Carventaptera

Larivière, Marie-Claude & Larochelle, André, 2022, Synopsis of the subfamily Carventinae in New Zealand (Heteroptera: Aradidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (961), pp. 1-54 : 18-19

Key to species of Carventaptera

1. Dorsal color pale to moderately dark reddish brown with paler pronotum and mesonotum, and distinct yellowish plates, callosities, and other markings on thorax and abdomen. Lateral margins of head strongly reflexed; postocular tubercles acutely subtriangular, strongly produced laterally, strongly reflexed. Anterolateral angles of pronotum broadly rounded-subtriangular, rather strongly produced in front of collar; posterolateral angles produced into an upper and a lower tubercle of subequal length. Fig. 56–57 . [Dorsal shape broad; forethorax slightly narrowed. South Island, southernmost North Island]................................ Carventaptera spinifera Usinger and Matsuda

— Dorsal color dark reddish brown except for paler backward projection of mesonotum and adjacent metanotum-dmtg I area (other thoracic and abdominal callosities and markings obscure). Lateral margins of head flat to slightly reflexed; postocular tubercles rounded-subtriangular, slightly produced laterally, not strongly reflexed. Anterolateral angles of pronotum more narrowly roundedsubtriangular, less strongly produced in front of collar; posterolateral angles produced into a short upper tubercle and a longer lower tubercle. Fig. 58–59 . [Dorsal shape narrower; forethorax more strongly narrowed. North Island]... Carventaptera hallae Larivière and Larochelle , new species

Figures

Figures 56–59. Dorsal habitus. 56) Carventaptera spinifera, male. 57) C. spinifera, female. 58) C. hallae new species, male. 59) C. hallae new species, female. Scale line = 1 mm.