Hypoxys bitumidus, Nunes & Mendonça & Fernandes, 2022

Nunes, Benedito Mendes, Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva & Fernandes, Jose Antonio Marin, 2022, Seventeen new Species of Hypoxys Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae), Zootaxa 5159 (2), pp. 187-220 : 191

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6778924
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5AA2B5D-91A4-48EA-9CC9-DBED9BBE6EAC
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scientific name	Hypoxys bitumidus
status	sp. nov.

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Hypoxys bitumidus sp. n.

( Figures 2A–D View FIGURE 2 , 18C–D View FIGURE 18 , 21B View FIGURE 21 )

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Material examined (n=1). Holotype ♂: COLOMBIA. Meta. Rio Negro , finca near Villavivencio, 5.II.69, R.E. Dietz IV leg. ( USNM).

Measurements. Total length: 15.5; head length: 1.6; head width: 3.0; pronotal length: 3.0; pronotal width: 9.0; scutellum length: 7.2; scutellum width: 5.3; abdominal width: 8.0; length of antennal segments. I: 0.9; II: 1.7; III: 1.0; IV: 4.0; V: 4.5.

Diagnosis. Anterolateral margin of pronotum with solid black stripe along part of its extension. Anterolateral margin dorsally weakly punctured. Cicatrices of pronotum with punctures brown and concolorous delimiting anterior sulci ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ). Posterior part of pronotum with a somewhat faded black stripe ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ). Anterior margin of scutellum greenish yellow ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ). Body ventrally with dark lines ( Fig. 18D View FIGURE 18 ). Male genitalia ( Fig. 2A–D View FIGURE 2 ). Pygophore with dorsal rim rugose and shallowly excavated ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ). Dorsal surface with two swollen conspicuous lateral areas adjacent to dorsal rim ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ). Superior process of genital cup reniform, medially concave, brown and adjacent to dorsal rim; not visible in dorsal view ( Fig. 2A–C View FIGURE 2 ). Parameres elongated, golf club shaped, laterally curved; anterior lobe very short and rounded; posterior lobe developed and subtriangular; inner face of the stalk with a high carina ending at the apex of posterior lobe ( Fig. 2B–C View FIGURE 2 ). Proctiger strongly compressed laterally with dorsolateral tufts of long setae separated by a median bridge without setae; posterior face barrel-shaped ( Fig. 2B–D View FIGURE 2 ). Ventral rim with median excavation “V” shaped, margin slightly sloping ventrally; expansions not developed, rounded, almost level with posterolateral angles in ventral view ( Fig. 2B–D View FIGURE 2 ). Female unknown.

Comments. This species has the posterior stripe of pronotum slightly faded ( Fig. 18C View FIGURE 18 ), unlike the rest of the species of the quadridens group. This species belongs to the group of species with paramere with posterior lobe well-developed and anterior lobe barely developed, like a golf club ( Fig. 2B–C View FIGURE 2 ). This group gathers nine species that can be separated by the shape of the paramere and superior process of genital cup. The species H. bitumidus belongs to the group with superior process of the genital cup oblong and curved ( Fig. 2B–C View FIGURE 2 ) together with H. similis ( Fig. 14B–C View FIGURE 14 ). Both species have posterior lobe of the paramere triangular and anterior lobe rounded and barely developed ( Figs. 2B View FIGURE 2 , 14B View FIGURE 14 ). But these species can be separated by the pair of swollen areas close to dorsal rim ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ), posterior face of the proctiger barrel-shaped ( Fig. 2B,D View FIGURE 2 ) and expansions of ventral rim barely developed ( Fig. 2D View FIGURE 2 ) in H. bitumidus (without pair of swollen areas, posterior face pentagonal and expansions of ventral rim strongly developed in H. similis ).