A revision of the Australian genus Trachylestes with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
Author
Malipatil, M. B.
Author
Kwak, M. L.
Author
Gunawardene, N.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4105
1
88
100
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.4
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1175-5326
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Trachylestes turneri
(
Miller, 1958
)
(
Figs. 3–4
)
Penthikocleptes turneri
Miller, 1958
: 79
.
Trachylestes turneri
:
Malipatil, 1991
: 938
.
Description.
The species has been adequately described and illustrated (as
Penthikocleptes turneri
) by
Miller (1958)
, the followings are the additions:
Measurements
(of
holotype
male of the junior synonym
P. t ur n e r i
first, followed by of a non-type female). Body length 9.0, 8.0; maximum width 2.70, 2.17. Length head 2.00, 1.89, width across eyes 1.08, 1.06, interocular space 0.56, 0.54, interocellar space 0.36, 0.36, eye-ocellar space 0.16, 0.13, eye length 0.44, 0.46, eye width 0.26, 0.25. Lengths of antennal segments: I, 2.40, 2.27, II, 1.16, 1.21, III, 0.76, 0.80, IV, missing, missing. Pronotum median length 1.60, 1.72; width posterior margin 2.25, 2.00. Scutellum length 0.73, 0.71, width 0.90, 0.74. Length hemelytra 5.40, 4.88; length corium 3.60, 3.28; width membrane 1.80, 1.68.
Distribution.
Western
Australia
, New South
Wales
, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South
Australia
.
Type
material examined.
Holotype
♂, Western
Australia
, Yanchep,
32 miles
[ca.
50 km
] N of Perth,
24.xi.- 2.xii.1935
, R.E.Turner (B.M.1936-28);
NHML
.
Other specimens examined. New South
Wales
: Sydney, Lea (
1 ♂
,
SAM
).
South
Australia
: Little Desert,
29.x.1950
, F.E. Wilson (1 ♀,
SAM
).