Atracodes tortrix Levia & Bartlett 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Levia, Nathaniel N.
name: Bartlett, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Flatidae
Atracodes
Atracodes tortrix

description: Atracodes tortrix (Guérin-Méneville, 1856) comb. nov.
(Fig. 7D)
= Flata (Phalaenomorpha) tortrix Guérin-Méneville, 1856: 181.
= Flatoides tortrix (Guérin-Méneville, 1856); comb. by Uhler, 1884: 237.
= Pseudoflatoides tortrix (Guérin-Méneville, 1856); comb. by Metcalf 1938: 401.
Atracodes tortrix flavus (Metcalf & Bruner, 1948) comb. nov.
= Pseudoflatoides tortrix flavus Metcalf & Bruner, 1948: 110.
Atracodes tortrix habanensis (Metcalf & Bruner, 1948) comb. nov.
= Pseudoflatoides tortrix habanenesis Metcalf & Bruner, 1948: 111.
Type locality. Cuba.
Synoptic diagnosis. Atracodes tortrix comb. nov. can be distinguished from congeners by: color pale olive to buff bearing a dark median spot on the pronotum and two near posterior margin of mesonotum; vertex ⅕ longer than width between eyes; tegminal patterning irregular; hind tibia with 2 lateral teeth, apical spinulation 7-9-2 (Medler 1993b); phallothecal complex (Medler 1993, fig. 7) in lateral view stout and broad, dorsal and ventral surfaces strongly irregular, bearing 3 pairs of processes, 2 pair dorsal (apical and subapical) very elongated, both pair reaching pygofer, 1 subapical ventral pair blade like; gonostyli in lateral view broad with ventral margin distinctly convex, apex rounded; anal tube in lateral view narrow and elongated, ventral margin broadly concave, without ventral processes.
Remarks. Medler (1993b) designated and illustrated (ibid., fig. 7) a lectotype for this species in the MNMH and indicated that his previous citation of a holotype in the Naples Museum (Medler 1988) was in error and these specimens should be paralectotypes. Medler (1988) indicated that Metcalf and Bruner (1948) had misinterpreted this species (e.g., indicating the species was 9.0– 10.5 mm whereas type material was 14–16 mm, Metcalf & Bruner 1948, Medler 1988, 1993b). Review of species allied with A. tortrix comb. nov. was beyond the intended scope of this study.
Plant associations. None.
Distribution. Cuba, reported from Hispaniola (Uhler 1884).
Material examined. Lectotype: MUSEUM PARIS / CUBA / COLL. GUÉRIN-MENÉV. / ex COLL.A.SALLÉ 1897 // 4 // Museum Paris / MNMH (EH) / 609 // Phalaenomorpha / tortrix. Guer. / Voy Sagra (type) / Cuba // Type // LECTOTYPE / Flata / tortrix Guérin-M. / Desig. J.T. Medler, 1997 (MNMH, male).
Other material examined. Camaguey, Cuba, / J. Acuna, Col. / Aug. 20 1924 // Pseudoflatoides / tortrix / Guer. Men. / det. Z. P. M. // UDCC _TCN 00102982 (NCSU, female). Camaguey, Cuba, / J. Acuna Col. / Aug. 15 1924 // Pseudoflatoides / tortrix / Guer. Men. / det. Z. P. M. // UDCC _TCN 00103109, 00103110 (NCSU, 2 females). Pico Turquino, / Cuba, [illegible, crossed out] / 375 feet. // June 10–29/[19]36 / J.Acuna, col. // Pseudoflatoides / tortrix / Guer. Men. / det. Z. P. M. // UDCC _TCN 00103129 (NCSU, female).
description: Published as part of Levia, Nathaniel N. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2025, A review of the genera Atracodes Melichar and Pseudoflatoides Metcalf (Hemiptera: Flatidae: Flatoidinae) from the Caribbean region, pp. 231-255 in Zootaxa 5590 (2) on pages 252-253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/14953032