Neochelonoderus Hoberlandt 1967
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
name: Grebennikov, Vasily
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Neochelonoderus

description: Genus Neochelonoderus Hoberlandt, 1967
Type species: Chelonoderus basilewskyi Hoberlandt, 1956
Redescription. Apterous, medium sized species 5.2–8.1 in body length. Body elongate oval (Figs. 1–8), surface dull with tubercles, ridges and pattern of apodemal markings on abdomen.
Head. Longer than, or as long as, width of head between lateral margins of eyes; genae projecting anteriorly over clypeus, reaching apex of antennomere I, apices of variable shape; antennae slender, antennomere I clubshaped and thickest, II shortest, III longest, IV pyriform with pilose apex; antenniferous lobes prominent, projecting anterolaterally; eyes small, substylate; postocular lobes rounded or angulate adherent to eyes or exserted, posteriorly constricted to narrow neck with usually 2 pairs of larger round tubercles, posterior ones at lower level; vertex with 2 rows of round tubercles and smooth ovate callosities laterad; labium arising from slit-like atrium, as long as head, labial groove closed posteriorly.
Pronotum. Subrectangular, wider than long; collar ring-like; disk with 2 (1+1) median large round vertical tubercles separated by longitudinal groove and 2 (1+1) sublateral round tubercles of similar size (Figs. 7, 8), or elongate ridges of same height (Figs. 1–6); posterolateral angles with round tubercle.
Mesonotum. Strongly transverse, triangularly produced posteriorly, separated from metanotum by distinct suture; disk with median elevation which continues as ridge along thorax and abdomen, flanked but separated by deep groove and by 2(1+1) vertical tubercles.
Metanotum. Consisting of 2(1+1) ovate sclerites with median roundish elevations, triangularly extending toward median elevation where they meet; posterior margin ill-defined and fused to mtg I.
Mtg I+II. Mtg I medially raised and fused to mtg II, fusion marked by ill-defined transverse suture. Mtg II fully separated from tergal plate (mtg III) (Figs. 2, 4, 7, 8) or medially fused (Figs. 1, 3, 5, 6), then with rhomboidal median depression extending from mtg II–III.
Abdomen. Tergal plate with longitudinal ridge carinate on mtg IV, depressed on mtg III, V–VI; lateral parts with deep apodemal impressions, deltg II and III not fused, separated by suture, surface of deltg III–VII with 2 apodemal impressions and sublateral carinae or tubercles, tergite VII of female deeply depressed at middle, raised posteriorly (Figs. 2, 3, 6, 8); tergite VII of males medially raised for reception of globular posteriorly conical pygophore (Figs. 1, 4, 5, 7).
Venter. Metathoracic scent gland canal openings oval with carinate margins, visible from above; spiracles II– VII placed far from lateral margins of vltg II–VII, VIII terminal on ptg VIII visible from above.
Legs. Femora moderately incrassate at middle; tibiae cylindrical, tarsi 2-segmented, claws with setiform curved pulvilli.
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst & Grebennikov, Vasily, 2015, Review and three new species of the flat bug genus Neochelonoderus Hoberlandt, 1967 from East Africa (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae), pp. 581-589 in Zootaxa 3947 (4) on page 582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/237212