Cyrtopeltocoris nudipronotum Wyniger &amp; Schuh &amp; Henry 2023, new species
Creators: name: Wyniger, Denise
name: Schuh, Randall T.
name: Henry, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Cyrtopeltocoris
Cyrtopeltocoris nudipronotum

description: <i>Cyrtopeltocoris nudipronotum,</i> new species Figures 3, 5, 6, table 1 DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the distinctly convex pronotum and scutellum; pronotum glabrous and shining laterally and finely rugulose medially (fig. 3); white transverse fascia on hemelytron broad, more or less parallel sided (fig. 3); and endosoma greatly extending beyond secondary gonopore with subapical lateral membranous lobe (fig. 5). Most similar to <i>C. albofasciatus</i>, <i>C. gracilentis</i>, and <i>C. huachucae</i> in general appearance, but differing from all of them by its distinctive pronotal surface and by endosoma greatly extending beyond secondary gonopore; differing from from <i>C. albofasciatus</i> and <i>C. gracilentis</i> by the presence of short recumbent setae rather than long erect setae on hemelytron. <i>Cyrtopeltocoris nudipronotum</i> is similar to <i>C. ajo</i> in having the same pronotal surface texture and general dorsal color pattern but differs in the evenly rounded frons and clypeus and a much smaller, more slender right paramere, whereas <i>C. ajo</i> has a distinct notch at the base of the clypeus (similar to <i>C. huachucae</i>) and the right paramere is large and broad. DESCRIPTION: <i>Male</i>: Mean total length 3.92. Coloration (fig. 3): Head reddish brown; labium brown; pronotum dark brown, dark brown and blackish laterally, or dark orange and brownish black laterally; mesoscutum and scutellum dark brown; scent-gland auricle brown; clavus brown or brownish orange basally, sometimes slightly darker at margin of white medial part, white medially, brown apically; corium brown or dark brownish orange basally, white medially, brown apically; white band straight or just very slightly swollen medially (fig. 3); corium with roundish white spot at cuneal fracture not reaching inner margin; cuneus dark reddish brown; membrane fuscous; antennae brown with segment 1 yellowish brown, segment 4 sometimes reddish; venter reddish; mesepisternum reddish brown; coxae and trochanters ivory; femora and tibiae reddish brown; tarsi yellowish. Surface and vestiture (fig. 3): Head, scutellum, and clavus bearing long erect setae; pronotum and corium with recumbent setae; pronotum glabrous and polished laterally and finely rugulose and dull medially. Structure (fig. 3): Slender; pronotum distinctly swollen, campanulate (fig. 3); scutellum distinctly swollen; corium with lateral margin slightly convex basally at level of brown coloration; labium reaching metacoxae. genitalia (fig. 5): Endosoma coiled, slender, with a subapical, dentate, lateral membranous lobe; secondary gonopore strongly removed from apex of endosoma (fig. 5); phallotheca just slightly curved, with a widened lobelike apex; left paramere with anterior process stout, posterior process elongate and curved downward; right paramere short and widened basally. ETYMOLOGY: Named for the glabrous lateral areas of the pronotum, from the Latin <i>nudus</i>, meaning “bare,” and pronotum. DISTRIBUTION (fig. 6): Known from Baja California, Mexico, and southern California. HOLOTYPE male: <b>MEXICO: Baja California Norte:</b> Coastal dunes, 8 mi NW of San Quintin, 30.60818 <b>°</b> N 116.01446 <b>°</b> W, 2 m, 13 Jun 1973, J. Doyen (AMNH _ PBI 00081082) (CAS). PARATYPES: <b>MEXICO: Baja California:</b> 12 mi. E El Rosario, 32.2932 <b>°</b> N 116.9931 <b>°</b> W, 188 m, 10 Jun 1979, none, 2&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00083300, AMNH _ PBI 00083299) (UCR). <b>Baja California Norte:</b> 1.5 mi S of Punta Prieta, 28.9079 <b>°</b> N 114.14881 <b>°</b> W, 191 m, 13 Aug 1971, H.G. Real and R.E. Main, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078615) (CAS). Millers Landing, S.W. Rosarito, 28.49139 <b>°</b> N 114.06346 <b>°</b> W, 7 m, 05 Apr 1976, P. Rude, 3&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00081102 – AMNH _ PBI 00081104) (UCB). <b> Baja California Sur: <i>Comondú Municipality</i>:</b> Las Barracas, 25.99638 <b>°</b> N 112.19722 <b>°</b> W, 29 Apr 1984, P. DeBach, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00083996) (UCR); 09 Jun 1984, P. DeBach, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00083994) (UCR). <b> <i>Mulegé Municipality</i>:</b> 66 rd. km. W Vizcaino, 27.45 <b>°</b> N 113.95 <b>°</b> W, 24 Mar 1980 – 25 Mar 1980, John D. Pinto, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00083301) (UCR). 1 mi S of Mulege, 26.87158 <b>°</b> N 111.97989 <b>°</b> W, 128 m, 27 Aug 1959, K.W. Radford and F.G. Werner, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411095) (USNM). <b> <i>Unknown municipality</i>:</b> 1.5 mi E of San Jorge, 23.48013 <b>°</b> N 109.76791 <b>°</b> W, 165 m, 24 Jul 1971, H.G. Real and R.E. Main, 2&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078627, AMNH _ PBI 00078628) (AMNH), 25&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078629 – AMNH _ PBI 00078636, AMNH_PBI 00078579, AMNH_PBI 00078587–AMNH_PBI 00078599, AMNH_PBI 00292462, AMNH_PBI 00292463, AMNH _ PBI 00078680) (CAS); 25 Jul 1971, H.G. Real and R.E. Main, 4&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078622, AMNH _ PBI 00078624 – AMNH _ PBI 00078626) (AMNH), 3&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078649, AMNH _ PBI 00078650, AMNH _ PBI 00078648), 18&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078618 – AMNH _ PBI 00078621, AMNH_PBI 00078623, AMNH_PBI 00078602– AMNH _ PBI 00078614) (CAS). 3 mi N of San Jose Viejo, 26.4267 <b>°</b> N 112.15 <b>°</b> W, 16 Jul 1971, H.G. Real and R.E. Main, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078616) (CAS). 6 mi N of San Jose del Cabo, 23.137 <b>°</b> N 109.683 <b>°</b> W, 10 Sep 1967, J. Chemsak, A. &amp; M. Michelbacher, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00081101) (UCB). El Sargento, 24.07806 <b>°</b> N 109.99972 <b>°</b> W, 29 Jul 1971, H.G. Real and R.E. Main, <i>Parthenium hysterophorus</i> L. (Asteraceae), 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078581), 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078651), 11&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078637 – AMNH _ PBI 00078643, AMNH_PBI 00078578, AMNH_PBI 00078600, AMNH _ PBI 00078601) (CAS). Isla San Jose, 1 mi S Punta Colorado, 25.04611 <b>°</b> N 110.68388 <b>°</b> W, 08 Apr 1974 – 09 Apr 1974, John T. Doyen, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078617) (CAS). <b> USA: California: <i>Los Angeles Co.:</i></b> Burbank, 34.18083 <b>°</b> N 118.30806 <b>°</b> W, 14 Jul 1930, C.H. Hicks, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00186384) (USNM). <i>San Bernardino Co.:</i> 6 mi E of Yermo, Mojave River, dry creek bed, 34.91472 <b>°</b> N 116.71113 <b>°</b> W, 556 m, 27 Aug 1952, H.B. Leech &amp; J.W. Green, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00078644) (CAS).
description: Published as part of <i>Wyniger, Denise, Schuh, Randall T. &amp; Henry, Thomas J., 2023, Revision of the North American Hallodapini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 1-48 in American Museum Novitates 2023 (3994)</i> on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.1206/3994.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7710041