Auxentius quasimodooides, Published, 2007

WALL, MICHAEL A., 2007, A revision of the Solomonius-group of the stinkbug tribe Halyini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae), Zootaxa 1539 (1), pp. 1-84 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1539.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:96A2269C-3D7C-498F-914E-0446D52F9988
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA8F0F-9177-775D-FF1D-788CD9FFF868
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Auxentius quasimodooides
status	sp. nov.

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Auxentius quasimodooides sp. nov.

( Figs. 6D View FIGURE 6 , 9 View FIGURE 9 A-C, 11)

Holotype. Male. INDONESIA: Irian Jaya, Wisselmeren, Enarotali, elev. 1800–1900 m, [3° 55' S, 136° 21’ E], 27 July 1962, coll. J. Sedlacek. Deposited in Bernice P. Bishop Museum. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Distinguished from congeners by the presence of a pygophore with elongate, clubbed dorsal lobes which converge distally ( Fig. 9A View FIGURE 9 ), but not dramatically turned ventrally ( Fig. 9B View FIGURE 9 ). Bilobed extension of the inner ventral rim of the pygophore obsolete, not surpassing margin of outer ventral rim ( Fig. 9A View FIGURE 9 ).

Description. Body 2X longer than broad ( Fig. 6D View FIGURE 6 ). Head as long as breadth across eyes. Antennal segment I surpassing apex of head. Posterior margins of compound eyes convex. Pronotum with gibbosities of callus areas clearly raised; anterolateral margins denticulate; lateral angles spinose. Scutellum with apex slightly angulate, lateral portions dorsally reflexed. Posterior angle of laterotergites slightly produced.

Anterior angle of bucculae obtuse, directed anteroventrally. Labium reaching third abdominal sternite (second visible); ratios 1:1.6:1.5:1. Peritreme 2/5 as long as distance from ostiole of metathoracic scent gland to lateral margin of metapleuron. Episternal ridge located 3/4 of distance between ostiole of metathoracic scent gland and lateral margin of metapleuron. Profemora armed with two minute distoventral spines.

Color and vestiture. Ground color straminous with testaceous punctures. Antennal segment I with piceous longitudinal dorsal marking, segments II–III straminous proximally becoming castaneous distally, segments IV–V primarily castaneous. Pronotum with castaneous dark markings surrounding gibbosities of callus area. Scutellum with two dark lateral longitudinal bands. Corium of mottled straminous and castaneous patches. Legs mostly straminous, tibiae with two castaneous bands. Lateral portions of abdomen with interrupted irregular band along spiracular line.

Male. Outer ventral rim of weakly convex; lateral lobes of dorsal rim elongate, sinuate broadly curved, converging distally, club–shaped ( Fig. 9A–C View FIGURE 9 ). Proctiger hemispherical, medially sulcate; basal sclerite posteriorly bilobed ( Fig. 9C View FIGURE 9 ).

Measurements. Males (n=2): body length 15.8 SD 0.2 (15.6–15.9), anterior pronotal width 3.1 SD 0.1 (3.0–3.2), humeral width 8.1 SD 0.2 (7.9–8.3), scutellar length 6.0 SD <0.1 (6.0–6.0), medial length of sixth sternite (fifth visible) 1.1 SD <0.1 (1.1–1.2), medial length of seventh sternite (sixth visible) 2.5 SD 0.1 (2.5– 2.6). Appendages in Table 2.

Etymology. Noun in apposition based on Quasimodo, the “hunchback” from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame; reflecting the swollen pronotum of the males.

Paratype. INDONESIA: Irian Jaya, Wisselmeren, Enarotali , elev. 1800–1900 m, [3° 55' S, 136° 21’ E], 1–30 August 1962, coll. J Sedlacek - 1 ♂ ( BPBM) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Mid-elevational ranges of western Irian Jaya ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ).