Paisana saopaulensis, Dellapé, 2008

Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2008, Paisana: A new genus of Neotropical Rhyparochromidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) to accommodate Neopamera brachialis (Stål) and four new species, Zootaxa 1958, pp. 17-30 : 27-30

Paisana saopaulensis n. sp.

( Figs. 5, 26–30)

Description. Holotype male ( Fig. 5): Total length: 7.20. Head brown with reddish hues; with abundant short silver anteriorly decumbent setae; and longer semierect sparse setae dorsally. Head length: 1.26. Head width: 1.14. Antenniferous tubercles slightly divergent. Eyes slightly oval. Interocular space: 0.58. Ocelli located behind an imaginary line through posterior margin of eyes, closer to eyes than to collar. Interocellar space: 0.32. Rostrum brown, not uniformly pigmented, apex of article IV dark brown; with sparse erect setae. Rostrum reaching mesocoxae. Rostral length: article I 0.80, article II 0.80, article III 0.62, article IV 0.46. Antennae with abundant semierect and sparse erect setae; distiflagellomere absent. Antennal length: scapus 0.66, pedicellus 1.46, basiflagellomere 1.22.

Collar and anterior pronotal lobe brown; posterior lobe brown with two longitudinal irregular light brown bands. With short decumbent setae, and with long erect setae, more abundant on anterior lobe. Length of collar, anterior pronotal lobe, and posterior pronotal lobe: 0.11; 0.69; 0.62, respectively. Width of collar, anterior pronotal lobe, and posterior pronotal lobe: 0.74; 1.25; 1.89, respectively. Scutellum brown; punctate; with short decumbent setae, and long erect setae as on pronotum. Hemelytra brown, not uniformly pigmented; with short erect and semierect setae. Clavus with three rows of punctures and a partial row on distal ¾ between the inner and median rows. External margin of corium slightly concave. Membrane brown, not uniformly pigmented. Pleura dark brown, acetabular areas, proepimeron and metepimeron paler; punctate and setose, with abundant short decumbent silver setae. Profemora incrassate with spines restricted to distal half, outer row reduced to only three small spines. Protibiae with numerous minute tubercles along entire length. Coxae, profemora, and distal 1/3 of meso- and metafemora brown, the rest light brown. Legs with erect and semierect setae, longer on profemora, more abundant on distal tibiae and tarsi.

Abdomen brown. Length: 3.33. Pygophore ( Figs. 26–27): anterior margin of dorsal aperture slightly concave; inner projections with anterior spine, projected posteriorly. In lateral view: dorsal margin not declivent. Parameres ( Figs. 28–29): blade gradually narrowing to apex, slightly curved; shank with a setose inner projection, with setae on upper margin and on basal portion of blade, and with external projection with four long setae. Aedeagus as in figure 30.

Distribution. Brazil.

Etymology. The epithet refers to the Brazilian state where the holotype was collected.

Remarks. The male genitalia, especially pygophore morphology, relates this species to Paisana maculata ; both species have a small spine located anteriorly to the inner projections. They can be easily distinguished by the different leg coloration pattern, in P. Saopaulensis the profemora are brown and the meso- and metafemora light brown with the apical third brown whereas in P. maculata there are dark spots contrasting with the lighter background.

Studied material. Type material. Holotype: ♂, Brazil , São Paulo, Faz. Pau d´Alho Itu, XII-1963, U. Martins ( MLP) . Paratypes: Brazil: SÃO PAULO: 1 ♂, Barueri, 5-XII-1966, K. Lenko ( MLP) ; PARANA: 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Banhado, 14-02-(19)72, E.G. & E. A. Munroe ( CAC) .