Cryptopetalops pluteus Brailovsky 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Brailovsky, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Cryptopetalops
Cryptopetalops pluteus

description: Cryptopetalops pluteus sp. nov.
(Figs. 9, 31–32, 41)
Type locality. Peru, Loreto.
Description. Holotype male. Dorsal coloration. Head including the neck shiny castaneous orange, with two wide reddish brown stripes running through the interocellar space to base of post-tylar sulcus; antennal segments I– III pale castaneous orange, IV pale brown with nearly basal half pale castaneous orange; pronotum shiny castaneous orange; calli irregularly tinged with reddish brown marks and punctures dark castaneous; scutellum dark brown with lateral margins, apex and median spot at middle third of basal margin yellow; clavus and corium dark brown; claval and corial veins, costal and apical margin and apical angle dark yellow; clavus and corium with diffuse metallic bluish green reflections; hemelytral membrane pale brown with veins paler; connexival segments III–VII yellow with posterior angle brown; dorsal abdominal segments dark brown with wide yellow median longitudinal stripe running from III to base of abdominal segment VII. Ventral coloration. Head including the buccula shiny castaneous orange with two pale brown longitudinal stripes running lateral to midline; rostral segment I shiny castaneous orange, II–IV yellow (apex of IV brown); thorax shiny castaneous orange; mesopleura with yellowish white spot close to middle acetabulae; hind acetabulae with yellowish white hardened protuberance with inner margin pale castaneous brown; metasternum dark castaneous, suffused with dark brown spots; metathoracic peritreme with anterior and posterior auricles dark brown; evaporatrive area dark brown; fore and mid legs with coxae shiny castaneous brown tinged with pale yellow marks, trochanteres, femora, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow with femoral spines reddish brown; hind leg with coxae and trochanters shiny castaneous brown, femora, tibiae and tarsi shiny orange with spines and tubercles of femora and spines of tibiae reddish brown; abdominal sterna III–VI laterally dark brown with yellow irregular spots, and middle third with two wide yellow stripes running laterally until posterior third of sternite VI; sternite VII dark castaneous orange with posterior margin reddish brown; genital capsule reddish brown with posterior margin pale castaneous orange; pleural margins of abdominal sternite III–VII and rim of abdominal spiracles yellow. Male genital capsule as in figure 41. Parameres. See figures 31 and 32.
Female. Unknown.
Measurements. Male. Body length 17.42; head length 2.05; head width across eyes 2.42; interocular width 0.91; anteocular length 0.93; interocellar width 0.32; length of antennal segments: I 3.95, II 3.42 III, 2.96, IV 6. 53; length of rostral segments: I 1.30, II 1.50, III 1.30, IV 1.22; pronotum: total length 3.19, maximum width across humeral angles 4.71; scutellum: length 1.90, basal width 1.54.
Type material. HOLOTYPE: Male: PERU: Loreto, Atalaya, 25-I-1972, M. Buitron (UNAM).
Etymology. Latin word “ plutea ”meaning shed, parapet, breastwork, backboard, and surrounded by a wall.
Differential diagnosis. Cryptopetalops pluteus sp. nov., (Fig. 9) differs from C. llorentei (Figs. 7–8), herein described, by having the antennal segment IV pale brown with basal half pale castaneous orange, pronotum shiny castaneous orange and scutellum dark brown with lateral margins, apex and a small median spot at basal margin yellow. In C. llorentei, the antennal segment IV is dark brown with a subbasal pale orange ring, the pronotum is pale brown to pale castaneous orange with two transverse yellow stripes, and scutellum pale brown with lateral margins, apex, and complete median longitudinal stripe reaching the apex yellow.
description: Published as part of Brailovsky, Harry, 2021, Illustrated key to the genera included in the tribe Acanthocephalini (Hemiptera Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae), with descriptions of three new genera, seven new species, new taxonomic rearrangements, and a key to genera of Placoscelini, pp. 457-475 in Zootaxa 5082 (5) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5794957