Guapinannus policis Frankenberg & Knyshov & Hoey-Chamberlain & Weirauch 2021, sp. n.
Creators: name: Frankenberg, Sarah
name: Knyshov, Alexander
name: Hoey-Chamberlain, Rochelle
name: Weirauch, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Dipsocoridae
Guapinannus
Guapinannus policis

description: Guapinannus policis, sp. n.
(Figs 3, 7, 9)
Holotype. Male. COLOMBIA: Cauca: PNN Gorgona, Antigua Laguna, 2.96667°N 78.18333°W, 70 m, 18 Dec 2000 – 03 Jan 2001, H. Torres, 1♂ (UCR _ ENT 00109003) (UCR).
Paratype: COLOMBIA: Cauca: PNN Gorgona, Alto el Mirador, 2.96666°N 78.18333°W, 180 m, 06 Oct 2000 – 23 Oct 2000, R. Duque, 1♀ (UCR _ ENT 00115594) (UCR).
Etymology: Named for the thumb-shaped basal process of the right paramere after “policis” Latin for thumb.
Diagnosis: Recognized by the small body length (1.03 mm), elongate oval forewing outline, short and wide rc, rc1, and tc (black star) (Fig. 3), slender vesica with acute tip, and thumb-shaped basal process of the right paramere (black arrow) (Fig. 7).
Description: Male: Total body length 1.03 mm; length from posterior margin of pronotum to posterior wing margin ambiguous 0.7 mm; greatest width across pronotum 0.47 mm; greatest width across forewings 0.63 mm. General coloration: mix of pale and darker brown or reddish brown. Vestiture: Dorsum with sparse setae, setae short; setae on posterior margin of forewing long. Structure: Head: Eye almost half as high as head; muscle scars small. Thorax: Anterior pronotal margin concave, posterior margin slightly concave; pits on pronotum large, evenly distributed; scutellum in dorsal view gradually narrowed to tip, tip pointed. Forewing: With outline broad anteriorly, elongate oval; membrane contributing about one third of forewing length, posterior distal margin squarish, veintracing areoles on proximal part of wing absent; C+Sc broad, wider at widest part of wing; distal process of R pronounced; An1 wing organ on corium inflated, elongate, with median notch; without notch articulating with claval process; rc1 about 3 times as long as wide, much wider anteriorly; rc about 3 times as long as wide; tc about 3 times as long as wide; part of An1 and Cu forming posterodistal margin of tc of similar width as other veins; distal margin of rc1, rc, and tc cells double s-shaped; rc2–3 trapezoidal; cub almost reaching wing margin; dc1 horse headshaped. Legs: Claws long. Genitalia (Fig. 7): Pygophore without lobe on right side; vesica with between half and one loop, not reaching right pygophore margin, relatively slender at midpoint, tapering to acute tip, close to apex rounded; anophoric ridge with process, process short, with single lobe curved, tip pointed; right paramere curved, broad throughout, basal process thumb-shaped; left paramere straight, tapering, basal process narrow.
Female: As in male and generic description.
Collecting method: Collected using a Malaise Trap.
description: Published as part of Frankenberg, Sarah, Knyshov, Alexander, Hoey-Chamberlain, Rochelle & Weirauch, Christiane, 2021, Taxonomic revision of Guapinannus Wygodzinsky, 1951 (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae), with description of 19 new species, pp. 261-286 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.14, http://zenodo.org/record/4691718