Neoscutops cariri Amorim & Vasconcelos

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Neoscutops cariri Amorim & Vasconcelos

Neoscutops cariri Amorim & Vasconcelos, 1990: 37 . Figs. 1–3 .

Diagnosis (based on Amorim & Vasconcelos [1990]). Frons dark brown; face brown with an inverted W-shaped light yellow spot at base of lunula; scape brown, pedicel dark brown; palpus brown, long, somewhat rectangular; gena yellow; scutum dark brown, yellowish on anterior corners; scutellum brown; coxae and femora brown; fore tibia brown, mid and hind tibia yellowish brown on basal ¾, brown on apical ¼; tarsi light yellow; second tarsomeres with some ventral blackish setulae.

Distribution. Brazil (Alagoas, Paraiba).

Remarks. The type species was not examined because it cannot be located. It is probably lost.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6 (the peruvianus group): Neoscutops annulatus sp. nov.. 1 – 4, male terminalia (paratype): 1, posterodorsal view; 2, lateral view; 3, dorsal view; 4, ejaculatory apodeme, lateral view; 5, male sternite 6; 6, female terminalia, posteroventral view. Figs. 1 – 4 in the same scale. Abbreviations: cerc, cercus; ej apod, ejaculatory apodeme; ep, epandrium; hypd, hypandrium; ph, phallus; pg, postgonite; ST, sternite; TG, tergite.