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

description: Antipetalops discretus sp. nov.
(Fig. 5)
Type locality. Bolivia, Santa Cruz.
Description. Holotype female. Dorsal coloration. Head including the neck pale castaneous orange; ocellar pit black; antennal segments I–III dark brown with basal joint castaneous orange, IV brown with yellow ring near middle third; pronotum dark brown with anterior third including the calli castaneous orange; scutellum dark brown with lateral margins, apex, and wide median longitudinal stripe not reaching the apex dark castaneous orange; clavus and corium dark brown with costal and apical border and claval and corial veins dark reddish; hemelytral membrane pale brown with basal angle darker; posterior margin of pronotal disc, scutellum, clavus and corium with bluish green reflections; connexival segments III–V dark brown, VI dark castaneous orange, VII dark castaneous orange with posterior third almost dark brown; dorsal abdominal segments III–VI pale orange and VII–IX black. Ventral coloration. Head, rostral segments and thorax pale yellowish orange; anterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme brown, posterior lobe pale yellowish orange; fore and mid legs dark castaneous orange; hind leg with coxae, trochanters and tarsi pale yellowish orange; anterior half of hind femora dark castaneous, posterior half pale castaneous orange, and dorsal tubercles black; hind tibiae brown with apical third pale castaneous orange; abdominal sterna III–VI dark castaneous orange, VII dark castaneous orange with posterior margin black, and genital plates black with anterior margin of laterotergite VIII pale castaneous orange; pleural abdominal margins III–V dark brown, VI dark brown with posterior third castaneous orange, VII castaneous orange with posterior angle black.
Male. Unknown.
Measurements. Female. Body length 20.32; head length 2.17; head width across eyes 2.35; interocular width 1.05; anteocular length 1.20; interocellar width 0.37; length of antennal segments: I 2.97, II 3.28 III, 2.85, IV 6.84; length of rostral segments: I 1.50, II 1.80, III 1.85, IV 1.35; pronotum: total length 3.65, maximum width across humeral angles 6.46; scutellum: length 2.66, basal width 2.29.
Type material. HOLOTYPE: Female: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, Buena Vista, 3-iv-1951, A. Martinez (USNM).
Etymology. The Latin word “ discretivus-discretus” meaning separated, serving to distinguish.
Discussion. Differential diagnosis. This new species is distinguished by having the antennal segment IV brown with wide castaneous orange ring near middle third; the dorsal abdominal segments III–VI pale orange, and VII–IX black; the head dorsally and ventrally pale castaneous orange; and pronotum dark brown with anterior third included the calli 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 page 465, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5794957