Dilasia punctipennis Carpintero 2014, n. comb.
Creators: name: Carpintero, Diego Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Anthocoridae
Dilasia
Dilasia punctipennis

description: Dilasia punctipennis (Champion, 1900) n. comb.
(Fig. 93–94)
Lasiochilus punctipennis Champion, 1900: 308.
Diagnostic characters: Measurements, see Table IV. Male: Characterized by the following combination of characters: head and pronotum reddish-brown, hemelytra and antennae brown, legs and labium, pale brown, abdomen slightly darker; antennal segment II thickened towards the apex, slightly longer than length of head; antennal segments (I:II:III:IV) 1: 2.9: 2.3: 2.4; head prolonged anteriorly from base of antennae; hemelytra and scutellum punctured (Fig. 133); these punctures not so deep as in Lasiochilus; every puncture with an emerging seta; forefemora long, slightly thickened; foretibiae armed with row of long spines on inner margin (Fig. 132); pads medium-sized; ostiolar peritreme opening acute apically and slightly elevated; meso- and metasternum not sulcate medially, the latter slightly elongated apically (Fig. 134); copulatory spines short, slender and not densely arranged (Fif. 135); left paramere linear, parallel-sided, not acute apically (Fig. 136). Female: Similar to male in measurements and coloration. Antennal segments (I:II:III:IV) 1: 2.6: 2.4: 2.4.
Distribution: Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela. (Fig. 49).
Material examined: Syntype ♂ PANAMA: Vn. De Chiriqui, 2–3000 ft, BcaA Rhynchota II, Lasiochilus pallidulus Ch. BMNH; GUATEMALA: ♀ on orchids, Insp. Home D.C. 9-XII-1937. USNM; MEXICO: ♀ in Bananas, Brownsville, Tx., 27-I-1936. USNM; ♀ 13370, 4-III-1949, 46–74, Mass. USNM; ♀ on Cycads, I-1954, #76230. USNM; ♂ on orchids, 24-V-1954. USNM; 4♀ San Luis Potosí, SLP, Lar. Tex, 12733, 27-V-1952, 5944 with orchid. USNM; 7♀ Tamazunchale, SLP, orchid, Lar. Tex, 53721, 4-III-1953. USNM; 5♀ same data, 9-VII- 1946, 11063, #40092. USNM; ♂ same data, 31-I-1956. USNM; ♀ same data, 25-II-1952. USNM; 4♀ Maiz, SLP.,orchid, Lar. Tex 52918, 7-VII-1952, 7215. USNM; ♂ same data (slide-mounted). MACN; 2♂, 3♀ same data, 19-VIII-1952, 9242. USNM; ♂ same data (slide-mounted). MACN; ♀ same data, 26-I-1954, 1980. USNM; ♀ Huichihuayan, SLP, Lar. Tex. 5638, 23-II-1956, 3163, orchid plant. USNM; ♀ same data, 9-II-1956, Watt. Coll. USNM; ♀ same data, 56915, 5-X-1956, 12307. USNM; ♀ Fortin, VC, 8-II-1953, R. M. Fonts, Laredo, on orchids. USNM; ♀ same data, #1525019- II-1953, 2028, USNM; 4♀ Br., Tex. 74046, 22-I-1953, 1569, orchids. USNM; NICARAGUA: ♀ Jinotega, Cº Muzu, 200 m, 14º33’N – 85º07’W, 7/ 10-IX-1997 Maës — R. Hernandez. MLEN; ♂ Zelaya, Cº Saslaya, IV-1996, Maës — Hernandez. MLEN; VENEZUELA: ♀ Hob. 9618, 16-VII-1947, 10308 on Cattleya pseudobulba. USNM.
Discussion: Easily recognizable from other species of Dilasia by the punctures typical of those seen in Lasiochilus, though not as deep as in this genus. However, the other characteristics of Dilasia are presents in this species: male genitalia with a row of teeth on the inner margin of foretibiae, series of teeth on foretrochanters, and the grouping of apically acute, spiniform copulatory teeth on apical left margin of sternite VI, as well as a nearly straight left paramere.
description: Published as part of Carpintero, Diego Leonardo, 2014, Western Hemisphere Lasiochilinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) with comments on some extralimital species and some considerations on suprageneric relationships, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 3871 (1) on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4947859