Description of the adult of the thread-legged assassin bug Eugubinus araneus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from India, with comments on other congeneric species Author Ghate, Hemant V. Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts Science & Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune 411 005 (India) Author Boyane, Swapnil S. 0000-0001-9475-8442 Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts Science & Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune 411 005 (India) & boyane. swapnil @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9475 - 8442 boyane.swapnil@gmail.com Author Webb, Michael D. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-21 4990 2 291 304 journal article 5490 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.2.5 8e212350-ccea-443c-abab-278bab381aa3 1175-5326 5026466 9FDE3A60-8D30-4BB7-A7BF-C2A26DDF2EE4 Eugubinus canalanus ( Distant, 1914 ) ( Fig. 28 ) Gardena canalana Distant, 1914: 385 . Syntypes : New Caledonia , Canala; BMNH. Eugubinus canalanus : Wygodzinsky (1966: 243) (diagnostic characters, figures, records). Type material examined. Syntype : ♂ , “ New Caledonia : Mt Kanala , 3.11. 11, 700 m ”, “ Gardena canalana Distant 1914 ” [blue circular label], “ Eugubinus canalanus (Distant) ”, “NHMUK 013587482” ( BMNH ) . Remarks. This species was described from an unspecified number of specimens with the following data “Canala, New Caledonia ”. The range of body length given (“15 to 24 mill.”) indicates that the description was based on more than one individuals, but only one specimen (a male) was found in BMNH. Wygodzinsky (1966) listed a non-type male from Noumea, deposited in the American Museum of Natural History. This is a rather unusual species of Eugubinus because of its large body (the body length of other species of Eugubinus is 13–15 mm ), longer basal portion of fore femur without spines (unique within Eugubinus ) and aptery (all other species are known from macropterous morphs only). The single male syntype of this species is illustrated ( Fig. 28 ).