Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam
Author
Usinger, Robert L.
text
1946
1946-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
11
103
book chapter
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Anisops cleopatra
Distant
,
in
Sarasin and Roux
,
Nova Caled., Zool.
1
(4):
386
, pl. 11,
fig. 8
,
1914
.
Nine specimens
,
Mt. Chachao
,
May 16
,
Usinger
.
These specimens are slightly over
5 mm
. in length and agree in general with Lundblad's description (Arch. Hydrobiol., Suppl.
12:
171, 1933). However, the front legs of the male differ in detail from those figured, the tarsi having a few short, stiff spines in a row on inner surface. These are not shown in Lundblad's figures of
A. cleopatra
.
Also the combs at the bases of the front tibiae are nearly at right angles to the outer margins of the tibiae. Fijian specimens before me agree with Lundblad's figures in these respects but have a row of spines on the inner ridge which extends along tibia from the comb. The front femora and tibiae are slightly more robust in the
Guam
males.
Differences in detail between Javan, Sumatran, New Caledonian, and Samoan specimens led Lundblad to consider this as a single variable species to be separated later, if the differences appeared to be constant, into several closely related species forming the
"cleopatra-Gruppe."
I am in no position to take such a step at this time but it is noteworthy that the two forms studied here from
Fiji
and
Guam
are quite constant within each series and differ in the above mentioned points from other forms thus far described.
Anisops hyperion
Kirkaldy
was reported from the Marianas Islands (Paris Museum) and from
Fiji
(Hamburg Museum) by Kirkaldy with some doubt, the type of
hyperion
being from
Australia
.
Hale
(
South Austr. Mus.
, Rec.
2:
403, 1923) has redescribed
hyperion
and has shown that the pronotum of the male is nearly as long as broad, thus excluding the present material.
Furthermore
,
hyperion
is a larger species, though size is a somewhat variable character.