Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) commodus (McAtee and Malloch 1925)

(Figs 2, 5 and 7)

Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) commodus McAtee and Malloch, 1925: 67, 17 (orig. descr.).

Diagnosis. Distinguished among species of Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) by the elongate, ovoid body shape, flat head, the small, the single hook-like process of the subgenital plate (sVII), the tapering and serrated right conjunctival appendage, and the pronged left conjunctival appendage.

Holotype: GUATEMALA: Izabal: Livingston, 15.8333 ° N 88.75 ° W, 0 9 May 1906, Barber and Schwarz, 1Ƌ (00028603) (USNM) .

Re-description. Male: length: 1.22–1.31 mm; body elongate ovoid. COLORATION: general coloration light brown; fuscous patch absent; Sc+C concolorous with remainder of hemelytra (Fig. 2). SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in subgeneric description. STRUCTURE: HEAD: flat ventral view (Fig. 2); eyes about 2/3 as wide as synthlipsis. THORAX: as in subgeneric description; hemelytron as in subgeneric description; M2 vein straight, anterior membranal cell triangular. ABDOMEN: as in subgeneric description; stVI without process on posterior margin; subgenital plate weakly asymmetrical; process of subgenital plate hook-shaped, pointing caudally (Fig. 5F); tVII trapezoidal; tVIII weakly trapezoidal and distinctly sclerotized; length of tVIII about 1/2 length of tVII. GENITALIA: py as in subgeneric description; rp as in subgeneric description with a tapering stem and pointed tip; lp crescent shaped in dorsal view (Fig. 5F); rca elongate, with smooth base and serrated tip; lca about 1/3 length of rca, with two visible thick prongs; vesica uniformly cylindrical and thin, forming a single coil; anophore as in subgeneric description with a triangular process on dorsal wall (Fig. 5F).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. Known from the department of Izabal in northeastern Guatemala and the Cayo district in central Belize (Fig. 7).

Other material examined. BELIZE: Cayo: British Honduras: Cayo Dist Mile 66, Western Highway, 17.20228 ° N 88.64395 ° W, 30 Jun 1969, 1Ƌ (00091587) (FSCA); 0 3 Jul 1969 1Ƌ (00091739) (FSCA); 0 7 Jul 1969, 2 Ƌ (00091618, 00091601), 1♀(00091620) (FSCA); 0 6 Jul 1970, 1Ƌ (00091719) (FSCA).