Scolopocoris Carayon, 1972

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 65

Scolopocoris Carayon, 1972

( Figs. 9 , 28–30 )

Scolopocoris Carayon, 1972: 341 . Type species: Scoloposcelis gracilicornis Poppius, 1909 .

Diagnostic characters. Rostrum short, slightly surpassing fore coxae. All femora armed with spines on inner margin ( Fig. 28 ). Male with orifices of uradenia well separated, and with row of long setae over sternum IV among the orifices. Left paramere perpendicular to left margin of pygophore, ending as a long flagellum. Female with ovipositor well developed. Ostiolar peritreme ( Figs. 29, 30 ) wide, folded forward (as in genus Xylocoris ), apically rounded with small excentric acute tip; median sulcus disappearing in apical quarter.

Studied material. ARGENTINA: CÓRDOBA: Calamuchita , I-1945, 1 ♀, Viana lgt. ( MACN) . BUENOS AIRES: Tigre , VII-1947, 2 ♀♀, Viana lgt. ( MACN) ; same locality, IV-1937, 1 J ( MACN) .

Remarks. This genus differs from the other Scolopina by having all femora armed with spines over the inner margin, and by ostiolar peritreme very long, folded (as in Xylocoris ). This is also the most meridional genus of the subtribe, distributed in temperate central Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay.

Figures

Figs. 1–9. 1 – Calliodis pallescens (Reuter, 1884); 2 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900; 3 – Guayascoris foreroi gen. & sp. nov.; 4 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909); 5 – Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964; 6 – Opisthypselus punctaticollis Reuter, 1908; 7 – Zopherocoris armatus (Stål, 1860); 8 – Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954; 9 – Scolopocoris gracilicornis (Poppius, 1909). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Figs. 28–30. Scolopocoris gracilicornis (Poppius, 1909). 28 – fore femora; 29 – ostiolar peritreme; 30 – detail of evaporatorium.