Protenoroides tropicalis (Distant), comb. nov.

(Figs. 12, 25, 38, 59–60)

Protenor tropicalis Distant 1881: 160 .

Redescription. Male. Dorsal coloration. Head, pronotum, scutellum, clavus and corium pale yellow; eyes pale reddish; ocellar tubercle and punctures of pronotum, clavus and corium darker; antennal segment I yellowish orange with dark spots, II–III shiny reddish, and IV bicolored reddish brown with basal third pale yellow; calli and anterolateral margins of pronotum pale yellow; midline of pronotal disk with pale yellow longitudinal stripe without punctures; hemelytral membrane pale ambarine with an irregular dark brown spot near basal angle; costal margin of corium with dark reddish row of punctures; connexivum pale yellow with upper and inner borders darker; abdominal segments III–VI pale yellowish orange and VII pale brown with middle third pale yellowish orange. Ventral coloration. Head yellowish white, with lateral punctures dark brown; rostral segments I–IV pale yellow (apex of segment IV black); pro-, meso-, and metapleura yellow with dark reddish punctures; pro-, meso-, and metasterna, and metathoracic scent gland yellowish white; coxae yellow with one small dark brown discoidal spot; trochanters yellow; femora yellow with dark spots; tibiae and tarsi pale yellow to yellowish orange; abdominal sterna pale yellow with few small brown spots lateral to midline, and with several scattered pink spots; midline of abdominal sterna III–IV and occasionally III–VII with dark brown longitudinal stripe.

Female. Color and habitus similar to male. Connexival segments VIII–IV yellow; abdominal segments VII–IX pale dark; genital plates pale yellow with scattered dark punctures.

Measurements. Male. Body length 10.88; head length 1.92; head width across eyes 1.44; interocular distance 0.92; preocular distance 1.28; postocular distance 0.19; interocellar distance 0.16; antennal segments: I 1.96, II 2.20, III 1.96, IV 2.64; pronotum: total length 1.76; maximum width across frontal angles 1.16; maximum width across humeral angles 1.84; scutellum: length 1.12, width 0.71.

Female. Body length 11.33; head length 1.88; head width across eyes 1.48; interocular distance 0.98; preocular distance 1.28; postocular distance 0.19; interocellar distance 0.16; antennal segments: I 2.08, II 2.36, III 2.04, IV 2.96; pronotum: total length 1.84; maximum width across frontal angles 1.20; maximum width across humeral angles 1.92; scutellum: length 1.12, width 0.76.

General distribution. Orirginally described frorm Guatemala (Las Mercedes, and Purula), Nicaragua and later cited in Mexico (Veracruz: Barranca de Metlac and Zongolica) (Distant 1881; Brailovsky & Zurbia 1979).

Material examined. New records. MEXICO: Chiapas, 6 mi S Rayon, 5300’, 16-VI-1965, Burke, Meyer & Schaffner (TAMU) 1 male, 1 female . Hidalgo, Meztitlan, 10-XI-2017, J. Valdez (UNAM) 1 male; Tlalchinol, 4 km NE, 1581 m, 21.02781°N– 98.64271°W, 2-VI-2015, D. Barrales, O. Francke (UNAM) 1 female . Oaxaca, 11 mi N Candelaria Loxicha, 19-VII-1974, Clark, Ashe, Murray, Schaffner (TAMU) 1 male; km 78.5 Tuxtepec-Oaxaca, 24-IX-1989, A. Cadena (TAMU) 1 male; Pochutla, desv. Pluma Hidalgo, 3500’, 15°57’71’’N–96°97’54’’W, 15- VIII-1986, E. Barrera, G. Ortega Leon UNAM) 1 female; Pluma Hidalgo, Finca Copalita, 31-I-1988, E. Ramirez (UNAM) 1 female; Portillo del Rayo, 5 km S de Xalatengo, 21-X-1982, E. Barrera (UNAM) 1 male, 1 female; 5 km N of Jalatengo, road 175 Puerto Angel, 1590 m, 21-X-1975, H. Brailovsky (UNAM) 1 female; Sola de Vega, 1820 m, 11–14-VI-2016, G. Nogueira (UNAM) 2 males; Portillo del Rayo, 10-II-1982, 31-I-1988, E. Barrera, A. Ca- dena, E. Ramirez (UNAM) 2 males, 1 female . Veracruz, Zongolica, 18-V-1962, 30-I-1967, 30-XI-1967 (UNAM) 2 males, 1 female; Metlac, 21-III-1975, A. Moron (TAMU) 1 male; Idolos, 1-V-2003, H. Brailovsky, L. Cervantes (UNAM) 1 male ; Orizaba, Cerro del Borrego, 2-V-2000, E. Barrera, A. Ibarra (UNAM) 1 female ; San Andres Tlalnelhuayocan, 1400 m, 19°31’19’’N–96°59’27’’W, 3-V-2009, S. Lopez (INECOL) 1 male ; old road Xalapa-Coatepec, 1272 m, 19°–28’991’’N–96°56’877’’W, 2-VII-2009, L. F. de la Mora (UNAM) 1 female; Coatepec-Anahuac, 1217 m, 19°27’50’’N–96°57’35’’W, X-2009, L. Cervantes, S. Lopez (INECOL) 1 female; 3 km S of Naolinco, 1675 m, 19.39868°N–96.54044W, 19-IV-2005, E. Barrera, C. Rosas (UNAM) 1 male . HONDURAS: Departamento

Morazan, Cerro Uyuca, 5900’–6100’, 3-VII-1948, T. H. Hubbell (USNM) 1 female.

Biology. This species is found in tropical and subtropical zones and has been collected in secondary vegetation climbing grasses.