Paranotella, Carpintero & Guilbert & De Magistris, 2022

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo, Guilbert, Éric & De Magistris, Alberto Antonio, 2022, Paranotella taragui, a curious new genus and new species of Tingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Argentina, Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 48 (4), pp. 807-811 : 808-809

Paranotella gen. nov.

Description. Male. General shape elongate. Head somewhat elongated and rounded in lateral view, subtly punctured, extending in front twice the width of an eye; true cephalic spines composed of two long paired frontal spines that extend well beyond the apex of the head, almost reaching the apex of the first antennal segment; in lateral view, these spines contiguous to the surface of the head, not erected forming an angle of 45°, like the cephalic spines in the genera in which these spines appear ( Fig. 4 ); a pair of small occipital tubercles on the inner posterior margin of each eye that appear to be small thorns, but are not. Eyes separated from the pronotum by a distance less than half the thickness of antennal segment III, ovate, longer than wide; antenniferous tubercle long, spiniform. Antennae with antennal segment I short, 1.5 times the length of antennal segment II and not reaching the apex of the bucculae; segment III slender, segment IV a little swollen. Antennal ratio 1: 0.6: 3.3: 1.2. Posterior margin of head elevated, carinated. Bucculae subtriangular in lateral view, large, convergent anteriorly, their apex extending anteriorly to the middle of the antennal segment II; the bucculae with at least two irregular rows of thick areoles. Rostrum reaching the middle of the mesosternum. Pronotum densely covered with thick punctures, with a single median carina; pronotal collar wide, with at least four rows of punctures and its posterior margin well defined, strongly demarcated in lateral view; posterior process elongate and covering the clavus and scutellum. Paranota well developed in its anterolateral margin, pointing forward, elongated, with rounded apices and internally concave, areolate with three rows of thick points inside. Pro, meso and metapleura with thick punctures. Metapleural scent gland opening reduced to a simple hole. Hemelytra convex, wider and longer than abdomen, overlapping when at rest, jointly rounded behind. Discoidal area with three rows of quadrangular areolas; subcostal area with three rows of very irregular areolas both in shape and arrangement; costal area with two rows of pentagonal areolas; sutural area with two rows of external quadrangular areolas and one or two rows of smaller, irregular areolas. Rostral channel not deep. Pro, meso and metasternal laminas not very high, the last one widening posteriorly. Thin and long legs, second tarsomere visibly thickened towards its apex. Abdomen glabrous, smooth, with only the pygophore weakly rough transversely. Abdominal sterna I to III fused.

Female unknown.

Type-species. Paranotella taragui sp. nov., by present designation.

Etymology. Named after the particular shape of their paranota, combined with the feminine diminutive suffix – ella, for its small size ( Brown 1985).

Figures

Figures 1-5.Paranotella taragui.1. Dorsal view.2. Ventral view.3. Head detail, dorsal view: arrowssat = spiny antenniferous tubercles; fps = false postocular spine;pas = paired anterior spines.4. Head detail, lateral view: arrows buc = bucculae; pco = pronotal collar. 5. Pygophore: arrow par = parameres. / 1. Vista dorsal. 2. Vista ventral. 3. Detalle de la cabeza, vista dorsal: flechas sat = tubérculos antenÍferos espinosos; fps = falsa espina postocular; pas = espinas anteriores pares. 4. Detalle de la cabeza, vista lateral: flechas buc = búculas; pco = collar del pronoto. 5. Pigóforo: flecha par = parámeros.