Litoblatta clara ( Walker, 1868 )

Valverde, Alejandra Del Carmen & Crespo, Francisco A., 2021, Four new species of Litoblatta from Argentina with a key to species based on males (Blattaria: Ectobiidae: Blattellinae), Zootaxa 4941 (4), pp. 553-568 : 563-564

Litoblatta clara ( Walker, 1868)

( Figs. 55–59 , 74 )

Ischnoptera clara Walker 1868: 114 , Ischnoptera clara Finot 1897: 177 , Ischnoptera clara Kirby 1904: 83 , Ischnoptera brasiliensis Shelford 1908: 8 , Litoblatta clara Princis 1959: 135 , Litoblatta clara Princis 1969: 877 , Litoblatta clara Rocha e Silva Albuquerque & Aguiar 1975: 236 (key to species), 238, fig. 10, Litoblatta paraguayensis Princis 1948: 13 , fig. 15 (synonymy).

Material examined. ARGENTINA. Province of Misiones: ♁, locality missing, 20/XII/1919, Joërgensen P. coll. ( MLP); ♁, Acaraguá, 10/X/1969, Leg. G.M. R. ( FCEN) (= Litoblatta brasiliensis in Crespo et al. 2010); ♁, PP Salto Encantado, 30/XI/1996, coll. missing ( FCEN); ♁, San Javier, Puerto Londero, IV/1947, Viana M.J. coll. ( MACN) (= Litoblatta brasiliensis in Crespo & Valverde 2008, Crespo et al. 2010).

Diagnosis. Similar to L. misionerae . Via very wide and apically strongly curved ( Fig. 58 ). The right stylus is transversal to body longitudinal axe. Left stylus with hairs ( Fig. 57 ).

Male. Measurements in mm. N = 4. PL: 3.20‾4.10; TeL: 13.87‾16.20; TL: 17.83‾19.90; IO: 0.40‾0.60; IOc: 0.40‾0.70; IA: 0.80–0.90. Supra anal plate posterior border almost straight ( Fig. 55 ). The right paraproct has a spiny area at the internal margin near its base ( Fig. 56 ). Subgenital plate styli as in figure 57. Genital sclerites are showed in figure 58. R1P presents caudally a convex scale zone sz ( Fig. 59 ). L2 broader basally, via wide and apically strongly curved ( Fig. 58 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Argentina-Province of Misiones.

Figures

FIGURES 55‒59. Litoblatta clara. 55. Supra anal plate apical margin straight, dorsal view. 56. Right paraproct with a group of spines at the internal margin near its base, ventral view. 57. Subgenital plate with styli placed perpendicularly to one another, ventral view. 58. Subgenital plate, L2+via and right complex R, dorsal view. 59. R, detail with scale zone sz, dorsal view.

FIGURES 68‒74. Schemes of the sclerite R1P with the convex scale zone sz, dorsal view. 68. Litoblatta lutea sp.nov. 69. L. elisae sp. nov. 70. L. misionerae sp. nov. 71. L. tucumanae sp. nov. 72. L. brasiliensis. 73. L. argentina. 74. L. clara.