The assassin bug subfamilies Centrocnemidinae and Holoptilinae in Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
Author
Rédei, Dávid
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, H- 1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary; e-mail: redei @ nhmus. hu
Author
Tsai, Jing-Fu
National Chung Hsing University, Department of Entomology, Kuo Kuang Road 250, Taichung 40227, Taiwan; e-mail: jingfu. tsai @ gmail. com
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2011
2011-12-09
51
2
411
442
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5328439
0374-1036
5328439
Key to the species of
Locoptiris
Villiers, 1943
1 Fore wings with simple longitudinal veins; membrane of fore wing rather uniformly whitish or light gray. Afrotropical Region (
Locoptiris burgeoni
species group). .......... 2
– Longitudinal veins of fore wings ramifying apically; membrane with a large dark spot centrally.
Oriental Region
(
Locoptiris pendleburyi
species group). .............................. 3
2 Hind leg testaceous, femoro-tibial articulation widely black; body length about
3.5 mm
.
Democratic Republic of Congo
,
Ivory Coast
. ........................
L. burgeoni
Villiers, 1943
– Hind leg testaceous, femur with two brown annuli, one apical and one around middle, tibia rather uniformly testaceous; body length about
2.6 mm
.
Ivory Coast
. ..................... ...............................................................................................
L. couturieri
Villiers, 1986
3 Infolding of ventral rim with a flattened, dorsally boadly convex process; basal sclerite of endosoma large, about as long as ventrobasal portion of struts; lateral sclerite of endosoma nearly twice as long as ventrobasal portion of struts. Malay Peninsula, Borneo. ............. ...........................................................................................
L. pendleburyi
(
Miller, 1940
)
– Infolding of ventral rim with a flattened, dorsally broadly trilobed process (
Fig. 48
); phallus as in
Figs. 52–53
, basal sclerite of endosoma (
Figs. 52–53
: bsc) small, much shorter than ventrobasal portion of struts, restricted to extreme base of phallotheca; lateral sclerite of endosoma (
Fig. 52
: lsc) slightly longer than ventrobasal portion of struts (
Fig. 52
: strvb).
Taiwan
. .......................................................................................
L. taiwanensis
sp. nov.