A new minute pirate bug of the genus Scoloposcelis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from West Malaysia Author Yamada, Kazutaka text Zootaxa 2014 3847 2 292 296 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.2.9 ffcef49d-267c-4ea0-959f-26acd034051b 1175-5326 230529 DB67AE6C-3803-4D64-9A1E-965B215DA469 Scoloposcelis parallela (Motschulsky, 1863) ( Figs. 5–8 ) See Péricart (1996) for synonymic list and references. Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES : 1♀, Penascosa, Palawan Is., 15‒16. vii. 1977 , M. Sato leg. (NSMT); 1♀, Sabang, N. of Mt. St. Paul, Palawan Is., 11‒13. vii. 1977 , M. Sato leg. (NSMT); 1♀, Gasy, ca 200m , nr. Maitum, South Cotabato, Mindanao Is., 10. viii. 1985 , Y. Nishikawa leg. (NSMT). TAIWAN : 2♂ (one in Figs. 5‒7 ), Koshun, Kuraru, 25. vii. 1941 , A. Kira leg. (NIAES); 1♂ ( Fig. 8 ) 2♀, Antsun, 14. viii. 1941 , H. Hasegawa leg. (NIAES); 1♂ , Fenshueiling, 26. iii. 2004 , T. Tsuru leg. (TKPM). The specimens in NIAES are attached with Isamu Hiura’s identification label. Diagnosis. Recognized by the following combination of characters: antennae ( Fig. 5 ) generally fuscous, segment II as long as head width across eyes; posterior pronotal width ( Figs. 5, 7 ) about 1.5 times as wide as anterior width; hemelytra ( Fig. 5 ) generally dark brown, but basal half of endocorium and enbolium paler brown; pro- and metafemur spinose ventrally, but mesofemur without ventral spines; profemur with only four large ventral spines; uradenia ( Fig. 8 ) with a row of 45 macrotrichia anterior to the orifice. Distribution. India ( Muraleedharan & Ananthakrishnan, 1978 ), Sri Lanka ( Distant, 1906 ), Indonesia ( Poppius, 1909 ), Philippines ( Poppius, 1909 ), China ( Bu & Zheng, 2001 ), Taiwan ( Poppius, 1914 ), Japan ( Yasunaga, 2001 ), Papua New Guinea ( Cassis & Gross, 1995 ), Australia ( Cassis & Gross, 1995 ), Micronesia (Caroline Is., Mariana Is. for Herring, 1967 ; Guam for Usinger, 1946 ),