Revision of the genus Psorus Bergroth, 1914 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae)
Author
Fernandes, José Antônio M.
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa nº 1, 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
joseamf@ufpa.br
Author
Grazia, Jocelia
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501 - 970, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jocelia@ufrgs.br
Author
Lobo, Deise S.
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Correa nº 1, 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-02-01
1696
48
56
journal article
50036
10.11646/zootaxa.1696.1.4
2b7bf0fd-aa99-4c08-8bba-51d4c4987913
1175-5326
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Psorus cassidiformis
Bergroth, 1914
(
Figs. 1–3
,
14
)
Psorus cassidiformis
Bergroth, 1914
: 425
.
Measurements. Body length: 14.5–15.2; head length: 2.7–3.2; head width: 3.2–3.7; pronotum width: 8.7– 10.3; pronotum length: 2,8–3.2; abdominal width: 8.8–10.8.
Male. Dorsal rim of pygophore with median third almost rectilinear. Median margins of posterolateral angles of pygophore almost rectilinear. Proctiger (segment X) as long as posterolateral angles of pygophore; apex of process of ventral wall obtusely rounded. Parameres hardly visible from dorsal side; in ventral view attaining middle of proctiger. Lateral margins of parameres almost rectilinear (
Figs. 1–2
).
Female (
Fig. 14
). Posterior margins of gonocoxites 8 slightly angulate; folded areas along lateral margins of gonocoxites 8 and median margins of laterotergites 8 more conspicuous than in
P. paraensis
, not obscured by the gonocoxites 8 (
Fig. 3
).
Material examined
.
Male
, no data (
AMNH
).
TRINIDAD
:
Maraval
, B. W. I.,
female
,
9.X.1921
, W. Buthn, Lutz Collection 1961,
Psorus cassidiformis
Bergroth, Herbert Ruckes
(
NMNH
).
BRAZIL
:
Amazonas
,
Itamarati
,
Monte Calvário
,
06° 07’ 29’’S
,
68° 02’ 41’’W
,
male
,
10–15.X.1999
,
Cristina M. Buhrnheim & Tomáz L. Gualberto
col.,
a luz mista de mercúrio
(
UFRG
);
Coari
,
Rio Urucu
,
Igarapé
Marta-3,
4°50’0,73’’S
,
65°02’37’’W
,
female
,
14–25.VII.1993
,
P. F. Bührnheim
et al
. col. (
CZPB
).
PERU
:
Madre de Dios
,
Manu
,
Rio Manu
,
250 m
,
Pakitza
,
12°7’S
,
70°58°W
,
2 females
,
9–3.IX.1988
,
Waine N. Mathis
(
NMNH
);
Pucallos
,
Rio Ucayali
(
200 m
),
female
,
I.1961
,
Dirings
(
MZSP
).