Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) simpla, 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 : 279-280

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066352

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scientific name

Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) simpla
status

sp. nov.

Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) simpla 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 flat head, the large eyes, the weakly asymmetrical subgenital plate, small, tab-like process of the subgenital plate, the differentiated left lateral margin of the subgenital plate, the w-shaped left paramere, and the plate-like dorsal fold of the anophore.

Holotype: COSTA RICA: Heredia: Est. Biol. La Selva, 10.43333°N 84.01667°W, 6 Apr 1998, INBio-OET- ALAS, light trap, 1Ƌ (00109150) ( MNCR) GoogleMaps . PARATYPES: COSTA RICA: Heredia: Est. Biol. La Selva, 10.43333°N 84.01667°W, 0 3 May 1993, 2Ƌ (00088289, 00088291) ( LACM) GoogleMaps . La Selva Biological Station, River Station , 10.43°N 84.00472°E, 60 m, 19 May 2011 GoogleMaps – 23 May 2011, J. Heraty & E. Murray, Malaise trap, 3Ƌ (00086102, 0 0 0 86114, 00086115) (UCR). La Selva Biological Station, nr Puerto Viejo , 10.43086°N 84.00647°W, 52 m, 16 Apr 1998, INBio-OET-ALAS, 1Ƌ (00109174) ( INBIO) GoogleMaps . Puntarenas: San Vito Co.: Las Cruces Biological Station , 8.78556°N 82.96°W, 1214 m, 24 Sep 2014, A. Knyshov, S. Leon and C. Weirauch, light trap, 2Ƌ (00122963, 00122966), 2♀ (00122964, 00122965) ( UCR) GoogleMaps .

Description. Male: length: 1.41–1.46 mm; body broadly ovoid; COLORATION: general coloration light brown; fuscous patch absent; Sc+C concolorous with remainder of hemelytra ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ). SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in subgeneric description. STRUCTURE: HEAD: flat in ventral view ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ); eyes about 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, with left lateral margin differentiated ( Fig. 6S View FIGURE 6 M – W ); lateral process small, stout and tab-like ( Fig. 6S View FIGURE 6 M – W ); tVII rectangular; tVIII rectangular and sclerotized; length of tVIII about 2/3 length of tVII. GENITALIA: py as in subgeneric description; rp as in subgeneric description; lp as in subgeneric description, w-shaped in dorsal view; rca slender and hook-shaped; lca small, about 1/3 length of rca, with two processes ( Fig. 6S View FIGURE 6 M – W ); vesica uniformly thin with a needlelike tip, forming almost two coils; anophore as in subgeneric description with flat, plate-like dorsal fold ( Fig. 6S View FIGURE 6 M – W ).

Female: length 1.44–1.46 mm; general habitus as in male.

Distribution. Known from Heredia and Puntarenas provinces in Costa Rica ( Fig. 7).

Etymology. Named for the simple subgenital plate, and relatively simplistic genitalic structures after the Latin “simplus” meaning simple.

MNCR

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

UCR

University of California

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Schizopteridae

Genus

Schizoptera

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