Illustrated key for identification of the species included in the genus Leptoglossus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anisoscelini), and descriptions of five new species and new synonyms
Author
Brailovsky, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2014
3794
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3794.1.7
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Leptoglossus macrophyllus
Stål
(
Fig. 59
)
Leptoglossus macrophyllus
Stål, 1870
: 162
The position of
L. macrophyllus
Stål
(similar to
L. polychromus
here described) is uncertain because this species exhibits considerable chromatic variation and can be included in the couplet 22 (
phyllopus
species group) if it has a yellowish transverse fascia on corium always present and rectangular, with anterior and posterior margins straight and parallel, or in couplet 22’ (
stigma
species group) in which the yellowish transverse fascia on corium is irregular (zig-zag) and runs to couplet 38’. In both conditions this species is distinguished by the outer dilations of hind tibiae very long extending for 85-95% length of tibiae, and inner dilations much shorter occupying 55-70% length of outer dilations, the antennal segments II and III are entirely black or dark orange with apical third black, and the anterior pronotal disk without or with yellowish transverse rectangular band not reaching lateral margins.