Lepidonannella Poppius, 1913

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 59

Lepidonannella Poppius, 1913

( Figs. 4 , 19–21 )

Lepidonannella Poppius, 1913: 15 . Type species: Lepidophorella opaca Poppius, 1909 .

Diagnostic characters. Body oval, opaque, depressed dorsally; dorsal surface of head and pronotum covered by whitish scales ( Fig. 19 ), homogeneously distributed. Head with eyes large, contiguous to apical margin of pronotum; rostrum reaching mid coxae. Pronotum flat, wide, basal and apical margins nearly straight, lateral margins carinated, convex, with anterior angles rounded; scutellum rugose, covered with short yellowish hairs, with a median transversal sulcus. Hemelytra with sparse and homogeneously distributed whitish short hairs. Hairs somewhat thickened. Female with ovipositor reduced. Ostiolar peritreme ( Fig. 20 ) long; its basal portion wide, medial portion slender, angulated forward; apical portion very slender, acute, like a short carina; median sulcus reaching its apex. Evaporatorium as seen in Fig. 21 .

Studied material. Lepidonannella opaca ( Poppius, 1913) : BRAZIL: Nova Teutonia , 21-IV-1941, 1♀, F.Plaumann lgt. ( MACN) ; same locality, 3-V-1941, 1 J (slide mounted) ( MACN) .

Figures

Figs. 1–9. 1 – Calliodis pallescens (Reuter, 1884); 2 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900; 3 – Guayascoris foreroi gen. & sp. nov.; 4 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909); 5 – Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964; 6 – Opisthypselus punctaticollis Reuter, 1908; 7 – Zopherocoris armatus (Stål, 1860); 8 – Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954; 9 – Scolopocoris gracilicornis (Poppius, 1909). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Figs. 16–21. 16 – Calliodis pallescens Reuter, 1884, ostiolar peritreme. 17, 18 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900: 17 – ostiolar peritreme; 18 – detail of evaporatorium. 19–21 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909): 19 – scales on pronotum; 20 – ostiolar peritreme, 21 – detail of evaporatorium.