Cryphocricos granulosus De Carlo

(Figs 11–12)

Cryphocricos granulosus De Carlo 1967: Amazoniana 1:190–191.

Type repository: Zoologische Staatssammlung München (Munich, Germany) .

Type locality: Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul .

Discussion: The holotype is a brachypterous male (Fig. 11) and the allotype a brachypterous female with heavy glue residue ventrally on the right side of the pterothorax (Fig. 12), evidently to hold the specimen to the pin. Eighteen additional paratypes are at ZSM. Ectosymbiotic flatworms, Temnocephala minutocirrus Amato, Seixas & Amato, 2007, were found on 33% of C. granulosus specimens collected from Arroio Forqueta in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Amato et al. 2007). Previously, the only report of Temnocephala on saucer bugs was on several species of Limnocoris, also in Brazil (Vianna & de Melo 2002).

Diagnosis: De Carlo (1967) reported this species to be very characteristic mainly due to the numerous granules (=tubercles) on the dorsal part of the body, which are not observed in C. vianai De Carlo, 1951, which has the same color, but the anterior femora are slightly less wide and the female subgenital plate at the distal end is recessed on the sides, with a slight protruding curve in the middle; it differs from C. rufus by color and because granules (=tubercles) are more dispersed in it.