Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve 2002
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocelia
name: Bolze, Gisele Jardim
name: Barão, Kim Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pseudevoplitus
Pseudevoplitus roraimensis

description: Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002
(Figures 6, 23–26)
Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002 in Grazia et al., 2002: 58–61, figs 11–19.
Material examined. 1 f, GUYANA, Rio Claro, 10.IV.1976, Otelo Mattei leg.. (UFRG); 1 f, BRAZIL, Pará, Belém, 6.V.1964, W. França leg. (UFRG); 1 f, ECUADOR, Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 216 m, 00º37’55”S, 76º08’39”W, 31.I.2002, T.J. Henry & P.S.F. Ferreira leg., collected by Mercury vapor sheet (NMNH); 1 f, ECUADOR, Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 216 m, 00º37’55”S, 76º08’39”W, 1.II.2002, T.J. Henry & P.S.F. Ferreira leg. (NMNH).
Diagnosis. Body yellowish with light-brown punctures dorsally, densely punctured; humeral angles curved posterolaterally (Fig. 6). Male genitalia: processes of AB X well-developed, projected posteriorly and well surpassing the posterolateral angles of the pygophore. Female genitalia: margins of gonocoxites 8 reflexed.
Female genitalia. Genital plates setose. Margins of gonocoxites 8 reflexed; sutural margins of gonocoxites 8 parallel at basal 2/3, divergent posteriorly; posterior margins of gonocoxites 8 convex, sinuous (Figs 23–24). Laterotergites 8 triangular; inner margins of laterotergites 8 obscuring the basal-lateral angles of gonocoxites 8; posterior margin convex with small acute projection sub-medially. Gonocoxites 9 Y-shaped. Laterotergites 9 dactyliform, surpassing posterior margin of abdomen. AB X quadrate. Gonapophyses 9 membranous, chitinellipsen rounded (Fig. 25). Posterior thickening of vaginal intima sclerotized, finger-like; anterior thickening of vaginal intima saccular, with 1+1 curved, sclerotized projections. Anterior annular flange flat; posterior annular flange convergent. Capsula seminalis, with three dactyliform processes (Fig. 25).
Female measurements (mm). Total length, 18.74 ± 0.19 (18.37–19.37); length of head, 2.58 ± 0.09 (2.50–2.33); head length ahead of eyes, 1.67; width of head, 5.17; interocular distance, 2.25 ± 0.07 (2.5–2.17); length of pronotum, 5.29 ± 0.16 (5.01–5.84); length of pronotum at humeral angles, 13.27 ± 0.19 (12.69–13.69); length of pronotum basally, 8.8 ± 0.17 (8.51–9.35); length of scutellum, 7.92 ± 0.04 (7.84–8.01); width of scutellum, 5.67 ± 0.12 (5.34–6.01); width of abdomen at third segment, 9.22 ± 0.14 (8.85–9.68).
Distribution. Throughout the Amazon Basin along the equator; on Eastern and Western Amazon (Fig. 26). Localities of material examined are all new records.
Additional material examined. Pseudevoplitus paradoxus Ruckes, 1958: 1 m, 2 ff, BRAZIL, Mato Grosso, Cotriguaçu, 08.XII.2009, M.R. Barreto leg. (UFRG). Pseudevoplitus vittatus Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994: PARATYPE, 1 f, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manicoré, Margem do Rio Madeira, VIII.1941, Parko leg. (MCNZ); 2 mm, 1 ff, ECUADOR, Napo, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 216 m, 00º37’55”S, 76º08’39”W, 6.II.2002, T.J. Henry & P.S.F. Ferreira leg., ex. Mercury vapor light (NMNH). Pseudevoplitus costalimai Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994: HOLOTYPE, m, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, Laisance, VIII.1934, E. Dias leg., em ninho de ave, ex-Costa Lima collection (MCNZ). Pseudevoplitus peruvianus Grazia, Becker & Thomas, 1994: HOLOTYPE, m, PERU, Iquitos, 14.III.1969, B. K. Dozier & L. H. Rolston leg. (AMNH). Pseudevoplitus amazonicus Grazia & Greve, 2002: HOLOTYPE, mm, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Juruá, Mineruazinho, 03°34’85”S, 66°59’15”W, 13–25.I.1996, P. Bürnheim, N.O. Aguiar et al. leg., à luz mista de mercúrio (CZPB); PARATYPE, 1 m, same data as holotype; PARATYPES, 1 m, 1 f, VENEZUELA, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Rio Negro, Rio Baria, 140 m, 00°55’N, 65°10’W, 7.II.1984, C. Padilla leg. (MIZA). Pseudevoplitus roraimensis Grazia & Greve, 2002: HOLOTYPE, mm, BRAZIL, Roraima: Ilha de Maraccá, rio Uraricoera, 21–30.XI.1987, J.A. Rafael e equipe leg., inseticida (fogging) (INPA). PARATYPES, 2 mm, same data as holotype (INPA, UFRG).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocelia, Bolze, Gisele Jardim & Barão, Kim Ribeiro, 2016, There and back again: contributions on Pseudevoplitus Ruckes (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), pp. 161-167 in Zootaxa 4078 (1) on pages 165-166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/267047