Chloropepla Stal 1867
Creators: name: Grevea, Caroline
name: Schwertnerb, Cristiano F.
name: Grazia, Jocelia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Chloropepla

description: <i>Chloropepla</i> Stål, 1867 <i>Chloropepla</i> Stål, 1867: 525; 1872: 37; Kirkaldy, 1909: 37, 97; Grazia, 1968: 194-196; 1976: 231; Grazia-Vieira, 1972a: 118-119; Eger, 1978: 224-225; Rolston, 1987: 62; Thomas, 1992: 66; 1998: 486, 488; Grazia et al., 2008b: 533-535. <i>Diagnosis</i> The following synapomorphies allows the recognition of <i>Chloropepla</i> among other genera of Pentatomini: humeral without spine-like process (11), peritreme ruga shaped, long and evanescent (61), hypandrium with 1 +1 dorsal expansions flanking segment X (231), basal third of segment Xwith processes (251), paramere nearly cylindrical (271). Small to medium sized (10.4–15.96 mm). Other characters that help in the recognition of <i>Chloropepla</i> include: head triangular, juga surpassing clypeus; hypandrium surpassing ventral margin of pygophore; membranous conjunctiva reduced, almost entirely obscured by phallotheca; vesica in a short tube. <i>Description</i> <i>Colour</i>. Green, reddish brown or pale yellow in dry preserved specimens, green in life. Concolor to ferruginous punctures. General shape oval. Buccula evanescent, reaching base of head. Proportion among antennal segments length variable. Pronotum trapezoidal, at least 2/3 of anterolateral margins crenulated. Humeral angles produced in spines of variable shape or triangular (not produced in spine). Scutellum covering more than half of abdomen; obtuse apex, posterior forth slightly constricted. Corium of hemelytra longer than scutellum. Tibia dorsally flat with sulcus of variable length. Dorsal spine-like projection at the distal end of femur with variable degree of development. Abdomen ventrally convex. <i>Male genitalia</i>. Pygophore. Lateral third of dorsal rim bearing process. Ventral rim concave. Ventral wall deeply infolded inside the genital capsule bearing a strongly developed process, the hypandrium. Hypandrium surpassing ventral rim, with dorsal expansions flanking segment X. Segment Xparallel to the longitudinal axis of pygophore, constricted, bearing lateral processes, apex ogival, narrower than base. Parameres nearly cylindrical narrowing from base toward apex, sometimes with dilated apex, bearing spine-like projections on the lateral surface, near the apex. Phallotheca cylindrical slightly curved posteriorly. Vesica short slightly surpassing posterior margin of phallotheca. Base of vesica surrounded by a collar like process. <i>Female genitalia</i>. Gonocoxites 8 usually convex, at least posterior third of sutural margins divergent. Posterior angles of laterotergites 9 variable in shape. Gonocoxites 9 trapezoidal. Gonapophyses 9 bearing sclerotized areas of variable shape. Capsula seminalis bearing three processes with variable size among species. At least the basal half of pars intermedialis striated. <i>Distribution</i> Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste), Venezuela (Aragua, Carabobo), French Guyana (East Berbice-Corentyne), Guyana (La Guyane), Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Rio Grande do Norte, Tocantins, Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Uruguay (Rivera).
description: Published as part of <i>Grevea, Caroline, Schwertnerb, Cristiano F. &amp; Grazia, Jocelia, 2013, Cladistic analysis and synopsis of Chloropepla Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with the description of three new species, pp. 1-43 in Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution 44</i> on pages 19-22, DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-04401002, http://zenodo.org/record/3653979
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