Papeocoris vittatus sp. nov.

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Description. Holotype female. Dorsal color. Head and antennal segments (apex of IV dark reddish) black with tiny dark orange discoidal spot below each ocelli; pronotum black with following areas dark orange: posterolateral margins, posterior margin, and wide transverse stripe at middle third of pronotal disk; scutellum black with dark orange longitudinal stripe at middle third of scutellar disk; clavus, corium, and connexivum entirely dark orange; hemelytral membrane dark brown; dorsal abdominal segments III to VI pale yellowish orange, and segments VII to IX black. Ventral color. Including rostral segments, legs, anterior and posterior lobe of metathoracic peritreme, and genital plates black, with acetabulae, posterior border of prothorax, and pleural margins of abdominal sterna III to VII reddish orange.

Male. Unknown.

Measurements (mm). Length head 2.12, width across eyes 1.88, interocular space 1.20, interocellar space 0.45, preocular distance 1.36; length antennal segments I, 1.44, II, 1.84, III, 1.73, IV, 2.12. Length pronotum 2.24, width across frontal angles 1.84, width across humeral angles 4.64. Scutellar length 1.56, width 2.04. Total body length 13.80.

Type material. Holotype, female, PERU, Lambayaque, 10-V-1962, leg. A. Lopez (UNAM).

Etymology. After the Latin vittatus meaning decorated with a stripe, for the distinctive dark orange transverse band on the pronotal disk.

Distribution. Peru (Lambayaque).

Diagnosis. Papeocoris vittatus sp. nov., can be recognized because the clavus and corium are entirely dark orange, the acetabulae are shiny reddish orange, and the pronotal disk has a wide dark orange transverse stripe. In the other two known species, P. frontalis Brailovsky and P. nitens (here described), the clavus and corium are black, the claval and corial veins and costal and apical margins are yellow to yellowish orange, the acetabulae always black and the yellow to yellowish orange transverse stripe on pronotal disk is slender.