Cyptocephala pallida Rolston 1986, new species
Creators: name: Rolston, L. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1986
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Cyptocephala
Cyptocephala pallida

description: Cyptocephala pallida, new species Figs. 4, 11, 17
Description. Pale green to cream with darker punctures. Length excluding heme lytralmembranes 7.2 - 8.5 mm.
Lateralmargins ofjuga parallel between anteocular concavity and smoothly arcuate apex of head. Apex of antennal segment 3, distal 1 / 2 or more of 4, distal 3 / 4or more of 5, and sometimes tarsi faintly rufous or light brown; length of segments 0.4 0.45, 0.95 - 1.1, 0.8 - 1.05, 0.9 - 1.1, 0.9 - 1.05 mm. Rostral segments 2 - 4 about 1.1 1.3, 0.6 - 0.8, 0.7 - 0.8 mm long; apex projecting slightly past metacoxae. Width of head across eyes 1.8 - 2.1 mm, mesial length 1.5 - 1.9 mm; interocular width 1.1 - 1.3 mm; distance across ocelli 0.7 - 8.5 mm.
Anterolateral margins of pronotum nearly straight, slightly reflexed from humeri as far cephalad as cicatrices. Shallow but distinct submarginal depression located between each humerus and corresponding cicatrice; disk lacking fascia between hu meri; punctation behind imaginary transhumeral line usually slightly stronger and sometimes darker than punctation before line. Pronotal width at humeri 4.1 - 4.7 mm, mesial length 1.5 - 1.8 mm.
Vague mesial stripe due to less dense punctation usually present on scutellum. Basal width of scutellum 2.6 - 3.3 mm, mesial length 2.7 - 3.5 mm; width at distal end of frena 0.32 - 0.36 of basal width. Small, scattered, subcalloused macules usually numerous on coria; hemelytral membranes hyaline, occasionally with a few incon spicuous, small, fumose spots along veins. Black dot on posterolateral corners of connexival segments not extending onto laterotergites.
Pleura rather uniformly punctate excepting nearly impunctate evaporative areas. Posterolateral angles of each sternite with small, black spot. Punctation on sternites moderately dense.
Minimal distance between 9th paratergites 1.2 - 1.3 times length of 10th sternite (Fig. 17). Basal plates convex but not tumescent, without umbo.
Anterior lobe of parameres wider than lateral lobe, broadly rounded, leaving carina on each lateral wall of genital cup at least partially visible (Fig. 4); ental face of anterior lobe with spiculate field (Fig. 1 1).
Distribution. Virgin Gorda Island (British Virgin Islands) and Hispaniola.
Holotype. 6,labeled " Virgin Gorda BVI, Prickly Pear Id, Vixen Pt 14.IV.56, J.F. G. Clarke "; deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Paratypes. Labeled as holotype (3 YY, NMNH); labeled as holotype except date " 6 IV-1958 " (d); " Pt au Pr, Hayti, feb. " (8, UAT); " Dom. Rep., S. R. 9 km E Stgo, Rodriguez, May 28, 1978, CW & LB O'Brien and Marshall " (6).
Comments. This species resembles C. bimini in size and color, and the two species are at least partially sympatric. They are separable by the genitalia ofboth sexes and also differ in antennal color, form of the head before the eyes, and contour of an terolateral submargin of the pronotum.
description: Published as part of Rolston, L. H., 1986, The genus Cyptocephala Berg, 1883 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), pp. 424-433 in Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94 on pages 431-432