Cagayanacoris menardi, Heiss, 2018

Heiss, Ernst, 2018, Two new genera and species of flat bugs from the Philippines (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae), Zootaxa 4500 (3), pp. 426-432 : 428

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.3.8

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5304525

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0E52A-F63E-FFF1-FF28-FF270825F9BD

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Felipe

scientific name

Cagayanacoris menardi
status

sp. nov.

Cagayanacoris menardi sp. nov.

( Figs.1–5 View FIGURES 1–5 )

Etymology. This interesting new taxon is dedicated to Katrina Menard, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History who collected this specimen from a berlaise sample and made available for study this material and recognizing her very appreciated activities as co-editor of Zootaxa.

Type material: Holotype (micropterous male) labelled: Philippines: Prov. Cagayan / Valley. Gattaran Munc. Nancin / Forest Station . Malaise trap leg./ 17.96967N 121.65390E 166m / 27.V.2017 Berlaise / Siler Brachymeles Expedition 4 // Catalog No. / 66733 //( OMNH) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 3♂, 1♀ collected with holotype, Catalog No. 66729, 26731, 66734 and 66732 ( OMNH, 2♂♂ CEHI) which are designated and labelled accordingly. One L 5 (Catalog No. 66730 in OMNH) belongs to the same taxon GoogleMaps .

Description. Head: Distinctly wider than long (1.15/0.85); clypeus as long as antenniferous lobes; genae thin as long as clypeus contiguous at apex; antennae about 1.7times as width of head (1.95/1.15), segment I thickest and bent, II shortest and III longest are thinner, IV fusiform; length of antennal segments I/II/III/IV = 0.5/0.35/0.7/0.4; eyes stalked; postocular lobes roundly converging to constricted neck; vertex raised and beset with stiff, apically curved yellowish hairs; rostrum arising from a slit-like atrium in a transverse basal ridge with shiny knob-like tubercles at both ends, rostral groove wide and open posteriorly without carinate borders; rostrum with a single long stiff erect bristle at half of its length.

Pronotum: Strongly transverse, consisting of a deeply punctured anterior disk with triangulate flat anterolateral expansions and two median tubercles and a smooth transverse ridge delimited posteriorly by a deep furrow separating pronotum from mesonotum.

Mesonotum with triangular scutellum, raised and longitudinally carinate at middle; rudimentary lateral wing pads reaching ½ of scutellum; metanotum consisting of oval sclerites lateral of scutellum, posteriorly fused to mtg I+II, the latter marked by sinuate carinae.

Abdomen: Tergal plate separated from fused mtg I+II by a conical suture, slightly raised along midline; deltg II+III fused, lateral margins of deltg III–V straight, VI+VII slightly concave. Male pygophore about 1.5 times wider than long, rounded posteriorly, ptg VIII triangular shorter than pygophore bearing spiracle VIII.

Venter: Metathoracic scent gland opening widening toward lateral margin; median part of meso- and metasternum fused to sternum II, sterna III–VII separated by deep transverse furrows; sternite VII of male smooth and glabrous at middle with a deep median pit, rugose elsewhere ( Fig.5 View FIGURES 1–5 ).

Female: Basically as male, but of larger size and more rounded abdomen; tergite VIII consisting of triangular ptg VIII bearing spiracle VIII connected by a narrow bridge.

Measurements: Holotype: Length 4.6mm; width of abdomen across tergite III = 2.25; scutellum length / width 0.7/1.35; Paratype female: Length 5.6mm; head l/ w 0.9 /1.25; l/w pronotum 0.75/2.0; l/w scutellum 0.85/1.7; length of antennal segments I/II/III/IV = 0.55/0.35/0.75/0.4; width of abdomen across tergite III = 3.0.

Discussion. Apterous and micropterous Aradidae predominantly occur and are recorded from stable environments present in undisturbed tropical or subtropical rainforests. They have a very limited range of movement and distribution; hence they are mostly regarded as endemic to the region or locality where they were collected.

OMNH

Osaka Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Aradidae

Genus

Cagayanacoris

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