Review and revision of Australian Germalus Stål, with new genera and further new species of Australian Geocorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Geocoridae)
Author
Malipatil, M. B.
Author
Blacket, M. J.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3746
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3746.2.3
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1175-5326
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Key to Australian species of
Germalus
1. Body dorsally with broad median fuscous band extending from base of head through to end of abdomen including genital segments (
Figs. 80
b, 83)..........................................................................
fuscovittatus
- Body dorsally not coloured as above...................................................................... 2
2. Head ochraceous with three black spots or patches, one near apex, and one encircling each ocellus; eyes conspicuously stylate and laterally slightly directed forward, so that an imaginary straight line through posterior margin of eyes does not touch anterior margin of pronotum (
Figs. 63, 64
).............................................................
coloratus
- Head and eyes not as above.............................................................................. 3
3. Scutellum with two medial blackish spots (
Figs. 45, 46
); femora with a broad subapical darker band (sometimes indistinct); pronotal calli each with an irregular and vague dark spot; pronotum with six vague longitudinal fuscous stripes (sometimes broken); spermatheca with very short duct behind bulb; paramere blade truncate at apex (
Figs. 60–62
)...........
lineolosus
- Without the above combination of characters................................................................ 4
4. Body narrow, elongate, parallel sided (
Fig. 98
); head with gular area broadly flattened and demarcated, and densely covered with long fine setae..............................................................................
littoralis
- Without the above combination of characters............................................................... 5
5. Body generally pale ochraceous; pronotum lacking defined fuscous spots on humeral angles; pronotum, clavus and corium with fine punctures (
Figs. 27, 28
)..................................................................
australis
- Body generally ochraceous to pale ochraceous; pronotum with each humeral angle with a fuscous spot (
Fig. 10
); pronotum, clavus and corium with coarse punctures (
Fig. 9
).......................................................
victoriae