Heraeus caliginosus, SLATER & BARANOWSKI, 1994

Dellapé, Pablo M., Melo, María C. & Henry, Thomas J., 2016, A phylogenetic revision of the true bug genus Heraeus (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae: Myodochini), with the description of two new genera and 30 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (1), pp. 29-134 : 50-51

HERAEUS CALIGINOSUS SLATER & BARANOWSKI, 1994

( FIGS 3J , 5F , 8D , 9E–H , 10 )

Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994: 491–493 ; Slater & O’Donnell, 1995: 147; Baranowski & Slater, 2005: 137.

Diagnosis

General colour dark brown, with four small pale spots on posterior pronotal lobe, basal half of meso- and metafemur whitish; labium long, usually extending to abdominal sternum II.

Heraeus caliginosus and H. illitus are the only species of the genus that have a long labium exceeding the metacoxae. Heraeus caliginosus can be distinguished from H. dominicanus sp. nov. by the four pale spots on the posterior pronotal lobe, a small pale spot at each humeral angle, and the longer labium, exceeding the metacoxae.

Description based on character used for phylogenetic analysis ( Fig. 3J )

Head: Coriaceous. Eyes not surpassing the dorsal margin of head in lateral view. Ocelli at level of an imaginary line passing the posterior border of eyes. Distiflagellomere with a pale band. Labium extending to metacoxae or beyond.

Thorax: Posterior pronotal lobe with four pale spots and a small pale spot on humeral angles. Anterior pronotal lobe with long erect setae. Evaporative area short. Scutellum with erect setae. Hemelytra brown, darkened on apical half, with a subapical corial spot; inner corial spot diffuse or well defined. Membrane brown with veins paler and an apical pale spot. Legs: Profemur dark with apices paler, apical half of metafemur darker ( Fig. 5F ). Male mesofemur and protibia without spines. Profemur with short sparse setae.

Abdomen, male genitalia: Pygophore ( Fig. 9E, F ) rounded, anterior margin of dorsal aperture rounded. Parameres: Figure (9G, H). Aedeagus ( Fig. 8D ) with minute spines, vesical lobes sclerotized; processus gonopori long and slender.

Distribution

Dominican Republic and Haiti (NEW RECORD) ( Fig. 10 ).

Type material examined

Holotype: ♀, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Pedernales Prov., 21 km N Cabo Rojo , 19-VI-1976, R.E. Woodruff, blacklight trap ( FSCA).

Additional material studied

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Monseñor Noel : 1♀, 12 km NW Jct. Rt 1 on Rd to Constanza , 30-VI-1999, on Baccharis, R.E. Woodruff & R.M. Baranowski (USNM) ; La Vega : 2♂, 1♀, 5 km W Manabao, 19/ 23-IV-2000, Finca Eladio Fernández ‘ Paso La Perra’ along Rio Yaque del Norte , 3050 ft, blacklight, R.E. Woodruff & T.J. Henry ( USNM) ; 1♂, 4♀, 4 km E of la cienaga de Manabao , 19°04′47″N 70°49′29″W, 3050 ft, 19-IV-2000, blacklight, T.J. Henry & R.E. Woodruff ( USNM) ; Barahona: 1♂, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine , 26-VI/ 7-VII-1992, at light, Woodruff & Skelley ( USNM) ; El Seibo: 1♂, 7 mi. N Pedro Sanchez , cloud forest, 20-VI-[19]98, blacklight trap, R.E. Woodruff ( USNM) ; 1♂, 1♀, 7 km N Pdero Sanchez, Loma de Chivo , 5000 ft, 20-VI-[19]98, blacklight trap, R.E. Woodruff & P.H. Freytag ( USNM) ; La Altagracia: 1♀, Nisibon, Finca Papagallo , 17-VI- 1999, blacklight trap, abandoned house, R.E. Woodruff & R.M. Baranowski ( USNM) ; 1♀, 4 km W Laguna , P.H. Freytag ( USNM) ; 1♀, 33 km N Cabo Rojo, Bauxite Road , 4200 ft, 29-VI-[19]98, blacklight trap, R.M. Baranowski & R.E. Woodruff ( USNM) .

HAITI: 1♀, Étang Lachaux , 26/ 27-X-1934, Garlington ( AMNH) .

Figures

Figure 3. Habitus dorsal: A, Heraeus cinnamomeus Barber, 1948; B, Heraeus coquilletti Barber, 1914; C, Heraeus costalis sp. nov.; D, Heraeus itzelae sp. nov.; E, Heraeus setosus sp. nov.; F, Heraeus guttatus (Dallas, 1852). G, Heraeus hollyae Baranowski, 2005. H, Heraeus triguttatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1857); I, Heraeus steineri sp. nov.; J, Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994; K, Heraeus dominicanus sp. nov.

Figure 5. Legs: A, Heraeus cinnamomeus Barber, 1948; B, Heraeus coquilletti Barber, 1914; C, Heraeus costalis sp. nov.; D, Heraeus itzelae sp. nov.; E, Heraeus setosus sp. nov.; F, Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994; G, Heraeus dominicanus sp. nov.

Figure 8. Aedeagus. A, Heraeus coquilletti Barber, 1914; B, Heraeus costalis sp. nov.; C, Heraeus setosus sp. nov.; D, Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994; E, Heraeus guttatus (Dallas, 1852); F, Heraeus chamamecinus sp. nov., anterior view; G, Heraeus chamamecinus sp. nov., lateral view; H, Heraeus illitus Distant, 1882; I, Heraeus tiputini sp. nov.

Figure 9. Male genitalia. Heraeus setosus sp. nov.: A, pygophore, dorsal view; B, pygophore, lateral view; C, right paramere, inner view; D, right paramere, external view. Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994: E, pygophore, dorsal view; F, pygophore, lateral view; G, right paramere, inner view; H, right paramere, external view. Heraeus dominicanus sp. nov.: I, pygophore, dorsal view; J, pygophore, lateral view; K, right paramere, inner view; L, right paramere, external view.

Figure 10. Distributional map of Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994 and Heraeus dominicanus sp. nov.