Heraeus steineri
Creators: name: Pablo M. Dellapé
name: María C. Melo
name: Thomas J. Henry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Heraeus
Heraeus steineri

description: HERAEUS STEINERI SP. NOV.
(FIGS 3 I, 11C, 12I–L, 13)
Diagnosis
Legs whitish, coxa pale brown; posterior pronotal lobe mottled with yellow; hemelytra brown, mottled with yellow at base.
The uniformly whitish legs easily distinguish this species from the others in the group.
Description
Total length 6.56 (Fig. 3 I).
Head: Slightly convex dorsally, brown, shiny, coriaceous, with short recumbent and scattered erect setae. Head length 1.30, width 0.93. Postocular length 0.46. Eyes not surpassing the dorsal margin of head in lateral view. Ocelli placed posterior to an imaginary line passing the posterior border of eyes. Interocular width 0.34, interocellar width 0.22. Labium pale brown with short erect setae, nearly extending to mesocoxae. Labial segment lengths: I 0.80, II 0.88, III 0.64, and IV 0.35. Antennae pale brown, except apices of pedicel and basiflagellomere slightly darker, with short recumbent and scattered erect setae, distiflagellomere brown, with a medial pale band.
Antennal lengths: scape 0.48, pedicel 1.31, basiflagellomere 1.18, and distiflagellomere 1.28. Length of pale band on distiflagellomere 0.38.
Thorax: Pronotum brown, posterior lobe paler with four incomplete longitudinal pale stripes; anterior and posterior lobe with short recumbent setae. Pronotum pruinose, anterior lobe impunctate, posterior lobe punctate. Collar length 0.08, anterior lobe length 0.77, posterior lobe length 0.51; anterior lobe width 1.04, posterior lobe width 1.52. Pleurae brown, acetabular areas reddish brown; punctate, with short recumbent setae. Scutellum brown, except two medial pale spots and apex yellowish; pruinose, punctate, with short recumbent setae. Hemelytra pruinose, with short recumbent setae; posterior half dark with the subapical corial spot and apical spot of membrane conspicuously pale. Clavus brown, with anterior one-third between median and external rows of punctures pale brown. Corium brown with a subapical whitish spot, costal margin pale on proximal three-quarters. Membrane fuscous, veins paler with an apical rounded whitish spot. Legs: Coxae pale brown, remainder of legs whitish (Fig. 11 C), with sparse short erect setae. Profemur with spines on apical twothirds. Protibia slightly curved at base, with small tubercles bearing spiniform setae on apical half. Mesofemur with three or four spines.
Abdomen: Brown, with abundant short recumbent setae. Male genitalia: Pygophore (Fig. 12 I–J) rounded, anterior margin of dorsal aperture rounded, inner projections elongate, more produced posteriorly; slightly declivent posteriorly in lateral view. Parameres: (Fig. 12 K, L). Aedeagus without spines, and with two sclerotized lobes; processus gonopori long and slender.
Variability observed in paratypes
The posterior pronotal lobe varies from having four longitudinal pale stripes to only irregular pale areas, but it is never homogeneously or evenly coloured.
Distribution
Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas (Fig. 13).
Etymology
This species is named in honour of Warren E. Steiner, one of the collectors of this species.
Type material
Holotype: ♂, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS,
Providenciales, King’s Town, 21°48 ′ N, 72°14 ′ W, 30-I-
1998, at black light in sandy scrub forest, W.E. Steiner
& J.M. Swearingen (USNM).
Paratypes: 1♀, same data as for holotype (USNM); 1♂, 4♀, Providenciales Grace Bay Hills, 21°48 ′ N, 72°13 ′ W, 27-I-1998, at blacklight in sandy scrub forest, W.E. Steiner & J.M. Swearingen (USNM); 1♀, at blacklight in sandy scrub forest, W.E. Steiner & J.M. Swearingen (MLP); 1♂, 5♀, Providenciales Isl., 23-XI-[19]94, R.M. & H.V. Baranowski (USNM); 1♀, 22-XI-[19]94, R.M. & H.V. Baranowski (USNM); 1♀, Providenciales Isl., Grace Bay, 20-X-93, R.M. & H.V. Baranowski (USNM); 2♀, North Caicos Island, 20-VII-[19]93, B.L.T., A. Swan (USNM); 1♂, 3♀, Whitby, North Caicos Island, 23-X-[19]93, B.L.T., R.M. & H.V. Baranowski (USNM); 1♂, 26-XI-[9]94, B.L.T., R.M. & H.V. Baranowski (USNM); 1♂, 21-X-[9]93, B.L.T., R.M. & H.V. Baranowski (USNM); 1♀, North Caicos Island, Pelican Beach Hotel, 31-V-[19]91, BL Trap, H.V. & R.M. Baranowski (USNM); 3♂, 10♀, Bambarra, North Caicos Island, 12-XII-[19]93, B.L.T., B.M. Riggs (USNM); 2♂, 2♀, B.L.T., B.M. Riggs (MLP). BAHAMAS ISLANDS: 1♂, Mayaguana Isl. 1-VIII-1963, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♀, 25-VIII-1967, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♀, 26-VIII-1963, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♂, 3♀, 3-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♀, 20-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♂, 2♀, 24-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♀, 25-VIII- [19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♂, 5♀, 26-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♂, 4♀, 27-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 3♂, 1♀, 28-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM); 1♂, 1♀, 30-VIII-[19]63, blacklight trap, C. Murvosh (USNM).
description: Published as part of Pablo M. Dellapé, María C. Melo & Thomas J. Henry, 2016, A phylogenetic revision of the true bug genus Heraeus (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae: Myodochini), with the description of two new genera and 30 new species, pp. 29-134 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (177) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12362, http://zenodo.org/record/269748