Pseudosinopla, Faúndez, Eduardo I., 2014

Faúndez, Eduardo I., 2014, A new genus for a Chilean species of Acanthosomatidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 3768 (5), pp. 596-600 : 597

Pseudosinopla n. gen.

(Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6)

Type species: Sinopla canaliculus, Reed 1898

Diagnosis. Male unknown, Total length: 9mm, Pronotum width: 4.8mm.

Head: anteclypeus extending beyond the anterior end of paraclypei; first antennal segment extending beyond paraclypei (at level with anteclypeus); bucculae united posteriorly; lateral margins of the head strongly concave; rostrum extending to the beginning of mesocoxae.

Thorax and wings: Pronotum trapezoid, with deep transverse strigae followed intercalated with irregular carinaes, which give it an embossed surface (Fig.1.); cicatrices with a black spot on mesial limit; lateral margins of pronotum straight to slightly convex, and each anterolateral margins produced in a small tiny processes; thorax without any carina ventrally; ostiolar peritreme short (reaching one-third of metapleuron) (Fig.6), oval and fleshy, evaporatoria not well defined, with a strong but not dense punctuated surface (Fig.6); scutellum near to equilaterum triangular, with an ivory callous on each side of the base (Fig.1); wings not covering connexiva, and slightly extending beyond end of abdomen; femora wide at apices; tibiae short as same length as femora, without any canal or indentation.

Abdomen and general body features: Abdominal spine thick, and reaching the mesocoxae (Fig.5); connexiva bicolored (brown and yellowish); Pendergrast’s organs present on 6th and 7th sternum, rounded; lateral margins of end of abdomen concave (Fig.4), basal plates trunctate and compact (Fig.4). General coloration dull yellowish with pink-reddish (Fig.1), ventral portion of abdomen light reddish to pink, dorsal surface covered by strong and deep brown punctures, punctation disperse with several unpunctated patches.

Material examined. Chile, Valdivia, Sinopla canaliculus Reed , type, 1(f) deposited in the United States Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution).

Etymology. Pseudo -, from Greek, which means false, and - Sinopla , the genus in which the type species was originally placed. The name makes reference to that Sinopla canaliculus is not a real Sinopla .