Perissobasis Reuter
Creators: name: Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio F.
name: Uceli, Lorena F.
name: Coelho, Lívia A.
name: Pirovani, Victor D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Perissobasis

description: Key to species of Perissobasis Reuter
1. Antennal segment I tumid, cylindrical or somewhat compressed, but not leaf-shaped; segment II sinuous (Fig. 2, D) or when regular, segment I with a dorsal carina ........................................................................................................... 2
1´. Antennal segment I leaf shape (Fig. 4); segment II regular.......................................................................................... 3
2. Antennal segment I compressed with a dorsal carina, segment II regular .................................................................... ............................................................................................................ singularis (Carvalho & Gomes, 1972) (Fig. 4).
2´. Antennal segment I tumid, segment II sinuous (Fig. 2, D) ......................... heroni Ferreira & Coelho n. sp. (Fig. 2).
3. Length of antennal segment I longer than head width.................................................................................................. 4
3´. Length of antennal segment I equal or shorter than head width.................................................................................. 6
4. Scutellum yellowish with a longitudinal black stripe ............................................. bahiensis Carvalho, 1982 (Fig. 6).
4´. Scutellum uniformly yellowish..................................................................................................................................... 5
5. Fore coxa with a black spot close to anterior area; antennal segment II 1.5 x or more longer than segment I ............ ......................................................................................................................................... aurora Reuter, 1892 (Fig. 5).
5´. Fore coxa without a black spot close to anterior area; antennal segment II equal to or shorter than segment I ............ ....................................................................................................................... matogrossensis Carvalho, 1982 (Fig. 7).
6. Antennal segment I without a dorsal groove ................................................................................................................ 7
6´. Antennal segment I with a dorsal groove ..................................................................................................................... 8
7. Scutellum with a median red spot and apex whitish; front coxa black; median and hind coxa and other segments of legs light brown................................................................................................... panamensis Carvalho, 1990 (Fig. 9).
7´. Scutellum and legs yellowish ...................................................................... hugoi Carvalho & Costa, 1989 (Fig. 11).
8. Coxa and base of femurs whitish; tibia with base dark and apex whitish ........ columbiensis Carvalho, 1982 (Fig. 8).
8´. Legs yellowish .............................................................................................................................................................. 9
9. Hemelytra with 2/3 of clavus, two spots on internal region of endocorium near claval commissure and internal mar- gin of cuneus, dark brown reddish ........................................................................ peruanus Carvalho, 1991 (Fig. 12).
9´. Hemelytra brown to light brown with veins and commissures reddish ......................................................................... ............................................................................................................... pilosus (Carvalho & Gomes, 1972) (Fig. 10).
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio F., Uceli, Lorena F., Coelho, Lívia A. & Pirovani, Victor D., 2009, Description of a new species Perissobasis heroni (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae), found on Coffea arabica, and with a key to Neotropical species of the genus, pp. 50-58 in Zootaxa 2127 on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188281