Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) trivialis Leon & Weirauch, 2016, n. sp.
Creators: name: Leon, Stephanie
name: Weirauch, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Schizopteridae
Schizoptera
Schizoptera trivialis

description: Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) trivialis, n. sp.
(Figs 4, 6 and 7)
Diagnosis. Distinguished among species of Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) by the flat head, the large eyes, the small blade-like process of the subgenital plate, the cactus-shaped left conjunctival appendage, and the wide slit of the anophore.
Holotype: ECUADOR: Orellana: Tiputini Biodiversity Station nr Yasuni National Park, 0.63194 ° N 76.14417 ° E, 220 m, 26 Oct 1998, T. L. Erwin et al., 1Ƌ (00026820) (USNM). PARATYPES: COLOMBIA: Putumayo: PNN La Paya Cabaña Viviano Cocha, 0.11667 ° S 74.93333 ° W, 320 m, 20 Sep 2001 - 26 Sep 2001, D. Campos, 1Ƌ (00100849) (IAvH). ECUADOR: Napo: Res. Ethnica Waorani, 1 km S. Onkone Gare Camp, 39.16667 ° N 76.43333 ° E, 220 m, 21 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♂ (00028431) (USNM); 21 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 2♀ (00028435, 00028436) (USNM); 21 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♂ (00028430) (USNM); 21 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♂ (00028432) (USNM); 25 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1Ƌ (00028434), 1♀ (00028439) (USNM); 25 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028437) (USNM); 25 Jun 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1Ƌ (00028433) (USNM). Res. Ethnica Waorani, 1km S. Onkone Gare Camp, 0.63333 ° N 76.6 ° E, 220 m, 15 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028422) (USNM); 18 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 2♂ (00028415, 00028416) (USNM); 18 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028424) (USNM); 19 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028426) (USNM); 19 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028427) (USNM); 19 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028425) (USNM); 20 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00028428) (USNM); 22 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 2♂ (00028418, 00028419) (USNM); 24 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♂ (00028421), 1♀ (00028429) (USNM); 24 Jan 1994, T. L. Erwin et al., 1Ƌ (00028420) (USNM). Orellana: Tiputini Biodiversity Station, nr Yasuni National Park, 0.63194 ° S 76.14416 ° W, 250 m, 24 Oct 1998, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00026867), 3Ƌ (00026868- 00026870) (USNM). Tiputini Biodiversity Station nr Yasuni National Park, 0.63194 ° N 76.14417 ° E, 220 m, 26 Oct 1998, T. L. Erwin et al., 2Ƌ (00026821, 00026822), 1♀ (00026823) (UCR). Transect Ent. 1 km S. Onkone Gare Camp, Reserva Etnica Waorani, Onkone Gare Camp, 0.65714 ° N 76.453 ° E, 216 m, 0 3 Oct 1996, T. L. Erwin et al., 1♀ (00026846) (USNM).
Description. Male: length: 1.38–1.42 mm; body ovoid; COLORATION: general coloration light brown; fuscous patch absent; Sc+C concolorous with remainder of hemelytra (Fig. 4). SURFACE AND VESTITURE: as in subgeneric description. STRUCTURE: HEAD: flat in ventral view (Fig. 4); eyes 1 1/3 times wider than synthlipsis. THORAX: as in subgeneric description; hemelytron as in subgeneric description; M2 vein distinctly curving; anterior membranal cell wedge-shaped. ABDOMEN: as in subgeneric description; stVI without process on posterior margin; subgenital plate weakly asymmetrical; lateral process of subgenital plate blade shaped; (Fig. 6V); tVII rectangular; tVIII weakly trapezoidal; length of tVIII about 1/2 length of tVII. GENITALIA: py as in subgeneric description; rp as in subgeneric description; lp as in subgeneric description with two blunt dorsal processess; rca uniformly thin; lca small, about 1/3 length of rca, and cactus-shaped (Fig. 6V); vesica uniformly thin, forming at least three coils; anophore as in subgeneric description with a prominent, elongate slit.
Female: length 1.42 mm; general habitus as in male.
Distribution. Known from three localities in the western region of northern South America: the Putumayo department in Colombia, and the Napo and Orellana provinces in Ecuador (Fig. 7).
Etymology. Named for the ordinary, rather non-descript shape of the subgenital plate after the Latin “ trivialis ” meaning trivial or ordinary.
description: Published as part of Leon, Stephanie & Weirauch, Christiane, 2016, Scratching the surface? Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Schizoptera (Odontorhagus) reveals vast undocumented biodiversity in the largest litter bug genus Schizoptera Fieber (Hemiptera: Dipsocoromorpha), pp. 255-284 in Zootaxa 4184 (2) on pages 281-282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/164749