Pseudoheptascelio muesebecki Szabo Figures 11-16Morphbank12

Pseudoheptascelio muesebecki Szabó, 1966: 167 (original description); Masner, 1976: 18 (type information).

Description.

Body length of female: 4.09-5.42 mm (n=15). Mesosoma color: black. Body microsculpture pattern: smooth.

Rugae on occiput: reticulate. Microsculpture between occipital rugae: absent. Setae on crests of occipital rugae: absent. Shape of female A4: length subequal to width. Shape of female A5: transverse. Shape of female A6: distinctly transverse.

Setation of pronotal depression: moderately to densely setose (Fig. 12). Setation of netrion: moderately to densely setose. Sculpture of midlobe of mesoscutum: foveate to areolate throughout; foveate to areolate anteriorly, or sculpture effaced, sparser posteriorly (Fig. 14). Number of trabecula across transscutal articulation: 7-8, widely spaced. Shape of metascutellum: short, shallowly cleft medially (Fig. 14). Sculpture of mesopleural depression: almost entirely sculptured, with transverse rugulae and interspersed irregular fovea.

Sculpture of T2-T3: irregularly reticulate, without longitudinal orientation. Length/width of female T5: 1.26-1.80 mm (n=15). Length/width of female T6: 1.05-1.53 mm (n=15). Sculpture of T6: with reticulate microsculpture only.

Diagnosis.

This species is very similar to Pseudoheptascelio cornopis, and it may be distinguished by the less elongate T5 and the coarse areolate sculpture on the vertex.

Link to Distribution Map.

13 [http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=5133]

Assocations.

No data available.

Material Examined.

Holotype, female: BRAZIL: PA, Belém, no date, E. Horváth, HNHM 0015 (deposited in HNHM). Other material: (14 females) BOLIVIA: 1 female, OSUC 186244 (CNCI). BRAZIL: 9 females, OSUC 186233-186240 (CNCI); OSUC 58878 (OSUC). ECUADOR: 1 female, OSUC 186208 (CNCI). PARAGUAY: 2 females, OSUC 176024, 176033 (OSUC). TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: 1 female, OSUC 186163 (CNCI).