Taxonomic review of the Ranatra gracilis group sensu Lansbury, 1972 (Nepomorpha: Nepidae), with descriptions of four new species
Author
Tran, A. D.
Author
Zettel, H.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2021
2021-02-25
69
45
70
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2021-0005
2345-7600
5351678
D63943BE-00B0-409E-BCE4-96942D33114E
Ranatra lansburyi
Chen, Nieser & Ho, 2004
Ranatra lansburyi
Chen, Nieser & Ho, 2004: 89
(
type
locality:
Chiang Mai
,
Thailand
). — D. Polhemus & J.
Polhemus, 2012: 247
(record
Myanmar
).
Material examined.
THAILAND
:
1 male
,
1 female
(
NHMW
, previously det. as
R. parmata
by
N. Nieser
),
Chiang Mai Province
,
W Mae Rim
,
Mae Sa N.P.
,
Mae Sa Falls
, coll.
H. Zettel
,
30–31 October 1995
.
Diagnosis.
Body length: males 27–31, females 31–34; ratio of siphon length: body length ca. 0.4; lorum lower clypeus and without nodule dorsally; ratio of eye width: interocular width ca. 0.8; posterior width of pronotum ca. 1.25× anterior width; pronotal length ca. 1.5× fore coxa length; hemelytra reaching posterior margin of abdominal tergum VI; posterior margin of metasternum roundly emarginated, with very narrow or indistinct sublateral grooves; fore femur on flexor side with a median tooth and a median carina, without preapical tooth; hind femur, when folded back parallel to body reaching anterior quarter of operculum (in males) or only slightly surpassing mid-length of abdominal sternum VI (in females); paramere: ventral side before apical hook with large, bi-lobed process, hook with truncate tip.
Distribution.
Myanmar
, North
Thailand
(
Chiang Mai
), Southwestern
China
(
Yunnan
) (
Chen et al., 2004
; D. Polhemus & J.
Polhemus, 2012
).