Laterocavocoris, Mingheti & Montemayor & Dellapé, 2025

Mingheti, Eugenia, Montemayor, Sara Itzel & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2025, Phylogenetic revision of the Neella-Neoneella complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae), with description of five new genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (2) : -

Laterocavocoris gen. nov.

( Figs 2C, 3B, I, 4E–H, 5F, G, 6)

Tope species: Eccritotarsus lutescens Stål, 1860 . By present designation.

Included species: htp://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C0D3E979-1137-445B-BFEC-A90B175A82FD L. lutescens ( Stål, 1860) , comb. nov.

L. sp 1 sp. nov.

Diagnosis: Eyes large, stylate, upper margin overcoming dorsal margin of head; clypeus longer than half of head height, apex slightly depressed; antennal segment I straight and wider than II; labium extending to abdominal segment III; calli evident and small, not ataining lateral pronotal margins; embolium bent upwards in less than half of its length; medial fracture longer than one-third of corium length; inner margin of cuneus concave with apex truncate; supragenital bridge well developed; genital aperture small; dorsal wall of genital capsule with posterior margin sinuate; right projection of subgenital plate larger than lef, strongly curved and directed upwards, with central depression; and right paramere abruptly widened distally.

Description: Male. TBL 4.51–5.04; PBL 4.42–4.61; BW 2.18– 2.21. Female. TBL 4.94; PBL 4.61; BW 2.21. Coloration: Head: pale yellow; eyes brown to black; antennal segments I–II brown; III–IV, pale yellow. Torax: pronotum, mesoscutum, and pleura pale yellow to yellow; scutellum pale yellow with lateral margins brown. Hemelytron: pale yellow to yellow; membrane yellow; veins pale yellow to yellow. Legs: pale yellow to yellow. Abdomen: pale yellow to yellow. Surface: Shiny; posterior pronotal lobe evenly punctate; head, pronotum, and hemelytra with short and recumbent setae; labium with semierect setae; antennal segments I–II with short and recumbent setae; III–IV with semierect setae; veins with minute and recumbent setae; pleura and abdomen with semierect setae, longer and more dispersed setae than dorsum; coxae, trochanters, femora, and tarsi with short and recumbent setae. Structure: Head: more than 2× as wide as long. Clypeus not prominent, flat, longer than half of head height; apex slightly depressed; frons rounded; vertex flat, wider than length of head; eyes large, stylate, upper margin overcoming dorsal margin of head, more than half of head height, inner margin straight, at level with lateral margins of collar; maxillary plates large and broad; gula not visible or short; antennal segment I straight; II, straight, thinner, and more than 2× as long as I; III, tapering towards apex; IV, straight. Torax: collar evident, anterior margin concave and posterior margin straight; calli evident, small, separated, not ataining lateral margins of pronotum; posterior pronotal lobe with shallow depression separating humeral angles; posterior margin straight; mesoscutum exposed; scutellum with basal depression. Hemelytron lateral margins convex; embolium bent upwards in less than half of its length; medial fracture shorter than half of corium, anterior half adjacent to R + M vein, posterior half separated from R + M vein; R + M not ataining cuneal fracture; cuneus longer than width, inner margin concave with apex truncate; veins angled before or at central area of membrane, before apex of cuneus; cell with inner margin straight or convex, and posterior margin straight. Legs: profemora widened basally; meso- and metafemora straight; metafemora curved; apex of protibiae flatened internally; meso- and metatibiae straight. Male genitalia: Genital capsule less than or equal to one-third of abdomen length; wider than long; genital aperture small, facing caudally or dorsally; right wall shorter than or equal to lef; dorsal wall well developed or reduced, posterior margin sinuate with projections; ventral wall more developed than dorsal, posterior margin convex; subgenital plate with two processes, lef less developed and straight, and right larger and curved, directed dorsally, with a central depression and complex shape; supragenital bridge well developed. Lef paramere: basal process narrow; body curved, narrowed before apical process or medially. Right paramere wider than lef; basal process narrow; body abruptly widened. Aedeagus small and simple; phallotheca almost completely membranous, with some areas sclerotized dorsally; seminal duct widened initially, sclerotized posterior to its distal curvature; endosoma membranous.

Distribution: Brazil and Peru ( Fig. 6).

Etomologo: Tis genus is named for the lateral and right projection of the subgenital plate, in combination with the Latin word ‘ cavo ’ from ‘ cavus ’ meaning hollow or concave, and the suffix ‘ coris ’ meaning bug. Te gender is feminine.

Discussion: Laterocavocoris gen. nov. includes one species transferred from Neella , N. lutescens , and a new as yet undescribed species. Laterocavocoris gen. nov. is recovered as monophyletic supported by 10 synapomorphies. Five continuous characters: the relations, clypeus length/head height (3:0.047), labial segment I length/vertex width (8:0.122), width of anterior margin of scutellum/scutellum length (12: 0.135 –0.137), cuneus length/anterior cuneal margin width (15:0.137) and aedeagus length/genital capsule length (18:0.077); three discrete contradictory synapomorphic characters: the sinuate posterior margin of dorsal wall of the genital capsule (96:2), genital capsule with a reduced opening (110:1) and supragenital bridge present (111:1); and two discrete characters: right process of the subgenital plate with a central concavity directed ventrally (116:1) and distal extreme of the right paramere abruptly and strongly expanded (129:1). Te GC frequencies indicate good support due to low contradictory information ( Fig. 7).

Laterocavocoris gen. nov. runs to the couplet 8 in the key to the Neotropical eccritotarsine genera ( Carvalho and Ferreira 1995), where Hesperolabops Kirkaldy, 1902 and Aztecarina Carvalho, 1974a are identified. Hesperolabops species have the head with long eye stalks and the hemelytra red or fuscous, and Aztecarina have strongly stylate eyes, the pronotum narrowed and constricted anteriorly with the posterior margin strongly arcuate at middle and the hemelytra punctate. In contrast, Laterocavocoris gen. nov. has slightly stylate eyes, the pronotum is not strongly narrowed or constricted anteriorly with its posterior margin straight, and the hemelytra are impunctate, yellow to pale yellow.

Four Neotropical genera were omited in the Carvalho and Ferreira (1995) ´s key and five genera were described afer 1995 (see Globicephalomiris gen. nov. discussion for more details). Te combination of characters given in the diagnosis distinguish Laterocavocoris gen. nov. from all other eccritotarsines.