Scolopella Carayon, 1954

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 : 64

Scolopella Carayon, 1954

( Figs. 8 , 26, 27 )

Scolopella Carayon, 1954: 599 . Type species: Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954 .

Diagnostic characters. Body long, subcylindrical, narrow and slightly flat. Head widened behind eyes. Eyes small. Space between ocelli wider than interocular space. Rostrum short, thick, not reaching fore coxae, longer than in Scolopa . Lateral margins of pronotum nearly straight. Fore and hind femora enlarged, without spines. Fossula spongiosa on fore tibiae small. Hemelytra slender, with membrane longer than corium. A single external orifice of uradenia on sternum III, with long, erect hairs. Left paramere gently curved, with many acute teeth at apex. Metapleura small, ostiolar peritreme ( Figs. 26, 27 ) curved forward, apically acute. Median sulcus only present on basal half.

Studied material. Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954 : ARGENTINA: MISIONES: Loreto, 2 JJ, Ogloblin lgt. ( 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. 22–27.22 – Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964, ostiolar peritreme; 23 – Opisthypselus punctaticollis Reuter, 1909, ostiolar peritreme; 24, 25 – Zopherocoris armatus Reuter, 1871; 24 – fore femora; 25 – ostiolar peritreme; 26, 27 – Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954; 26 – ostiolar peritreme; 27 – detail of evaporatorium.