Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952

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Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952

Cylapoides bicolor Carvalho, 1952a: 270 , figs 6–9 (new species).

Cylapoides bicolor: Carvalho 1957: 29 (catalog); Carvalho & Froeschner 1987: 154 (list); Schuh 1995: 23 (catalog); Gorczyca 2006a: 14 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following set of characters: head and pronotum contrastingly pale yellow; antennal segment I entirely dark brown; posterior margin of pronotum arcuate ( Fig. 3c ); parameres as described by Carvalho (1952a: figs 7–9).

Redescription. Male. COLORATION. Head pale yellow; antennal segments I– IV dark brown ( IV segment mutilated); labium with segment I yellow; segment II red (segments III and IV mutilated in holotype). Thorax. Pronotum. Contrastingly pale yellow. Mesoscutum, scutellum and hemelytron. Dark brown. Thoracic pleura. Proepimeron and proepisternum pale yellow; remaining pleura dark brown. Legs. Dark brown. TEXTURE AND VESTITURE. As in generic description. STRUCTURE. Thorax. Pronotum. Posterior margin weakly convex medially. Genitalia. Parameres as described by Carvalho (1952a: figs 7–9) .

Measurements. Holotype ♂: Body. Length: 2.8, width 1.4. Head. Length: 0.2, width: 1.0, interocular distance 0.42. Antenna. Length of segment I 0.4, II 0.9, III 0,8, IV (missing). Labium. 1.4. Pronotum. Length 0.4, width of anterior margin 0.7, length of lateral margin 0.3, width of posterior margin 1.0.

Female. Unknown.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Belize.

Type material. Belize. Holotype: Male, British Honduras, Punta Gorda, Oct. 1935, J. J. White, B. M. 1937–147 ( BMNH).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Dorsal habitus photographs. a. Cylapinus minusculus (♂, Ecuador); b. Cylapinus yasunagai (holotype); c. Cylapoides bicolor (holotype); d. Cylapoides unicolor (♂, Ecuador).