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Issue: Vol. 4303 No. 3: 10 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.3.8
Page range: 427–436
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 5

Nigrisagitta distichus, a new genus and species of Discocephalini from Venezuela (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae)

Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Criciúma, Rodovia SC 443, 845, Criciúma, SC, Brazil, 88813-600. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 91501-970.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 91501-970.
Hemiptera Discocephala Heteroptera Neotropical new taxa stink bugs

Abstract

Nigrisagitta distichus Rosso & Campos, gen. n. and sp. n. is proposed based on morphological characters. The new genus can be differentiated from other broadheaded discocephalines by the shape of the bucculae and scutellum, the dorso-ventrally compressed pygophore, the shape of the male segment X, the lack of ring sclerites and the proximal narrowing of the ductus recptaculi in females.

 

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