Pseudomops guerinianus
Creators: name: Estrada-Álvarez, Julio Cesar
name: Sormani H., Carlo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Pseudomops
Pseudomops guerinianus

description: Pseudomops guerinianus (Saussure, 1862)
(Figs. 2 a-2c; 6a-6J; 10a-10x; 14a-14e; 19)
Thyrsocera gueriniana Saussure 1862: 168 (D? head lost) [sp. n.] [Mexico (LT)]. Brunner von Wattenwy 1865: 126, 412. Scudder 1868: 81. Saussure 1870: 50 (Male?). Saussure and Zehntner 1893: 32. Finot 1897: 187. Scudder 1901: 325.
Thyrsocera guerinianus Saussure. In: Saussure 1864: 124 (?) Le Mexique.
Pseudomops Gueriniana Saussure. In: Walker 1868: 78 [comb. n.] [Mexico]. Scudder 1901: 276. Kirby 1904: 76. Shelford 1906: 259 (?) [Mexico]. Shelford 1908 4.
Pseudomops guerinianus Saussure. In: Princis 1969: 952. Estrada-Álvarez 2013: 276.
Pseudomops nigrimacullis Fisk 1977: 272; Fig. 8 (D female) [sp. n.] [Mexico, Chiapas, Ocozocoautla, Cueva del Aguacero (LT), 530 m] (new synonymy). Reddell 1981: 206. Roth 2003: 71. Hoffmann et al. 2004: 275. Estrada-Álvarez 2013: 277. Palacios-Vargas et al. 2015: 58.
Pseudomops cinctus [ID err.] not P. cinctus (Burmeister). Sormani 2007: 20, 33.
Brief diagnosis. Males with two lateral patches in T-4 (Figs. 6a, 10b). Females, shape of the paraprocts (Figs. 6J, 10w); separates this species from P. cinctus.
Variations. It presents a general coloration from honey to brown tones, the pronotum has at least seven more or less typified forms, with an internal gradient; the tone of the abdomen and legs is widely variable from amber tones to ash tones; at least four color forms were found in the reviewed material.
Form saussurei (Fig. 14b): The holotype female agrees with this form, the body tone is almost amber, legs almost black, the pronotum yellowish with a black macula near the posterior border.
Form aberrante (Fig. 14c): Body and leg tones similar to the form saussurei, the pronotum with distinctive disc macules.
Form confusa (Fig. 14d): Similar to the form saussurei, but with darker tones.
Form pyriformis (Fig. 14e): Shades similar to a form confusa, but the pronotum with a flame-shaped pronotal macula.
Type material. 1 holotype female Thyrsocera gueriniana Saussure, 1862. Mexique, col. Guerin[=Guérin-Méneville] [MHNG], revised. (not in MNHN sensu Shelford 1906: 259 [The type is in the Paris Museum]). Pseudomops nigrimacullis Fisk, 1977. 1 holotype female Mexico, Chiapas, Ocozocoautla, Cueva del Aguacero (LT), 530 m; not found.
Allotype male: México, Veracruz, Mpty. Xalapa, Santuario del Bosque de Niebla (96°55’24.92”W, 19°32’16.25”N, 1460 msnm, bosque mesófilo de montaña); Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. Col., colecta manual; V/2005 [IEXA].
Examined material (n=36: 14 males, 17 females, 5 not sexed). MÉXICO, Chiapas. 1 female, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas; 24-V-66 69401; col. Anonymous [CNIN]. Veracruz. 3 males, México, Veracruz, Mpty. Xalapa, Santuario del Bosque de Niebla (96°55’24.92”W, 19°32’16.25”N, 1460 msnm, mesophyll forest of mountain), manual; -/ V/2005; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [IEXA]. 2 males same locality; mayo 2004; col. Sormani, H.C.G. [IEXA]. 1 male, 1 female same locality; mayo 2004; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [IEXA]. 3 males, 8 females same locality; mayo 2004; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [IEXA]. 3 males, 4 females same locality; mayo 2005; col. Sormani, H.C.G. [IEXA]. 2 females same locality; col. Sormani, H.C.G. [IEXA]. 3 males, 1 male same locality; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [IEXA]. Not sexed [not abdomen or antennas] México, Veracruz, Est. Biol. Los Tuxtlas Alt. 132 m, 18.5°86’17’’N, 95°72’17’’O; col. A. Zaldivar et al. [CNIN]. GUATEMALA. 1 female, Cunnen, Guate., 6000 ft.; Aug. 11. 47; col. C & P Vaurie [F. Johnson Donor] [AMNH _IZC_00398287].
Note. RBINS material determined as Pseudomops guerinianus by Saussure in Vanschuytbroeck 1970: 21 [2 exemplaires: Thereopolis: Coll. C. Van Volxem (photos supplied by Camille Locatelli, RBINS)], it does not belong to P. guerinianus, it really belongs to Pseudomops magnifica Rocha e Silva, 1973 (Sonia M. Lopes F. (†), MNRJ determination), thereby establishing new record for this Brazilian species.
Distribution. MÉXICO, Chiapas, Mpty. Ocozocoautla (Cueva del del Aguacero); Mpty. Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Tuxtla Gutiérrez). Veracruz, Mpty. Xalapa (Santuario del Bosque de Niebla) and Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas. GUATEMALA, Quiché, Cunén (Fig. 19).
Biogeography. Neotropical, endemic in Mexican Gulf province (mg); with penetration into Chiapas (chi), at an altitude of 513-1,827 m (Fig. 19).
Bionomics. This species was collected in the vicinity of streams, on the ground.
Interceptus Group
Small species (12.0- 19.75 mm), sexual dimorphism in the antennas absent, both sexes with slightly hirsute antenna and annulli posterior to the hirsute third; males with T-3 and T-4 tergites with two central tufts, T-8 with two whisker-shaped piliform strand structures, conspicuously smaller than in the Cinctus group, right paraproctum with posterior finger-like projection; R2 with a simple or bifid spine.
Composition (USA and Central America). Pseudomops interceptus (Burmeister, 1838), Pseudomops septentrionalis Hebard, 1917, Pseudomops gratus Rehn, 1903.
description: Published as part of Estrada-Álvarez, Julio Cesar & Sormani H., Carlo G., 2024, Revision of the genus Pseudomops Serville, 1831 (Blattodea: Blattellidae) in Mexico, pp. 549-580 in Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 50 (3) on pages 560-564, DOI: 10.35249/rche.50.3.24.15