Braunus asperus

Barão, Kim Ribeiro, Garbelotto, Thereza De Almeida, Campos, Luiz Alexandre & Grazia, Jocelia, 2016, Unusual looking pentatomids: reassessing the taxonomy of Braunus Distant and Lojus McDonald (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 168-186 : 178

Braunus asperus ( McDonald, 1982) comb. nov.

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Lojus asperus McDonald, 1982: 327 –329, figs 1–9; Thomas, 1997: 572.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, ECUADOR, Loja a Zamora, 1800 m, 26–27.XI. 1970, L.E. Pena leg. ( USNM).

Diagnosis. Body color mottled yellowish and brown; predominantly yellowish dorsally and brown ventrally. Each anterior angle of pronotum with a slender spine-like projection, surpassing the lateral margin of each compound eye; anterolateral margins strongly concave, each bearing 3 + 3 spine-like processes; humeral angles truncate apically, each with a finger-like process directed posteriorly; posterolateral margins sinuate, each with a tubercle medially; posterior margin straight ( Fig. 7). Apex of scutellum reaching abdominal segment VII. Apex of hemelytral radial vein calloused; corium reaching posterior margin of abdominal segment VII; membrane surpassing apex of abdomen. Male genitalia: each posterolateral angle of pygophore rounded; ventral rim sinuous, inferior layer of ventral rim emarginate with one projection medially. Phallus: lateroventral conjunctival processes each digitiform; ductus seminis distalis dorsally curved.

Distribution. Ecuador (Loja, Zamora) ( Fig. 78).

Remarks. Female unknown.