Schaffnerocoris pallipes Henry and Menard 2020, new species
Creators: name: Henry, Thomas J.
name: Menard, Katrina L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Schaffnerocoris
Schaffnerocoris pallipes

description: Schaffnerocoris pallipes Henry and Menard, new species
(Figs. 63, 64, 115, 116, 136)
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DIAGNOSIS. This species (Figs. 63, 64) is distinguished by the pale to dark red hemelytra (with the costal margin pale on the darkest specimens), uniformly pale legs, and male genitalia, especially the large, stout genital tubercle (Fig. 136), and weakly C-shaped, apically acute right paramere (Fig. 116).
It is similar to S. similis in general color, including the pale legs, but differs in the male genitalia, especially the longer, stouter genital tubercle and the C-shaped rather than S-shaped right paramere. From S. fuscotibialis it is distinguished by the uniformly pale legs and apically acute right paramere.
DESCRIPTION. Male: (n = 5; holotype measurements in parentheses): Length from apex of head to cuneal fracture 3.40–3.70 mm (3.55 mm); length from apex of head to apex of membrane 4.60–4.90 mm (4.70 mm); widest point across hemelytra 1.82–1.98 mm (1.90 mm). Head: Width across eyes 1.22–1.30 mm (1.28 mm); interocular width 0.66–0.70 mm (0.67 mm). Labium: Length 2.14–2.27 mm (2.21 mm), extending beyond hind coxae to about abdominal segment III. Antenna: Segment I length 0.59–0.61 mm (0.64 mm); II, 1.10– 1.04 mm (1.02 mm); III, 0.59–0.66 mm (1.02 mm); IV, 0.69–0.75 mm (missing). Pronotum: Median length mm 0.81–0.93 mm (0.85 mm); posterior width 1.38–1.46 mm (1.47 mm).
Macropterous, elongate oval. COLORATION. Head: Whitish gray with medially separated dark reddish-gray transverse stripes across vertex and frons, posterior margin red to dark red; eyes purplish red to reddish brown; clypeus and gena dark brown to black. Labium: Pale yellow. Antenna: All segments brown to black. Pronotum: Whitish gray to dark gray, furrows around calli distinctly darker; disc sometimes darker, posterior always paler. Mesoscutum: Dark gray. Scutellum: Dark reddish gray, with lateral margins sometimes contrastingly paler or yellowish. Hemelytron: Grayish pink to deep red, with darkening along the margin of claval commissure, corial margins paler yellowish red in darker specimens; cuneus concolorous with corium; membrane pale grayish brown, veins dark brown. Ventral surface: thorax, episternum, and abdomen grayish red to dark red. Legs: Uniformly yellow. SUR- FACE AND VESTITURE. As in generic description. STRUCTURE. Basal half of second antennal segment slightly thicker than distal half; remainder as in generic description.
Male genitalia: Endosoma and phallotheca as in generic description. Left paramere (Fig. 115), small, scytheshaped. Right paramere (Fig. 116) weaky C-shaped, with apex pointed.
Female: (n = 5): Length from apex of head to cuneal fracture 3.45–3.60 mm; length from apex of head to apex of membrane 4.30–4.70 mm; widest point across hemelytra 1.86–2.02 mm. Head: Width across eyes 1.33–1.38 mm; interocular width 0.70–0.75 mm. Labium: Length 2.34–2.40 mm. Antenna: Segment I length 0.64–0.66 mm; II, 1.02–1.07 mm; III, 0.61–0.70 mm; IV, 0.72–0.75 mm. Pronotum: Median length 0.90–0.94 mm; posterior width 1.42–1.52 mm.
Similar to male in color and general form. Genitalia as in generic description.
ETYMOLOGY. The specific epithet pallipes is used to denote the uniformly pale or whitish legs of this species.
HOST. Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION. Known from only Puebla, Mexico.
TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype ♂, MEXICO: Puebla: 6 mi. sw. Tehuacan, 12 Aug. 1978, Plitt & Schaffner (TAMU 789). PARATYPES: MEXICO: Puebla: 3♂♂ 12♀♀, same data as for holotype, (TAMU 722-724, 792-801); 1♂, 8-10 July 1973, Mastro & Schaffner (TAMU 775); 15♂♂ 35♀♀, 9 Aug. 1980, Schaffner, Weaver, Friedlander (11♂♂, 31, ♀♀ TAMU [770-791, 777-789, 802-831, 833-837]; 1♂, 1♀, UNAM [790, 832]; 1♂, 1♀, UNAM; 4 ♂♂, 4♀♀ USNM [775, 777, 782, 784, 829-832, 834]), 27 July 1973, Mastro & Schaffner (TAMU).
description: Published as part of Henry, Thomas J. & Menard, Katrina L., 2020, Revision and Phylogeny of the Eccritotarsine Plant Bug Genus Caulotops Bergroth, with Descriptions of Four New Genera and 14 New Species (Hemiptera Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) Associated with Agave (Agavoideae Asparagaceae) and Related Plant Genera, pp. 201-252 in Zootaxa 4772 (2) on pages 247-249, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3816462