Spilopleura ochracea (Montandon, 1895) Olivera, Melo & Dellapé, 2023
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Olivera, Leonela, Melo, Maria Cecilia, Dellape, Pablo M. (2023): Revisiting the South American Acanthocephalini (Hemiptera, Coreidae): Spilopleura Stal (status novum). Evolutionary Systematics 7 (1): 35-50, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.7.94403, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.7.94403
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Coreidae
- genus
- Acanthocephala
- species
- Acanthocephala ochracea
description
Figs 6, 7, 8, 9
description
Measurements (n = 2 ♂ | 1 ♀): Total length: ♂ 24.375 - 24.625 / ♀ 21; head length: ♂ 2.72 - 2.88 / ♀ 2.496; max head width: ♂ 2.688 - 2.848 / ♀ 2.528; tylus length: ♂ 1.12 - 1.224 / ♀ 1.12; post-tylus depression length: ♂ 0.24 / ♀ 0.264; eye width: ♂ 0.672 - 0.72 / ♀ 0.624; interocular space: ♂ 1.32 - 1.44 / ♀ 1.248; ocellar distance: ♂ 1.024 / ♀ 0.896; interocellar space: ♂ 0.704 / ♀ 0.444; antennal articles length: scape, ♂ 4.625 - 5.32 / ♀ 3.807; pedicel, ♂ 4.5 / ♀ 3.76; basiflagellomere, ♂ 4.25 / ♀ 3.525; distiflagellomere, ♂ 9.875 / ♀ 5.605; antennal articles width: scape, ♂ 0.416 - 0.512 / ♀ 0.384; pedicel, ♂ 0.288 / ♀ 0.224; basiflagellomere, ♂ 0.288 / ♀ 0.224; distiflagellomere, ♂ 0.288 / ♀ 0.288; length of labial segments: I, ♂ 2.115 - 2.176 / ♀ 1.88; II, ♂ 1.88 - 2.08 / ♀ 1.88; III, ♂ 2.528 - 2.585 / ♀ 2.538; IV, ♂ 1.739 - 1.92 / ♀ 1.692; humeral angles width: ♂ 7.747 - 8.93 / ♀ 7.5; scutellum length: ♂ 3.232 - 3.296 / ♀ 2.82; scutellum width: ♂ 2.88 / ♀ 2.632; hemelytra length: ♂ 18 - 18.125 / ♀ 16.625; profemur width: ♂ 1.056 / ♀ 0.658; metafemur width: ♂ 2.656 - 2.848 / ♀ 1.598; metafemur length: ♂ 12.625 - 13.125 / ♀ 10.625; metatibia width: ♂ 3.04 - 3.2 / ♀ 2.867; metatibia length: ♂ 12.125 - 13 / ♀ 11.25; abdomen length: ♂ 11.875 - 12.5 / ♀ 11.25; abdomen width: ♂ 6.625 - 6.935 / ♀ 6.125.
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Species entirely yellowish ochraceous, with the anterior region of the metaepisternum darker, and with two dark brown central lines extending along all abdominal tergites. Eyes with its major axis oblique to the dorsal margin of head in lateral view. Thoracic pleurae with sparse setae, never forming a patch. Metatibia with lanceolate expansions. Posteroventral margin of pygophore entire, without a median depression. Expansion of the spermathecal duct tubular, long and curved.
distribution
Distribution. Brazil, and first record from Paraguay and Peru (Fig. 10).
materials_examined
Other examined material. (Table 1) Brazil: Mato Grosso: 1 ♂, Parque Nacional Xingu, 12 / 17 - II- 1965, P. E. Vanzo col. (MZSP). Paraguay: Itapua: 1 ♀, Capitan Miranda, Hotel Tirol, 13 / 15 - XII- 2017, 27 ° 11 ' 00 " S, 55 ° 46 ' 42 " W, 827 ft., J. E. Eger col. (MLP). Peru: Junin: 1 ♂, Satipo, 750 m, 12 - XI- 1938, K. Meskendahl col., H. Brailovsky det. (UNAM); Lima: 1 ♂, Montenegro, Rio Maranon, 06 - X- 1961, S. J. Williner col. (MACN).