Big-Eyed Bugs Of The Malagasy Region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae)
Author
Tang, Jin
Author
Zhang, Gongaote
Author
Guo, Junqi
Author
Luo, Lingxuan
Author
Jiang, Jiamei
Author
Pan, Hongbo
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
2023
2023-08-25
69
3
247
264
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1259653
journal article
10.17109/AZH.69.3.247.2023http://zoobank.org/D76B85CE-96F8-40D4-BB4F-DC2856887319
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Germalus kinbergi
(
Stål, 1860
)
(
Fig. 18
)
Material studied: as in
KÓBOR and KONDOROSY (2016)
.
Diagnosis. Colouration generally ochraceous with dark fuscous punctuation. Vertex with a median longitudinal fuscous stripe extending from apex of clypeus to middle of vertex. Humeral angles with rounded, pale brownish spots. Corium-membrane margin sometimes red. Abdominal dorsum with dark brown, irregular longitudinal bands laterally. Eyes moderately stylate
Figs 12–14.
Lectotype (present designation) of
Geocoris (Piocoris) junodi
Montandon, 1907
:
12 = dorsal habitus; 13 = lateral view; 14 = labels. Scale bar =
0.5 mm
for figures 12–13,
Fig.
14 not to scale. (Photos: Rachel Diaz-Bastin, KNHM)
with eye stalks straight. Ocular sulcus complete, well-defined. Antennomere I maculate. Pronotum trapeziform with lateral margins slightly constricted. Scutellum subequilateral triangular with trifurcate median carina well-developed but interrupted by punctures medially. Clavus of hemelytron with margins subparallel and claval commissure complete; corial margin with a line of puncutres “breaking” at two-third of length (
Fig. 18
). Peritreme spout,
Figs 15–20.
Geocorine true bugs of the Malagasy region (dorsal habitus): 15 =
Geocoris pallidipennis mauritii
Stål, 1854
(male, MNHN); 16 =
Germalus banari
Kondorosy et
Kóbor, 2016
(paratype, male, MNHN); 17 =
Germalus benyovszkyi
Kondorosy et
Kóbor, 2016
(holotype, male, MNHN); 18 =
Germalus kinbergi
Stål, 1860
(lectotype, female, NHRS); 19 =
Hypogeocoris alluaudi
(
Montandon, 1908
)
(male, MNHN); 20 =
Hypogeocoris violaceus
(
Signoret, 1881
)
(female, NHMW). Scale bar =
1 mm
for all images i.e., auricle with dorsal supporting projection; dorsal supporting projection curved, moderately elongate; evaporatorium covering mesepimeron and metepisternum. Femora with brown maculae.
Distribution. The species is known from
Mauritius
and
Réunion
islands (
KÓBOR & KONDOROSY 2016
).