Paracaraptera schuhiana, Heiss, 2011

Heiss, E., 2011, New genera and species of Carventinae from New Caledonia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae), Zootaxa 2792 (1), pp. 22-32 : 31

Paracaraptera schuhiana n. sp.

(Photo 13)

Material examined. Holotype ♂: New Caledonia, S-Prov. / Mont Do 1000m, forest litter / 21°45’14’’ S, 166°48’00.02’’ E / 3 XII 2009 leg. Schuh (26a) // Holotype ♂ / Paracaraptera n.gen. / schuhiana n. sp. / des. E. HEISS 2010.

Description. Male, apterous, of yellowish-brown colouration with darker patches; dorsal surface with ridges, carinae and ovate callosities separated by deep grooves.

Head: Wider than long (33/24); genae slender, anteriorly exceeding clypeus; antennae as long as width of head (33/33); length of antennal segments I/II/III/IV = 12/5/6/10; eyes large and granular; postocular lobes large and dilated, their lateral margins subparallel and dentate then converging to collar,this separated by a notch; vertex bicarinate, lateral ovate sclerites depressed.

Pronotum: About 4x as wide as long (49/12); structures as described for the genus.

Meso- and metanotum: Fused to pronotum and mtg I+II, continuous median ridge longitudinally sulcate on pro- and mesonotum, bicarinate with deep groove in between on metanotum, two rami posteriorly bent outward on mtgI, followed by deep median pit and a transversely carinate mtgII.

Abdomen: Carinate surface structures as described for the genus.

Genitalic structures: Pygophore pyriform and declivant with a median ridge on posterior 2/3; paratergites VIII club-shaped shorter than pygophore; the single specimen was not dissected for the study of the parameres.

Measurements. Holotype ♂: Length 3.0mm; length / width of mesonotum 13/42; width of abdomen across tergite III 60.

Etymology. Patronym for my friend and excellent coleopterologist Rudi Schuh (Wiener Neustadt), who collected this and several other interesting Aradidae in New Caledonia and generously donated them to my special collection.