Amauromelpia miri, Fernandes & Grazia, 1998

Amauromelpia miri sp.n.

( Figs. 6-9 View Figs , 13- 15 View Figs , 17 View Figs )

Etymology. From tupy language; min' = small.

Holotype male. PERU. Loreto: Iquitos, Iquitos ville, chacra Mario Eduardo Vargas , X. l 968, G. Couturier col., plant hôte Cruciferaceae 7 Sinapris ( AMNH). Paratypes: COLOMBIA. Amazonas: Leticia , 1 d‘, 2-7-IV-1975, D. Engleman col. ( AMNH). PERU. Loreto: Iquitos, 1d, 9. II. 1984, L. Huggert col. ( LUND), 1 d‘, same data ( UFRG); Jenaro Herrera, 4“ 55 ’ S 73“ 40 ’ W, C.I.J. I-I. cultures experimentales, ld“, 1989, G. Couturier col., plant hôte Oriza sativa ( AMNH) , IQ, same data ( UFRG).

Body length 6.7-8.0. Abdominal width 3.7-4.3. Head length 1.5- 1.6. Head width 1.6- 1.7. Pronotal length 1.5 - 1.8. Pronotal width 3.6-4.2. Scutellal length 2.5 -2.8. Scutellal width 2.3-2.6. Smaller than A. ussu . Tylus almost as long as jugae. Head punctures regularly distributed. Antero-lateral margin of pronotum shallowly concave. Its anterior half serrulated. Endocorium less punctured than exocorium.

Pygophore: diaphragma at each side of segment X inconspicuously excavated, carena absent (figs. 6-9). Processus capitati well developed, diameter subequal to aedeagus length. Processus conjunctivae 1 sinuous (figs. 13 - 15).

Gonocoxites 8 with inner half tumid and posterior border slightly convex. Gonocoxites 9 flat. Apices of laterotergites 9 surpassing transverse band uniting laterotergites 8 dorsally (fig. 17).

Distribution. Colombia: Amazonas; Peru: Loreto.

Comments. Besides the smaller size, A. miri could be distinguished from A. ussu by the serrulated and shallowly concave antero-lateral margins of pronotum; processus conjuntivae 1 slender, sinuous. In A. ussu the antero-lateral margins of pronotum are almost straight, slightly crenulated at anterior half; processus conjuntivae 1 stout, rectilinear in ventral view.