Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Zanchismeopsidea diegoi Henry sp. n. Figs 105, 106, 304-306

Diagnosis .

Zanchismeopsidea diegoi (Figs 105, 106) is recognized by the elongate, subparallel body; bilobed pronotum with the anterior lobe narrowed and armed with two large tubercles, the strongly convex posterior lobe; the exposed mesoscutum, the prominent scutellum, and the shiny hemelytron with a broad, loose band of silvery, scale-like setae across the basal half of the clavus and corium.

Description.

Male (n = 2, holotype measurements in parentheses): Length to apex of membrane 3.42 mm (3.62 mm), width 1.05 mm (0.94 mm). Head: Length 0.34 mm (0.48 mm), width 0. 74 mm (0.78 mm), interocular width 0.26 mm (0.27 mm). Labium: Length about 1.00 mm (1.25 mm), broken and imbedded in glue. Antenna: Segment I, length 0.21 mm (0.24 mm); II, 0.58 mm (0.62 mm); III 0.37 mm (0.49 mm); IV, 0.42 mm (0.43 mm). Pronotum: Length 0.63 mm (0.75 mm), length of anterior lobe 0.21 mm (0.27 mm), length of posterior lobe 0.42 mm (0.48 mm); anterior lobe width 0.47 mm (0.48 mm), posterior lobe width at base 0.95 mm (1.02 mm).

Coloration: Head, pronotum, mesoscutum, and scutellum: Shiny brown. Antenna: Segments I and II dark brown; segments III and IV nearly black. Hemelytron: Shiny brown, paler yellowish brown on inner half of cuneus; membrane fumate or blackish gray, white at base between bases of cunei and narrowly along apical half of cuneal margin. Ventral surface: Shiny brown on thorax to more reddish brown on abdomen. Ostiolar evaporative area: White. Legs: Fore coxae brown, middle coxae brown at base, paler yellowish brown apically; hind coxae yellowish brown, darker brown at base; remaining segments missing.

Structure, texture, and vestiture: Head: Surface shiny to semishiny, frons transverely rugose, vertex finely granulate; with a few scattered semierect pale setae, interspersed with a few short, recumbent setae. Labium: Extending to middle coxae or slightly beyond. Pronotum: Bilobed; anterior lobe with two distinct conical tubercles; posterior lobe shiny, impunctate; clothed with short, sparse, recumbent simple setae. Mesoscutum: Broadly exposed, shiny, impunctate. Scutellum: Shiny, impunctate, bluntly conical, with a few long, erect, simple setae. Hemelytron: Shiny, impunctate; with a broad, loose band of silvery, scale-like setae across base of corium and basal half of clavus, intermixed with three or four long, erect, white bristle-like setae on clavus and four more along apical margin of corium, and very short, sparse, fine, simple setae on clavus, corium, and cuneus. Ventral surface: Shiny, with scattered, recumbent, simple setae on abdomen.

Male genitalia: Genital capsule aperture with one long slender spine arising at 2:00 o’clock position. Left paramere (Fig. 304) bilobed, with left lobe apically blunt and right lobe more tapered. Right paramere (Fig. 306) with simple main trunk tapering apically, with one down-curved lateral arm and a short spine on back side. Phallotheca (Fig. 305) with an apical beak-like process curving downward caudally.

Female: Unknown.

Etymology.

I am pleased to name this new species in honor of my good friend and colleague, Diego Carpintero, author of numerous publications on Argentinian Heteroptera, especially Anthocoridae and Miridae, and collector of the only two known specimens of Zanchismeopsidea diegoi .

Host.

Unknown; holotype and paratype taken at light.

Distribution.

Known only from the state of Santiago Del Estero, Argentina.

Type material.

Holotype ♂: ARGENTINA: S[antiago] D [el] Estero, Añatuya (Luz), III– 99, D. J. Carpintero (MACN). Paratype: Same data as for holotype, 1♂ (USNM).