Phthiarella femorata (Breddin)

Phthiarella femorata (Breddin) View in CoL

( Figs. 23‒24, 62, 82‒83)

Phthia femorata Breddin, 1901a: 41 View in CoL (original description).

Phthia femorata View in CoL : Bergroth, 1913: 143.

Phthiarella femorata View in CoL : Brailovsky, 2009: 71.

Phthia femorata View in CoL : Packauskas, 2010: 78.

Phthiarella femorata View in CoL : Leavengood et al., 2024: 262 View Cited Treatment .

Diagnosis. Easy to be recognized by having the pronotum, clavus and corium entirely metallic green with bluish and purple reflections, and coxae, trochanters and femora yellowish orange. In P. decorata (Stål) the close species, the anterior lobe of pronotal disk and corium below the claval commissure has a transverse yellow to yellowish orange fascia, and coxae, trochanters and femora are pale brown with metallic green reflections and only the basal joint of femora yellowish orange.

Redescription. Male. Body length 17.85. Head length 2.37; width across eyes 2.27; interocular distance 1.25; interocellar distance 0.54; preocular distance 1.40; length antennal segments: I, 4.47; II, 4.90; III, 3.48; IV 6.96; pronotum: total length 2.70; maximum width across humeral angles 5.05; scutellum: length 1.90; width 1.97.

Dorsal coloration. Head metallic green with short yellow spot behind each ocelli; antennal segments I to III black with metallic green or bluish green reflections, IV dull black; pronotum, scutellum, clavus and corium metallic green with bluish and purple reflections; hemelytral membrane dark brown with metallic bluish green reflections; connexivum metallic green with bluish and purple reflections; dorsal abdominal segments III–V orange, VI orange with posterior margin black, VII black. Ventral coloration. Head metallic green with bluish and purple reflections, and short yellow spot at each side of midline near collar; rostral segment I metallic green, II–III yellow, IV dark yellow with pale brown marks, and apex metallic green; pro-, meso-, and metasternum, inner border of acetabulae, and anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme yellowish orange; pro-, meso-, and metapleura metallic green with bluish and purple reflections; coxae, trochanters and femora yellowish orange; tibiae and tarsi black with metallic bluish green reflections; abdominal sterna II–VII, and genital capsule 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 to straight; lateral angles rounded, slightly folded inward ( Fig. 62). Parameres. Figs. 82‒83.

Female. Body length 19.14. Head length 2.55; width across eyes 2.37; interocular distance 1.27; interocellar distance 0.55; preocular distance 1.40; length antennal segments: I, 4.10; II, 4.52; III, 3.10; IV 6.80; pronotum: total length 2.90; maximum width across humeral angles 5.55; scutellum: length 2.00; width 2.25. Color and habitus similar to male. Rostral segment I metallic green, II pale brown with yellowish marks, III dark yellow, IV black; connexival segments III–IV metallic green with inner margin dark yellow, and segments V–IX metallic green; dorsal abdominal segments III–IV orange, V–IX black; genital plates metallic green. Variation. 1. Rostral segments II–IV brown. 2. Mesosternum, metasternum, anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme, coxae, trochanters, and femora shiny orange.

Type locality. Ecuador, Coca .

Distribution. This species is known from Bolivia ( Santa Cruz, Tres Esteros, Coroico, Cuatro Ojos, and Cochabamba), Ecuador, and Peru (Satipo, Departamento Loreto, Huanuco, Tingo Maria, Departamento Amazonas, Junin and Pucalpa ( Leavengood et al. 2024).

Material examined. Type material. HOLOTYPE female, ECUADOR, Coca , R. Haensch. Type examined and housed at DEIC . Other material. 1 female, ECUADOR, Provincia Napo, San Rafael , 2–XII–1988, A. Teneda ( UNAM) . 1 male, ECUADOR, Provincia Napo, vic. Puerto Misahualli , 1650–1900’, 1°2’4.2’’S- 77°39’49’’W, collected with fish carrion baited butterfly trap, 6–19–IX–1998, J. E. Eger ( UNAM) GoogleMaps .