Diariptus napoanus Brailovsky, 2008, n. sp.
Creators: name: Brailovsky, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Diariptus
Diariptus napoanus

description: Diariptus napoanus n. sp.
(Figs. 2–4, 6–8, 11)
Description. Holotype male. Head length 1.94; width across eyes 2.48; interocular space 1.50; interocellar space 0.74; preocular distance 1.38; antennal segments length I, 5.39, II, 4.15, III, 2.91, IV, 4.96; pronotum length 5.20; width across humeral angles 7.10; scutellar length 2.48; width 2.79; total body length 26.40. Dorsal coloration. Head and pronotum pale yellow; antennal segments I to III brownish, suffused with dark yellowish orange marks, and IV shiny orange; scutellum pale yellow, basally and apically creamy orange; clavus dark yellowish orange with anal border and claval commissure black; corium dark yellowish orange; hemelytral membrane ambarine, translucent; connexival segments dark yellowish orange with posterior angle including the spine black; dorsal abdominal segments pale yellow, suffused with shiny orange marks. Ventral coloration.- Ground color yellow with following areas black: apex of rostral segment IV, and spines and tubercles of femora and tibiae; mesosternum, metasternum, and metathoracic peritreme suffused with dark orange; hind tibia yellow with basal third dark orange; abdominal sterna III to VII lateral to midline and below abdominal spiracles with wide reddish orange stripe. Structure. Scutellum. Wider than long (Fig. 2). Abdomen. Connexival segments IV and V with posterior angle drawn out into remarkable long, broadly based spine, almost perpendicular to abdominal margin and rather robust, and VI produced into medium size and robust spine, obliquely posteriad (Fig. 4). Genital capsule. Posteroventral edge with deep U-shaped excavation (Fig. 3). Paramere. Body elongate and robust (Figs. 7–8).
Female. Head length 1.67; width across eyes 2.29; interocular space 1.36; interocellar space 0.62; preocular distance 1.24; antennal segments length I, 4.27, II, 3.41, III, 2.35, IV, 4.52; pronotum length 4.46; width across humeral angles 6.01; scutellar length 2.17; width 2.35; total body length 22.86. Coloration similar to male holotype. Connexival segments VIII and IX yellow with posterior angle pale brown; dorsal abdominal segments VIII and IX, and genital plates dark yellow. Structure. Abdomen.Connexival segments IV and V drawn out into short, broadly based spines, obliquely posterirad (Fig. 6).
Variation. 1. Antennal segment I brown with basal third yellow. 2. Antennal segments II and III dark orange and IV shiny orange. 3. Fore and middle legs yellow with olivaceus marks. 4. Spines and tubercles of femora and tibiae yellow with apex black. 5. Clavus and corium pale yellowish orange, tinged with greenish at costal margin and claval commissure.
Types. Holotype male, ECUADOR: Napo, 20 km E of Puerto Napo, Aliñahui, 450 m, 01°03’S – 77°40’W, XI-1996, E. S. Ross (CASC). Paratypes. ECUADOR: 1 female, Napo, 20 km E. of Puerto Napo, Aliñahui, 450 m, 01°03’S- 77°40’W, XI-1996, E. S. Ross (CASC); 2 males, Napo, Puerto Napo, Ahuano, 450 m, 31-VIII-1991, Amedegnato and Poulain (MNHN, UNAM).
Distribution. Known only from Ecuador.
Etymology. Named for its occurrence in Napo, Ecuador.
description: Published as part of Brailovsky, Harry, 2008, Revision of the genus Diariptus Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Meropachydinae: Spathophorini), pp. 59-65 in Zootaxa 1936 on pages 63-64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184961