Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) simpla Leon & Weirauch, 2016, n. sp.
Creators: name: Leon, Stephanie
name: Weirauch, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Schizopteridae
Schizoptera
Schizoptera simpla

description: Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) simpla, n. sp.
(Figs 3, 6 and 7)
Diagnosis. Distinguished among species of Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) by the flat head, the large eyes, the weakly asymmetrical subgenital plate, small, tab-like process of the subgenital plate, the differentiated left lateral margin of the subgenital plate, the w-shaped left paramere, and the plate-like dorsal fold of the anophore.
Holotype: COSTA RICA: Heredia: Est. Biol. La Selva, 10.43333°N 84.01667°W, 6 Apr 1998, INBio-OET- ALAS, light trap, 1Ƌ (00109150) (MNCR). PARATYPES: COSTA RICA: Heredia: Est. Biol. La Selva, 10.43333°N 84.01667°W, 0 3 May 1993, 2Ƌ (00088289, 00088291) (LACM). La Selva Biological Station, River Station, 10.43°N 84.00472°E, 60 m, 19 May 2011 – 23 May 2011, J. Heraty & E. Murray, Malaise trap, 3Ƌ (00086102, 0 0 0 86114, 00086115) (UCR). La Selva Biological Station, nr Puerto Viejo, 10.43086°N 84.00647°W, 52 m, 16 Apr 1998, INBio-OET-ALAS, 1Ƌ (00109174) (INBIO). Puntarenas: San Vito Co.: Las Cruces Biological Station, 8.78556°N 82.96°W, 1214 m, 24 Sep 2014, A. Knyshov, S. Leon and C. Weirauch, light trap, 2Ƌ (00122963, 00122966), 2♀ (00122964, 00122965) (UCR).
Description. Male: length: 1.41–1.46 mm; body broadly ovoid; COLORATION: general coloration light brown; fuscous patch absent; Sc+C concolorous with remainder of hemelytra (Fig. 3). SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in subgeneric description. STRUCTURE: HEAD: flat in ventral view (Fig. 3); eyes about as wide as synthlipsis. THORAX: as in subgeneric description; hemelytron as in subgeneric description; M2 vein distinctly curving; anterior membranal cell wedge-shaped. ABDOMEN: as in subgeneric description; stVI without process on posterior margin; subgenital plate weakly asymmetrical, with left lateral margin differentiated (Fig. 6S); lateral process small, stout and tab-like (Fig. 6S); tVII rectangular; tVIII rectangular and sclerotized; length of tVIII about 2/3 length of tVII. GENITALIA: py as in subgeneric description; rp as in subgeneric description; lp as in subgeneric description, w-shaped in dorsal view; rca slender and hook-shaped; lca small, about 1/3 length of rca, with two processes (Fig. 6S); vesica uniformly thin with a needlelike tip, forming almost two coils; anophore as in subgeneric description with flat, plate-like dorsal fold (Fig. 6S).
Female: length 1.44–1.46 mm; general habitus as in male.
Distribution. Known from Heredia and Puntarenas provinces in Costa Rica (Fig. 7).
Etymology. Named for the simple subgenital plate, and relatively simplistic genitalic structures after the Latin “simplus” meaning simple.
description: Published as part of Leon, Stephanie & Weirauch, Christiane, 2016, Scratching the surface? Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) reveals vast undocumented biodiversity in the largest litter bug genus Schizoptera Fieber (Hemiptera: Dipsocoromorpha), pp. 255-284 in Zootaxa 4184 (2) on pages 279-280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/164749