Bactrodes misionensis Coscarón & Melo, 2003, n.sp.
Creators: name: Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen
name: Melo, Maria Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Bactrodes
Bactrodes misionensis

description: Bactrodes misionensis, n.sp.
Figs. 3: M–V, 4: C.
Holotype: m, BRAZIL, Goiás, Goiana 12­VII­1957, Malkin col. (CAS)
Other Material: ARGENTINA: 3Ψ, Misiones, Dep. Concepción, Sta. María, det. Wygodzinsky, Inst. Med. Reg., Vianna col. (MACN); Ψ, 48059, (MACN); BRAZIL: ɗ, Goiás, Goiana 12­VII­1957, Malkin col. (CAS); ɗ, M. Gerais, Viçosa (20°45’S 42°53’W), 7­1944, Wygodzinsky det., Carcavalho col., Wygodzinsky coll. (AMNH).
Diagnosis: This species can be distinguish by the invaginated posterior lobe of the pronotum, and the characteristic shape of the median process of pygophore in males (Fig. 3 ­S).
Description.­ Body length 7.78­ 9.18 (mean = 8.28). Head length 1.20–1.50 (mean = 1.35), width 0.67–0.75 (mean = 0.71). Head smooth brown, without setae (Fig. 3 ­M). Antennal length 7.74–9.28 (mean = 8.51), ratio of segments' lengths ca. 1: 0.92: 0.16: 0.08. Antennal tubercle with a granule at base. Antennal segment I light brown except basally and apically brown, segments II­IV brown, setose. Labrum dark brown. Width of eyes 0.17–0.20 (mean = 0.19), interocular space 0.33­ 0.40 (mean = 0.37). Genae protruded, light brown. Rostrum length 1.18–1.31 (mean = 1.26), ratio of segments' lengths ca. 1: 1.56: 1.03. Rostrum light brown, except segment III dark brown distally with short sparse setae. Neck with 1+1 dorsal setose tubercles. Pronotum length 1.87–2.33 (mean = 2.00), width 1.00–1.26 (mean = 1.10). Anterior lobe light brown with small short setiferous tubercles. Median sulcus evident only distally. Posterior lobe granulated brown. Basal spine of scutellum setose (Fig. 3 ­N). Sterna glabrous. Fore legs light brown, trochanters with setae, femora light brown except one dark brown ring distally and another medially, tibia light brown with or without a stripe basally, with sparse thin setae, tarsi light brown except segment III brown (Figs. 3 ­O). Median and hind legs light brown, femora slightly incrassate apically, tibia with abundant thin setae, tarsi brown. Stridulatory sulcus light brown and setose (Fig. 3 ­P). Hemelytra length 4.49–5.69 (mean = 4.82), color brown. Abdomen length 4.56–5.38 (mean = 4.79), width 1.03–1.13 (mean = 1.09). Abdomen visible from above. Connexivum brown with dark brown spots. Urotergites light brown and glabrous.
Male: pygophore glabrous and smooth (Fig. 3 ­Q). Parameres elongate curved apically, glabrous (Fig. 3 ­R). Base of median process thick, apical hook acute and slightly curved (Fig. 3 ­S). Phallus (Fig. 3 ­T).
Female: gonocoxite VIII subquadrangular, distal scarse setae present (Fig. 3 ­U), laterally expanded, relation between maximal width of gonocoxite and maximal width of gonapophysis 3.9: 1.1. Gonocoxite IX subtriangular and glabrous (Fig. 3 ­V). Distribution (Fig. 4 ­D): ARGENTINA and BRAZIL.
Observations: The closest species is B. biannulatus, but B. misionensis differs in the structure of the female genitalia.
description: Published as part of Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen & Melo, Maria Cecilia, 2003, Revision of the subfamily Bactrodinae (Heteroptera, Reduviidae), with a phylogenetic analysis of Bactrodes, pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 304 on pages 11-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156879