Taxonomy of the Ranatra biroi group sensu Lansbury, 1972 (Nepomorpha: Nepidae), with descriptions of two new species
Author
Tran, A. D.
Author
Zettel, H.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2021
2021-12-03
69
507
521
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2021-0068
2345-7600
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Ranatra libera
Zettel, 1999
Ranatra libera
Zettel, 1999: 427–428
, 430 (
type
locality:
Bago
Division
,
Myanmar
).
Type material examined.
Holotype
(male) and
paratypes
(
3 females
), “
BURMA
:
Bago
Div. /
Bago
Yoma
, Sein Yai For. /
Camp
,
1700m
,
29.10.1998
, l.
Schillhammer
(36)” (
NHMW
).
Additional material.
THAILAND
:
2 males
,
Salween Basin
, coll.
S. H. Tan
&
N. Sivasothi
,
19 March 1996
, TG1 (
ZRC
)
.
Diagnosis.
Body length: males 26.0, females 27.0–28.0; siphon length ca. 0.95–1.05× body length; lorum higher than clypeus; vertex higher than eye, without tubercle; eye width ca. 1.2× interocular width; space between middle coxae narrower than space between hind coxae; posterior margin of metasternum convex; hind femur, when folded back parallel to body, slightly surpassing apex of abdomen (in both sexes); paramere relatively broad, apical hook slender, strongly recurved at base, gap between hook and main part of paramere very narrow, tip of hook narrow.
Distribution.
Myanmar
,
Thailand
(
Zettel, 1999
;
Polhemus & Polhemus, 2012
;
Tran & Nguyen, 2016
).