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

description: Antipetalops colombianus sp. nov.
(Figs. 4, 27–28, 39)
Type locality. Colombia, Amazonas.
Description. Holotype male. Dorsal coloration. Head including the neck black, space between eye and ocellus and narrow longitudinal stripe running between ocelli to base of post-tylar sulcus yellow; antennal segment I dark reddish brown, II to IV dark castaneous orange; pronotum including the collar pale orange, with posterior margin, posterolateral margins and humeri including the spine black; scutellum black with apex yellow; clavus and corium black with claval and corial veins, costal border and apical angle dark castaneous orange with posterior third of apical margin yellow; connexival segments III–VII pale yellow; dorsal abdominal segments black with median pale yellow longitudinal stripe running from III to mid third of segment VII. Ventral coloration. Head, rostral segments I–IV (apex of IV brown), thoracic sterna, pro-, meso-, and metapleura and metathoracic peritreme shiny pale orange; fore and mid legs with coxae, trochanter and tibiae pale orange; femora with basal and mid third pale orange and posterior third and spines reddish brown; basal tarsus pale orange and mid and apical tarsi dark brown; hind leg with coxae, and trochanter pale orange; femora dark reddish brown with basal joint pale orange; tibiae pale castaneous brown with apical third yellow; basal tarsus yellow, and mid and apical tarsi dark brown; pleural abdominal margins III–VII yellow; abdominal sternite III yellow with lateral margins pale castaneous, sternite IV pale castaneous with basal margin near the middle yellow, and sternite V–VII dark reddish brown. The male genital capsule as figure 39. Parameres. See figures 27 and 28.
Female. Color and habitus similar to the male. Dorsal abdominal segments III–IX black with median pale yellow longitudinal stripe running from III to mid third of segment VIII; abdominal sternite III–VI pale yellow with lateral margins and median longitudinal stripe running from III to apex of sternite VI dark reddish brown; abdominal sternite VII dark reddish brown with two irregular yellow stripes lateral to midline; pleural margins III–VI yellow and VII yellow with apical margin dark reddish brown; valvulae VIII reddish brown with external angle yellow; laterotergite VIII reddish brown with upper margin yellow; laterotergite IX reddish brown; abdominal spiracles dark reddish brown.
Measurements. Male. Body length 19.70; head length 2.12; head width across eyes 2.42; interocular width 1.06; anteocular length 1.06; interocellar width 0.45; length of antennal segments: I 5.77, II 4.71 III, 3.95, IV 6. 55; length of rostral segments: I 1.40, II 1.30, III 1.40, IV 1.35; pronotum: total length 4.18, maximum width across humeral angles 6.46; scutellum: length 2.66, basal width 2.12.
Measurements. Female. Body length 20.05; head length 2.05; head width across eyes 2.35; interocular width 1.21; anteocular length 1.00; interocellar width 0.40; length of antennal segments: I 4.94, II 4.10 III, 3.52, IV 8.82; length of rostral segments: I 1.50, II 1.25, III 1.35, IV 1.25; pronotum: total length 4.25, maximum width across humeral angles 6.46; scutellum: length 2.66, basal width 2.28.
Type material. HOLOTYPE: Male: COLOMBIA: Amazonas, Rio Tacana, 10-v-46, Richter (USNM). PARATYPE: COLOMBIA: Amazonas, Rio Tacana, 180 m, xi-46 (without colector) (UNAM).
Etymology. This species is named for its occurrence in Colombia.
Discussion. Differential diagnosis. This species is distinguished by having the antennal segment IV uniformly dark castaneous orange; the abdominal segments black with median pale yellow longitudinal stripe running from III to mid third of segment VII; the head dorsally and ventrally black with the space between eye and ocelli, and narrow longitudinal stripe between ocelli to base of post-tylar sulcus yellow; and pronotum including the collar pale orange, with posterior margin black.
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 pages 464-465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5794957