Paranotella taragui, 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 : 809

Paranotella taragui sp. nov.

( Figs. 1-4 )

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: Male, ARGENTINA: Corrientes, Ituzaingó , xii.1979, Viana. ( MACN).

Description. Male. Body long and oval, coloration light brown, shiny, with the base of head, tarsomere II, sternal area and abdomen dark brown; collar base reddish brown. Body length 2.46; width 0.88. Head a little longer than wide: length 0.4; width 0.32; interocular space 0.22. Lengths of antennal segments: I, 0.15; II, 0.09; III, 0.5; IV, 0.18. Pronotum long (0.68), nearly 25% as long as body and wider (0.96) than width across hemelytra. Parameres long, thin, angular, externally forming an angle of 90°, somewhat sickle-shaped, with its apical half long, thin and curved outwards.

Female unknown.

Etymology. The specific epithet is the GuaranÍ term to refer to the province of Corrientes, Argentina, where this species was found. GuaranÍ is the language of a people who inhabited much of southeastern South America.

Distribution. Argentina. Biogeographically, Ituzaingó is located in the Neotropical region, in an area where the Chaco subregion (Chaco province from the west and Pampa province from the south) an ecotone between these and some elements that are distributed along the coast and islands of the Paraná river, hailing from the east, from the Paranaense subregion, a province of the Paranaense Forest ( Morrone 2001).

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.