Aristotelesia fuscata Henry & Carpintero 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Henry, Thomas J.
name: Carpintero, Diego L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Aristotelesia
Aristotelesia fuscata

description: Aristotelesia fuscata, n. sp.   
(Figs. 1–5)  
 Diagnosis. This species is distinguished by the uniformly fuscous to black body (Figs. 1, 2) and dark brown legs, with only the antennae pale yellow (Figs. 4, 5), whereas A. medialis is bluish black, with orange femora and an orange head with a dark median line, and A. carioca is uniformly black with the antennae and legs pale yellow.   
 Description. Female (n=1; holotype in parentheses): Length 2.87 mm (2.97 mm), maximum width 1.60 mm (1.67 mm). Head: Length 0.60 mm (0.60 mm), width across eyes 1.10 mm (1.26 mm), interocular width 0.65 mm (0.75 mm). Antenna: Segment I 0.14 mm (0.15 mm), II 0.50 mm (0.52 mm), III and IV missing. Pronotum: Length 0.73 mm (0.75 mm), basal width 1.27 mm (1.35 mm).   
 COLORATION: Head: Silvery brown; ocelli clear with a red internal spot; interocular area, frons, and clypeus uniformly black. Labium: Dark brown. Antenna: Segments I and II brownish yellow; segments III and IV missing. Pronotum: Uniformly shiny black. Mesoscutum: Hidden by posterior margin of pronotum. Scutellum: Uniformly shiny black. Hemelytron: Uniformly shiny black; membrane dirty white, veins fuscous. Ventral surface: Thorax uniformly black; abdomen dark brown to fuscous laterally, fading to paler reddish brown ventrally. Ostiolar evaporative area: Uniformly dark brown to fuscous. Legs: Uniformly dark brown.   
 STRUCTURE, TEXTURE, AND VESTITURE: Head: Broad; evenly punctate; eyes widely separated, triangular in lateral view; ocelli small, separated from inner margin of eye by the diameter of an ocellus, widely separated from each other by more than two times the dorsal diameter of an eye; interocular area nearly three times the dorsal diameter of an eye; nearly glabrous, with only a few, very short scattered setae distally on frons and juga. Labium: Folded under body, if extended, would reach beyond hind coxae to basal area of abdomen. Antenna: Segment I short, length about two times width; segment II long, gradually thickening to apex, with a few semierect pale setae subequal to half the diameter of the segment; segments III and IV missing. Pronotum: Convex, evenly punctate; calli indistinct; lateral margins straight, carinate; posterior margin evenly convex; glabrous. Mesoscutum: Narrowly exposed from beneath posterior edge of pronotum. Scutellum: Evenly punctate; glabrous. Hemelytron: Convex laterally, embolium not delimited; cuneus very short, transverse, subequal to apical diameter of antennal segment II; evenly punctate; glabrous.   
 Male: Unknown.   
 Etymology. This species is named fuscata in reference to the uniformly dark brown or fuscous legs.   
 Distribution. Known only from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.   
 Type material. Holotype ♀, Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Vila Oliva, col. MCN, L4.225 (SMCN). Paratype: 1 ♀, same data as for holotype (USNM).
description: Published as part of Henry, Thomas J. & Carpintero, Diego L., 2012, Review of the jumping tree bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) of Argentina and nearby areas of Brazil and Paraguay, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 41-58 in Zootaxa 3545 on pages 43-44