Phthiarella procera Brailovsky and Barrera, 2025

Phthiarella procera Brailovsky and Barrera , new species

( Figs. 33‒34, 63, 84‒87)

Diagnosis. Like P. femorata (Breddin) and P. durena here described are the only known species on “femorata group” with coxae, trochanters and femora yellowish and pronotal disk entirely metallic green with or without bluish or purple reflections. Phthiarella procera sp. nov., has a wide yellowish transverse fascia on corium absent in the other two species. In P. durena and P. procera the abdominal sternite III are yellowish orange and in P. femorata metallic green.

Description. Holotype male. Body length 17.62. Head length 2.35; width across eyes 2.32; interocular distance 1.22; interocellar distance 0.57; preocular distance 1.35; length antennal segments: I, 4.25; II, 4.70; III, 3.42; IV 6.63; pronotum: total length 2.75; width across humeral angles 5.10; scutellum: length 2.00; width 2.25.

Dorsal coloration. Head metallic green with short yellow spot behind each ocelli; antennal segment I black with metallic bluish green reflections, II–III shiny dark brown, IV dull brown; pronotum and scutellum metallic green; clavus metallic green with apex of claval commissure yellow; corium metallic green with wide transverse yellowish fascia near midline, behind claval commissure and reaching costal borders; hemelytral membrane black with metallic green reflections; connexival segments III–V yellowish orange, VI–VII metallic green; dorsal abdominal segments III–V yellowish orange, VI–VII metallic green. Ventral coloration. Head metallic green with short spot at each side of midline near collar; rostral segment I metallic green, II yellow with basal third shiny black, III yellow and IV shiny black; pro-, meso-, and metasternum, anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme, and inner margin of fore-, meso-, and meta-acetabulae yellowish; coxae, trochanters and femora yellow; tibiae and tarsi black with metallic green reflections; abdominal sternite III yellow, IV metallic green with anterior half of pleural margin yellow, V–VII and genital capsule metallic green; pleural abdominal margins III and anterior half of IV yellowish and posterior half of IV and V–VII metallic green.

Structure. Head. Rostrum reaching middle third of abdominal sternite IV. Thorax. Humeral angles thick at base, tapering into short acute spine. Genital capsule. Posteroventral edge gently sinuate, lateral angles rounded, slightly folded inward ( Fig. 63). Parameres. Figs. 84‒85.

Female. Body length 15.90. Head length 2.22; width across eyes 2.20; interocular distance 1.17; interocellar distance 0.50; preocular distance 1.22; length antennal segments: I, 3.52; II, 3.88; III, 2.96; IV 6.10; pronotum: total length 2.50; width across humeral angles 5.00; scutellum: length 2.02; width 2.20. Color and habitus similar to male holotype. Connexival segments VIII–IX, dorsal abdominal segments VIII–IX and genital plates black with metallic green reflections; abdominal sternite IV yellow with posterior margin brown to black with metallic green reflections.

Etymology. From the Latin “ procerus-a ” meaning slender, elongate, referring to its habitus.

Type locality. Bolivia, La Paz .

Material examined. Type material. HOLOTYPE male, ECUADOR, Province Napo, vic Puerto Misahualli , collected with fish carrion baited butterfly trap, 1650’–1900’ 1°2’4.2’’S- 77°39’49’’W, 6–19–IX–1998, J. E. Eger ( UNAM) GoogleMaps . PARATYPES: 1 male, ECUADOR, Dureno , 150 m, 23–30–IX-1977, L. E. Peña ( UNAM) ; 1female, NAPO, Misahualli, nr. Tena , 26–VIII–3–IX-2000, S. & P. Keller ( ROM) .