Peltidocylapus carmelitanus Carvalho & Fontes

Wolski, Andrzej, 2021, Revised classification of the New World Cylapini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae): taxonomic review of the genera Cylapinus, Cylapoides and Peltidocylapus and a morphology-based phylogenetic analysis of tribe Cylapini, Zootaxa 5074 (1), pp. 1-66 : 39

Peltidocylapus carmelitanus Carvalho & Fontes

Peltidocylapus carmelitanus Carvalho & Fontes, 1968: 276 , figs 1–4 (sp. nov.).

Peltidocylapus carmelitanus: Carvalho & Froeschner, 1987: 192 (list); Schuh, 1995: 32 (catalog), 2002–2013 (catalog online); Gorczyca 2006: 17 (catalog).

Remarks. The type specimens of Peltidocylapus carmelitanus Carvalho & Fontes , Peltidocylapus tapirapensis Carvalho , Cylapinus minusculus Carvalho , and Cylapoides unicolor Carvalho were stored in the National Museum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The museum was destroyed in fire in 2018 and therefore these specimens were not available for my study. Based on the description of adpressed setae, the shape of aedeagus without sclerites and with well-developed distal, sclerotized portion of ductus seminis and secondary gonopore and the shape of parameres ( Carvalho & Fontes 1968: Figs 2–4 ) it is likely that P. carmelitanus belongs to Peltidocylapus as here defined. However, investigation of specimens belonging to this species is required to correctly ascertain its placement.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution: Brazil (Minas Gerais).

Type material. Holotype ♂: Carmo do Rio Claro , Minos Gerais, 1–1958, Carvalho & Becker col. (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, not examined); paratypes: 2 ♀♀: the same data as in holotype (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, not examined).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Strict consensus tree obtained from two most parsimonious trees using implied weighting of characters (k=3). Numbers of nodes are in circles. Non–homoplastic changes in character states are represented with black circles, homoplastic changes with white circles. Symmetric resampling supports (SRS) are indicated below branches.

FIGURE 3. Dorsal habitus photographs. a. Cylapinus minusculus (♂, Ecuador); b. Cylapinus yasunagai (holotype); c. Cylapoides bicolor (holotype); d. Cylapoides unicolor (♂, Ecuador).

FIGURE 4. Dorsal habitus photographs. a. Peltidocylapus calyciformis (paratype, ♂); b. Peltidocylapus caudatus (holotype); c. Peltidocylapus cerbereus (lectotype); d. Peltidocylapus ecuadorensis (holotype); e. Peltidocylapus festinabundus (♀, Peru).