Amauromelpia miri Fernandes & Grazia, 1998

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Amauromelpia miri Fernandes & Grazia, 1998

Figs 49 , 112 , 115–125 , 135

Amauromelpia miri Fernandes & Grazia, 1998a: 157–160 , figs 6–9, 13–15, 17.

Type material examined. Holotype ♂, PERU, Loreto, Iquitos, Iquitos ville, chacra Mario Eduardo Vargas, <Cruciferaceae? / Sinapris>, G. Couturier leg. ( AMNH) <illustrated specimen >. Paratypes, PERU, ♂, Loreto, Iquitos, L. Huggert leg. ( LUND) <illustrated specimen >; ♀, Jenaro Herrera, G. Couturier leg. ( UFRG) <illustrated specimen >. Other material examined. PERU, ♂, San Martín, Tocache, L. Huggert leg. ( UFRG), <illustrated specimen>, <new record >.

Diagnosis. Mandibular plates equal than clypeus in length ( Fig. 117 ).Anterolateral margins of pronotum serrate ( Fig. 135 ).

Measurements. See Table 1 .

Male genitalia. Posterolateral angles of pygophore quadrate. Genital cup occupying less than half the length of pygophore. Area between layers of ventral rim depressed. Segment X having a transversal carina ( Figs 120–122 ). Phallus ( Figs 123–125 ): Dorsal connectives short, not reaching the distal half of phallotheca. Dorsal processes of phallotheca wider at the base, and curved.

Female genitalia. Posterior margins of valvifers 8 straight. Mesial margins of laterotergites 9 convergent; posterior margins surpassing abdominal tergite 8 ( Fig. 49 ). Capsula seminalis without process (see Fernandes & Grazia, 1998: 159, fig. 18).

Distribution. Colombia (Amazonas); Peru (Loreto) ( Fig. 135 ).

Figures

FIGURE 135. Occurrence records of the species of Amauromelpia.

FIGURES 48–51. Female genitalia. Genital plates in posteroventral view. 48: Hypatropis australis; 49: Amauromelpia miri; 50: Luridocimex wygodzinskyi: 51: Stysiana pardidens. Abbreviations: la8, laterotergites 8; la9, laterotergites 9; vf8, valvifers 8; vf9, valvifers 9. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 112–114. Amauromelpia Fernandes & Grazia, 1998 and Luridocimex Grazia, Fernandes & Schwertner, 1998. Holotype, habitus dorsal. 112: A. miri; 113: A. ussu; 114: L. wygodzinskyi. Scale bars = 1.0 mm.

FIGURES 115–125. Amauromelpia miri Fernandes & Grazia, 1998. 115–116: Habitus dorsal and ventral; 117–118: Head, dorsal and lateral view; 119: Spiracles; 120–122: Pygophore in dorsal, posterior and ventral view; 123–125: Phallus in dorsal, lateral, ventral and posterolateral view. Abbreviations: prX, process of segment X. Scale bars = 115–116, 119, 120–122: 1.0 mm; 117–118: 0.5 mm; 123–125: 0.25 mm.