Valdesiana curiosa Carpintero & Dellapé, 2008

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo, Dellapé, Pablo Matías & Cheli, German, 2008, Valdesiana curiosa: a remarkable new genus and species of Clivinematini (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae) from Argentina, and a key to Argentinean genera and species, Zootaxa 1672, pp. 61-68 : 64-66

Valdesiana curiosa Carpintero & Dellapé n.sp.

( Figs. 1, 3 )

Description. Female holotype: General colour reddish brown. Head: reddish brown, clypeus darker distally, antennal segment I reddish brown, segments. II, III, and IV dark brown, with short decumbent silver setae and semierect setae on segments III and IV. Rostrum dark brown except segment I reddish brown. Pronotum: reddish brown, darker basally; scutellum reddish brown, darker at apex. Hemelytra dark brown, twice length of scutellum; hind wings present, and subequal in length to hemelytra. Legs reddish brown, tibiae and tarsi darker. Abdomen: reddish brown with irregular darker areas, with short decumbent silver setae.

Measurements. Total length: 4.37. Width (maximum across abdomen): 1.97. Head. Length: 0.49 width: 0,75; vertex 0.51 Antennae. Length segment I: 0.30; II: 1.07; III: 0.38; IV: 0.29. Pronotum. Length: 0.76; width at base: 1.23.

Etymology. The specific epithet means ‘curious, striking,’ and refers to the particular aspect of this new species.

Comments. Despite considerable collection efforts in Península Valdés using pitfall traps, only one female individual of this new taxon was collected. The fact that probably all Clivinematini are predaceous ( Ferreira, 1998) and not abundant in collections, the particular head and pronotum morphology, and the micropterous condition of this taxon (possibly adaptations to desertic conditions), as well as the need for greater knowledge of the local fauna, have encouraged us to describe it.

Studied material. Holotype, female, ARGENTINA: Chubut, Ea. La Falsa, Península Valdés, 20-I-2007, pitfall trap, G. Cheli col. ( MLP)

Species Distribution in Argentinean Provinces (see Fig. 12 ) (new

records in bold)

Ambracius dufouri Stål, 1860 Corrientes (1 w/a, Reserva Santa María, Ituzaingo, 30-X-2003,

M. Chayle col. (MLP)), Misiones, Chaco, Salta, Jujuy Bothynotus sulinus ( Carvalho & Gomes, 1969) Catamarca

Clivinemidea sulina Carvalho & Gomes, 1970 Mendoza

Guanabarea bicoloroides Carvalho & Carpintero , Catamarca (1 ď, 9 km. NW de Los Altos, 27-II- 2006, 493 m, 1990 28°00´35´´S 65°34´00´´W, Carpintero & Dellapé cols. (CC))

Salta

G. fasciata Carvalho & Carpintero, 1990 Salta

G. m a r ian a Carvalho & Carpintero, 1990 Misiones

Ofellus guaranianus Carvalho, 1984 Misiones

O. mantiqueiranus Carvalho & Sailer, 1953 Buenos Aires, La Pampa (1 ď Parque Luro, I-2000, T. luz, Storti

col. (CC)), Entre Ríos, Santiago del Estero, Misiones, Salta. Valdesiana curiosa n. sp. Chubut

Figures

FIGURE 12. Geographic distribution of the Argentinean species of Clivinematini

FIGURES 1 – 3. Valdesiana curiosa Carpintero & Dellapé n. sp. 1, dorsal view. 2, head and pronotum, dorsal view. 3, lateral view.