Phygopoda fulvitarsis Gounelle, 1911

(Figs. 16, 73)

Phygopoda fulvitarsis Gounelle, 1911: 61; Aurivillius, 1912: 284 (cat.); Blackwelder, 1946: 577 (check); Monné, 1993: 51 (cat.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 98 (check); Tavakilian et al., 1997: 326 (host); Monné, 2001: 45 (host); Monné, 2005: 499 (cat.); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 123 (check); Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007: 103, figs. 20, 22 (distr.); Morvan & Morati, 2011: 31 (distr.); Bezark & Monné, 2013 (166) (check); Monné, 2015: 784 (cat.).

Male (Fig. 16). Integument black, except elytra with whitish-yellow spot, longitudinal and central, beginning from base, and pro- and mesolegs dark brown.

Eyes frontally separated by about 1/7 width of lower ocular lobe. Antennae exceeding elytral apex at antennomere 6 or 7, reaching apex of first ventrite; antennomeres 3−5 with row of long, semierect setae on inner margin; 6 and 7 with similar setae at apex of inner margin.

Prothorax cylindrical, 1.2 times longer than wide; laterally with spot of whitish pubescence. Ventral surface covered with fine, slightly dark-whitish pubescence. Scutellum with rounded apex. Elytra short with constriction at apical fifth, and rounded apex.

Protibiae and mesotibiae with apical 3/4 densely covered with short, fine, golden pubescence; metatibiae with dense brush of long setae on apical half (black on basal 2/3 and yellowish on apical 1/4); pro- and mesotarsi with ventral surface densely covered with short, fine, yellowish to whitish pubescence and dorsal surface covered with dark-brown pubescence; metatarsi with ventral surface covered with short, whitish to yellowish pubescence and dorsal surface covered with long, semierect yellowish setae.

Last visible urotergite subquadrate, covered with short, sparse setae (except for glabrous area at center), with truncate apex; last visible urosternite covered with long, semierect setae; center-apical region densely covered with semierect setae and apical margin covered with short, decumbent, yellowish-golden pubescence.

Female. Head frontally with smooth area. Eyes frontally separated by width of lower ocular lobe; antennomeres 3−7 with row of long semierect setae on inner margin. Prothorax brown to reddish brown. Abdomen reddish brown to yellowish brown. Last visible urotergite elongate, triangular, with truncate apex, covered with short, decumbent setae; last visible urosternite elongate, narrowing toward apex, with apical margin slightly excavated at center.

Measurements, in mm. female/male. n=1/1. Total length, 8.4/7.3; prothorax length, 1.2/1; prothorax width, 1/ 0.9; elytral length, 2.1/1.7; humeral width, 1.2/1.

Type-material. We examined photographs (taken by Dr. Eugenio H. Nearns) and slides (made by Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure) of the male lectotype (Fig. 16) and paralectotypes (MNHN) from Cayenne, French Guiana.

Comments. Gounelle (1911) distinguished P. fulvitarsis (Fig. 16) from P. fugax (Fig. 17) by the apical antennomeres enlarged; reddish prothorax in female; pronotum without two rows of longitudinal pubescence; metafemora totally black; apex of tibiae and tarsi yellowish; apex of metatibiae and entire metatarsi with a brush of yellowish setae; and the female’s abdomen only partly reddish. However, in this study, we confirmed only the apex of the metatibiae and the entire metatarsi with a brush of yellowish setae, which distinguish this species from all other members of the genus. In P. fugax the antennae do not differ in the width of the antennomeres, the female prothorax can be reddish, the two rows of setae on the pronotum can be absent, and the yellowish ring at the base of the metafemora can also be absent. In addition, the apices of the tibiae and tarsi of P. fulvitarsis are black.

We can add to the above-mentioned differences between the species, the color of the metatarsi and the elytral shape. In P. f u ga x the metatarsi are black and the elytra have not a constriction at the apical fifth; in P. fulvitarsis the metatarsi are yellowish to whitish and the elytra have a constriction.

Phygopoda fulvitarsis also is similar to P. i n ga e (Fig. 15) in having the elytra with a constriction at the apical fifth and the brush of setae with a different color on the apical third. These species can be distinguished by the color of the setae on the apical third of the brush, yellowish in P. fulvitarsis and whitish in P. ingae.

Geographical distribution. French Guiana. This species is newly reported from Brazil, for Pará (Fig. 73).

Host plant. Leguminosae - Inga alba (Benth.) Benth. (Tavakilian et al., 1997)

Specimens examined. BRAZIL, Pará: Santo Antônio de Tauá (Reserva Sonho Azul), female, 2.IX.2001, Pierre Jauffert leg.; male, 12.IX.2001, Pierre Jauffert leg. All in MZSP collection.