Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002

Grazia, Jocelia, Bolze, Gisele Jardim & Barão, Kim Ribeiro, 2016, There and back again: contributions on Pseudevoplitus Ruckes (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 161-167 : 165-166

Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002

( Figures 6 , 23–26 )

Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002 in Grazia et al., 2002: 58–61 , figs 11–19.

Material examined. 1 f, GUYANA, Rio Claro, 10.IV.1976, Otelo Mattei leg.. ( UFRG) ; 1 f, BRAZIL, Pará, Belém, 6.V.1964, W. França leg. ( UFRG) ; 1 f, ECUADOR, Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station , 216 m, 00º37’55”S, 76º08’39”W, 31.I.2002, T.J. Henry & P.S.F. Ferreira leg., collected by Mercury vapor sheet ( NMNH) ; 1 f, ECUADOR, Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station , 216 m, 00º37’55”S, 76º08’39”W, 1.II.2002, T.J. Henry & P.S.F. Ferreira leg. ( NMNH) .

Diagnosis. Body yellowish with light-brown punctures dorsally, densely punctured; humeral angles curved posterolaterally ( Fig. 6 ). Male genitalia: processes of AB X well-developed, projected posteriorly and well surpassing the posterolateral angles of the pygophore. Female genitalia: margins of gonocoxites 8 reflexed.

Female genitalia. Genital plates setose. Margins of gonocoxites 8 reflexed; sutural margins of gonocoxites 8 parallel at basal 2/3, divergent posteriorly; posterior margins of gonocoxites 8 convex, sinuous ( Figs 23–24 ). Laterotergites 8 triangular; inner margins of laterotergites 8 obscuring the basal-lateral angles of gonocoxites 8; posterior margin convex with small acute projection sub-medially. Gonocoxites 9 Y-shaped. Laterotergites 9 dactyliform, surpassing posterior margin of abdomen. AB X quadrate. Gonapophyses 9 membranous, chitinellipsen rounded ( Fig. 25 ). Posterior thickening of vaginal intima sclerotized, finger-like; anterior thickening of vaginal intima saccular, with 1+1 curved, sclerotized projections. Anterior annular flange flat; posterior annular flange convergent. Capsula seminalis, with three dactyliform processes ( Fig. 25 ).

Female measurements (mm). Total length, 18.74 ± 0.19 (18.37–19.37); length of head, 2.58 ± 0.09 (2.50–2.33); head length ahead of eyes, 1.67; width of head, 5.17; interocular distance, 2.25 ± 0.07 (2.5–2.17); length of pronotum, 5.29 ± 0.16 (5.01–5.84); length of pronotum at humeral angles, 13.27 ± 0.19 (12.69–13.69); length of pronotum basally, 8.8 ± 0.17 (8.51–9.35); length of scutellum, 7.92 ± 0.04 (7.84–8.01); width of scutellum, 5.67 ± 0.12 (5.34–6.01); width of abdomen at third segment, 9.22 ± 0.14 (8.85–9.68).

Distribution. Throughout the Amazon Basin along the equator; on Eastern and Western Amazon ( Fig. 26 ). Localities of material examined are all new records.

Additional material examined. Pseudevoplitus paradoxus Ruckes, 1958: 1 m, 2 ff, BRAZIL, Mato Grosso, Cotriguaçu , 08.XII.2009, M.R. Barreto leg. ( UFRG) . Pseudevoplitus vittatus Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994 : PARATYPE, 1 f, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manicoré , Margem do Rio Madeira , VIII.1941, Parko leg. ( MCNZ) ; 2 mm, 1 ff, ECUADOR, Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station , 216 m, 00º37’55”S, 76º08’39”W, 6.II.2002, T.J. Henry & P.S.F. Ferreira leg., ex. Mercury vapor light ( NMNH) . Pseudevoplitus costalimai Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994 : HOLOTYPE, m, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, Laisance , VIII.1934, E. Dias leg., em ninho de ave, ex-Costa Lima collection ( MCNZ) . Pseudevoplitus peruvianus Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994 : HOLOTYPE, m, PERU, Iquitos , 14.III.1969, B. K. Dozier & L. H. Rolston leg. ( AMNH) . Pseudevoplitus amazonicus Grazia & Greve, 2002 : HOLOTYPE, mm, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Juruá, Mineruazinho , 03°34’85”S, 66°59’15”W, 13–25.I.1996, P. Bürnheim, N.O. Aguiar et al. leg., à luz mista de mercúrio ( CZPB) ; PARATYPE, 1 m, same data as holotype ; PARATYPES, 1 m, 1 f, VENEZUELA, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Rio Negro , Rio Baria , 140 m, 00°55’N, 65°10’W, 7.II.1984, C. Padilla leg. ( MIZA) . Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002 : HOLOTYPE, mm, BRAZIL, Roraima: Ilha de Maraccá , rio Uraricoera , 21–30.XI.1987, J.A. Rafael e equipe leg., inseticida (fogging) ( INPA) . PARATYPES, 2 mm, same data as holotype ( INPA, UFRG) .

Figures

FIGURE 26. Distribution of species of Pseudevoplitus Ruckes, 1958.

FIGURES 1 – 8. Habitus in dorsal view of species of Pseudevoplitus Ruckes, 1958. 1. P. par adoxus Ruckes, 1958; 2. P. costalimai Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994, holotype, male; 3. P. peruvianus Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994, holotype, male; 4. P. vittatus Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994; 5. P. amazonicus Grazia & Greve, 2002, holotype, male; 6. P. roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002, holotype, male; 7 – 8. P. angelomachadoi sp. nov.: 7. holotype, male; 8. paratype, female. Scale bars = 2 mm.

FIGURES 23 – 25. Female genitalia of P. roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002. 23 – 24. genital plates, posteroventral view; 25. internal genitalia. Aaf = anterior annular flange; cs = capsula seminalis; dr = ductus receptaculi; g 9 = gonapophyses 9; gc 8 = gonocoxites 8; gc 9 = gonocoxites 9; la 8 = laterotergites 8; la 9 = laterotergites 9; paf = posterior annular flange; pco = pars communis; pi = pars intermedialis; tvi = thickening of vaginal intima; va = vesicular area; X = abdominal segment X. Scale bars = 1 mm.