Valdasoides marisae P. Ferreira & L. Ferreira 2024, new species
Creators: name: Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza
name: Martins, David Dos Santos
name: Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza
name: Fornazier, Maurício José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Valdasoides
Valdasoides marisae

description: Valdasoides marisae P. Ferreira & L. Ferreira, new species (Figs. 8-B, C)
Diagnosis. V. marisae n.sp. was distinguished from V. bahiensis by comparing the original description (Carvalho 1989). V. marisae overall color dark brown; antennal segment I and pronotum, dark brown; and apical portion of the clavus whitish. V. bahiensis overall color brown; antennal segment I reddish brown; calli and mesoscutum areas pale; and clavus dark.
Description. Male (Holotype) measurement in Table 2. Body shiny, subparallel-sided, fuscous to black with yellowish and red areas; length 3x width; vestiture formed by short simple recumbent golden setae. Head vertical between antennal fossa; front black, smooth and flat; vertex black, concave, with deep median groove with two pale spots converging into longitudinal white stripe; neck-like posterior region of head, smooth, shiny black; clypeus convex, delimited posteriorly, dorsally dark; mandibular plate, maxillary plate, and gula reddish; labium yellowish with reddish tones, reaching hind coxae; segments I and II thicker than rest, and segment II with enlarged apex; eyes located in median lateral region of head occupying most of side of head, far from anterior margin of pronotum; antennal fossa located above mandibular-maxillary plate suture; antennae long, extending to or beyond cuneus; segment I, cylindrical, smooth shiny black, strongly thickened with convex inner margin, tapering towards ends; segment II pale darkening to apex, thin, III, and IV darker, extremely thin. Pronotum trapeziform, shiny black, 2x wider than long; pronotum collar well defined by posterior groove, mostly rugose, and laterally reddish; calli convex, glabrous, smooth; disco of pronotum slightly convex, coarsely rugose-punctate; lateral margin rounded, marginated only in calli region; posterior margin concave between humeral angles. Propleura shiny black, coarsely rugose-punctate. Mesoscutum yellowish, flat, and exposed. Scutellum black with apex whitish, flat, rugose, and glabrous. Hemelytron shiny, coarsely rugose-punctate, somewhat parallel-sided; with black background, apex of clavus yellowish; membrane fuliginous with pale area close to apex of cuneus; cuneus 2x longer than wide. Legs with black anterior femurs. Hind leg with coxae reddish yellow; femur long and clavate, surpassing the apex of the abdomen, with the yellowish base and a little round red mark in the apical third; tibia and tarsus both thin, yellow, longer than the femur. Abdomen smooth, shiny, with a red background and dark areas; vesture with semi-adpressed and straight simple golden setae. Pygophore dark brown with golden bristles. The male genitalia of the unique holotype were not dissected.
Etymology. Species named in honor of the first author’s wife, Marisa Santana Fiuza, who has been a great, loving partner to him on his many entomological journeys for 37 years.
Plant Associations. Unknown
Distribution. Brazil (Espírito Santo *: Domingos Martins).
Type material. Holotype 1♂, Domingos Martins, Mata Pico do Eldorado, Coord. 200 22’ 17’’ S/ 400 39’ 29’’ W, Col. M. T. Tavares e equipe, 3-10/XII/2004.
Remarks. The MNRJ fire destroyed the only one holotype specimen, which represented a single species of the genus Valdasoides. Despite the absence of the hind legs in the original holotype description of V. bahiensis, it is possible that they may have diagnostic characteristics to differentiate between the two species, such as: Coxa coloration; femur length and shape, surpassing or not the apex of the abdomen, with the base color and with or not a little round red mark in the apical third; colors and thickness of the tíbia and tarsus, and if the length of both exceeds the length of the femur.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., pp. 201-254 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on pages 232-234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11615431