Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) radicata, Leon, Stephanie & Weirauch, Christiane, 2016

Leon, Stephanie & Weirauch, Christiane, 2016, Scratching the surface? Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) reveals vast undocumented biodiversity in the largest litter bug genus Schizoptera Fieber (Hemiptera: Dipsocoromorpha), Zootaxa 4184 (2), pp. 255-284 : 278

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.2.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066346

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) radicata
status

sp. nov.

Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) radicata View in CoL , n. sp.

( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 6 View FIGURE 6 M – W and 7)

Diagnosis. Distinguished among species of Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) by the rounded head, the weakly asymmetrical subgenital plate, the bifurcating, root-shaped process of the subgenital plate, the bifurcating right conjunctival appendage, the ladle-shaped right paramere, and the rectangular dorsal process of the left paramere.

Holotype: COSTA RICA: Heredia: La Selva Biological Station, nr Puerto Viejo , 10.43086°N 84.00647°W, 52 m, 16 Apr 1998, INBio-OET-ALAS, light trap, 1Ƌ (00109170) ( MNCR) (microscopic slide mount) GoogleMaps . PARATYPES: COSTA RICA: Heredia: La Selva Biological Station, nr Puerto Viejo , 10.43086°N 84.00647°W, 52 m, 16 Apr 1998, INBio-OET-ALAS, light trap, 1Ƌ (00109152) ( INBIO) GoogleMaps . Puntarenas: San Vito Co.: Las Cruces Biological Station , 8.78556°N 82.96°W, 1214 m, 27 Sep 2014, A. Knyshov, S. Leon and C. Weirauch, light trap, 2Ƌ (00122962, 00122977) ( UCR) GoogleMaps .

Description. Male: length: 1.36–1.39 mm; body broadly ovate; COLORATION: general coloration dark brown; fuscous patch covering more than 1/2 of wing membrane; Sc+C distinctly lighter than remainder of hemelytra ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ). SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in subgeneric description. STRUCTURE: HEAD: slightly rounded in ventral view ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ); eyes about 1/3 as wide as synthlipsis. THORAX: as in subgeneric description; hemelytron as in subgeneric description; M2 vein distinctly curving; anterior membranal cell wedge-shaped. ABDOMEN: as in subgeneric description; stVI without process on posterior margin; subgenital plate weakly asymmetrical; process of subgenital plate stem-like with a bifurcating tip ( Fig. 6Q View FIGURE 6 M – W ); tVII rectangular; tVIII rectangular and sclerotized; length of tVIII about 1/3 length of tVII. GENITALIA: py as in subgeneric description; rp ladle shaped, with a uniformly thin stem and rounded base; lp as in subgeneric description, with an elongate, rectangular dorsal process; uniformly thick, with a bifurcating tip; lca small, about 1/5 length of lca, with a rounded triangular tip ( Fig. 6Q View FIGURE 6 M – W ); vesica uniformly thin with a needlelike tip; anophore as in subgeneric description.

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. Known from northern and southern Costa Rica ( Fig. 7).

Etymology. Named for the root-like shape of the subgenital plate process after the latin “radicatus” meaning rooted.

MNCR

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

UCR

University of California

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Schizopteridae

Genus

Schizoptera

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