Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) ansata Leon & Weirauch, 2016, n. sp.
Creators: name: Leon, Stephanie
name: Weirauch, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Schizopteridae
Schizoptera
Schizoptera ansata

description: Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) ansata, n. sp.
(Figs 2, 5 and 7)
Diagnosis. Distinguished among species of Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) by the broadly ovate body shape, the dark brown coloration, the “pan-handle” shaped process of the subgenital plate, the robust and serrated right conjunctival appendage, the toothed hood of the left paramere, and the semicircular shape of the anophore.
Holotype: Guatemala: Baja Verapaz: Quetzal Res, Los Ranchitos, 15.21549 ° N 90.21925 ° W, 11 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011, 1Ƌ (00011870) (FSCA) (microscopic slide mount). PARATYPES: GUATEMALA: Baja Verapaz: Quetzal Res, Los Ranchitos, 15.21549 ° N 90.21925 ° W, 11 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011, 18Ƌ (00091695, 0 0 0 91567, 0 0 0 91628, 0 0 0 91703, 0 0 0 91654, 0 0 0 91652, 0 0 0 91697, 0 0 0 91621, 0 0 0 91622, 0 0 0 91639, 0 0 0 91716, 0 0 0 91682, 0 0 0 91708, 0 0 0 91667, 0 0 0 91678, 0 0 0 91704, 00091593), 6Ƌ (00091669, 0 0 0 91619, 0 0 0 91632, 0 0 0 91643, 0 0 0 91693, 00091670) (AMNH), 6Ƌ (00091625, 0 0 0 91692, 0 0 0 11870, 0 0 0 91640, 0 0 0 91684, 00091683) (BMNH), 2Ƌ (00091590, 00091577) (UCR), 8Ƌ (00091564, 0 0 0 91638, 0 0 0 91630, 0 0 0 91657, 0 0 0 91627, 0 0 0 91589, 0 0 0 91681, 00091658) (USNM)
Description. Male: length: 1.53–1.59 mm; body broadly ovate; COLORATION: general coloration dark brown; fuscous patch covering less than 1/2 of wing membrane; Sc+C distinctly lighter than remainder of hemelytra (Fig. 2). SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in subgeneric description. STRUCTURE: HEAD: slightly convex in ventral view (Fig. 2); eyes about 1/3 as wide as synthlipsis. THORAX: as in subgeneric description; hemelytron as in subgeneric description; M2 vein nearly straight. ABDOMEN: as in subgeneric description; stVI without process on posterior margin; subgenital plate distinctly asymmetrical, almost forming a right angle with posterior margin of lateral process; process of subgenital plate pan-handle shaped (Fig. 5C); tVII rectangular; tVIII rectangular, symmetrical and lightly sclerotized; length of tVIII about half length of tVII. GENITALIA: py as in subgeneric description; rp as in subgeneric description with a long stem and blunt tip; lp as in subgeneric description, with elongate dorsal process and toothed anterior hood; rca long and robust with distinctly serrated margin; lca large, about 3/4 size of rca, and lanceolate (Fig. 5C); vesica uniformly cylindrical and thin, forming almost two coils; anophore forming asymmetrical half-pipe with prominent dorsal fold.
Female: Unknown.
Distribution. Known only from type locality (Fig. 7).
Etymology. Named for the “pan-handle” shape of the process of the subgenital plate after the Latin “ansa” meaning handle.
description: Published as part of Leon, Stephanie & Weirauch, Christiane, 2016, Scratching the surface? Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) reveals vast undocumented biodiversity in the largest litter bug genus Schizoptera Fieber (Hemiptera: Dipsocoromorpha), pp. 255-284 in Zootaxa 4184 (2) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/164749