Hypsohapsis Hoey-Chamberlain & Weirauch, 2016

Almeida, Flavio Roberto De Albuquerque, Carvalho-Filho, Fernando Da Silva & Fernandes, Jose Antonio Marin, 2019, A new species of Hypsohapsis (Heteroptera: Schizopteridae: Hypselosomatinae) from the Brazilian Amazon, Zootaxa 4551 (4), pp. 463-470 : 464

Hypsohapsis Hoey-Chamberlain & Weirauch, 2016

Type species: Hypsohapsis takiyae Hoey-Chamberlain & Weirauch, 2016 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Distinguished among Hypselosomatinae by first labial segment not dorsally expanded; clypeus with three or five macrosetae; fore-femur without macrosetae; areolate fore wing with only traces of veins; process of mediotergite eight looping internally and projecting externally as a long, thin process; a flap like genitalic process triangular with uncertain origin.

Description. Male. Coloration. Head, thorax, and forewing brown (including eyes); antennae, mouthparts and legs yellow; basal portion of coxae brown, abdomen pale; genital capsule and genitalia brown. Surface and Vestiture. First labial segment with a pair of stout lateral macrosetae, second labial segment with pair of lateral macrosetae, buccula with pair of lateral macrosetae; hind tibia with five erect macrosetae ventrad on distal half.

Structure. Pronotal disc steeply declivous, not decurrent anteriorly; collar slightly depressed below pronotum; pretarsus of front and middle legs with inflated arolia; elytrous with irregular coarse sculpturing; abdomen with seven pairs of spiracles (on sternites two through eight). Genitalia. Posterior margin of sternite seven simple; left side of mediotergite eight with a process that loops around internally and then projects externally as a long thin process; sternite eight free of sternite seven; a flap like triangular genitalic process (flp) on the left side of uncertain origin; anophoric process absent.

Distribution. BRAZIL (Pará, São Paulo).