Pampacader cicchinoi, Carpintero, Diego L. & Montemayor, Sara I., 2005

Carpintero, Diego L. & Montemayor, Sara I., 2005, (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Argentina, Zootaxa 1066, pp. 57-60 : 59-60

Pampacader cicchinoi n. sp.

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Measurements: Total length: 2, 93; Total width: 1,52. Head length: 0,56; width: 0,4; Vertex: 0,31; Antennae length segment I: 0,0075; segment II: 0,01; segment III: 0, 575; segment IV: 0,0175. Pronotum median length: 0,45; maximum length (lat): 0,57; Width base: 0, 88.

General coloration dark grey to blackish. Head black. Pronotum tricarinate, front margin concave and posterior margin transverse. Pronotal collar paler than rest of pronotum. Elytra wider and longer than abdomen.

FEMALE: Similar to male in shape and coloration. Bucculae with outer margin whitish in basal half.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, HOLOTYPE: male, Tandil. IV­2003 Pitfall (trap), Dellapé­Carpintero. PARATYPES: 2 females, Lag. Mar Chiquita. IV/2002, Pitfall (trap), Cicchino; female, Los Hornos (La Plata). VI/1996, (Pitfall trap), Cicchino; female, Lag. de los Padres. V/2001, Pitfall (trap), Cicchino; female, La Cantera, Balcarce. V/2004, Pitfall (trap), Cicchino; 2 females and 1 male, R. N. 226 Km 22,7, Sierra de los Difuntos 16­III­04 / 1­VI­04 (Pitfall) col. Farina­Cicchino­Grandinetti.

ETYMOLOGY: In honor of Prof. Armando Cicchino, who kindly provided most of the specimens used in this description.