Notes on the genus Petascelis Signoret and description of one new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Petascelini)
Author
Brailovsky, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2008
1749
18
26
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.181703
c55e1a52-2649-4f96-859e-4d75fd887b2b
1175-5326
181703
Petascelis laminipes
Fairmaire
(
Figs. 6
,
11
)
Petascelis laminipes
Fairmaire, 1858
: 292
.
Diagnosis.
Male. Easy to recognize by having antennal segment IV fusiform, its apex acute; metasternum armed laterally with medium-sized blunt tubercles (
Fig. 6
); fore and middle tibiae with outer margin dilated, inner straight; midpoint of abdominal sternite III armed with small tubercle, this conspicuously depressed at center (
Fig. 11
); and genital capsule simple, with posteroventral edge straight not exposed. The female has antennal segment IV fusiform, its apex acute; metasternum armed laterally with medium-sized blunt tubercles; fore and middle tibiae with outer margin dilated, inner straight; and abdominal sterna unarmed.
Type
locality.
AFRICA:
Gabon
, 1883, J. Thomson (
MNHN
,
type
male examined)
Distribution.
This species is recorded from
Gabon
, and
Ivory Coast
(Mont Nimba, Yalanzou) (
Fairmaire 1858
,
Villiers 1952a
,
Villiers 1952b
)
Material examined. New records. AFRICA:
GUINEA
:
1 male
, Pe´ou La Dou,
17-V-1958
, R. Pujol (
MNHN
).