Review of the tribe Lethaeini Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae) from China, with a key to Chinese genera and species
Author
Li, Junlan
Author
Gao, Cuiqing
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2011
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28
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journal article
45821
10.5281/zenodo.204798
3d2dd59a-4552-4ebb-bee4-4d11bf4d5682
1175-5326
204798
Lamproceps antennatus
(Scott, 1874)
New Record for
China
(
Figs. 3, 6, 7, 8
,
20
)
Tropistethus antennatus
Scott, 1874
, Ann.Mag.Nat.His. 14(4): 429;
Lamproceps antennatus
Scudder, 1962
: 768
;
Slater, 1964
: 823
;
Slater & O’Donnell, 1995
: 97
;
Péricart, 2001
: 157
.
Diniella yinae
Zheng & Liu, 1992
: 257
.
New synonymy.
Complementary description.
Measurements. Length head 0.38, width 0.63, interocular space 0.41; Length antennal segments I 0.31(0.28–0.36), II 0.40(0.38–0.42), III 0.33(0.30–0.35), IV 0.44(0.39–0.49); Length pronotum 0.63, width anterior pronotal margin 0.57(0.56–0.59), width posterior pronotal margin 1.03(1.0–1.06); Length scutellum 0.60(0.56–0.65), width 0.58(0.51–0.63); Midline distance apex clavus–apex corium 1.02(0.94–1.09), midline distance apex corium–apex membrane 0.60(0.56–0.65); Total body length male 2.5–3.0, female 2.5–3.4. Five specimens were measured of this species
Male genitalia: Parameres, pygophore, and sperm reservoir as
Figs. 3, 6, 7, 8
shown.
Material examined.
CHINA
, Hainan:
2 males
, Mt. Jianfeng,
22.IV.1985
, leg. Zheng Leyi, light trap;
1 male
,
1 female
, as the former,
21.IV.1985
;
1 female
, as the former,
18.IV.1985
;
1 male
, as the former,
24.IV.1985
;
1 female
, Mt. Jianfeng,
15.IV.1980
, leg. Zheng Leyi, light trap. Zhejiang:
1 male
(
Paratype
of
Diniella yinae
Zheng & Liu
), Mt. Tianmu,
5.IX.1989
.
Distribution.
China
(Hainan, Zhejiang);
Japan
.
Biology.
Most specimens were collected by light trap, indicating nocturnal activity of this species.
Notes.
Diniella yinae
was originally described by Zheng & Liu in 1992 based on two males and one female collected in province Zhejiang. We examined a
paratype
(male), as well as additional specimens from province Hainan, and found it to had typical diagnostic characters of
Lamproceps
rather than
Diniella
,
such as: body clothed with semierect hairs; antennae with the fourth segment whitish yellow; pronotum flat, anterior margin straight and lacking a collar–like area; corium with lateral margins parallel. Furthermore, like
Lamproceps indicus
in
O’Donnell, 1991
,
Diniella yinae
has “V” shaped holding sclerites in sperm reservoir, and holding sclerites are absent in
Diniella
. Therefore, we determined that this species belongs to the genus
Lamproceps
Reuter
, and it completely fits the description of
Lamproceps antennatus
(Scott 1874)
; for this reason we treat
Diniella yinae
Zheng & Liu
as a new synonym of
Lamproceps antennatus
(Scott)
.