Habralictus nitidus, Liz & Gonçalves, 2025

10. Habralictus nitidus sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Female with mesosoma bright green, pronotal dorsolateral angle obtuse, mesoscutum areolate, fore coxa yellow, terga with pairs of yellow dorsolateral maculations. Differs from those of H. callichroma and H. acuminatus sp. nov. by the polished clypeus and the metasomal yellow maculations forming bands. Male not known.

Etymology

From Latin ‘ niteō ’, ‘to shine/clean, and ‘- idus ’, ‘to place’, referring to the polished clypeus.

Type material

Holotype

BRAZIL – Acre • ♀; Mancio Lima, P.N. Serra do Divisor ; [8°02′39″ S, 73°33′55″ W]; 15–17 Nov. 2016; R. S.M. Feitosa, A.C. Ferreira and T.S. R. Silva leg.; DZUP 522328 View Materials . GoogleMaps

Description

Female

HEAD. Head bright green; covered with sparse short white plumose setae. Mandible usually yellow with darkened apex. Clypeus not depressed in the middle; green, with an apical band yellow, which is projected upwards in the center; covered with sparse short white decumbent setae, intermixed with longer erect setae; puncticulate; polished between the punctures. Supraclypeal area puncticulate; areolate between the punctures. Paraocular fovea extends from the base of the eye to the antennal socket, always contiguous to the eye margin. Paraocular area sculpturing similar to that of the supraclypeal area. Frons densely punctulate; coriaceous between the punctures. Gena covered with decumbent white setae. Scape dark brown. Flagellum dark brown.

MESOSOMA. Pronotal dorsolateral angle obtuse, or with a rounded aspect. Pronotal lobe yellow. Tegula yellow. Wing membrane hyaline. Mesoscutum anterior margin a little acuminate-shaped; surface bright green; covered with sparse decumbent setae; densely punctulate; areolate between the punctures. Mesepisternum bright green; areolate. Metapostnotum not depressed in the median posterior surface; bright green; entirely areolate to coriaceous.

LEGS. Fore leg yellow. Mid leg yellow. Hind coxa, trochanter and femur amber, tibia and basitarsus brown. Hind femur with dense long plumose setae.

METASOMA. Terga orange with yellow maculations, as follows: T2–T5 with yellow dorsal basal bands; covered with short decumbent setae very sparsely distributed in T1, which progressively become denser towards T5; lineolate. Sterna covered with long plumose setae, denser and longer in S3> S2>S4>S5>S1.

M EASUREMENTS.Approximate body length 5.04 mm.Head width 1.5 mm; length 1.26 mm.Clypeoantennal distance 0.35 mm. Distance between subantennal sutures 0.3 mm. Lower interocular distance 0.74 mm. Upper interocular distance 0.8 mm. Scape length 0.7 mm. Intertegular distance 0.96 mm. T1 width 1.2 mm. T2 width 1.6 mm. T3 width 1.7 mm.

Male

Not known.

Distribution

Brazil: Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brazil.