Cryphocricos schubarti De Carlo, 1968

Sites, Robert W., 2021, A review of Cryphocricos Signoret, 1850 (Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 72-94 : 88

Cryphocricos schubarti De Carlo

( Figs 35–36 )

Cryphocricos schubarti De Carlo 1968 : Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argentina 30:101.

Type repository: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (Buenos Aires, Argentina) .

Type locality: This species was described from “ Río Campo Bello , Brasil,” which is a locality within the city of Itatiaia in the State of Rio de Janeiro (F.F.F. Moreira, pers. comm.). Although it is not given in the original description, the data labels of the type specimens also read “Itatiaia.” This is the same locality as the type locality of C. rufus .

Discussion: The brachypterous male holotype is clean, intact, and missing only the tarsus of the right hindleg ( Fig. 35 ). The brachypterous female allotype is intact except for some pretarsi ( Fig. 36 ).

Diagnosis: This species differs from C. rufus by its brownish color, longer body, and fewer dentations on the lateral margin of the pronotum, and from C. daguerrei by the shape of the subgenital plate ( De Carlo 1968). The subgenital plate of the allotype is shallowly concave with rounded posterolateral corners ( Fig. 36 ), rather than threelobed as in C. daguerrei , C. fittkaui , and C. graziae n.sp.

Figures

FIGURES 35–38. Cryphocricos schubarti (35) holotype, dorsal and (36) allotype, ventral. Cryphocricos vianai holotype (37) dorsal and (38) ventral. Fig. 35 and C. vianai photos courtesy of H.D.D. Rodrigues.