Cryphocricos fittkaui De Carlo, 1967

Sites, Robert W., 2021, A review of Cryphocricos Signoret, 1850 (Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 72-94 : 78

Cryphocricos fittkaui De Carlo

( Figs. 9–10 )

Cryphocricos fittkaui De Carlo 1967 : Amazoniana 1:195–196.

Type repository: Zoologische Staatssammlung München (Munich, Germany) .

Type locality: Peru: Tingo Maria , Rio Rondos, and Rio Azul .

Discussion: The holotype is an intact brachypterous male ( Fig. 9 ) and the allotype is a brachypterous female missing the tarsus of the right hindleg ( Fig. 10 ). Two additional paratypes are at housed at the type repository.

Diagnosis: This species differs from C. daguerrei by its generally light-brown color and the female genital operculum (=subgenital plate) is very similar, although it has its differences; it differs from C. peruvianus De Carlo, 1940 especially by its larger size ( De Carlo 1967). I have examined the allotype and topotypes from Tingo Maria; the female subgenital plate has three distinct elongate lobes, similar to those of C. daguerrei , and elongate posterolateral spines of abdominal segments VI and VII (female) or V (male).

Figures

FIGURES 9–12. Cryphocricos fittkaui (9) holotype, dorsal and (10) allotype, ventral. Cryphocricos granulosus (11) holotype, dorsal and (12) allotype, ventral.