Brizica tubercularis, Published, 2007

WALL, MICHAEL A., 2007, A revision of the Solomonius-group of the stinkbug tribe Halyini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae), Zootaxa 1539 (1), pp. 1-84 : 42-43

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1539.1.1
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scientific name	Brizica tubercularis
status	sp. nov.

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Brizica tubercularis sp. nov.

( Figs. 16G View FIGURE 16 , 19 View FIGURE 19 G-I, 20E, 23)

Holotype. Male. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province, Kar Kar, Kurum, Bagiai Crater Trail , elev. 240– 750 m, [4° 51' S, 145° 42’ E], 1–30 August 1968, coll. N.L.H. Krauss. Deposited in Bernice P. Bishop Museum. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Distinguished by relatively short labium, profemora armed with 7+ ventral barbs, proctiger of male swollen and bilobed distally ( Fig. 19G View FIGURE 19 ), outer ventral rim of pygophore bearing medial process, inner ventral rim darkly sclerotized and emarginate ( Fig. 19G View FIGURE 19 ).

Description. Body 2X longer than broad ( Fig. 16G View FIGURE 16 ). Vertex of head slightly convex, punctate. Juga apices acute becoming rounded and swollen laterally. Juga and tylus subequal in length, depressed relative to remain- der of head. First antennal segment surpassing apex of head. Eyes stalked; posterior margins converging toward pronotal margin. Pronotum deeply punctuate; anterolateral margins crenulate; lateral angles acute. Scutellum swollen anteriorly; apex narrowly rounded. Laterotergites with posterior angle slightly produced.

Bucculae produced, becoming obsolete prior to reaching posterior margin of head; anterior angle of bucculae distinct, acute, directed anteroventrally. Labium reaching third abdominal sternite (second visible); ratios 1:1.5:1.75:1. Peritreme 1/4 as long as distance from ostiole of metathoracic scent gland to lateral margin of metapleuron. Episternal ridge located 2/3 of distance between ostiole of metathoracic scent gland and lateral margin of metapleuron. Venter of abdomen primarily convex; median flattened to slightly sulcate. Profemora with 7–8 ventral thorn–shaped spines, spines becoming larger on distal portions.

Color and vestiture. Ground color straminous to testaceous with black shining punctures. Antennal segments I–III testaceous with piceous markings; segments IV–V piceous. Legs mostly straminous; tibiae with two castaneous bands on longitudinal ridges. Spiracles black. Antennal segments I–II and proximal portion of segment III shiny with sparse vestiture; remainder of segment III and segments IV–V with dense short pile.

Males. Ventral rim of pygophore with single large medial tubercle; dorsal rim produced as large lateral lobes; lobes meeting medially in heavily schlerotized/melanized area ( Fig. 19G–I View FIGURE 19 ). Proctiger elongate, lateral margins concave, broadened and bilobed distally; ventral surface sclerotized with microsculptured ridges; posterior and anterior margins of basal sclerite convex ( Fig. 19I View FIGURE 19 ).

Females. Eighth gonocoxa broadly triangular with acute distal hook. Ninth laterotergites rectangular, distally swollen ( Fig. 20E View FIGURE 20 ).

Measurements. Males (n=5): body length 16.5 SD 0.7 (15.5–17.1), anterior pronotal width 3.0 SD 0.1 (2.9–3.1), humeral width 8.9 SD 0.4 (8.2–9.1), scutellar length 6.2 SD 0.3 (5.9–6.5), medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 1.4 SD 0.1 (1.2–1.5), medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 2.2 SD 0.1 (2.1– 2.3). Females (n=4): body length 17.1 SD 0.7 (16.6–18.1), anterior pronotal width 3.2 SD 0.2 (3.1–3.4), humeral width 8.9 SD 0.4 (8.5–9.3), scutellar length 6.1 SD 0.5 (5.7–6.8), medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 2.1 SD 1.4 (1.3–4.2), medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 2.2 SD 0.2 (2.0–2.4). Appendages in Table 3.

Etymology. From the Latin tubercularis — having tubercles, because of the presence of a large medial tubercle on the venter of the pygophore.

Paratypes. INDONESIA: Irian Jaya, Hollandia , elev. 0–50 m, [2° 32' S, 140° 42’ E], 23 July 1938, coll. L. Toxopeusleg - 2 ♀♀ ( RMNH) GoogleMaps ; Hollandia area , W. Sentani, Cyclops Mtns, elev. 150–250 m, [2° 32' S, 140° 42’ E], 17–24 June 1959, coll. J.L. Gressitt - 1 ♂ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps ; PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Bernhard Camp , elev. 50 m, 1– 31 July 1938, coll. J. Olthof - 1 ♂ ( RMNH) ; Eliptamin Valley , elev. 1200–1350 m, 16–31 July 1959, coll. W. W. Brandt - 1 ♂ ( BPBM) ; Madang Province, Madang, elev. 5 m, [5° 13' S, 145° 48’ E], 28 October 1958, coll. J.L. Gressitt - 1 ♂ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps ; Finisterre Mts., Damanti , elev. 1082 m, [5° 55' S, 145° 58’ E], 2–11 October 1964, coll. M Bacchus - 1 ♀ ( BMNH) GoogleMaps ; Morobe Province, Sangan , [6° 21' S, 146° 19’ E], 16 December 1959, coll. J. Ardley - 1 ♂ ( BMNH) GoogleMaps ; Sanduan Province, Torricelli Mts., Nangian Vill. , [3° 23' S, 142° 15’ E], 17– 24 November 1958, coll. W. W. Brandt - 2 ♀♀ ( BMNH) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Low and middle elevational areas of the Finisterre, Torricelli, and Cyclops mountain ranges in northern New Guinea ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 ).