Bebaiotes parallela Viegas & Ale-Rocha 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Viegas, Eduarda Fernanda Gomes
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Achilixiidae
Bebaiotes
Bebaiotes parallela

description: Bebaiotes parallela sp. nov.   
 (Figs 22A – E; 23A – G; 24A – E; 38B; 40G, H; 43)   
 Type material. Holotype male (INPA). BRASIL, Amazonas, P [ar]q[eu] N[acional] [do] Jau, Ig [arapé] Miratucu, 01˚57’02”S–61˚49’01”W, 23–28.vii.1995, Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J. Vidal cols.   
 Condition of the holotype: Right and left flagellum broken and lost. Right protarsus broken and lost.   
 Paratypes. BRASIL, Amazonas, P[ar]q[eu] N[acional] [do] Jau, Ig [arapé] Miratucu, Ig [arapé] do Gerlei, 01˚57’00”S–61˚49’00”W, 23–28.vii.1995, Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J. Vidal cols. (1♂, 3 ♀, INPA); idem, 01˚57’02”S– 61˚49’01”W, Armadilha de Luz (3 ♂, INPA); idem, Meriti, 4–10.vi.1994 (2 ♂, 9 ♀, INPA); idem, Rio Unini, 20– 24.vi.1996, Malaise, A.L. Henriques; F.L. Oliveira & J. Vidal col. (1 ♀, INPA); Manaus, Km 60, 23.x.1979, quadro n°1011, N. D. Penny col. (1 ♀, INPA); Reserva Ducke, 29.x.1976, N. D. Penny col. (1 ♀, INPA); idem, xi.2003, NS 2-800 m [e]t[ro]s azul, Suspensa 20 m [e]t[ro]s, A. Henriques et al., cols. (1 ♂, 1 ♀, INPA); Km 54, Leste de Manaus, 26.iv.1979, Armadilha C.D.C. 1 metros, Arias, Freitas, Vidal (1 ♂ INPA); idem, 26.iv.1979, 6 metros, Arias, Freitas, Vidal (1 ♀ INPA); Km 60, N. de Manaus, 22.xi.1976, N. D. Penny col. (1 ♀, INPA); Km 60 N. Res [erva] Campinas, 3.iii.1977, N. D. Penny col. (1 ♀, INPA); Reserva Campinas, BR 174, Km 60, 6.ii.1976, N. D. Penny col. (1 ♂, INPA); Barcelos, Rio Padauari com Ararinha, 00˚30'18"N:64˚03'30"W, 12–14.vi.2010, Malaise, R. Machado; P. Dias; J. A. Rafael; R. Cavichioli; D. Takiya (1 ♂, INPA).   
 Diagnosis. Body coloration light brown (Figs 22A, B). Forewing dark brown (Fig. 40 G). Median longitudinal carina of pronotum weakly marked (Fig. 22 D). Dorsal margin of periandrium with short indentation (Fig. 23G).   
 Description. Measurements. Body length: male 3.0 – 3.3 mm (5,5 – 5, 7 mm including wings) (N=3); female: 2.8 – 3.1 mm (5.0 – 6.0 mm including wings) (N=3).   
 Coloration. General body color light brown (Fig. 22A, B). Frons, pedicel dark brown. Pedicel plaque organs white. Epimeron and episternum light yellow. Forewing dark brown, semihyaline, with whitish regions and basal half of the white veins, except A1 vein dark brown, and apical half of the veins yellow, except apex MP 1, MP 2, MP 3, MP 4, CuA 1 and CuA 2 veins dark brown: red CA vein; reddish in the medial area; narrow white stripe on apical region extending from r-m2 cross-vein up to the im crossvein; white diffuse spot in the covering m-cu 2 and icua cross-veins; apex of clavus white (Fig. 40G). Hind wing semihyaline, light brown with hyaline regions (Fig. 40H). Legs dark brown, except metathoracic legs yellow brown with apex of the metatibia dark brown (Fig. 22A). Abdomen reddish brown, except sternites I, II, posterior half of sternite III, anal tube (segment X), pygofer and gonostyli yellow (Fig. 22E).   
 Head: frons wide, distance between the lateral carinae of frons on median portion, subequal to the maximun width of vertex (Fig. 22C). Clypeus approximately twice longer than its maximum width; median carina of clypeus strongly marked, does not touch epistomal suture, present on distal ¾ (Fig. 22C). Pedicel globose, approximately twice longer than scape (Fig. 38B). Scape short with cuticular denticles (Fig. 38B).   
 Thorax: anterior margin of pronotum with truncated apex, lateral longitudinal carinae converging horizontally on anterior margin and gently diverging towards posterior margin; median longitudinal carina of pronotum present, but weakly marked; posterior margin of pronotum with slight angled indentation in the middle; pronotum without pustules on posterior margin (Fig. 22D); median and lateral longitudinal carinae of mesonotum present, but weakly marked (Fig.22D).   
 Forewing: RA and RP veins with the apex gently curved anteriorly; r-m cross-vein present; ir cross-vein close to the r-m2 cross-vein, not aligned; MP vein with four branches with uncurved apex; first bifurcation of MP vein arising after r-m cross-vein; m-cu cross-vein present; CuP vein approximately 7 times longer than Pcu + A 1 vein; apex of clavus with straight angle (Fig. 40G).   
 Hind wing: first bifurcation of MP vein arising before m-cu cross-vein (Fig. 40H).   
 Legs: metatibia with 9 apical spines; metatarsus with 6+6 apical spines.   
 Abdomen: posterior pit of the sternite III rounded (Fig. 22E); posterior half of sternites IV + V and VI with four long, thin, whitish setae; posterior margin of sternite VII v-shaped in posterior view. Female (Fig. 22B). Similar to male, except for the coloration of the abdomen dark brown, except sternite II yellow and sternite III light brown.   
 Male terminalia (Figs 23A–G): Pygofer with posterior margin without projections and almost straight, with sparse setae in posterior view (Fig. 23B). Gonostyli with truncated apex in lateral view; outer margin with short and pointed projection near to the apex, surface and inner margin with some setae (Figs 23D, E). Phallic complex (Figs. 23F, G): periandrium elliptical in dorsal view; dorsal margin with long indentation at the apex and ventral margin with short indentation apically in dorsal view (Figs 23F, G). Inner sclerotised plates narrowing towards the apex, surface with small spiniform projections (Figs 23F, G). Anal tube (segment X), short, apex slightly concave in dorsal view, with sparse setae dorsally (Fig. 23C).   
 Female terminalia (Figs 24A–E): pygofer with few setae in posterior view (Fig. 24B). Gonapophysis VIII (first valvula) robust, with sparse setae on median region and covered with several small spiniform projections, in lateral view; three lateroapical projections of subequal sizes with serrated dorsal margin in lateral view (Fig. 24E). Bursa copulatrix densely filamentous apically, straight apex, covered by few setae laterally on apical half and few small spiniform projections on median region in lateral view (Fig. 24E). Gonapophysis IX (second valvula) robust, forked on apical half, lobes with a pointed apex, strongly curved latero-ventrally, hook-like in dorsal view (Fig. 24D). Gonoplac (third valvula) subtrapezoidal, apex rounded with numerous setae apically and sparse setae laterally in lateral view (Fig. 24C). Anal tube (segment X), short, apex rounded, with many sparse setae in dorsal view (Fig. 24A).   
 Variations. Variations in the coloration of the veins of the forewing, in the basal half, have been observed in some specimens, from light brown to white brown, and veins of the forewing on apical half, from yellow to red, as well as the coloration of the sternites IV + V, from red brown to light brown. In some specimens, median longitudinal carina of pronotum is strongly marked and median longitudinal carina of mesonotum is absent.   
 Etymology. From the Latin parallelus, parallel. The species name is allusive to the position of the lateral carinae that are parallel in anterior view.   
 Distribution. Brazil (Amazonas) (Fig. 43).   
 Comments. B. parallela sp. nov. differs from B. amazonica sp. nov. as previously discussed in the description of the latter.
description: Published as part of Viegas, Eduarda Fernanda Gomes & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2024, A century of Achilixiidae Muir, 1923 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha): taxonomic study of the genus Bebaiotes Muir, 1924 and description of eight new species from Brazil, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 5413 (1) on pages 36-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5413.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10681165