Neoblattella poecilopensis, Lopes, Sonia Maria & Khouri, Andréa, 2009

Lopes, Sonia Maria & Khouri, Andréa, 2009, Two new species of Neoblattella Shelford, 1911 (Blattellidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae) from the state of Amazonas, Brazil, Zootaxa 2026, pp. 40-46 : 44-46

Neoblattella poecilopensis new sp.

(Figs. 10–18)

General coloration light brown, bright and shining. Pronotum with central disk with scattered brown spots with no particular form (Fig. 10). Head with brown interocular space. Front with small dark-brown spots.

Distinct brown ocellar spot. Eyes black (Fig. 11). Antennae and palpi with light-brown first segment, brown fourth and fifth segments, golden, hairy. Tegmina and wings colorless, shining. Legs light brown with darker spine insertions. Arolia and claws brown. Abdomen of male with darker spots.

Measurements (mm), holotype 3—Total length: 27; pronotum length: 7; tegmen length: 20; pronotum width: 4; tegmen width: 4.

Head small and triangular with exposed vertex under pronotum. Space between antennae insertions four times larger than interocular space. Antennae long and thin. Eyes small. Maxillary palpi with short first and second segments, third and fourth longer than the previous segments, fifth segment dilated and hairy. Pronotum elliptical with rounded central disk. Cephalic femora with ventro-cephalic armed with a row of 17 stout spines that gradually decreases in size and length mesad, from the base to the apex, where a medium sized preapical spine is inserted with two additional larger spines (Type A); ventro-caudal margin with four large and well-spaced spikes with an additional apical spine; middle and posterior femora with six or seven developed and well-spaced spines, one of them with similar arrangement on both ventral margins; genicular spine present. Pulvilli present on all tarsal segments. Tarsal claws symmetrical, moderately developed. Flange edge with minute teeth. Arolia moderately developed. Tegmen with long, narrow, slightly concave marginal sector; long and convex scapular sector with oblique veins; large, convex discoidal sector, with longitudinal vein disposition; large and convex anal sector. Wings long. Costal sector with apex of radial vein not dilated. Apical triangle with anal sector folding fan-like.

Abdomen – Dorsal surface of abdomen with sixth and seventh segments modified, with sparse hairs on both segments (Fig.14). Supra-anal plate narrow, with median margins prominent to apex, with visible paraprocts. Cerci with about 13 segments (Fig 12). Subgenital plate, large, symmetrical with long hairs on apical margin; styles, positioned on the margins of plate (Fig. 16). Right phallomere hook-shaped at apex (Fig. 13); left phallomere shaped inverted U, one of its edges developed, with rounded, sclerotized median structure with stout spines on ventral margin, from which arises a curved structure with three small strong teeth (Fig. 15). Median sclerite bifurcate with apex spined; lateral branch with dilated apex (Fig. 17).

Comment: The species belongs to the longior complex, because of the configuration of the plates and genital parties.

Etymology: The name of the species is given its similarity to N. poecilops .

PLATE IV. Fig. 18. Coari from state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Examined material. Holotype 3, Brazil, Amazonas, Coari, Rio Urucu, RUC-36, 4 o55’53’’S/ 65o13’13’’W, P. Buhrnheim et Al cols., 25/11–10/11 /1995, MNRJ.