Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant) Brailovsky, 2019

Brailovsky, Harry, 2019, Illustrated identification key to the genera of New World Micrelytrini (Hemiptera: Alydidae: Micrelytrinae), with description of two new genera, one new species and new distributional records, Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 393-409 : 396-397

Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 12 , 25 , 38 , 59–60 )

Protenor tropicalis Distant 1881: 160 .

Redescription. Male. Dorsal coloration. Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus and corium pale yellow; eyes pale reddish; ocellar tubercle and punctures of pronotum, clavus and corium darker; antennal segment I yellowish orange with dark spots, II–III shiny reddish, and IV bicolored reddish brown with basal third pale yellow; calli and anterolateral margins of pronotum pale yellow; midline of pronotal disk with pale yellow longitudinal stripe without punctures; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine with an irregular dark brown spot near basal angle; costal margin of corium with dark reddish row of punctures; connexivum pale yellow with upper and inner borders darker; abdominal segments III–VI pale yellowish orange and VII pale brown with middle third pale yellowish orange. Ventral coloration. Head yellowish white, with lateral punctures dark brown; rostral segments I–IV pale yellow (apex of segment IV black); pro-, meso-, and metapleura yellow with dark reddish punctures; pro-, meso-, and metasterna, and metathoracic scent gland yellowish white; coxae yellow with one small dark brown discoidal spot; trochanters yellow; femora yellow with dark spots; tibiae and tarsi pale yellow to yellowish orange; abdominal sterna pale yellow with few small brown spots lateral to midline, and with several scattered pink spots; midline of abdominal sterna III–IV and occasionally III–VII with dark brown longitudinal stripe.

Female. Color and habitus similar to male. Connexival segments VIII–IV yellow; abdominal segments VII–IX pale dark; genital plates pale yellow with scattered dark punctures.

Measurements. Male. Body length 10.88; head length 1.92; head width across eyes 1.44; interocular distance 0.92; preocular distance 1.28; postocular distance 0.19; interocellar distance 0.16; antennal segments: I 1.96, II 2.20, III 1.96, IV 2.64; pronotum: total length 1.76; maximum width across frontal angles 1.16; maximum width across humeral angles 1.84; scutellum: length 1.12, width 0.71.

Female. Body length 11.33; head length 1.88; head width across eyes 1.48; interocular distance 0.98; preocular distance 1.28; postocular distance 0.19; interocellar distance 0.16; antennal segments: I 2.08, II 2.36, III 2.04, IV 2.96; pronotum: total length 1.84; maximum width across frontal angles 1.20; maximum width across humeral angles 1.92; scutellum: length 1.12, width 0.76.

General distribution. Orirginally described frorm Guatemala (Las Mercedes, and Purula), Nicaragua and later cited in Mexico (Veracruz: Barranca de Metlac and Zongolica) ( Distant 1881; Brailovsky & Zurbia 1979).

Material examined. New records. MEXICO: Chiapas, 6 mi S Rayon , 5300’, 16-VI-1965, Burke, Meyer & Schaffner ( TAMU) 1 male, 1 female . Hidalgo, Meztitlan, 10-XI-2017, J. Valdez ( UNAM) 1 male; Tlalchinol , 4 km NE, 1581 m, 21.02781°N– 98.64271°W, 2-VI-2015, D. Barrales, O. Francke ( UNAM) 1 female . Oaxaca, 11 mi N Candelaria Loxicha, 19-VII-1974, Clark, Ashe, Murray , Schaffner ( TAMU) 1 male; km 78.5 Tuxtepec-Oaxaca , 24-IX-1989, A. Cadena ( TAMU) 1 male; Pochutla , desv. Pluma Hidalgo , 3500’, 15°57’71’’N–96°97’54’’W, 15- VIII-1986, E. Barrera, G. Ortega Leon UNAM) 1 female; Pluma Hidalgo , Finca Copalita , 31-I-1988, E. Ramirez ( UNAM) 1 female; Portillo del Rayo , 5 km S de Xalatengo, 21-X-1982, E. Barrera ( UNAM) 1 male, 1 female; 5 km N of Jalatengo, road 175 Puerto Angel , 1590 m, 21-X-1975, H. Brailovsky ( UNAM) 1 female; Sola de Vega , 1820 m, 11–14-VI-2016, G. Nogueira ( UNAM) 2 males; Portillo del Rayo , 10-II-1982, 31-I-1988, E. Barrera, A. Ca- dena, E. Ramirez ( UNAM) 2 males, 1 female . Veracruz, Zongolica, 18-V-1962, 30-I-1967, 30-XI-1967 ( UNAM) 2 males, 1 female ; Metlac, 21-III-1975, A. Moron ( TAMU) 1 male ; Idolos , 1-V-2003, H. Brailovsky, L. Cervantes ( UNAM) 1 male ; Orizaba , Cerro del Borrego , 2-V-2000, E. Barrera, A. Ibarra ( UNAM) 1 female ; San Andres Tlalnelhuayocan , 1400 m, 19°31’19’’N–96°59’27’’W, 3-V-2009, S. Lopez ( INECOL) 1 male ; old road Xalapa-Coatepec, 1272 m, 19°–28’991’’N–96°56’877’’W, 2-VII-2009, L. F. de la Mora ( UNAM) 1 female ; Coatepec-Anahuac, 1217 m, 19°27’50’’N–96°57’35’’W, X-2009, L. Cervantes, S. Lopez ( INECOL) 1 female ; 3 km S of Naolinco, 1675 m, 19.39868°N–96.54044W, 19-IV-2005, E. Barrera, C. Rosas ( UNAM) 1 male . HONDURAS: Departamento

Morazan, Cerro Uyuca , 5900’–6100’, 3-VII-1948, T. H. Hubbell ( USNM) 1 female.

Biology. This species is found in tropical and subtropical zones and has been collected in secondary vegetation climbing grasses.

Figures

FIGURES 9–13. Dorsal view. 9, Eudarmistus bicolor Breddin (male). 10, Nepiomistus eximius sp. nov. (male). 11, Protenor belfragei Haglund (female). 12, Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant) (male), comb. nov. 13, Trachelium bicolor Herrich-Schäffer (female).

FIGURES 22–26. Lateral view. 22, Eudarmistus bicolor Breddin (male). 23, Nepiomistus eximius sp. nov. (male). 24, Protenor belfragei Haglund (female). 25, Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant) (male), comb. nov. 26, Trachelium bicolor Herrich-Schäffer (female).

FIGURES 35–39. Lateral view of head and thorax. 35, Eudarmistus bicolor Breddin (male). 36, Nepiomistus eximius sp. nov. (male). 37, Protenor belfragei Haglund (female). 38, Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant) (male), comb. nov. 39, Trachelium bicolor Herrich-Schäffer (female).

FIGURES 56–62. Parameres. 40–41, Bactrocoris plaumanni Kormilev. 42–43, Bactrodosoma parallelum Stål. 44–45, Bactrophya peruviana Breddin. 46–47, Bactrophyamixia slateri Brailovsky. 48–49, Calamocoris erubescens Breddin. 50–51, Cydamus borealis Distant. 52–53, Darmistus subvittatus Stål. 54–55, Esperanza texana Barber. 56, Nepiomistus eximius sp. nov. 57–58, Protenor belfragei Haglund. 50–60, Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant), comb. nov. 61–62, Trachelium alboapicatum Distant.