Cyrtopeltocoris huachucae Knight 1968
Creators: name: Wyniger, Denise
name: Schuh, Randall T.
name: Henry, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Cyrtopeltocoris
Cyrtopeltocoris huachucae

description: <i>Cyrtopeltocoris huachucae</i> Knight Figures 2, 5, 6, table 1 <i>Cyrtopeltocoris huachucae</i> Knight, 1968: 162 (original description); Carvalho and Afonso, 1977: 9 (list). <i>Cyrtopeltocoris conicatus</i> Knight, 1968: 163 (original description). New synonym. DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the vestiture of the dorsum consisting primarily of short, recumbent, appressed setae and a few, long, erect setae on scutellum and at apex of corium, but most of corium and clavus devoid of such long erect setae (fig. 2); vertex broad; base of clypeus lower than front edge of swollen frons, forming a distinct notch; endosoma with a lateral dentate membranous lobe apically, ending in bird-head-like dentate apex (fig. 5). Similar to <i>C. albofasciatus</i> in size and coloration (fig. 1), differing by having only a few long erect setae on the hemelytron, the broader vertex, the swollen frons and lower base of the clypeus forming a distinct notch, the structure of endosoma (the last twisted in a way unlike the condition seen in <i>C. albofasciatus</i> and <i>C. gracilentis</i>), and the erect flange distad of the secondary gonopore. REDESCRIPTION: <i>Male</i>: Mean total length 3.78. Coloration (fig. 2): Head brown; labium yellowish brown; pronotum brown to reddish brown; mesoscutum and scutellum reddish brown or dark brown; scent-gland auricle white; clavus reddish brown or orange brown basally, white medially, brown apically; corium dark brown or reddish brown basally, white medially, brown apically; corium with transverse white band just slightly swollen medially (fig. 2); lateral white spot anterior to cuneus roundish (fig. 2), not attaining inner margin of corium; cuneus reddish brown; membrane fuscous; antennal segments brown, with first segment yellowish brown (fig. 2); venter brown; mesepisternum reddish brown; procoxae reddish, meso- and metacoxae white, trochanters white; femora and tibia brown to reddish brown; tarsi yellowish brown to reddish brown (fig. 2). Surface and vestiture (fig. 2): Vertex with recumbent and simple erect setae; pronotum with recumbent setae; scutellum and hemelytron with recumbent, simple, erect setae. Structure (fig. 2): Slender; pronotum trapezoidal, posterior lobe weakly swollen (fig. 2); scutellum very weakly convex; corium with lateral margin slightly convex basally at level of brown coloration; labium reaching metacoxa. genitalia (fig. 5): Endosoma with a lateral flange subapically, ending in bird-head-like dentate membranous apex (fig. 5); phallotheca distinctly curved, and apically pointed; left paramere with anterior process straight and stout; posterior process elongate and distinctly pointing downward; right paramere elongate, ending in hook. DISTRIBUTION (fig. 6): Known from Arizona and extreme western Texas. DISCUSSION: We have treated <i>C. conicatus</i> Knight as a junior synonym of <i>C. huachucae</i> based primarily on the overall similarity of the holotype of this nominal species to the larger sample of specimens that we have identified as <i>C. huachucae</i>, noting especially the angulate notch formed by the frons and base of the clypeus and the white ostiolar evaporative area. HOLOTYPE male of <i>Cyrtopeltocoris huachucae</i> Knight: <b> USA: Arizona: <i>Cochise Co.</i>:</b> Huachuca Mountains, VII-20, H.G. Barber, Holotype (AMNH _ENT 00286407) (USNM). HOLOTYPE male of <i>Cyrtopeltocoris conicatus</i> Knight: <b> USA: Arizona: <i>Cochise Co.</i>:</b> Huachuca Mountains, Aug. 6, 05, H.G. Barber (AMNH _PBI 00286404) (USNM). OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: <b> USA: Arizona: <i>Cochise Co.:</i></b> Bear Canyon, 31.38333 <b>°</b> N 110.33333 <b>°</b> W, 1829 m, 06 Jul 1966, W.J. Hanson, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411058) (USNM). Cave Creek Ranch, 1 mi S Portal, 31.89882 <b>°</b> N 109.14113 <b>°</b> W, 08 Jun 1965, J.H. Davidson, J.M. Davidson, and M.A. Cazier, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411059) (USNM). Chiricahua Mountains, Cave Creek Canyon, 31.8962 <b>°</b> N 109.16367 <b>°</b> W, 1646 m, 24 Jun 1968, Vincent D. Roth, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00392977) (AMNH). Chiricahua Mountains, Hidden Terrace, 4.5 mi SW of Portal, 31.8676 <b>°</b> N 109.19499 <b>°</b> W, 1646 m, 01 Jul 1982 – 05 Jul 1982, M.A. Cazier, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00175631) (AMNH). Huachuca Mountains, 5354 Ash Canyon Road, 0.5 mi W of Hwy 92, 31.38194 <b>°</b> N 110.22444 <b>°</b> W, 1554 m, 18 Jun 1992, N. McFarland, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411044) (USNM); 29 Jun 1992, N. McFarland, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411045) (USNM); 01 Jul 1992, N. McFarland, 2&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411046, AMNH _ PBI 00411047) (USNM); 04 Jul 1992, N. McFarland, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411048) (USNM); 06 Jul 1992, N. McFarland, 2&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411049, AMNH _ PBI 00411050) (USNM); 17 Jul 1992, N. McFarland, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411051) (USNM); 20 Jul 1992, N. McFarland, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411052) (USNM); 16 Sep 1992, N. McFarland, 2&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411053, AMNH _ PBI 00411054) (USNM); 02 Oct 1992, N. McFarland, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411055) (USNM). Huachuca Mountains, Ash Canyon Rd., 31.3822 <b>°</b> N 110.23143 <b>°</b> W, 1554 m, 02 Jun 1997, T.J. Henry &amp; A.G. Wheeler Jr., 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411056) (USNM); 03 Jun 1997, T.J. Henry and A.G. Wheeler, Jr., 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411057) (USNM). Southwestern Research Station of the AMNH, 5 mi W of Portal, 31.91358 <b>°</b> N 109.206 <b>°</b> W, 1646 m, 22 Aug 2000, J.C. Schaffner and M.J. Yoder, Light Trap, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00391893) (TAMU). Stewart Campground (W of Portal), 31.88611 <b>°</b> N 109.17138 <b>°</b> W, 1571 m, 20 Jul 1971 – 25 Jul 1971, J. Doyen, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00081084) (UCB). <i>Unknown co.:</i> Arizona, 01 Jul 1914, unknown collector, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00411077) (USNM). <b> Texas: <i>Hudspeth Co.:</i></b> 0.5 mi E of Indio Mountain Reserve Station, 30.77333 <b>°</b> N 105.01333 <b>°</b> W, 1250 m, 12 Apr 2002, Diaz and Gillogly, 1&amp;male; (AMNH _ PBI 00391892) (TAMU).
description: Published as part of <i>Wyniger, Denise, Schuh, Randall T. &amp; Henry, Thomas J., 2023, Revision of the North American Hallodapini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 1-48 in American Museum Novitates 2023 (3994)</i> on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.1206/3994.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7710041
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