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Issue: Vol. 4078 No. 1: 9 Feb. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-02-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.15
Page range: 161–167
Abstract views: 78
PDF downloaded: 3

There and back again: contributions on Pseudevoplitus Ruckes (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

Depto. de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501–970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Depto. de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501–970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Depto. de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501–970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. PPG Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brazil.
Heteroptera Amazon Neotropical Pentatominae South America taxonomy

Abstract

Pseudevoplitus Ruckes was recently revised and new species were described. The genus has a Neotropical distribution, with species mainly found in the Amazon. Here, we describe the previously unknown female of P. roraimensis and add localities to its known distribution. Also, a new species, P. angelomachadoi sp. nov. (Holotype male deposited in MNHN: French Guiana, Acarouany, 15.IX.1998, A. Matocq leg.), from the Amazonia of French Guiana is described; it can be distinguished from other species of the genus mainly by the bell-shaped pygophore in males, and the gonocoxites 8 widely obscuring the laterotergites 8 basally, in females,  a unique character of this species. The key to species of Pseudevoplitus is updated to include the new species and females.

 

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