Anomalopetalops diamantinus Brailovsky 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Brailovsky, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Anomalopetalops
Anomalopetalops diamantinus

description: Anomalopetalops diamantinus sp. nov.
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Type locality. Brazil, Mato Grosso.
Description. Holotype male. Dorsal coloration. Head pale yellowish orange with following areas black: two short narrow longitudinal stripes running laterally from anterior surface of ocelli to mid third of the eye, Figs. 4–5) sulcus, neck and inner stripe close to the eye; antennal segments I–IV pale orange; pronotal disc including the collar pale castaneous orange; scutellum black scattered with metallic bluish green reflections; lateral margins black with posterior third and apex yellow; claval and corium pale castaneous orange with claval and corial veins, and costal and apical borders yellow; hemelytral membrane black; connexival segments III–VII yellow with posterior angle of segments V–VI orange; dorsal abdominal segments dark reddish brown with median pale yellow longitudinal fascia running from III to basal third of VII. Ventral coloration. Head including the buccula, thoracic sterna, and pro-, meso-, and metapleura pale castaneous orange; rostral segments I–IV yellow; acetabulae, and posterior margin of mesopleura with bluish green reflections; metathoracic peritreme with auricles yellowish orange; fore and mid legs with coxae pale castaneous orange, trochanters, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellow; tibiae with spines dark castaneous; hind leg with coxae, and trochanters dark castaneous orange, femora pale orange with spines and tubercles black, tibiae yellow with darker spines and tarsi yellow; abdominal sterna III–VII castaneous orange; pleural margins and middle third of sterna III–V with irregular yellow longitudinal stripe; genital capsule dark brown with lateral margins pale yellowish orange.
Female. Unknown.
Measurements. Male. Body length 15.20; head length 1.97; head width across eyes 2.12; interocular width 0.83; anteocular length 0.88; interocellar length 0.37; length of antennal segments: I 2.43, II 2.96 III, 2.28, IV 6. 38; length of rostral segments: I 1.35, II 1.25, III 1.65, IV 1.10; pronotum: total length 2.87, maximum width across humeral angles 4.56; scutellum: length 1.97, basal width 1.74.
Type material. HOLOTYPE: Male: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso, Diamantino, Fazenda Sao Joao, 450 m, 8–ii– 1981, G. Ekis (CASC).
Etymology. This species is named for its occurrence in Diamantino (Mato Grosso), Brazil.
Differential diagnosis. Anomalopetalops diamantinus (Fig. 3) is recognized by having the scutellar disc almost entirely black; the metathoracic peritreme with auricles yellowish orange; the pronotal disc, clavus, and corium pale castaneous orange without metallic bluish green reflections; and head pale yellowish orange with only the collar, two longitudinal stripes lateral to the midline and running from the anterior third of ocelli to the middle third of eye, Figs. 4–5) sulcus, and inner face of eye black.
description: Published as part of Brailovsky, Harry, 2021, Illustrated key to the genera included in the tribe Acanthocephalini (Hemiptera Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae), with descriptions of three new genera, seven new species, new taxonomic rearrangements, and a key to genera of Placoscelini, pp. 457-475 in Zootaxa 5082 (5) on pages 462-463, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5794957