Tynacantha cuprea Brugnera & Grazia, 2019

Brugnera, Ricardo, Campos, Luiz Alexandre & Grazia, Jocelia, 2019, Revision of Tynacantha Dallas with description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae), Zootaxa 4656 (3), pp. 445-458 : 453-454

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.3

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5927172

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E465F228-66D2-487D-AF2C-BF6B2C3AE7E2

taxon LSID

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Plazi

scientific name

Tynacantha cuprea Brugnera & Grazia
status

sp. nov.

Tynacantha cuprea Brugnera & Grazia sp. nov.

( Figures 13–15 View FIGURES 7–18 , 29–33 View FIGURES 19–33 , 40–42 View FIGURES 34–45 , 49–51 View FIGURES 46–53 , 55 View FIGURES 54–56 )

Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Pará, Belém, UFPA, 15.XI.2013 ( MZUSP) . Paratypes: 1 ♂ 1 ♀, BRAZIL, Pará, Belém, CEPLAC ( UFRG) . 1 ♀, BRAZIL, Pará, Belém, CEPLAC ( MZUSP) .

Diagnosis. Dorsal coloration light brown, scutellum with a calloused, crescent-like pale spot; punctures deep and close to each other; intersegmental areas of connexivum light brown ( Figs 13–15 View FIGURES 7–18 ); inner branch of parameres slightly longer than outer branch ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 19–33 ); sutural margins of gonocoxites VIII juxtaposed; posterior margins of gonocoxites VIII almost rectilinear ( Figs 49–50 View FIGURES 46–53 ); capsula seminalis distinctly longer than pars intermedialis ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 46–53 ).

Measurements. Total length, ♀ 11.96 ± 0.12 (11.84–12.08) ♂ 10.36 ± 0.28 (10.08–10.64); width of abdomen across segment III, ♀ missing ♂ 4.98 ± 0.02 (4.96–5.00); head: length, ♀ 2.14 ± 0.02 (2.12–2.16) ♂ 2.04 ± 0.04 (2.00–2.08); width, 2.14 ± 0.02 (2.12–2.16) ♂ 2.04 ± 0.04 (2.00–2.08); pronotum: length, ♀ 2.66 ± 0.14 (2.52–2.80) ♂ 2.28 ± 0.12 (2.16–2.40); width, ♀ 6.04 ± 0.20 (5.84–6.24) ♂ 5.32 ± 0.12 (5.20–5.44); scutellum: length, ♀ 4.28 ± 0.12 (4.16–4.40) ♂ 3.50 ± 0.10 (3.40–3.60); width, ♀ 3.92 ± 0.12 (3.80–4.04) ♂ 3.12 ± 0.08 (3.04–3.20); length of antennal segments: I, ♀ 0.34 ± 0.02 (0.32–0.36) ♂ 0.34 ± 0.02 (0.32–0.36); II, ♀ 1.54 ± 0.10 (1.44–1.64) ♂ 1.52 ± 0.04 (1.48–1.56); III, ♀ 1.38 ± 0.10 (1.28–1.48) ♂ 1.30 ± 0.02 (1.28–1.32); IV, ♀ missing ♂ 1.40; V, ♀ missing ♂ 1.44; length of labial segments: I, ♀ 1.46 ± 0.06 (1.40–1.52) ♂ 1.34 ± 0.06 (1.28–1.40); II, ♀ 1.92 ± 0.08 (1.84– 2.00) ♂ 1.80; III, ♀ 1.00 ± 0.00 (1.00–1.00) ♂ 0.98 ± 0.02 (0.96–1.00); VI, ♀ 0.80 ♂ 0.76 ± 0.04 (0.72–0.80).

Etymology. From cupreus (Latin), in reference to the coppery color of dorsal surface.

Distribution. BRAZIL (Pará) ( Fig. 55 View FIGURES 54–56 ).

MZUSP

MZUSP

UFRG

Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biologia

MZUSP

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

UFRG

Instituto de Biologia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Tynacantha

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