Aristotelesia Carvalho, 1947

Henry, Thomas J. & Carpintero, Diego L., 2012, Review of the jumping tree bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) of Argentina and nearby areas of Brazil and Paraguay, with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 3545, pp. 41-58 : 42

Aristotelesia Carvalho

Aristotelesia Carvalho 1947: 255 . Type species: Aristotelesia carioca Carvalho, 1947 .

Diagnosis. Members of this genus are distinguished by the strongly convex, oval body, strongly and evenly punctate dorsum, broad head, widely placed eyes and ocelli, broad interocular space, mostly hidden mesoscutum, and short transverse cuneus.

Aristotelesia keys to Corticoris McAtee and Malloch in Henry (1980) based on the broadly rounded hemelytra, the oblong body, the straight pronotal anterior angles not curving around the bases of the eyes, and the wide interocular space that is subequal to or greater than the dorsal width of an eye. Aristotelesia is distinguished from Corticoris by the much wider, convex, interocular space that is two or more times the dorsal diameter of an eye, whereas the interocular space on Corticoris is concave and the width is subequal to the dorsal width of only one eye.

Discussion. Carvalho (1947) described this monotypic genus based on the species A. carioca Carvalho , described from three males taken in the District Federal of Brazil. Carpintero (1996) reported A. carioca from Argentina. Although we have not studied the holotype of A. carioca , comparison of additional material from Argentina and southern Brazil now convinces us that Carpintero’s (1996) Argentine specimen and a second series from Porto Alegre, Brazil, represent two new species described below. We provide a translation of Carvalho’s (1947) generic and species description under A. carioca .