Cataulax subtiliterconspersus Grazia &amp; Campos &amp; Becker 2000, n. sp.
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
name: Becker, Miriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Cataulax
Cataulax subtiliterconspersus

description: <i>Cataulaxsubtiliterconspersus</i> n. sp. (Figs. 2E, 3E, 4E, 5E, 6G-I, 7C, 8C) Obovate, glossy, finely and densely punctured dorsad; punctures fuscous, vaguely arranged in lines. Shorter than <i>C. eximius</i>. Scutellum with apex subtriangular, punctures uniformly distributed, not arranged in patches or lines. Corium hardly exceeding scutellum; membrane clear amber, with a darker basal spot, veins a little darker. Connexivum with a vague submarginal line of punctures; antero-lateral angles with darker punctures. Rostrum apparently attaining posterior margin of fourth abdominal sternite. Median mesosternal plateconspicuously convex anteriorly. Posterior margin of metasternum almost as wide as anterior margin. Median abdominal furrow shallow. <b>Male.</b> Apical margin of membrane subtruncate, very feebly sinuate, three or four external veins convergent to an inconspicuous submarginal peg (Fig. 2E). Measurements (mm). Lengthofhead (1.80-2.13); anteocularlength 1.31; width of head (3.6-4.1); interocular width 2.29; interocelar width 1.14; length of antennal segments: I 0. 65, II 1. 31, III 1. 31, IV 1. 96, V missing; pronotallength (2.78-3.11); pronotal width (7.38-7.70); length of scutellum (6.23- 7.05); width of scutellum (4.75-5.41); abdominal width (6.88-7.21); total length (11.80-12.46). Pygophore subrectangular. Denticle of internal border of postero-lateral angles large triangular. Three branchesof paramere flaplike, the distalone at right angles with the external and internal ones (Figs. 3E, 4E, 5E). Carina of proctiger inconspicuous. <i>Phallus</i>: articulatory apparatus robust, expanded dorsad, <i>ponticulus transversalis</i> large; <i>processus capitati</i> slender. Vesica with 1+1 dorsal process at base, <i>processus vesicae</i> wide, collar like; <i>ductus seminis distalis</i> included in vesica. (Figs. 6G-I). <b>Female.</b> Measurements (mm). Lengthofhead (2.29-2.37); anteocularlength (1.14-1.39); width of head (3.77-4.10); interocular width (2.29-2.46); interocelar width (1.14-1.55); length of antennal segments: I 0.65, II (1.47- 1.64), III 1. 31, IV (2.13-2.29), V 2. 21; pronotallength (3.28-3.44); pronotalwidth (7.70-8.20); length of scutellum (6.23-6.88); width of scutellum (5.08-5.41); abdominal width 6.88; total length (12.78-13.28). Gonocoxites 8 not much wider than long, sutural borders rectilinear, adjoining each other except at base; distal border almost rectilinear. Laterotergites 9 simple, not reaching transverse band connecting laterotergites 8 dorsally. Posterior borders of laterotergites 8 smoothlyrounded (Fig. 7C). Esclerotizedarea of gonocoxites 9 thin, almost inconspicuous, limits between gonocoxites 9 and gonapophyses 9 not clear. Orificium receptaculi surrounded by a conical, simple thickening of vaginal intima, chitinellipsenat each side of its base. <i>Capsula seminalis</i> simple, globose (Fig. 8C). <b>Type-material.</b> Holotype male Brazil, <i>Roraima,</i> Rio Uraricoera, Ilha Maracá, XI/ 20-30/1987, J. A. Rafael, fogging (INPA). Paratypes: French Guyana: <i>Cayenne</i> male, E. P. Van Duzee Collection (CAS). Brazil: <i>Pará</i>: female, Tucuruí, Rio Trombetas, Ilha Tocantins, VII/31/1984, B. Mascarenhas (MPEG); <i>Amazonas</i>: female, Manaus, III-IV/ 1976, Montouchet &amp; Burheim (DZRS). <b>Comments.</b> This species can bedistinguished from all others by the pattern of dorsal punctures.
description: Published as part of <i>Grazia, Jocélia, Campos, Luiz A. &amp; Becker, Miriam, 2000, Revision of Cataulax Spinola, with Architas Distant as a New Synonymy (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalini), pp. 475-488 in Anais da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 29 (3)</i> on page 487, DOI: 10.1590/S0301-80592000000300010, http://zenodo.org/record/3581361