Prisopoides villosipes Heleodoro &amp; Rafael 2020, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino
name: Rafael, Jose Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Prisopodidae
Prisopoides
Prisopoides villosipes

description: <i>Prisopoides villosipes</i> (Redtenbacher, 1906) <b>comb. nov.</b> Fig. 42A-B. <i>Examined material</i>. Holotype (examined by photo): “HT [holotype] <i>_</i> Museum Paris” “ Bresil [Brasil], Minas Gerais, Caraca [<i>¼</i> Serra do Caraça], Gounelle [leg.], 8118-[18]89” “Redtenb., type, Redtenbacher det., 1900”. (1 <i>_</i> MNHN). Ordinary material: “ BRASIL, Itatiaia (1.100 Mtr.), <i>Est</i>. <i>do Rio de Janeiro</i>, Diringa”//“OUT [October], 1962” (1 <i>_</i> MZUSP). <i>Diagnosis</i>. Mid femur dorsally with apical projection; elongated and widened at posterior margin (Fig. 42D). Posterior femur in dorsal view with conspicuous pointed projections at posterior margin (Fig. 42E). Abdominal sterna laterally brown, medially black (Fig. 42F). Sternum 7 rectangular, 1.5 times wider than long (Fig. 44A). Subgenital plate with posterior margin almost straight, and medial projection conspicuously emarginated (Fig. 44A). Vomer with base enlarged, lateral margin straight, apex rounded, weakly sclerotized (Fig. 44B). Basal pouch elongated, 2.6 times longer than wide; in dorsal view with left lateroapical margin acute (Fig. 44). Dorsal left sclerite weakly pigmented, reaching apical margin of genitalia, with lateral margin straight, slightly curved near apex; apex oblong (Fig. 44). <i>Description</i>. General color brown. Head. Dorsum and gena brown with black spots, small tubercles (Fig. 42A-B). Sulcus formed between frontal suture light yellow. Clypeus and labrum light yellow. Area between clypeus and labrum conspicuous, slender. Compound eyes and antennae brown, with black spots (Fig. 42B). Antennae with short setae. Thorax. All thoracic terga brown, distally with transversal black band at posterior margin. Pronotum brown, with dark brown spots (Fig. 42A). Mesonotum same as pronotum, but 1.4 times longer; scutellum triangular (Fig. 42A). Metathoracic scutellum ovoid. Coxopleurite circular, rugose. Mesothoracic epimeron irregular in shape, rugose, brown with dark brown spots. Mesothoracic episternum light brown, rugose, with long setae at ventral margin. Metathoracic pleural region dark brown, shiny, rugose, with black spots. Thoracic sterna shiny, rugose, laterally brown, medially dark brown, with light brown spots. Legs. Anterior leg dorsally brown. Anterior femur dorsally rugose, opaque; ventrally light brown with several black spots, shiny; with long setae at posterior margin (Fig. 42C). Anterior tibia same as anterior femur. Mid femur light posteriorly brown with black spots, and four projections on ventral margin, with the most apical projection conspicuously elongated and enlarged and short setae on dorsal and ventral margins (Fig.42D); ventrally the same, but shiny.Mid tibia same as mid femur, but without projections on ventral margin. Posterior femur concolor with mid femur, in posterior view with conspicuous pointed projections on ventral margin; dorsal and ventral margins with long setae (Fig. 42E); anteriorly the same as posteriorly, but shiny. Posterior tibia same as posterior femur, but anteriorly and posteriorly opaque; with 16 small spines on ventral margin. Wings (Fig. 42A). Tegmina hyaline, with veins and transversal veins light brown. Posterior wing reaching tergum 7, with apical third of costal area brown; basal and mid thirds and anal area hyaline, with light brow veins. Abdomen. Abdominal terga shiny, dark brown (Fig. 42A) Terga 3-7 longer than wide, rectangular. Tergum 8 rectangular, 1.6 times wider than long. Tergum 9 dome-shaped, with basal margin straight, lateral and apical margins arched, convex. Tergum 10 same as tergum 9. Cercus with acute apex and short setae. Abdominal sterna laterally brown, medially black, shiny (Fig. 42F). Sternum 7 rectangular, 1.5 times wider than long (Fig. 43A). Sternum 8 rectangular, two times wider than long with basal margin concave (Fig. 43A). Subgenital plate with posterior margin almost straight, medial projection conspicuously emarginated, densely covered by small setae near lateral margin (Fig. 43A). Vomer with base enlarged, lateral margin straight, apex rounded, weakly sclerotized (Fig. 43B). Genitalia (Fig. 44). Basal pouch elongated, 2.6 times longer than wide; in dorsal view with left lateroapical margin acute; projection with acute apex, slender. Dorsal left sclerite weakly pigmented, reaching apical margin of genitalia, with lateral margin straight, slightly curved near apex; apex oblong; almost entirely attached to dorsal wall of genitalia. <i>Variations</i>. The holotype has been stored in alcohol for 111 years and due to this, some of its coloration is paler than that observed in the dry specimen in Fig. 27A. <i>Measurements</i>. Body length 40.4-40.6; pronotum 2.9-3.0; mesonotum 3.9-4.2; anterior femur 8.2; mid femur 5.3-5.6; posterior femur 11.7-12.0. <i>Holotype condition</i>. Good conditions. <i>Geographical records</i>. Brazil, <i>Minas Gerais</i>: Mariana; <i>Rio de Janeiro</i>: Itatiaia. <i>Remarks</i>. This species was transferred from <i>Dinelytron</i> due to the presence of diagnostic characters of <i>Prisopoides</i> <b>gen. nov.</b> It can be differentiated from <i>Pe. atrobrunneus</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by the presence of an elongated and widened projection at the apex of the posterior margin of the mid femur (absent in <i>Pe. atrobrunneus</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>), and from <i>Pe, brunnescens</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>Pe. caatingaensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by the abdominal sterna, which is laterally brown and medially black (<i>versus</i> light brown and dark brown in <i>Pe. brunnescens</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>Pe. caatingaensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>).
description: Published as part of <i>Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino &amp; Rafael, Jose Albertino, 2020, Review of the genus Dinelytron Gray (Prisopodidae: Prisopodinae: Prisopodini), with a phylogenetic analysis of the genera of the Prisopodini, including the description of a new genus, pp. 37-80 in Zoologischer Anzeiger 285</i> on pages 68-69, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.01.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3711292
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