Paria nigritarsis (Jacoby, 1882)

Gómez-Zurita, Jesús & Maes, Jean-Michel, 2022, New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America, Neotropical Entomology 51 (5), pp. 705-721 : 715

Paria nigritarsis (Jacoby, 1882)

( Figs. 5g , 6b )

New genus and species record: JGZC: female ( JGZC-2596 ), Rivas, Cárdenas, Finca Isla Vista , 11.23345 -85.55123, 56 m, 8 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena & A. Papadopoulou leg., Paria nigritarsis Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .

Paria LeConte, 1858 is a genus relatively diverse in North America and with some twenty species in the Neotropics ( Bechyné 1953). In Central America, there are records for only half a dozen species and it has not been reported from Nicaragua so far ( Flowers 1996). This would be the first country record of Paria , corresponding to one species that was known from Guatemala and Panama, thus providing an intermediate occurrence that suggests a more continuous distribution in tropical Mesoamerica. The specimens from Nicaragua conform to the type and description of P. nigritarsis , except for their pale tarsi. However, this seems to be a polymorphic trait in the species, considering that Jacoby (1891) already reported that the specimens he had seen from Panama also had pale tarsi. The cephalic traits of this species, including the narrow supraocular furrow and the broad, flat area of frontoclypeus between antennae clearly refer the species to the genus Paria . We provide with illustrations of habitus ( Fig. 6b ) and spermatheca ( Fig. 5g ).

Figures

Fig. 5 Spermathecae of Brachypnoea modesta anima- toria (Bechyné) (a), Chrysodi- nopsis cupriceps (Lefèvre) (b), Colaspis jalapae (Bechyné) (c), Megascelis spinipes Jacoby (d), Metachroma panamense Blake (e), Nodocolaspis femoralis (Lefèvre) (f), Paria nigritar- sis Jacoby (g), Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) (h), Spintherophyta ignita (Lefèvre) (i), S. minuta (Jacoby) (j), Talurus tortonesei Bechyné (k), Typophorus apicicornis Jacoby (l), T. cyanipennis Lefèvre (m), and T. subbrunneus Jacoby (n). Scale bar=0.2 mm

Fig.6 Dorsal views of the new records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae in the tribe Typo- phorini, including Metachroma panamense Blake (a), Paria nigritarsis Jacoby (b), Tijucana vitticollis (Jacoby) (c), Typopho- rus apicicornis Jacoby (d), T. cyanipennis Lefèvre (e), and T. subbrunneus Jacoby (f). Scale bar=1.0 mm