Chloropepla aurea ( Pirán, 1963 )

Grevea, Caroline, Schwertnerb, Cristiano F. & Grazia, Jocelia, 2013, Cladistic analysis and synopsis of Chloropepla Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with the description of three new species, Insect Systematics & Evolution 44, pp. 1-43 : 34-35

Chloropepla aurea ( Pirán, 1963)

Chlorocoris aurea Pirán, 1963: 220–222 .

Chloropepla nigrispina Grazia, 1969: 106–111 (syn. by Grazia-Vieira, 1971). Chloropepla aurea ; Grazia-Vieira, 1971: 207–208; Grazia et al. 2008b: 534.

Diagnosis

Medium size (male: 14.1; female: 14.3). Lateral margins of juga convex, outlined by black. Humeral angles and dorsal sulcus of tibia outlined by black. Male. Pygophore rectangular, longer than wide. Marginal processes of dorsal rim triangular. Median excavation of ventral rim “V” shaped. Dorsal projection of hypandrium wide, apices nearly acute. Apex of paramere wedge shaped; apical and medial spines present. Phallotheca bearing one pair of acute processes in its posterior surface (processus phallothecae 1) and one pair of ear-like processes in its anterior surface (processus phallothecae 2). Vesica with bifurcate process at apex. Female. Gonocoxites 8 nearly pentagonal; sutural margins divergent at posterior half. Apical angles of laterotergites 8 acute, longer than laterotergites 9. Proximal two thirds of pars intermedialis striated. Capsula seminalis: two processes reaching the posterior annular flange, the third shorter, not reaching the base of capsula seminalis.

Distribution

Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz), Brazil (MT, new record), Peru (San Martin)

Phylogenetic considerations

Chloropepla aurea and C. pirani are sister species, sharing the margins of the humeral angle being outlined in black (40) and the presence of a pale yellow callus at the apex of the radial vein (51).