, 408 m, 03 Jun 2006 - 30 Jun 2006, E. G. Riley, et al. (UCR_ENT 00094264) (TAMU).

Diagnosis.

Recognized among species of Nannocoris by relatively short head, ovoid body and forewing shape, yellow costal and posterior claval margins, long setae on forewing veins, vertex gland opening on depression of pronotal collar, short, smoothly rounded vesica with less than one coil, apically bifurcating right paramere, and long and sigmoid anophoric process that reaches anteriorly to terga 5 or 6.

Description.

Male (Figure 6): macropterous, length: 1.16 mm; body ovoid. Coloration: general coloration light brown, with head yellowish brown, lighter colored anteriorly, scutellum and costal and posterior claval margins yellow, legs pale yellow (Figure 6). Surface and vestiture: forewing veins with long white setae, pronotum and head with dense, short, recumbent white setae. Structure: Head: moderately elongate, ca. as high as long, labium very slender, barely surpassing posterior margin of pronotal collar, eye small, ~1/6 of greatest head width. Thorax: opening of vertex gland medially on pronotal collar, opening large (Figure 6), forewing macropterous (Figure 6), costal margin slightly explanate, R1 straight, obliquely traversing cells scc and rc1-rc2, merging with Sc close to where R2 reaches wing margin, An1 almost reaching Cu. Abdomen: tergum 8 slightly asymmetrical, transverse, right half slightly curved anteriad. Genitalia (Figure 7A, D): left laterotergite 9 long and slender, posteriad-oriented spine, right paramere with broad base and narrow, bifurcating apex, left paramere triangular, vesica forming smoothly rounded ¾ loop, anophoric process with anterior broad portion adjacent to tergum 8 and long, sigmoid process reaching anteriorly to approx. level of tergum 5 or 6.

Female: Unknown.

Etymology.

Named for the long anophoric process that is unusually prominent among species of Nannocoris , especially in other species of the pricei species group.

Notes.

The holotype was collected using a flight intercept trap.

Distribution.

Known only from Hays County in Texas.