Heraeus similis
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 similis

description: HERAEUS SIMILIS SP. NOV.
(FIGS 15 G, 20I–L, 21A, 22)
Diagnosis
Ocelli located posteriorly. Distiflagellomere with a subbasal pale band. Labium extending to metacoxae. Profemur irregularly pigmented; metafemur with a subapical dark band. Posterior margin of pygophore slightly bilobed.
Heraeus similis sp. nov. shares with H. chamamecinus sp. nov. and H. illitus a highly setose body and the presence of a weakly bilobed posterior margin of pygophore, but it can be distinguished by the length of the labium extending to the metacoxae (whereas it attains abdominal segment II in H. illitus and extends to the mesocoxae in H. chamamecinus sp. nov.).
Description (Fig. 15 G)
Total length 6.56. Strongly setose.
Head: Convex dorsally, dark brown, shiny, with short recumbent and long erect setae. Head length 1.44, width 0.96. Postocular length 0.54. Eyes protruding, 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 0.48, interocellar width 0.29. Labium pale brown with long erect setae, extending to metacoxae. Labial segment lengths: I 1.01, II 1.12, III 1.12, and IV 0.40. Antennal tubercles parallel. Antennae: Scape brown, pedicel and basiflagellomere light brown, darkened apically, distiflagellomere brown with a sub-basal pale brown band; all segments with short semi-erect and erect setae, pedicel with abundant erect setae, equal to or longer than diameter of segment. Antennal lengths: scape 0.53, pedicel 1.36, basiflagellomere 1.15, distiflagellomere 1.28. Length of pale band on distiflagellomere 0.38.
Thorax: Pronotum pruinose, anterior lobe dark brown, posterior lobe brown with pale areas, each humeral angle with a small pale spot. Anterior and posterior lobes with short recumbent and long erect setae, posterior lobe with shorter setae. Pronotum punctate, punctures more conspicuous on posterior lobe. Collar length 0.10, anterior lobe length 0.69, posterior lobe length 0.54; anterior lobe width 1.01, posterior lobe width 1.52. Pleurae dark brown. Evaporative area extended. Scutellum dark brown, pruinose, punctate, with setae similar to pronotal setae. Hemelytra pruinose, with erect setae, costal margin pale on proximal three-quarters, with a subapical corial spot, and an inner corial spot, colour pattern as in Figure 15 (G). Membrane dark, veins paler, with a pale apical spot. Legs: Coxae and protrochanter reddish brown, remainder of legs pale brown, profemur spotted with brown and with a subapical brown band; meso- and metafemur with a sub-basal brown band, meso- and metatibia with a pale-brown band subbasally, apex of tibiae, distal half of tarsus I, and pretarsus darker (Fig. 21 A). Setae long and erect, longer on profemur.
Abdomen: Brown with abundant, short, recumbent setae. Male genitalia: Pygophore (Fig. 20 I, J) subquadrangular, with posterior margin weakly bilobed, anterior margin of dorsal aperture rounded. Parameres: Figure 20 (K, L). Aedeagus: conjunctiva spined; lobes strongly sclerotized and with many spines; processus gonopori long and slender.
Distribution
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, and Peru (Fig. 22).
Etymology
The specific epithet ‘ similis ’, Latin for like, refers to the strongly setose body that is similar to and shared with H. chamamecinus sp. nov. and H. illitus.
Type material
Holotype: ♂, BRAZIL: Rondonia, 62 km SW Ariquemes nr. F[a]zenda, Rancho Grande, 20-X-1994, BLT, U. Schmitz (USNM).
Paratypes: 16♂, 22♀, same data as for holotype (USNM); 3♂, 2♀, same data as for holotype (MLP).
Additional material studied
ARGENTINA: Formosa: 2♂, Ea. La Marcela, 35 km
E El Colorado, VIII-2003, light trap, J. Williams col.
(MLP); Tucumán: one without abdomen, Tafi del Valle,
Quebrada de la Angostura, 1800 m a.s.l., 26-II-
[19]53, T. Ramirez (USNM).
BOLIVIA: Beni: 1♀, Romansos, 1 km. N junction Rio Itenez and Rio Paragua, 30-VII-1964 (AMNH); Santa Cruz: 1♀, Prov. San Esteban Muyurina, 49 km N Santa Cruz, 1120 ft, 26-X-[19]59, blacklight trap, R.B. Cumming (USNM); 1♀, Saavedra Res. Sta., 27- III-1978, UV trap, C.R. Ward & C.W. O’Brien (USNM).
BRAZIL: Bahia: 3♂, Encruzilhada, 960 m a.s.l., XI- 1972, M. Alvarenga (AMNH); Espirito Santo: 1♀, Linhares, XI-1967, M. Alvarenga (AMNH); Estado do Rio: 1♀, Guanabara, Represa Rio Grande, III- IV-1972, F.M. Oliveira (AMNH); Mato Grosso: 1♀, Barra do Tapirape, 14-XII-1964, B. Malkin (MZSP); 1♂, Campo Grande, 1941, A. Maller, F. Johnson (AMNH); Minas Gerais: 2♀, Pedra Azul, 900 m a.s.l., XI-1972, M. Alvarenga (AMNH); Para: 1♀, Jacareacanga, XII-1968, M. Alvarenga (AMNH); Sao Paulo: 1♂, Ilha dos Buzios, 16-X/4-XI-[1]963, Exp. Dep. Zool. (MZSP); 3♂, 2♀, Piracicaba, 12-X-1965, C.A. Triplehorn, black light (AMNH); Rondonia: 3♂, 6♀, 62 km SW Ariquemes nr Fzenda, Rancho Grande, 25-X-1994, BLT, U. Schmitz (USNM); 2♀, 28-X- 1994, BLT, U. Schmitz (USNM); 2♀, 16-18-X-1996, BLT, U. Schmitz (USNM); 1♂, 1♀, 7-X-1994, BLT, U. Schmitz (USNM); 1♀, 12/26-IV-1992, BLT, U. Schmitz (USNM); 5♂, 9♀, 8/20-XI-1994, J.E. Eger (USNM); 2♂, 6♀, 4–16-XI-1997, J.E. Eger (USNM); 2♂, 5♀, 5/17-X-1993, J.E. Eger (USNM); 1♂, 1♀, 10-XI-1994, C. O’Brien (USNM); 1♂, 14-XI-1994, C. O’Brien (USNM); 1♀, 9-XI-1994, UV and mercury vapor light, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien (USNM); 1♂, 1♀, 13-XI-1994, UV and merc. vap light, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien (USNM); 1♀, 15-XI-1994, UV and merc. vap light, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien (USNM); 1♀, 16-XI- 1994, UV and merc. vap light, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien (USNM); 1♀, 18-XI-1994, UV and mercury vapor light, C.W. & L.B. O’Brien (USNM).
FRENCH GUIANA: 1♂, 2♀, Grand Santi, 23-IX- 2000, A. Matocq (MNHN).
PERU: Cuzco: 1♀, Pilcopata, 600 m a.s.l., 8/10-VII- 1979, premontane moist forest, J.B. Heppner (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 71-73, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12362, http://zenodo.org/record/269748