Taxonomic corrections for East and Southeast Asian Reduviidae (Hemiptera Heteroptera)
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Chen, Ling
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Wang, Yang
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Rédei, Dávid
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-23
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Pahabengkakia piliceps
Miller, 1941
(
Figs. 15–19
)
Pahabengkakia piliceps
Miller, 1941: 673
.
Holotype
:
♀
, [
Malaysia
:]
Selangor
,
Kanching
; BMNH!
Stalireduvius nodipes
Tomokuni & Cai, 2004: 10
.
Holotype
:
♂
,
Vietnam
: [Bắc Kạn:]
Ba B
ể; NSMT.
New subjective synonym
.
Pahabengkakia piliceps
:
Maldonado (1990: 246)
(catalogue, distribution),
Wattanachaiyingcharoen & Jongjitvimol (2007: 71)
(redescription and photos of adult and immatures, bionomics),
Rasmussen (2008: 6
, 30) (listed),
Alvarez
et al.
(2019
: [1]) (ecology).
Stalireduvius nodipes
:
Lam
et al.
(2015: 112)
(listed, distribution).
Type material examined.
Pahabengkakia piliceps
Miller, 1941
.
Holotype
:
♀
, “Type” [circle with red margin], “MALAY PENIN: \
Selangor
, F.M.S. \
Kuala Lumpur
[pr, crossed over by hw] \ Kanching 18
th
miles [hw, with pr dotted underline] \ Dec: 14
th
[hw, with pr dotted underline] 192 [pr] 4 [hw, with pr dotted underline] \ H.M. Pendlebury.”, “Brit. Mus. \ 1947-269.”, “Pahabenkakia [sic] \ piliceps \ gen. nov. sp. n [all three lines in N.C.E. Miller’s hw] \ det. N.C.E. Miller 193 [pr] 8 [hw]”; micro-pinned, right antenna, tarsi of right fore, both mid and left hind legs missing (
BMNH
) (
Figs. 15–17
).
Additional specimens examined.
LAOS
:
Bolikhamsay Prov.
,
Phou Khao Khouay N
[ational] B[iodiversity] C[onservation] A[rea],
Tad Leuk Waterfall
,
280 m
,
11–12.iv.1998
, from and beneath bark, leg.
O. Merkl
&
G. Csorba
, No. 45 (
1 ♂
1 ♀
HNHM
)
.
Distribution.
THAILAND
(
Wattanachaiyingcharoen & Jongjitvimol 2007
).
LAOS
(new country record): Bolikhamsay Prov.!
VIETNAM
: Bắc Kạn Prov. (
Tomokuni & Cai 2004
).
MALAYSIA
:
Selangor
!;
Kuala Lumpur
!
Discussion.
The type material of
Pahabengkakia piliceps
consists of a female
holotype
from
Selangor
and a female
paratype
from
Kuala Lumpur
, now
Malaysia
(
Miller 1941
). Only the
holotype
(
Figs. 15–17
) was found in the BMNH in course of the present study. The species is the type species of the currently monotypic genus
Pahabengkakia
.
Stalireduvius nodipes
was described based on a single male (the
holotype
) from northern
Vietnam
(Bắc Kạn Prov.) (
Tomokuni & Cai 2004
), deposited in NSMT. Its identity is readily ascertainable from the detailed original description and illustrations. This species is the type species of the monotypic genus
Stalireduvius
.
In spite of the considerable similarity evident from the original description and illustration of
P. piliceps
(
Miller 1941
)
,
Tomokuni & Cai (2004)
did not compare
Stalireduvius
with
Pahabengkakia
and did not note the relatedness of their included species, leaving little doubt that they simply overlooked this taxon. Their description and illustrations make it abundantly clear that
S. nodipes
is conspecific with
P. piliceps
, and accordingly the subjective synonymy of the two species and also of the two genera is hereby proposed.
Pahabengkakia piliceps
seems to be distributed all over Indo-China, extending to the Malay Peninsula. Although it is rare in collections, it is probably frequently overlooked due to its specialized bionomics, treated by
Wattanachaiyingcharoen & Jongjitvimol (2007)
. The latter authors provided a photo of an adult; a better photo of a female from
Laos
(representing a new country record) is provided here (
Figs. 18–19
) to facilitate the identification of this genus and species.