Description

Description. MALE HOLOTYPE. Body length (from apex of head to apex of hemelytra): 17.5; greatest vertex width: 1.85; synthlipsis: 1.4; eye width: 2.1; head length: 1.6; greatest head width: 5.9; pronotum length: 2.3; greatest pronotum width: 6.3; scutellum length: 4.9; scutellum width: 5.4. Color. Body with general color yellow dorsally (Fig. 37) and brown ventrally (Fig. 38). Setae light-brown to dark-brown. Thin setae along lateral margin of connexivum greyish. Two light-brown right triangle-shaped maculae on vertex, in dorsal view, extending to frons. Pronotum with foveate area brown. Hind wings mostly hyaline, with veins yellow to brown (Fig. 40). All trochanters, mid- and hind femora with dark-brown spots. External morphology. Head with greatest width about 3.7 times its median length and 3.3 times vertex width; vertex 1.3 times synthlipsis; eye width 1.5 times synthlipsis. Pronotum with median length 1.4 times median length of head; greatest width 2.7 times its median length; posterior margin of pronotum concave medially. Scutellum with greatest width 1.1 times its median length; median length 2.1 times pronotum median length; with rounded superficial punctations (Fig. 39). Ventral surface of middle femur with short and sparse brown pubescence (Fig. 41); anteapical pointed protuberance short, rounded with blunt setae at apex (Fig. 42); lateral margin with 13 peglike setae (Fig. 43). Hemelytra with nodal furrow short, curved anterad, shorter than the distance between its tip and membranal suture. Metaxyphus with margins convex; apex acute; its surface with two strips of setae (Fig. 44). Genitalia. Posterior part of male genital capsule ending in acute angle without process; posterodorsal margin of the genital capsule emarginated. Right paramere with a subquadrate projection anteriorly, forming a straight angle with ventral margin, covered with long fine setae throughout median region (Fig. 45); posteriorly rounded. Left paramere angled anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, covered with long fine setae near posterior end and dorsal region (Fig. 46). FEMALE PARATYPE (n = 1). Body length (from apex of head to apex of hemelytra): 16.5; greatest vertex width: 1.8; synthlipsis: 1.1; eye width: 2.2; head length: 1.5; greatest width of head: 5.6; pronotum length: 1.9; greatest pronotum width: 6.0; scutellum length: 4.9; scutellum width: 5.0. Color. Dorsally, general color similar to male holotype; ventrally lighter than male. Ventral surface of middle femur with brown pubescence (Fig. 48). External morphology. Differs from holotype by head greatest width 3.1 times vertex width; vertex 1.6 times synthlipsis; eye width 2.0 times synthlipsis. Pronotum with median length 1.3 times median length of head; greatest width 3.1 times its median length; posterior margin of pronotum almost straight. Scutellum with median length 2.6 times pronotum length. Abdominal sternum VII damaged.

Common Names

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hemiptera

Family: Notonectidae

Genus: Enitharoides

Species: Enitharoides lanemeloi Barbosa, Ribeiro & Nessimian, 2017