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Issue: Vol. 4568 No. 2: 20 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.2.13
Page range: 394–400
Abstract views: 92
PDF downloaded: 2

Hoplonannus australis sp. nov. (Hemiptera, Schizopteridae): amended diagnosis of the genus and first record from South America

Museu de Ciências Naturais do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Dr. Salvador França 1427, 90690-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Museu de Ciências Naturais do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Dr. Salvador França 1427, 90690-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Department of Entomology, University of California, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521 Riverside, USA.
Hemiptera Distribution minute litter bugs Dipsocoromorpha southern Brazil Argentina

Abstract

Hoplonannus McAtee & Maloch, 1925 comprises three species described from Central America. Females of all these species are known only from brachypterous specimens. This paper describes the first South American species of the genus, Hoplonannus australis sp. nov. The new species differs from its congeners, in females, by the submacroptery, presence of ocelli and a basal bulge in the seventh sternite; in males, it differs by the presence of a process in the eighth tergite and the right paramere bifurcate apically, with branches subparallel. These traits entail a new diagnosis for the genus.

 

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