New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea
Author
Guilbert, Eric
text
Zootaxa
2006
1117
37
68
journal article
50786
10.5281/zenodo.171651
f7582322-2924-495a-801e-d85c7db1050b
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171651
Physatocheila empheres
Drake & Ruhoff 1965
Material examined: 2M, New
Guinea
, NE, Wau,
1200m
,
9.
III
.1965
, J. Sedlacek,
BPBM
; 5M, New
Guinea
, NE, Wau,
1200m
,
13–15.IX.1965
, J. Sedlacek,
BPBM
; 2F, New
Guinea
, NE, Wau,
1200m
,
2.XII.1964
, J. & M. Sedlacek, Light trap,
BPBM
; 1M+3F, New
Guinea
, NE, Morobe Prov., Wau, Edie Creek Road,
1280m
,
19.VI.1984
, permethrin fog of
Lithocarpus
sp. canopy, sample #10, tree #3310, W.C. Gagné,
BPBM
; 1M, New
Guinea
, NE, Morobe Prov., Wau, Edie Creek Road,
1280m
,
20.VI.1984
, permethrin fog of
Lithocarpus
sp. canopy, sample #11, tree #3311, W.C. Gagné &
UREP
session
III
,
BPBM
. Comments: This species seems restricted to the
type
locality: Wau.
Drake and Ruhoff (1965)
did not mention in the original description that the median carina was higher than the lateral carinae and had two rows of areolae on the top of the pronotum. Antennal segments
III
and IV are missing on the
type
. Here are given the antennal segments measures, I, 0.15 (std. 0.016); II, 0.12 (std. 0.015);
III
, 1.24 (std. 0.14); IV, 0.40 (std. 0.036).