Ramivena parazhengi Fan & Liu, 2010

Fan, Zhong-Hua & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2010, A new genus Ramivena (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), with descriptions of two new Species, Oriental Insects 44 (1), pp. 211-223 : 214-215

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2010.10417615

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465DBD1F-FFB7-FFC9-FF33-FF08FC27B818

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Luisschmitz

scientific name

Ramivena parazhengi Fan & Liu
status

sp. nov.

2. Ramivena parazhengi Fan & Liu , sp. nov. ( Figs. 3 -4,16-22)

Diagnosis: Closely allied to R. zhengi in body size, color, shape of pronotal lateral angles, shape of scutellum, red abdominal terga, length of abdominal basal spine and ramified veins of membrane, but distinguished by the following characters: Punctations on the posterior half of pronotum slightly metallic green; pronotal lateral angle narrowly red at the apical edge, posterior margin of which not pale yellow and smooth as in R. zhengi ; apex of scutellum black and angular; ostiolar peritreme bent and longer, almost equal to the 1/2 width of evaporate area in length; only one black sharp process pointed caudad in the middle of ventral margin of pygophore while two such processes pointed dorsad in R. zhengi .

Description: Color ochraceous, in mosaic, punctations reddish brown or black, those on the posterior half of pronotum more or less metallic green. Scutellum with one large black spot at base which probably made into two and transversely arranged; scutellar apex angular and black. Body beneath yellowish brown, with dark brown punctuations, VII abdominal sternum with a longitudinal black streak at meson. Femora and tibiae spotted black; tarsi yellowish brown without black spots; apices of claws black.

Head with dorsal surface transversely wrinkled, lateral margins convexly narrowing cephalad and apex rounded. Mandibular plates slightly longer than clypeus but not convergent anteriorly. Antennal segments I to III yellowish brown and spotted with black patches; segments IV and V pale yellow at extreme base and most of apical parts dark brown; segment III longer than segment II. Head beneath with brown punctations. Buccula very low except the anterior angle that is produced and acuminate. Rostrum extending to the anterior margin of the III abdominal sternum. Thorax: Pronotum punctate unevenly, anterior margin truncate behind the eyes and straightly excavated in the middle; anterior angles triangular, produced and pointed anteriolaterally; anteriolateral margins coarsely dentate and concave; lateral angles produced and truncate at apex, apical edge red and slightly concave. Scutellum with base not obviously intumescent; sparse, uneven and coarse black punctations at basal margin in contrast with finer and lighter punctations of posterior scutellum; one big black spot or two transverse smaller ones in the middle of base; posterior half of scutellar meson almost without punctations; apex of scutellum angular and black. Hemelytrum dispersed with some pale white patches; punctations on exocorium finer and lighter than those on endocorium; outer margins convex and very sparsely punctate. Membrane fumose and a little longer than the abdominal apex; veins of membrane dark black and ramified at apex. Mesal carina of mesosternum distinct but still lower than coxae. Ostiolar peritreme bent, almost as long as half the width of evaporate area, apex of which narrowed but not very sharp. Abdomen with connexiva exposed, alternately brown and pale white, posterior angles of which produced but not sharp. Punctations on lateral areas of venter gradually finer and denser laterad. Abdominal basal spine reaching the anterior limits of middle coxae.

Male genitalia: One distinct long triangular process in the middle of ventral margin of pygophore that is deeply and roundly excavated, each side of which with one large black triangular process. Lateral apices of pygophore bifurcated in lateral view, process at the ventral side angular while the dorsal one only bluntly intumescent, which is distinct compared to R. nigrivitta , sp. nov. Paramere trifurcate. Aedeagus without dorsal sclerotized processes; conjunctiva without any lobes and ventral apex of which strongly intumescent and sclerotized. Apices of median penial plates triangular and only slightly passing beyond vesica.

Female genitalia: Inner margins of I gonocoxites apart from each other at basal half, and apical 1/2 contact each other; apical margins of I gonocoxites depressed and obliquely straight. Apices of IX paratergites slightly shorter than those of VIII.

Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Yunnan Province: Pu-er City (22°48'N, 100°58'E), 1500m., 21.x.2000, Coll. Wen-Jun Bu, light trapped GoogleMaps ; paratype: China: ♀, data same as holotype except date, 22.x.2000 .

Distribution: China: Yunnan Province.

Etymology: It is named so in view of its similarity with R. zhengi .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Ramivena

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