Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski 1994
Creators: name: Dellapé, Pablo M.
name: Melo, María C.
name: Henry, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Heraeus
Heraeus caliginosus

description: HERAEUS CALIGINOSUS SLATER & BARANOWSKI, 1994   
(FIGS 3J, 5F, 8D, 9E–H, 10)  
 Heraeus caliginosus Slater & Baranowski, 1994: 491–493; Slater & O’Donnell, 1995: 147; Baranowski & Slater, 2005: 137.   
 Diagnosis   
General colour dark brown, with four small pale spots on posterior pronotal lobe, basal half of meso- and metafemur whitish; labium long, usually extending to abdominal sternum II.  
 Heraeus caliginosus and H. illitus are the only species of the genus that have a long labium exceeding the metacoxae. Heraeus caliginosus can be distinguished from H. dominicanus sp. nov. by the four pale spots on the posterior pronotal lobe, a small pale spot at each humeral angle, and the longer labium, exceeding the metacoxae.   
 Description based on character used for phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 3J)   
 Head: Coriaceous. Eyes not surpassing the dorsal margin of head in lateral view. Ocelli at level of an imaginary line passing the posterior border of eyes. Distiflagellomere with a pale band. Labium extending to metacoxae or beyond.   
 Thorax: Posterior pronotal lobe with four pale spots and a small pale spot on humeral angles. Anterior pronotal lobe with long erect setae. Evaporative area short. Scutellum with erect setae. Hemelytra brown, darkened on apical half, with a subapical corial spot; inner corial spot diffuse or well defined. Membrane brown with veins paler and an apical pale spot. Legs: Profemur dark with apices paler, apical half of metafemur darker (Fig. 5F). Male mesofemur and protibia without spines. Profemur with short sparse setae.   
 Abdomen, male genitalia: Pygophore (Fig. 9E, F) rounded, anterior margin of dorsal aperture rounded. Parameres: Figure (9G, H). Aedeagus (Fig. 8D) with minute spines, vesical lobes sclerotized; processus gonopori long and slender.   
 Distribution   
Dominican Republic and Haiti (NEW RECORD) (Fig. 10).  
 Type material examined   
 Holotype: ♀, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Pedernales Prov., 21 km N Cabo Rojo, 19-VI-1976, R.E. Woodruff, blacklight trap (FSCA).   
 Additional material studied   
 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Monseñor Noel: 1♀, 12 km NW Jct. Rt 1 on Rd to Constanza, 30-VI-1999, on Baccharis, R.E. Woodruff & R.M. Baranowski (USNM); La Vega: 2♂, 1♀, 5 km W Manabao, 19/ 23-IV-2000, Finca Eladio Fernández ‘ Paso La Perra’ along Rio Yaque del Norte, 3050 ft, blacklight, R.E. Woodruff & T.J. Henry (USNM); 1♂, 4♀, 4 km E of la cienaga de Manabao, 19°04′47″N 70°49′29″W, 3050 ft, 19-IV-2000, blacklight, T.J. Henry & R.E. Woodruff (USNM); Barahona: 1♂, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine, 26-VI/ 7-VII-1992, at light, Woodruff & Skelley (USNM); El Seibo: 1♂, 7 mi. N Pedro Sanchez, cloud forest, 20-VI-[19]98, blacklight trap, R.E. Woodruff (USNM); 1♂, 1♀, 7 km N Pdero Sanchez, Loma de Chivo, 5000 ft, 20-VI-[19]98, blacklight trap, R.E. Woodruff & P.H. Freytag (USNM); La Altagracia: 1♀, Nisibon, Finca Papagallo, 17-VI- 1999, blacklight trap, abandoned house, R.E. Woodruff & R.M. Baranowski (USNM); 1♀, 4 km W Laguna, P.H. Freytag (USNM); 1♀, 33 km N Cabo Rojo, Bauxite Road, 4200 ft, 29-VI-[19]98, blacklight trap, R.M. Baranowski & R.E. Woodruff (USNM).   
 HAITI: 1♀, Étang Lachaux, 26/ 27-X-1934, Garlington (AMNH).
description: Published as part of Dellapé, Pablo M., Melo, María C. & Henry, Thomas J., 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 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12362, http://zenodo.org/record/10109299