Heraeus ecuatorianus
Creators: name: Pablo M. Dellapé
name: María C. Melo
name: Thomas J. Henry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Heraeus
Heraeus ecuatorianus

description: HERAEUS ECUATORIANUS SP. NOV.
(FIGS 25 H, 30E, 31, 32M–P, 33B)
Diagnosis
Labium extending to metacoxae. Distiflagellomere with a sub-basal whitish band. Membrane with an apical pale spot. Meso- and metafemur with a subapical brown band. Pygophore rounded, inner projections elongate, more pronounced posteriorly; declivent posteriorly in lateral view. Parameres with inner projections narrow and elongate.
Description (Fig. 25 H)
Total length 5.70.
Head: Brown, shiny, coriaceus; with abundant short recumbent and sparse long erect setae dorsally. Head length 1.22, width 0.83. Postocular length 0.43. Eyes not surpassing the dorsal margin of head in lateral view. Ocelli at level of an imaginary line passing the posterior border of eyes. Interocular width 0.42, interocellar width 0.26. Labium pale brown with erect setae, extending to metacoxae. Labial segment lengths: I 0.82, II 0.86, III 0.82, and IV 0.34. Antennae pale brown, scape externally, pedicel, basiflagellomere distally, and distiflagellomere darker, distiflagellomere with a sub-basal whitish band; with abundant, short recumbent and sparse semi-erect setae more abundant on distiflagellomere. Antennal lengths: scape 0.48, pedicel 1.08, basiflagellomere 1.01, and distiflagellomere 1.06. Length of pale band on distiflagellomere 0.29.
Thorax: Pronotum: anterior pronotal lobe brown, collar and posterior lobe paler, with irregular pale areas, each humeral angle with a whitish spot; collar punctate, delimited posteriorly by a punctate sulcus; anterior and posterior lobes with short recumbent setae and sparse long erect setae on anterior lobe. Pronotum pruinose, punctate, punctures larger on posterior lobe. Collar length 0.08, anterior lobe length 0.56, posterior lobe length 0.51; anterior lobe width 0.89, posterior lobe width 1.39. Pleurae brown, acetabular areas paler, punctate, with short recumbent setae. Evaporative area extended. Scutellum brown, darker basally, with a darker longitudinal median stripe, apex paler, pruinose, punctate, with short recumbent and long erect setae, as on anterior pronotal lobe. Hemelytra brown, irregularly pigmented, costal margin pale on proximal threequarters; apex of corium darker, with a subapical whitish spot and an inner pale spot; setae short and semi-erect; membrane brown, with an apical pale spot, veins paler (Fig. 25 H). Legs: Coxae, protrochanter, profemur, except apex, and a subapical band on meso- and metafemur brown, remainder of legs pale brown, apex of tibiae, apex of tarsi, and pretarsi darker (Fig. 33 B); setae semi-erect, longer on profemur. Profemur with spines restricted to apical half.
Abdomen: Brown, with abundant short recumbent setae. Male genitalia: Pygophore (Fig. 32 M, N) rounded, anterior margin of dorsal aperture rounded, inner projections elongate, more pronounced posteriorly; declivent posteriorly in lateral view. Parameres: Figure 32 (O, P). Inner projections narrow and elongate. Aedeagus (Fig. 30 E): conjunctiva with spines laterally beneath the ejaculatory reservoir; vesica with two pairs of lobes, the anterior lobe short, not sclerotized, and with spines; the posterior lobe larger, strongly sclerotized, with a few spines distally; processus gonopori long and slender.
Distribution
Ecuador (Fig. 31).
Etymology
The specific epithet ‘ ecuatorianus ’ is an adjective and refers to Ecuador, the country where the known specimens were collected.
Type material
Holotype: ♂, ECUADOR, Guay, Olon, 29-II-1976, blacklight, J. Cohen (USNM).
Paratypes: 2♂, 1♀, same data as for holotype (USNM); 1♂, 2♀, ECUADOR, Victoria, Arenillas, 150 m a.s.l., 18/19-VIII-1977, L. Peña G. (USNM); 1♂, 1♀, 18/ 19-VIII-1977, L. Peña G. (MLP); 1♂, 1♀, Pilalo (W), 9/10-X-1977, L. Peña G. (USNM).
description: Published as part of Pablo M. Dellapé, María C. Melo & Thomas J. Henry, 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 (177) on pages 90-91, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12362, http://zenodo.org/record/269748