Zopherocoris Reuter, 1871

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 : 61-62

Zopherocoris Reuter, 1871

( Figs. 7 , 24, 25 )

Zopherocoris Reuter, 1871: 565 . Type species: Anthocoris armatus Stål, 1860 .

Diagnostic characters. Body dorsally flat, subparallel-sided. Head wide, eyes basal, contiguous to apical margin of pronotum; ocelli near basal angles of eyes; rostrum thick, reaching anterior coxae. Pronotal collar thick; lateral margins of pronotum narrowed from base to apex, carinated and nearly straight with small sinuosity between anterior and posterior lobes, from which arises a long seta; basal margin slightly concave; lobes delimited by feeble median and transversal sulcus. Legs spinose ( Fig. 24 ). Hemelytra smooth. Metasternum convex. Fore and hind femora enlarged; fore femora with spines at their inner margin; fore tibiae curved basally, with row of spines on inner margin. Ostiolar peritreme ( Fig. 25 ) long, apically rounded and gently curved forward; median sulcus reaching tip of peritreme.

Studied material. Zopherocoris armatus (Stål, 1860) : PANAMÁ: La Campana, 4278, 1938, J. 1 J (slide mounted), Zetek lgt. ( MACN). COLOMBIA: Barbosa, Cotton, XI-1935, 1 J, L. M. Murillo lgt. ( MACN).

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. 22–27.22 – Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964, ostiolar peritreme; 23 – Opisthypselus punctaticollis Reuter, 1909, ostiolar peritreme; 24, 25 – Zopherocoris armatus Reuter, 1871; 24 – fore femora; 25 – ostiolar peritreme; 26, 27 – Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954; 26 – ostiolar peritreme; 27 – detail of evaporatorium.