Nyctantonina pteromacrotata Vélez, 2013

Vélez-Bravo, Andrés, 2013, One new genus of cockroach in the Neotropical subfamily Nyctiborinae (Dictyoptera: Blattodea: Ectobiidae), Zootaxa 3681 (1), pp. 79-84 : 83

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.1.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9F40015E-366D-4838-B391-CF7D89A39002
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6160349
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E16FF05F-FFE9-FFB3-65C2-9A76D4F7F930
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Nyctantonina pteromacrotata Vélez
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Nyctantonina pteromacrotata Vélez View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figures 2 View FIGURES 1 – 2 , 9–14 View FIGURES 3 – 14 )

Type material. Holotype male, Guatemala: Yepocapa, H. Elishewits, Mar.–Apr. 1945 ( AMNH).

Differential diagnosis. N. pteromacrotata differs from N. breviclasma by 1) Tegmina longest, which extend beyond the apex of the cerci; 2) Supra-anal plate with caudal margin produced and medially truncated; 3) Both subregions, R 1v and R1d, projected simultaneously over the complex R 1t +R2 and 4) The projection of the left arm (R2), with the right lateral margin deeply emarginated.

Description. General habitus as in generic description. Species of medium size (20 mm male), with body, legs and antennae dark brown. Pronotum and tegmina reddish brown ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 2 ).

Male with both pairs of wings extending beyond the apex of cerci.

Supra-anal plate with caudal margin produced and medially truncated ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ); cerci long and cylindrical, with 11 segments, the last segment oval and narrower than the other segments ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ); ventrally, right paraproct straight and claw-shaped ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ). Male subgenital plate slightly asymmetric, with styles similarly shaped, with left style longer than the right style and distally located on the caudal margin ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ).

Genital sclerites: region R1 as a large and bulky structure at the caudal region of sclerite R; subregion R 1v broader than the subregion R1d, the latter as a narrow and elongated stripe extending along the caudal and the left lateral margin of R1; both subregions, R 1v and R1d, projected simultaneously over the complex R 1t +R2 ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ); this projection ending in the lateral margin of subregion R 1t. The projection of (R2) with right lateral margin deeply emarginated ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ). Apex of R2 extended beyond the caudal margin of R3. Complex R 1t +R2 located near the lower left corner of region R3, below the projection of R1d, nearly half the size of regions R3 ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ). Caudal margin of region R3 with middle projection not articulating with subregion R 1v ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 3 – 14 ).

Measurements (mm). Body length 20; pronotum length × maximum width 4.0 × 7.7; tegmen length × width 24.2 × 8.0; interocular width 0.3; interantennal width between sockets 1.7.

Etymology. Pteron (Gr.) = wing, makrotatos (Gr.) = longest. The name refers to the long wings of this species.

Distribution. Central America ( Guatemala).