Stenoeurilla pellucida (Brailovsky & Barrera)

Brailovsky, Harry & Barrera, Ernesto, 2019, A revision of the Costa Rican species of Stenoeurilla Brailovsky & Barrera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Stenoscelideini), with the description of two new species, new distributional records, synonymical note, and key to the known species, Zootaxa 4550 (4), pp. 545-556 : 554

Stenoeurilla pellucida (Brailovsky & Barrera)

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Stenoscelidea pellucida Brailovsky & Barrera, 1997: 262 –264.

General distribution. Described from Costa Rica (Prov. Limon: Amubri) ( Brailovsky & Barrera 1997, Packauskas 2010).

Discussion. This attractive species is recognized by having abdominal segments III–VI black except for a yellow square on each side of the midline on each tergite; pronotum yellowish-orange with thin black stripe laterally and a broad black stripe on either side of midline, both stripes united by a transverse posterior black stripe on each side of the midline, nearly reaching the midline, black stripes tinged with metallic bluish green reflections; pro-, meso-, and metapleura, and abdominal sterna yellow, scattered with black dots ( Fig. 14 ); hind tibia with outer expansion short, occupying 46 % of the total length of hind tibiae in males and 61 % in females and inner expansion occupying 44 % of the total length of hind tibia in males and 45 % in females; maximum width of outer expansion of hind tibiae 1.20 in males and 1.34 in females; maximum width of inner expansion of hind tibiae 0.45 in males and 0. 57 in females ( Fig. 19 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1–5. Dorsal view of Stenoeurilla spp. 1, S. aenescens (Stål) (female). 2, S. hansoni (Brailovsky & Barrera) (male). 3, S. pellucida (Brailovsky & Barrera) (female). 4, S. herediana sp. nov. (male). 5, S. mesoamericana sp. nov. (male).

FIGURES 10–14. Abdomen in lateral view of Stenoeurilla spp. 10, S. aenescens (Stål) (male). 11, S. hansoni (Brailovsky & Barrera) (male). 12, S. herediana sp. nov. (male). 13, S. mesoamericana sp. nov. (male). 14, S. pellucida (Brailovsky & Barrera) (female).

FIGURES 15–19. Hind tibiae of Stenoeurilla spp. 15, S. aenescens (Stål) (female). 16, S. hansoni (Brailovsky & Barrera) (male). 17, S. herediana sp. nov. (male). 18, S. mesoamericana sp. nov. (male). 19, S. pellucida (Brailovsky & Barrera) (female).