Auxentius zephyrius, Published, 2007

WALL, MICHAEL A., 2007, A revision of the Solomonius-group of the stinkbug tribe Halyini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae), Zootaxa 1539 (1), pp. 1-84 : 24-26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1539.1.1
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA8F0F-9175-7751-FF1D-7CD9DF39FE7E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Auxentius zephyrius
status	sp. nov.

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Auxentius zephyrius sp. nov.

( Figs. 6F View FIGURE 6 , 9 View FIGURE 9 G-I, 10E, 13)

Holotype. Male. INDONESIA: Irian Jaya, Wisselmeren, Itouda, Kamo V., elev. 1500 m, [3° 55' S, 136° 15’ E], 18 August 1962, coll. J Sedlacek - 1 ♀. Deposited in Bernice P. Bishop Museum. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Distinguished from congeners by pygophore with elongate, clubbed dorsal lobes which converge distally ( Fig. 9A View FIGURE 9 ) and dramatically turn ventrally ( Fig. 9H View FIGURE 9 ). Bilobed extension of the inner ventral rim of the pygophore small, just surpassing margin of outer ventral rim ( Fig. 9A View FIGURE 9 ).

Description. Body 2X longer than broad ( Fig. 6F View FIGURE 6 ). Head as long as breadth across eyes. Antennal segment I surpassing apex of head. Posterior margins of compound eyes straight. Pronotum with gibbosities of callus areas clearly raised; anterolateral margins denticulate; lateral angles subspinose. Scutellum with apex slightly angulate, lateral portions dorsally reflexed. Posterior angle of laterotergites produced as small lobe.

Anterior angle of bucculae obtusely angled. Labium reaching third abdominal sternite (second visible); ratios 1:1.5:1.4:0.9. Peritreme 2/5 as long as distance from ostiole of metathoracic scent gland to lateral margin of metapleuron. Episternal ridge located 3/4 of distance between ostiole of metathoracic scent gland and lateral margin of metapleuron. Profemora armed with three minute distal ventral spines.

Color and vestiture. Ground color straminous with piceous punctures. Antennal segment I with piceous longitudinal dorsal marking; distal 3/4 of antennal segments II–V piceous. Posterior margin of pronotum with five faint piceous triangular markings along posterior margin; scutellum with two faint lateral longitudinal bands. Corium of mottled straminous and rubignaceous patches. Legs mostly straminous with piceous speckling, tibiae with two castaneous bands. Lateral portions of abdomen with interrupted irregular castaneous band along spiracular line or with castaneous patches around spiracles.

Male. Pygophore with median ventral process narrowly emarginate, emerging from within weakly concave outer ventral rim; lateral lobes of dorsal rim elongate, distally clubbed, parallel before becoming divergent distally ( Fig. 9G–I View FIGURE 9 ). Proctiger hemispherical, medially sulcate; basal sclerite posteriorly subquadrate ( Fig. 9I View FIGURE 9 ).

Female. Eighth gonocoxa small, apically rounded. Ninth laterotergites longer than broad, distally acute; medial margin extremely lobed, sometimes covering portions of ninth gonocoxae ( Fig. 10E View FIGURE 10 ).

Measurements. Males (n=2): body length 17.0 SD 0.3 (16.7–17.2), anterior pronotal width 3.2 SD <0.1 (3.2–3.2), humeral width 8.3 SD 0.3 (8.1–8.6), scutellar length 6.4 SD 0.1 (6.3–6.5), medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 1.5 SD 0.2 (1.3–1.7), medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 2.5 SD 0.1 (2.4– 2.6). Females (n=3): body length 16.8 SD 0.3 (16.4–17.1), anterior pronotal width 3.2 SD 0.1 (3.0–3.4), humeral width 8.2 SD 0.1 (8.1–8.3), scutellar length 6.2 SD 0.1 (6.0–6.3), medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 1.3 SD 0.1 (1.2–1.4), medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 2.4 SD <0.1 (2.4–2.4). Appendages in Table 2.

Etymology. From the Latin word zephyrius — of or belonging to the west wind; reflecting the species’ western distribution within the range of the genus.

Paratypes. INDONESIA: Irian Jaya, Vogelkop: Sururai SW of Lake Anggi Giji, elev. 2000–2100 m, [1° 22' S, 133° 52’ E], 4–5 March 1963, coll. R Straatman - 1 ♀ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps ; Wisselmeren, Itouda , Kamo V., elev. 1500 m, [3° 55' S, 136° 15’ E], 16–19 August 1962, coll. J Sedlacek - 1 ♂ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps ; Wisselmeren, Moanemani , Kamo V., elev. 1500 m, [7° 3' S, 139° 45’ E], 19 August 1962, coll. J Sedlacek - 1 ♂ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps ; Wisselmeren: Okaitadi , elev. 1600 m, [3° 55' S, 136° 15’ E], 7 August 1955, coll. J.L. Gressitt - 1 ♀ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps .