Atahualpacoris Carvalho

erreira, Paulo Sergio Fiuza, Lopes, Jose Luis Benavides, Souza, Fagner de & erreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza, 2018, Atahualpacorishenryi, a new species of plant bug from Colombia (Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirini), ZooKeys 796, pp. 175-185 : 176-177

Atahualpacoris Carvalho

Diagnosis.

Medium to large size (6-10 mm), oval-elongate, covered with short, adpressed pubescence. Front striated and vertex grooved. Pronotum trapeziform, narrowed to head, strongly punctate with lateral margins rounded; calli smooth; collar shiny and well defined. Scutellum rough and punctate, shiny and swollen. Hemelytra smooth, covered with short, adpressed pubescence.

Remarks.

Atahualpacoris and Calocorisca ( Carvalho 1985, 1986) are morphologically similar genera. Atahualpacoris has the body elongate with the lateral margins parallel or nearly so, and the scutellum is convex and raised at the middle, with its apex acute, slightly curled upward. The hemelytral membrane length is longer than in Calocorisca ( Atahualpacoris length of hemelytra 1.7 to 1.9 times length of membrane; Calocorisca length of hemelytra 2.2 to 2.5 times length of membrane). Antennal segment I is covered by short setae mixed with common hairs, whereas in Calocorisca this segment is covered by erect setae longer than the width of the segment.

Key to the species of Atahualpacoris