Dilasia microps ( Champion, 1900 ) Carpintero, 2014

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo, 2014, Western Hemisphere Lasiochilinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) with comments on some extralimital species and some considerations on suprageneric relationships, Zootaxa 3871 (1), pp. 1-87 : 31-32

Dilasia microps ( Champion, 1900) n. comb.

( Figs. 90–91 )

Lasiochilus microps Champion, 1900: 308 .

Diagnostic characters: Measurements, see Table IV. Male: Characterized by the following combination of characters: head and pronotum reddish-brown, hemelytra brown, antennae and underside of body pale; antennal segment II thickened towards the apex, slightly longer than length of head; head prolonged anteriorly from base of antennae ( Fig. 113 ); pronotum trapezoidal with lateral margins straight and anterior and posterior margins concave ( Fig. 114 ); hemelytra covered by short pilosity; forefemora long, slightly thick; foretibiae armed with row of medium-sized spines on inner margin ( Fig. 115 ), pads medium sized to small ( Fig. 116 ); foretrochanters with characteristic spines ( Fig. 117 ); ostiolar peritreme apically acute and slightly elevated; meso- and metasternum not sulcate medially, the latter elongate apically ( Fig. 118 ); copulatory spines on left margin of VI sternite, thick, curved and densely arranged ( Fig. 119 ); pygophore ( Fig. 120 ) with left paramere large, wide, linear, rounded apically and with typical concavity on middle of inner margin ( Fig. 121 ). Female: With parietovaginal gland inapparent ( Fig. 122 ), seventh sternite with small punctures centrally ( Fig. 123 ). Antennal segments (I:II:III:IV) 1: 2.8: 2.7: 2.7.

Distribution: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Guadeloupe, Colombia, Guyana. Its appearance in Nicaragua is a new distributional record. ( Fig. 49 ).

Material examined: Holotype GUATEMALA: ♀ Type, B.C.A. Rhynch. II, Lasiochilus microps Ch., Cerro Zunil , 2–3000 ft., Ch. Holotype. BMNH ; COLOMBIA: ♀ on orchids, San Francisco, Cal. , 30-VI-1938. MACN ; COSTA RICA: ♀ Puntarenas Prov., Rincón de Osa, Osa Península , 14/ 26-VII-1969, Toby Schuh Janet Crane. USNM ; GUYANA: ♀ Kartabo, ex Bromelia , 22-IX-1922, coll. H. D. Hartland, Brit. Mus. 1954-631. BMNH ; HONDURAS: ♀ in bananas, intercept. N. Orleans , 17-II-1936. USNM ; MEXICO: ♀ Veracruz, 29-VI-1943, Laredo, Texas, 32–200, lot 43–8252, in Baggage. USNM ; NICARAGUA: ♂ ♀ Zelaya, Sulum , 14º15’N 84º36’W, I-1996, Maës-Hernandez. (slide-mounted). MACN .

Discussion: This species can be recognized from the other species of this genus by the typical shape of the left paramere that has a concavity on the middle of its inner margin.

Figures

FIGURES 86–94. Species of genus Dilasia. 2. 86, D. foveicollis Male; 87, Idem. Male, holotype (1.75 mm); 88, D. fuscula Female, syntype (2.83 mm); 89, D. galateae; 90, D. microps; 91, Idem. Female holotype (2.53 mm); 92, D. neotropicalis Female holotype (2.65 mm); 93, D. punctipennis (2.56 mm); 94, Idem. Male holotype.

FIGURES 113–123. D. microps. Male. 113, Head; 114, Pronotum; 115, Foretibia showing the spines (Sp) on internal margin and pad (Fos); 116, Apical half of foretibia; 117, Spines on foretrochanter (Tsp); 118, Sternal area showing the metasternum (Ms); 119, Copulatory spines (Csp); 120, Pygophore showing left paramere (LP); 121, Detail of left paramere. Female. 122, Genitalia; 123, Detail of punctures (Pfg).

FIGURES 48–49. Distribution of Dilasia (I, II).