Phthiarella dedita Brailovsky and Barrera, 2025

Phthiarella dedita Brailovsky and Barrera , new species

( Figs. 43‒46, 65, 92‒95)

Diagnosis. Easily distinguished by having the pronotal disk, coxae, trochanters and femora black with metallic green reflections; corium with wide orange transverse fascia near middle third; and abdominal sterna III–VII metallic green. Phthiarella lancea sp nov. is similar but the corium is entirely metallic green.

Description. Holotype male. Body length 18.02. Head length 2.42; width across eyes 2.30; interocular distance 1.20; interocellar distance 0.52; preocular distance 1.36; length antennal segments: I, 4.48; II, 4.80; III, 3.62; IV 6.87; pronotum: total length 2.95; width across humeral angles 5.40; scutellum: length 2.17; width 2.37.

Dorsal coloration. Head metallic bluish green with short yellow spot behind each ocelli; antennal segment I black with bluish green reflections, II–III black, IV brown; pronotum, scutellum and clavus black with bluish green reflections; apex of claval commissure orange; corium black with bluish green reflections and wide orange transverse fascia near middle third behind claval commissure and reaching the costal margins; hemelytral membrane black, veins with bluish green reflections; upper half of connexival segments III–V metallic green and inner half orange; VI–VII metallic green; dorsal abdominal segments III–V orange, VI–VII metallic green. Ventral coloration. Head metallic green; rostral segment I metallic green, II–IV dark brown; pro-, meso-, and metasternum yellow; pro-, meso-, and metapleura metallic green; anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme dark yellow; evaporative area black; coxae, trochanters, femora, tibiae and tarsi black with bluish green reflections; abdominal sterna, pleural margins 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, lateral angles rounded, slightly folded inward ( Fig. 65). Parameres. Figs. 92‒95.

Female. Unknown.

Etymology. From the Latin word “ dedita ”, meaning eager, diligent.

Type locality. Brazil, Rondonia .

Material examined. Type material. HOLOTYPE male, BRAZIL, Rondonia, 62 km SW Ariquemes, near Fazenda Rancho Grande , 30–III–10–IV–1992, J. E. Eger ( UNAM).