Stapecolis latus Garbelotto & Campos, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Garbelotto, Thereza De A.
name: Campos, Luiz A.
name: Grazia, Jocelia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Stapecolis
Stapecolis latus

description: Stapecolis latus Garbelotto & Campos sp. nov.
(Figs. 2, 4, 5 and 8)
Type locality. Panama, Cerro Jefe (9.2333; -79.3500)
Etymology. The name refers to the large size of the ventral opening of phygophore. Latin: latus (f.), broad, wide.
Male holotype. PANAMA, Panama: Cerro Jefe, 9.VI.1985, E. Riley & D. Rider, [9.2333; -79.3500], Alitocoris sp. LHR’85 (DBTC). (AMNH collection number: AMNH _ IZC 00114311).
Paratype. Female. PANAMA, Panama: Cerro Jefe, 18.VII.1995, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien, [9.2333; -79.3500], Alitocoris sp det. J. E. Eger, 2004 (JEE). (AMNH collection number: AMNH _ IZC 00114312).
Description. General color black, punctures concolor. Maculae on apex of radial vein of corium small, yellow.
Antennal segments I to III and basal half of IV dark brown, apical half of IV and V yellowish; segments ratio: I>II<III>IV<V, II the shortest and III subequal to V in length. Rostrum yellowish, second segment reaching mesocoxae and apex reaching posterior margin of urosternite III; segments ratio: I<II>III>IV.
Pronotum with punctures denser and rougher than head; anterolateral margins with even crenulation. Scutellum with 1+1 yellowish spots next to the fovea. Corium with yellow macula on apex of radial vein, size equivalent to ocellus. Legs brown with darker femora and tibiae.
Male. Measurements (n=1). Head length, 2.40; width, 2.70; pronotum length, 2.65; width, 6.13; scutellum length, 4.36; width, 3.68; length of antennal segments: I, 0.78; II, 0.47; III, 1.89; IV, 1.09; V, 1.86; length of labium segments: I, 0.80; II, 1.70; III, 1.10; IV, 0.95; total length, 12.01; abdominal width, 6.86.
Genitalia. Apex of foliaceus projection of the inferior layer of ventral rim with a small carina bearing 1+1 spine lateral to segment X (Fig. 4; pil, ca); posterior margin of ventral rim with 1+1 convex projection, formed by the posterior limit of the subrectangular expansion of the inferior layer of ventral rim (Figs. 4–5). Rectangular paired projections of inferior layer of ventral rim tumescent below the ventral opening (Fig. 5, rp). Ventral opening broad, about three times wider than long (Fig. 5; vr). Median conical projection of inferior layer of ventral rim reaching the margin of ventral opening (Fig. 5, cp).
Female. Measurements (n=1). Head length, 2.27; width, 2.65; pronotum length, 2.71; width, 6.36; scutellum length, 4.66; width, 3.53; length of antennal segments: I, 0.70; II, 0.45; III, 1.75; IV, 1.10; V, 1.80; length of labium segments: I, 1.00; II, 2.00; III, 1.40; IV, 1.25; total length, 12.90; abdominal width, 7.20.
Genitalia. Genital plates slightly displaced preventing the description of some features (Fig. 8). Posterior margin of gonocoxites 8 convex, projected over the base of laterotergites 9, and deflected between sutural angles and the lateral margin of laterotergites 9; disc of gonocoxites 8 with calluses on middle closer to the posterior margin (Fig. 8; gc8, la9). Laterotergites 8 with spiracle raised by a callus and placed posteriorly to the lateral angle of gonocoxites 8 (Fig. 8; gc8, la8). Laterotergites 9 depressed medially; sutural margins deflected, on the same level of the lateral margins (Fig. 8; la9).
Comments. This species was included as “sp. 05” in the phylogeny of the Herrichella clade (Garbelotto et al. 2013). Stapecolis latus sp. nov. differ from S. bimaculatus sp. nov. beside key characters, by the anterolateral margins of pronotum even crenulated; on the male genitalia by the presence of 1+1 spine on the carina at the apex of foliaceus expansions of the inferior layer of ventral rim (Fig. 4; ca), the rectangular projections of the inferior layer of ventral rim tumescent, and the broad ventral opening of pygophore (Fig. 5; rp, vr).
description: Published as part of Garbelotto, Thereza De A., Campos, Luiz A. & Grazia, Jocelia, 2016, Stapecolis, new genus of Ochlerini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae), pp. 545-552 in Zootaxa 4137 (4) on pages 549-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/265422