Aradosyrtis lativentris, Heiss & Eckelt, 2025

Heiss, Ernst & Eckelt, Andreas, 2025, Review of the subfamily Calisiinae from Borneo, with description of two new genera and seven new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 57 (1), pp. 47-63 : 55

Aradosyrtis lativentris nov.sp. ( Figs 11-14 )

Holotype: ♁. MALAYSIA - Sabah / Kinabalu Nat. Park / Headqu. env. / 8-10 VII 92 E.Heiss // . Paratype: ♀ collected with holotype ( CEHI). Types are labelled accordingly.

E t y m o l o g y:From lativentris (Latin) meaning wide abdomen.

D i a g n o s i s Distinguished from congeners by the long antennae and the deeply punctured disk of scutellum.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Larger species, 3.25 mm, body widely rounded, colouration ochraceous.

H e a d. Slightly longer than wide, clypeus elongate, rounded anteriorly, depressed laterally, reaching ¼ of antennal segment III which is longest and thinnest.

P r o n o t u m. Anterior and posterior lobes separated by a transverse depression, lateral parts of anterior lobe raised and granulate.

S c u t e l l u m. Lateral margins with distinct tubercles along exposed corium, then granulate; disk deeply punctured.

A b d o m e n. Surface of deltg II-VII flat, granulate, posterior margin of lighter colour; inner margin delimiting tergal disk carinate.

M e a s u r e m e n t s. Holotype: ♁. Length of body 3.25; head width/length 0.65/0.60 (ratio 1.08); pronotum width/length 1.30/0.65 (ratio 2.00); width of abdomen across tergite IV 1.60; length of antennae/width of head 1.31. Paratype: ♀. Length of body 3.55; head width/length 0.60/0.70 (ratio 1.16); pronotum w/l 1.40/0.75 (ratio 1.86); width of abdomen across tergite IV 1.90; length of antennae/width of head 1.27.

Figures

Figs 11-14: Aradosyrtis lativentris nov.sp. (11) holotype J habitus dorsal; (12) paratype ♀ habitus dorsal; (13) holotype sublateral; (14) paratype sublateral. Scale 1 mm. © A. Eckelt.