Description of a new species of Corixidea from Brazil (Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha: Schizopteridae)

Abstract

ABSTRACT The minute litter bug genus Corixidea Reuter, 1891 currently comprises nine valid American species. Herein, we describe Corixidea quaresmai sp. nov. from one of the last remaining remnants of Atlantic Forest in northeast Brazil. The new species is characterized by the distal extension of the anophoric process parallel and close to the left lateral margin of the tergites, and the elongated process of tergum 8, with a pectinate distal half and a filiform tip. We provide diagnosis, images of habitus and male genitalia.

Keywords

• Atlantic Forest
• Neotropical region
• Schizopterinae
• taxonomy
• true bug