New paper!

Taszakowski et al.: "Tanzanocapsus magnus gen. and sp. nov., a new genus and a new species from Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini)".

A new genus and a new species, Tanzanocapsus magnus gen. et sp. nov. (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini), are described from Tanzania. Detailed descriptions and diagnoses of the genus and species, based on external and genitalic morphology, are provided and illustrated with stereomicroscope and SEM images.

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The eighth paper from the current issue of the Journal of the International Heteropterists’ Society:

Barão K.R. et al.: "Closing a Half-Century Gap: The Discovery of the Male and Notes on Nymphal Morphology of Tetragonotum megacephalum Ruckes (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae: Discocephalini)"

Tetragonotum megacephalum Ruckes, 1965 (Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae) was described from a female collected in Bahia, Brazil. Since then, the genus and species have been cited a few times in the literature, including once in a dichotomous key to the broadheaded discocephalines genera, and another two times in checklists of pentatomoids of the Brazilian Caatinga. Based on an additional female and two male specimens, collected in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry forest restricted to northeastern Brazil, we describe the female and male genitalia of T. megacephalum, include notes on nymphal morphology, and provide a map with updated occurrence records. The male pygophore in Tetragonotum Ruckes is similar to other broadheaded discocephalines, such as Discocephala Laporte, Colpocarena Stål, Ischnopelta Stål, and Nigrisagitta Rosso and Campos, with a plate-like segment X beneath which the parameres are accommodated. Also, the pygophore posterolateral angles in T. megacephalum are projected and horizontal, and the phallus is laterally compressed. In the female genitalia, valvifers VIII are as wide as long, covering most of valvifers and laterotergites IX, and laterotergites VIII, laterotergites IX, and valvifers IX are fused to each other.

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The seventh paper from the current issue of the Journal of the International Heteropterists’ Society:

Brailovsky H.: "A Check List of Arhaphe Herrich-Schäffer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Largidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species from Mexico"

Two new species of the genus Arhaphe Herrich-Schäeffer collected in Mexico are described: A. favissa new species and A. nicoleta new species. Dorsal and lateral photographs are provided, and a check list of Arhaphe species with distribution records is given.

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