Taurocerus amazonensis, Jocélia Grazia & Aline Barcellos, 2005

Jocélia Grazia & Aline Barcellos, 2005, Revision of Taurocerus (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatomini), Iheringia, Série Zoologia 95 (2), pp. 173-181 : 177

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1590/S0073-47212005000200007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6266192

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03933E75-2652-FFE8-C8CF-374B0BD1F837

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Tatiana

scientific name

Taurocerus amazonensis
status

sp. nov.

Taurocerus amazonensis sp. nov.

( Figs. 1, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23 View Fig )

Description. Dorsal surface reddish-castaneous, abdominal venter reddish-castaneous to castaneous. Apex of humeri yellow. Rostrum attaining fifth sternite.

Male. Measurements (n = 2). Total length 16.50- 17.75; head length 3.22-3.34; width 3.56-3.63; eye width 0.91-0.94; interocular distance 1.81; anteocular length 1.50- 1.56; antennal segments I, 1.03-1.16; II, 1.63-1.69; III, 2.19- 2.25; IV, 3.94-4.00; V, 3.94; pronotal length 3.88-4.38; width 14.19-16.38; scutellum length 7.25-7.88; width 6.19-6.75; corium length 10.25-10.50; abdominal width 9.00-10.00.

Genitalia. Pygophore subtrapezoidal, almost quadrangular, globose in ventral view ( fig 11 View Figs ). Proctiger trapezoidal, sligthly wider basally, with a tumid area at the apical third ( fig. 5 View Figs ). Parameres distally thin ( fig. 14 View Figs ), apex slightly curved laterad ( fig. 8 View Figs ). Posterolateral angles rounded, mutic. Ventral rim: median process inconspicuous; lateromedian processes well-developed, truncate and blackish, delimiting a median V-shaped excavation ( fig. 11 View Figs ). Phallus ( figs. 17, 20, 23 View Figs ): basal plate well-developed, half as long as phallotheca. Visible part of processus phallothecae about half of the length of phallotheca. Vesica well-developed, with one median, ventral process. Ductus seminis distalis (dsd) long, surpassing conjunctiva and distally curved back inward it. Conjunctiva well-developed, with two pairs of processes: one basal (prcj1), directed dorsad and one more apical, finger-like (prcj2), turned towards prcj1.

Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype, BRASIL, Pará: Oriximiná ( bacia do Cuminá-Miri ), 19-26.I.1968, Exp. Perm. Amaz. ( MZSP) ; paratype, PERU, Rio Santiago, 6.XI. [19]28, F 6198, H. Bassler Collection Acc. 33591, Taurocerus edessoides (Spin.) ( AMNH) .

Comments. This species is very similar to T. edessoides, from which can be distinguished only by genital characters, as the parameres laterally directed and ventral rim of pygophore with truncate latero-median and an inconspicuous mesial tubercles.

MZSP

Brazil, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

AMNH

USA, New York, New York, American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Taurocerus

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