Limonocoris aberrans ( KORMILEV , 1963) Heiss, 2020

Heiss, Ernst, 2020, Review of the neotropical Mezirinae genus Limonocoris KORMILEV, 1971 with description of two new species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (1), pp. 151-159 : 154-155

Limonocoris aberrans ( KORMILEV, 1963) nov.comb. ( Figs 6, 8 )

Kormilevia aberrans KORMILEV, 1963 (not figured)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: ♂ labelled: Colombia / Bogota / XII-78 Schuster //.

The genus Kormilevia USINGER & MATSUDA, 1959 comprises to date 8 species of which 5 are reported from Brazil, 1 from Argentina, 1 from Ecuador and 1 from Colombia ( HEISS, 2013). Kormilevia aberrans was described from Bogota Colombia and assigned to this genus although remarkable differences to the congeners but sharing other characters. Photos of the holotype deposited at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, made available through internet (www2.nrm.se/en/het_nrm/a/kormilevia_aberrans.html) show a specimen with posteriorly widening abdomen, rounded and produced anterolateral angles of pronotum, short clypeus and genae resembling species of Limonocoris . Kormilevia aberrans is therefore transferred to Limonocoris . A male specimen from Bogota corresponds to the description of aberrans and is reported here.

D i a g n o s i s: Compared to males of congeners it shares e.g. the distinctive, posteriorly widening habitus, but the lateral margins of deltg V-VII are less and more roundly not angularly produced; in addition it differs from all other species of Limonocoris by postocular tubercles lacking in others

D e s c r i p t i o n: Head shorter than wide (0.90 / 0.95); antennae about twice as long as width of head, length of antennal segments I / II / III / IV = 0.50 / 0.33 / 0.70 / 0.40; postocular lobes with tubercle adjacent to eyes.

Thorax. Pronotum more than three times as wide incl. wingpads as long (0.55 / 1.60); anterolateral angles rounded and produced anteriorly, surface of disk with flat oblique callosities.

Mesonotum. Scutellum triangular, medially raised and carinate, 3.5 times as wide as long

(0.50 / 1.75), wingpads small, round and laterally reflexed. Mtg I+II separated by distinct sutures.

Abdomen. Tergal plate medially raised with shallow oval impressions on mtg III-VI, deltg V-VII laterally expanded and reflexed.

M e a s u r e m e n t s: Length, 4.5mm; length of antennae 1.95 mm; width of abdomen across tergites IV-VII = 2.80 / 2.60 / 2.40 / 2.00.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Only recorded from Bogota, Colombia.

Figures

Figs 5-9: Limonocoris (5) kunzi sp.nov. holotype ♂, habitus; (6) aberrans ♂, habitus; (7) c.f. kunzi nov.sp.,♀ habitus; (8) aberrans ♂, terminal segments, dorsal; (9) kunzi nov.sp., ♂ terminal segments, dorsal. Scale 1mm.