Catorhintha tamaulipeca, Brailovsky & Barrera, 2010

Brailovsky, Harry & Barrera, Ernesto, 2010, Five new species of Catorhintha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Coreini) from Mexico and South America, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 59-74 : 69-70

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5323998
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E1587A1-FFCC-4F52-AF8E-9A7EFE03FBE3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Catorhintha tamaulipeca
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Catorhintha tamaulipeca View in CoL sp. nov.

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Type locality. Mexico, Tamaulipas, Alfredo V. Bonfil, Cañon de las Cucharas, 22°50′56″N 99°07′34″W.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ MEXICO, Tamaulipas, Alfredo V. Bonfil, Cañon de las Cucharas , 48 m, 22°50′56″N- 99°07′34″W, 10.v.2007. H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera, and L. Cervantes’ ( UNAM) GoogleMaps . PARATYPES: 1 ♀, same label data as holotype ( UNAM) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, ‘ TAMAULIPAS, Juamave , 753 m, 23°24′26″N- 99°22′37″W, 13.v.2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera, and L. Cervantes’ ( UNAM) GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀♀, ‘ TAMAULIPAS, KM 49 carr., Tampico-Ciudad Victoria , 138 m, 22°31′49″N- 98°07′49″W, 9.v.2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera, and L. Cervantes’ ( UNAM) GoogleMaps .

Description. Male. Head. Antenniferous tubercle armed externally with a small spine, convoluted and not touching the antennal plate; antennal segment I medium size, shorter than 1.20 mm, and relatively slender.

Genital capsule. Posteroventral margin with wide, slightly sinuate median plate, and laterally convexly sinuate ( Fig. 6 View Figs ).

Dorsal color. Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus, and corium dull yellow with reddish brown punctures; antennal segment I with outer face reddish brown, and inner face yellowish orange with red granules, segment II yellowish orange with basal and apical joint and granules reddish brown, III yellow with reddish brown granules and IV dark brown with basal and apical third yellow; tylus and jugae pale yellow with few reddish brown punctures; ocellar tubercle, postocular tubercle, and head basally black; claval and corial veins paler; hemelytral membrane yellowish translucid with veins darker; connexival segments with inner margin black and upper margin yellow; dorsal abdominal segments III to VI with scars IV–V and V–VI dark yellow, and VII black with posterior margin yellow.

Ventral color. Yellowish white; rostral segment I dark brown with yellowish mark at inner face, segments II to IV dark brown; pro-, meso-, metapleura and abdominal sterna III to VII with a prominent black discoidal spot ( Fig. 19 View Figs ); abdominal sterna III and IV with an additional black spot lateral to midline and close to anterior margin; mesosternum yellowish white and laterally shiny orange; metasternum yellowish white and laterally shiny pink; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme yellowish white; coxae yellowish white with black to dark brown spot externally; trochanters yellowish white with black to dark brown spine; femur, tibiae, tarsi, abdominal spiracles, and genital capsule yellowish white

Integument. Head dorsally, pronotum, scutellum, clavus, and corium deeply punctate, with uniformly small punctures; connexivum impunctate; head ventrally, abdomen, male genital capsule and female genital plates finely punctate; mesosternum impunctate; bucculae, pro-, meso-, and metapleura punctate; dorsal surface almost glabrous; ventral surface glabrous, except middle third of mesosternum and metasternum, abdominal sterna III to VII, and genital capsule with erect silver hairs; antennal and rostral segments, and legs clothed with short to long decumbent to erect silver hairs.

Female. Habitus and color similar to male holotype.

Genitalia. Fissura reaching anterior border of abdominal sternite VII; plica visible, ‘U’ shaped; gonocoxae I triangular, flat, inner margin conspicuously overlapping, upper margin rounded. Rostral segment I yellow with inner face pale brown; connexival segments VIII and IX with inner margin black and upper margin dull yellow; abdominal segments III to IX black with scars IV–V and V–VI pale brown; femur and tibiae shiny yellowish orange with pink marks; abdominal sterna with punctures usually pale pink.

Measurements. First male, then female (mm). Head length 1.52, 1.54; width across eyes 1.94, 2.00; interocular distance 1.02, 1.10; interocellar distance 0.56, 0.60; preocular distance 0.80, 0.88; length of antennal segments: I – 1.08, 1.16; II – 1.68, 1.80; III – 1.44, 1.48; IV – 2.04, 2.24. Pronotal length 2.72, 2.76; width across frontal angles 1.60, 1.68; width across humeral angles 3.04, 3.36. Scutellar length 1.32, 1.40; width 1.34, 1.44. Body length 11.80, 12.56.

Differential diagnosis. Catorhintha tamaulipeca sp. nov., like C. flava , has the antenniferous tubercle armed externally with a convoluted short spine and not touching the antennal plate, thorax and abdominal sterna pale yellowish white without numerous small black spots, dorsal abdominal segments black with scars IV–V and V–VI yellow and connexivum unicolorous, uniformly yellowish white.

Catorhintha tamaulipeca sp. nov. can be distinguished in having the antennal segment II yellowish orange with basal and apical joint and granules reddish brown, segment III yellow with reddish brown granules and IV dark brown with basal and apical third yellow; rostral segments II to IV dark brown, and black discoidal spots on thorax and abdominal sterna III to VII prominent ( Fig. 19 View Figs ). In C. flava the antennal segments II to IV, and rostral segments II to IV (apex of IV dark brown), are pale yellowish orange and the black spots on thorax and abdominal sterna III to VII are quite smaller ( Fig. 20 View Figs ). The male genital capsule of each species exhibit some differences on the sinuosity of the posteroventral edge ( Figs. 6–7 View Figs ).

Etymology. This species is named for the state of Tamaulipas ( Mexico) in which the type series was collected; adjective.

Distribution. Mexico (Tamaulipas).