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

description: Anomalopetalops brulei sp. nov.
(Figs. 2, 37)
Type locality. French Guiana, Montagne des Chevaux.
Description. Holotype male. Dorsal coloration. Head including neck black, space between eye and ocellus, and narrow longitudinal stripe running between ocelli to the base of post-tylar sulcus yellow to dark yellow; antennal segments I–IV pale castaneous orange; pronotum including the collar shiny brick red, densely tinged with metallic bluish green reflections; callar region shiny brick red; scutellum shiny brick red, with lateral margins, apex and medial longitudinal stripe not reaching the apex yellow to dark yellow; scutellar disc with scattered metallic bluish green reflections; clavus and corium black, densely with metallic bluish green reflections; claval and corial veins, costal border, apical border, and apical angle pale castaneous orange; hemelytral membrane black; connexival segments III–VII pale yellow; dorsal abdominal segments black with median pale yellow longitudinal fascia running from III to basal third of VII. Ventral coloration. Head pale castaneous orange, space between eye and basal margin of buccula and tylus yellow; rostral segments I and II dark castaneous brown, and III and IV pale yellowish orange (apex of IV brown); thoracic sterna shiny brick red; pleura shiny brick red with collar, acetabulae, posterior half of propleuron and posterior margin of meso-, and metapleura densely tinged with metallic bluish green reflections; metathoracic peritreme basally yellow with auricles black; fore and mid legs with coxae and trochanters shiny brick red, femora yellow with spines black, and tibiae and tarsi yellow; hind femur with coxae and trochanters shiny brick red, inner surface of femora pale reddish orange, outer surface shiny brick red with black spines, tibiae reddish orange with black spines, and tarsi reddish orange; abdominal sterna III–VII pale castaneous orange, pleural margins III–VII pale yellow and middle third of sterna III and IV with wide longitudinal and irregular pale yellowish fascia; genital capsule black.
Female. Color and habitus similar to male. Connexival segments III–VI dark reddish brown with anterior third yellow, VII yellow with posterior angle and inner margin dark reddish brown, and VIII and IX dark reddish brown; dorsal abdominal segments III–IX black with median pale yellowish longitudinal fascia running from III until the middle third of VII; abdominal sterna III–VII shiny brick red; pleural margins III–VII pale yellow and middle third of sterna III–V with wide longitudinal and irregular pale yellow fascia; genital plates with valvulae I and laterotergite IX shiny brick red and laterotergite VIII dark orange with outer margin shiny brick red.
Measurements. Male. Body length 15.45; head length 1.74; head width across eyes 1.97; interocular width 0.70; anteocular length 0.78; interocellar width 0.30; length of antennal segments: I 2.35, II 2.73, III 2.20, IV 6. 46; length of rostral segments: I 1.45, II 1.33, III 1.85, IV 1.15; pronotum: total length 2.66, maximum width across humeral angles 4.25; scutellum: length 1.90, basal width 1.59.
Measurements. Female. Body length 16.92; head length 2.05; head width across eyes 2.28; interocular width 0.78; anteocular length 0.91; interocellar width 0.32; length of antennal segments: I 2.43, II 2.96 III, 2.50, IV 6.7; length of rostral segments: I 1.40, II 1.35, III 1.70, IV 1.15; pronotum: total length 2.96, maximum width across humeral angles 4.86; scutellum: length 2.20, basal width 1.90.
Type material. HOLOTYPE: Male: FRENCH GUIANA: Montagne des Chevaux, collecting at Automatic Solar Trap, 17–iii–2013, S. Brulé (MNHN). PARATYPES: FRENCH GUIANA: Montagne des Chevaux, collecting at Matoury Automatic Light Trap (blue), 28–i –2017, S. Brulé (UNAM) 1 male; Montagne des Chevaux, collecting at Automatic Solar Trap, 2–xii–2013, S, Brulé (UNAM) 1 female; Saint-Mapaou, 4°11’28.70´´N- 53°16´54.80’’W, 9–ii–2016, S. Brulé (UNAM) 1 female. FRENCH GUIANA: Amazone Nature Lodge, 30 km SE Roura on Kaw Road, 300 m, 04°33.570’N- 052°12.433 W, 5–19–ii–2010, J. E. Eger (USNM) 1 male.
Etymology. This species is named in honor of Dr. Stéphane Brulé (MNHN), who provided many specimens of Coreidae from French Guiana.
Differential diagnosis. Anomalopetalops brulei the type species of the genus is distinguished by having the clavus and corium densely tinged with bluish green reflections and the antennal segment I entirely pale castaneous orange.
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 460-461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5794957