Meschiidae, a new family of Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from India and Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species Author Malipatil, M. B. text Zootaxa 2014 3815 2 233 248 journal article 45493 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.2.4 85c40e93-e700-4f32-af94-8a55b691097c 1175-5326 252242 7905A2A8-97FE-424F-8FD0-C5090FFF8401 Meschia woodwardi Scudder ( Figs. 13–21 ) Meschia woodwardi Scudder 1957b : 25 –28. Material examined: Paratype male, Carnarvon Gorge, South Queensland, 29.v.1954 , T.E. Woodward, QM. Redescription. The following are additions to the original description by Scudder (1957b) : Colouration : Head with antennifers ventrally paler and smoother than laterally and dorsally; tip of labium fuscous; legs with bases of tibiae with small dark spot, tibia lacking fuscous bands or rings; pronotal posterior margin with 6 (not 4 as noted in original description) vague irregular fuscous or dark spots or patches; dark or dark brown markings on corium and clavus faint or less distinct than those mentioned in original description. Hemelytron with dark brown stripe laterally ( Fig. 13 ). Structure:Body : Length including wings 4.23; maximum width 1.65. Head ( Figs. 13, 14 ): Length 0.71; width across eyes 1.35; interocular space 0.88; interocellar space 0.46; eyeocellar space 0.18; eye length 0.32; eye width 0.27. Labium thin tube-like, extending to abdominal segment VI, length of segments: I 0.55; II 0.92; III 0.62; IV 0.73. Labrum length 0.16. Antennae ( Fig. 15 ) with 1st segment slightly more incrassate than uniformly thickened 2nd and 3rd segments, 4th segment slightly fusiform; length of segments: I 0.25; II 0.80; III 0.50; IV 0.67. Thorax : Pronotum ( Fig. 14 ), median length 0.98; width at posterior margin 1.70. Scutellum ( Fig. 13 ) length 0.70; width 1.0 3. Length of hemelytra 2.71; length of corium 1.70; claval commissure 0.19. Abdomen : Tergum almost uniformly coloured fuscous ( Fig. 16 ); posterolateral areas of each connexivum fuscous; other areas slightly lighter; connexival areas particularly outer margin with short setae borne on fine bases; tergum III with a few, IV and V with several, large coarse irregularly sized punctures medially as in Fig. 16 . Male genitalia : Pygophore as in Fig. 18 . Paramere sickle-shaped ( Fig. 19 ). Aedeagus ( Figs. 20, 21 ), with a pair of spatulate membranous lobes near apical end of conjunctiva. Other details as in Meschia pugnax . Distribution. Queensland. Notes. As discussed by Scudder (1957b) , this species differs from the type species M. pugnax Distant in lacking a Y-shaped fuscous fascia on head and pronotum, and from the only other previously described species of the genus, M. quadrimaculata , by the 6 vague irregular fuscous or dark spots or patches on the pronotal posterior margin, as well as fuscous spots on the hemelytra.